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ICT, Pedagogical Innovations and Teacher Learning
Nancy Law
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2939–2942
The integration of IT in education can take on very different forms for very different purposes ranging from technologizing education to transforming education. On the other hand, it is the uses of ICT to support educational transformations, i.e. to ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Teachers, Integration, Information Communication Technologies
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Supporting Bricolage as Leadership for Systemic Pedagogical Innovations
Nancy Law
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2114–2119
Innovation has become an increasingly important theme in education. Since the last decade of the twentieth century, there has been a mushrooming of systematic education reforms in many countries around the world, resulting in some cases deep changes ...
Topics: Social Studies, Educational Technology, Change, Networking Technologies
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Designing Online Peer Assessment System in Learning Programming: an Adaptive Scaffolding Framework and Architecture
Qingchun Hu; Nancy Law
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1739–1744
Online peer assessment is an effective method for students’ learning in programming course. In this study, the goal of the online peer assessment system is to improve undergraduate students’ debugging ability in programming course. The study...
Topics: Programming, Students, Assessment
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Peer Scaffolding of Knowledge Building through Collaborative Groups with Differential Learning Experiences
Ming Lai; Nancy Law
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 35, No. 2 (2006) pp. 123–144
This article describes a case study of an international collaboration between two classes of fifth grade students through an online discussion platform with one group more experienced in online knowledge building activities than the other. Before...
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Questioning and the Quality of Knowledge Constructed in a CSCL Context: A Study on Two Grade-Levels of Students
Ming Lai; Nancy Law
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 41, No. 3 (May 2013) pp. 597–620
This paper aims to study the relationship between questioning and the quality of knowledge constructed in a CSCL context. In previous studies, different units of analysis are employed and the patterns of relationships are not consistent for...
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Online Peer Assessment: Effects of Cognitive and Affective Feedback
Jingyan Lu; Nancy Law
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 40, No. 2 (March 2012) pp. 257–275
This study reports the effects of online peer assessment, in the form of peer grading and peer feedback, on students' learning. One hundred and eighty one high school students engaged in peer assessment via an online system--iLap. The number of...
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Using an Iconic Modelling Tool to Support the Learning of Genetics Concepts
Nancy Law; Yeung Lee
Journal of Biological Education Vol. 38, No. 3 (2004) pp. 118–124
Genetics is a difficult topic as it involves abstract concepts, which are not directly observable. Studies on using simulations to support the learning of genetics have largely been confined to the use of quantitative simulations to replace...
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Sociotechnical co‐evolution of an e‐Learning innovation network
Nancy Law; Leming Liang
British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 50, No. 3 (May 2019) pp. 1340–1353
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of a network of 10 special education needs schools over a span of 11 years that leveraged the opportunity offered by a government‐funded e‐learning pilot scheme initiative to further their efforts in...
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Understanding Collaborative Learning Behavior from Moodle Log Data
Jingyan Lu; Nancy Wai Ying Law
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 20, No. 5 (2012) pp. 451–466
Although course management systems (CMSs) were originally designed for teachers to manage their teaching, little interest has been directed at students' learning. Moodle is usually regarded as a CMS. However, how to make full use of its powerful...
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An International Knowledge Building Network for Sustainable Curriculum and Pedagogical Innovation
Thérèse Laferrière; Nancy Law; Mireia Montané
Online Submission Vol. 5, No. 3 (June 2012) pp. 148–160
This paper presents the results of the first phase (2007-2009) of a design experiment, the Knowledge Building International Project (KBIP), in which K-12 teachers from several countries collaborate as a loosely coupled network of networks with a...
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Establishing Teacher Communities to Exchange Good Practices in Using ICT
Robert Fox; Nancy Law; Yuen Allan
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2342–2350
The absence of a strong collaborative culture within and across schools has been identified as one of the barriers to the successful development and implementation of innovative practices in using technology in education. Research has identified a...
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Practice Characteristics that Lead to 21st Century Learning Outcomes
Nancy Law; Y Lee; A Chow
Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 18, No. 4 (2002) pp. 415–26
Describes a study in Hong Kong elementary and secondary schools that investigated whether innovative teaching practices that used ICT (information and communication technology) would lead to learning outcomes needed for today's knowledge society....
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A Multilevel System of Quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Indicators
Nancy Law; Dale S. Niederhauser; Rhonda Christensen; Linda Shear
Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 19, No. 3 (2016) pp. 72–83
In this paper we elaborate and extend the work of the EDUsummIT 2015 Thematic Working Group 7 (TWG7) by proposing a set of indicators on quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching (TEL&T). These indicators are intended as one component of ...
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Information Technology in Education Worldwide, Part 1
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Kwok-Wing Lai; Rhonda Christensen; Nancy Law
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2076–2077
This symposium will feature selected topics from the International Handbook of Information Technology in Education – a work which will be composed of 80-100 chapters in 2 volumes when published by Springer in 2007. During the first hour of the...
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Hong Kong Perspectives on Educational Technology Research and Practice
J Michael Spector; H K. Yuen; Minhong Wang; Daniel Churchill; Nancy Law
Educational Technology Vol. 54, No. 5 (2014) pp. 35–41
This is the 25th anniversary of the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT; see http://www.hkaect.org/). The silver anniversary annual meeting will be held at the University of Hong Kong December 8--10, with the...