Step by Step: The Process of Bringing a Teacher Education Program into the 21st Century

Candace Roberts; Susan Colaric; Kimberly Higdon

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1228–1241

At Saint Leo University, we decided that we wanted to better prepare our students to be leaders in the use of educational technology. In order for us as a faculty to prepare our students, we knew we needed to start by educating ourselves on how to...

Design for the Online Classroom: A piece of P.I.E.

Michael Nastanski; Susan Colaric

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 6023–6030

This paper discusses the importance of student course design for the Distance Learning (DL) classroom. The authors examine the history of DL and strategies for designing the online classroom including content, structure and the user interface. A...

Topics: Human Computer Interaction, Post Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Distance Education

Technology Acceptance in an Academic Context: Faculty Acceptance of Online Education

Shanan G. Gibson; Michael L. Harris; Susan M. Colaric

Journal of Education for Business Vol. 83, No. 6 (2008) pp. 355–359

The authors surveyed faculty from a college of business and a college of education regarding their attitudes toward online education. Results of the survey were examined to determine the degree to which the technology acceptance model was able to...

Computer-Supported Communities for Novice Teachers: Needs Assessment and Design

Susan M. Colaric; Joy Stapleton

Association for Educational Communications and Technology Annual Meeting 2004 (October 2005)

Retention of novice teachers is a problem for school districts. Teacher induction programs are beneficial in increasing retention, but these programs take time, a commodity in short supply among novice teachers. Computer-based support has been...

Pre-Service Teachers and Search Engines: Prior Knowledge and Instructional Implications

Susan M. Colaric; Bethann Fine; William Hofmann

Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)

There is a wealth of information available on the World Wide Web that can assist pre-service teachers in their course studies. Yet observation of students in a technology integration class indicated that students were not able to find resources...

Introducing Faculty to Online Learning: An Online Course as Professional Development

Susan Colaric; Juliana Taymans

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 549–554

Online learning can be used for distance education courses as well as for face-to-face courses. In fact, using online learning to supplement traditional classes may be the most effective way to introduce the topic of online learning and teaching to...

Topics: Faculty, Evaluation, Distance Education

Moving Beyond Lecture Notes and Discussions: Instructional Strategies for Online Learning

Susan Colaric; Laura Hummell; Micheal Stiles; Greg Robison

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1149–1154

As faculty begin to offer online courses, or supplement traditional courses with online components, they may not be aware of instructional strategies that would be appropriate for online instruction. Current literature addresses this problem by...

Topics: Faculty, Teaching Methods, Middle School Education

Prepared to Teach Online? Perspectives of Faculty in the University of North Carolina System

Lysa Kosak; Dionna Manning; Ellen Dobson; Lisa Rogerson; Shannon Cotnam; Susan Colaric; Cheryl McFadden

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 7, No. 3 (2004)

The prevalence of online distance education courses requires university faculty to face new challenges and make new decisions in the areas of course management and design, delivery method, student communication media, creation of an engaging...

Faculty Peer Review: Working with Online Classes

Susan Colaric; Diane Kester

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1405–1406

In higher education student course evaluations are the most commonly used method of course review. In course evaluations, students are asked to rate a faculty member on overt behaviors that are presumed to be characteristic of effective teaching....

Topics: Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Students

It takes more than a workshop: Moving faculty online

Susan Colaric; Phyllis Broughton

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 409–412

In North Carolina the community college system has seen a 301% increase in Internet course enrollments over the last three years. Currently more than 53,000 students are enrolled in distance learning through the community college system. With the...

Topics: Community, Faculty, Teaching Methods

Developing a Virtual Community of Learners

Susan Colaric

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1353–1355

People have gathered in communities for centuries. Initially for protection, then socialization, these groups were rather small, focused on the villages of an agricultural society. In the Information Age, the focus shifts from physical communities...

Topics: Virtual Environments, Physical Education

Portraying Yourself Online: A Discussion of Teaching Styles in Online Courses

Plummer (Al) Jones; Diane Kester; Sue Steinweg; Susan Colaric

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1071–1078

It is clear that more courses are being offered online each year. With the increase in the number of courses offered, the number of faculty teaching at a distance will also be increasing. Many researchers are discussing concerns that faculty have...

Topics: Faculty

Information Equals Knowledge, Searching Equals Learning, and Hyperlinking Is Good Instruction: Myths about Learning from the World Wide Web

Susan Colaric; David Jonassen

Computers in the Schools Vol. 17, No. 3 (2001) pp. 159–69

Suggests that too much Web-based instruction assumes that the Web is a library that can be used to convey knowledge, that searching and finding information equals learning, and that hyperlinking is good instruction. Critiques these assumptions based ...

Students’ Evaluation of Web Sites: An Exploratory Study

Sarah FitzPatrick; Susan Colaric

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 498–503

Although the Web is convenient for finding information, it is not necessarily reliable. While opportunities exist for students to hear about evaluation strategies there is no data to suggest whether they are using what they hear. The purpose of this ...

Topics: Evaluation, Students

Search engines on the World Wide Web: A comparison of instructional methods to improve syntactic knowledge

Susan M. Colaric

Search@engines on the World@Wide@Web: A comparison of instructional@methods to improve syntactic@knowledge (2001) pp. 1–151

Research has shown students often have a difficult time searching the World Wide Web, particularly when formulating appropriate search queries. Although instruction on Web searching is available to assist students, it is not clear whether this...

A Web-Based Case LIbrary to Support Learning

Susan Colaric

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) p. 968

A Case Library is a collection of cases arranged to allow easy, meaningful access for a user. This Library covers an array of turf problems encountered by golf course superintendents. The cases help fill gaps in a student's knowledge that are a...

Topics: Library

Speeding on the Information Superhighway: Strategies for Saving Time on the Web

Susan M. Colaric; Alison A. Carr-Chellman

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 44, No. 6 (2000) pp. 28–31

Outlines ways to make online searching more efficient. Highlights include starting with printed materials; online reference libraries; subject directories such as Yahoo; search engines; evaluating Web sites, including reliability; bookmarking...