Educational Benefits of Multimedia Skills Training

Tsung juang Wang

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 54, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 47–57

The use of multimedia technologies in education has enabled teachers to simulate final outcomes and assist students in applying knowledge learned from textbooks, thereby compensating for the deficiency of traditional teaching methods. It is...

Teachers' Perceptions Regarding the Acceptance of Human-Computer Interaction Cognition Capability through On-Line Collaborative Study

Tsung Juang Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 922–928

The paper describes the theoretical basis and methodology for research seeking to identify higher order cognitive activity occurring in students' information seeking and learning tasks with hypermedia. It reviews difficulties arising from the...

Topics: Cognition, Multimedia

Collaboration: Transforming Teaching and Learning Practice through ICTs in Architectural Education

Tsung-Juang Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1723–1730

Current pedagogical approaches must prepare students for collaborative thinking and at the same time cultivate independent reflection. In a knowledge-based society teachers will need to adapt to new ICTs and models of teaching and learning. Applying ...

Information Technology Pedagogy in Architectural Curriculum and Profession

Tsung-Juang Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1149–1154

Emerging interactive telecommunications venues promise to accommodate pedagogies that nurture and elicit advanced skills, but those who create these pedagogies must be guided by well-defined goals. This is especially relevant for the discipline of...

The Crucial Role of Information Technology and Knowledge-economy for Teacher Education

Tsung-juang Wang

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 97–98

This paper describes the current status of restructure development in technological and vocational education. The discussion covers Knowledge economy (K-economy) along with "global village'' needs, and is supported by information about technology...

Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development

Implications of Teachers' Use of Information and Communication Technologies and Curriculum Design in Architectural Education Learning Environments

Tsung Juang Wang

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 565–572

The purpose of this paper is to establish a baseline of empirical evidence for post-secondary architecture teachers' information and communication technologies (ICT) knowledge and skills in Taiwan. In order to help teachers cope with the current...

Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Secondary Education, Information Communication Technologies, Post Secondary Education

Using ICT to Enhance Academic Learning: Pedagogy and Practice

Tsung Juang Wang

Educational Research and Reviews Vol. 3, No. 4 (April 2008) pp. 101–106

The explosion of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) has created immense opportunities to enhance the educational process at all levels, but especially in university and professional curricula such as architecture. Using the new...

Educating Avatars: On Virtual Worlds and Pedagogical Intent

Tsung Juang Wang

Teaching in Higher Education Vol. 16, No. 6 (2011) pp. 617–628

Virtual world technology is now being incorporated into various higher education programs, often with enthusiastic claims about the improvement of students' abilities to experience learning problems and tasks in computer-mediated virtual reality...