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How service learning and reverse mentoring assist faculty development in a teacher education program?
Amy S. C. Leh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1978–1979
This presentation reports on faculty technology training in which graduate students serve as mentors to university professors in a teacher education program. It starts with an overview of the training and then explains the process how the students...
Topics: Training, Educational Technology, Faculty, Students
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Expanding the View of Preservice Teachers’ Computer Literacy: Implications from Written and Verbal Data and Metaphors as Freehand Drawings
Annette C. Sherry
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 8, No. 3 (2000) pp. 187–218
Changes in attitudes towards computers and basic computer skills of preschool teachers participating in a two year, school-based teacher training program were examined. Written respons-es to a pre/post administration of the Computer Attitude Survey...
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Training Students to Be Self-Learners in Educational Hypermedia and Technology Courses
Amy S. C. Leh
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) p. 1822
Modern technology is changing our education paradigm. Due to technology advancement, instructors can no longer play the role of "information-giver", rather have to become a facilitator. Facing tremendous amount of technology information, students...
Topics: Training, Educational Technology, Students
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An Empirical Assessment of Learners' Perceptions of Acceptance of Wireless-Mobile Technologies in Supporting Learning
Christina C. Chao
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 2662–2666
What are learners' attitudes toward the use of mobile technologies in learning? A positive attitude toward the acceptance of the innovation is crucial and indicative of a state of readiness to sustain or use that innovation. The purpose of this...
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Interaction in Online Courses – Case Studies
Amy S. C. Leh
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1099–1100
The paper reports action research on online courses conducted in 2000. The goal of the research was to investigate students' opinions toward online courses and to examine the need of converting more courses of the academic program to online courses. ...
Topics: Students, Interaction
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Teaching Students Statistics On The PC
Walter C. Buboltz , Jr.
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 524–527
With the advent of powerful desktop computers, easy to use operating systems and user friendly statistical packages faculty and especially students now have access to easy to use computer statistical packages. However, due to the level of...
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Eliminating Common Algebraic Errors Using Computer-based Instruction and Supplements.
Bassoppo-Moyo Temba C.
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 1426–1428
Mathematics is one of the most fundamental subjects for any student's career. Studies indicate that women, minorities and low-income students are particularly most affected to the extent that traditional teaching practices may partially account for...
Topics: Computers, Instructional Design, Mathematics, Teaching Methods, Students
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The Changing Role of the Teacher: Case Study
Amy S. C. Leh
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2366–2368
Modern technology is changing the role of the instructor from an information-giver to a facilitator. As facilitator, the teacher guides the learners through the learning process and encourages the students to be active in their learning. The...
Topics: Teaching Methods, Students
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The Effects of Expert Stories on Sixth Grade Students’ Achievement and Problem Solving in Hypermedia-supported Authentic Learning Environments(HALE)
Douglas C. Williams
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 112–118
An issue concerning school-based learning is the difficulty many students experience in applying what they have learned to everyday situations. Authentic learning environments such as problem-based learning have been proposed as a way to provide...
Topics: Middle School Education, Students
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New Roles of University Professors and Graduate Students in Faculty Technology Training
Amy S. C. Leh
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3377–3381
The presentation reports on faculty technology training in which graduate students served as mentors to university professors in a teacher education program. The project was originally designed to serve faculty members in a grant project, Preparing...
Topics: Educational Technology, Faculty, Training, Teachers, Students
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Using Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS) to enhance high school students’ conceptual understanding of selected difficult chemistry topics.
Temba C. Bassoppo-Moyo
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 1292–1293
The purpose of the study is to determine the extent to which computer-based instructional supplements enhance students' knowledge and skills in writing balanced chemical equations, solving stoichiometry problems, and mole concepts. The specific...
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Integrating the Internet in ESL Education in a Senior High School
Shelley S. C. Young
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 2122–2126
This qualitative study explores the potential impacts of one application of the Internet--on high school-level English, including 29 students and an instructor. Based on the findings, the researcher concluded that the Internet could motivate student ...
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Teaching Students about Online Facilitation: Hosting a Virtual Conference
Joanna C. Dunlap
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 1452–1453
It is difficult to teach people to be good online courseware developers if they don't know what it is like to be on the receiving end of their designs -- either as a student or an instructor. In a graduate-level course on Designing Web-based...
Topics: Students, Instructional Design, Distance Education, Interaction
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Technology Impact on Roles of Instructor and Students–Case Studies
Amy S. C. Leh
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1095–1098
The paper reports research conducted in an Instructional Technology course in which the instructor changed roles of an instructor and students. As a facilitator, the teacher guided the learners through the learning process and encouraged the...
Topics: Teaching Methods, Students
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Together We Form a New Culture: Students’ Perspectives on the Influence of Diversity in a Web-Based Collaborative Learning Community
C. Y. Janey Wang
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 417–418
This paper investigates students' perspectives on how cultural diversity impacts learning in an online collaborative learning course. Specifically, how students successfully achieve optimal learning in this online learning community as they...
Topics: Culture, Planning, Students, Collaboration
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The Critical Position of the Internet in the Creation, Development, and Maintenance of the Bronx-Wide (New York) Superintendents= Instructional Technology Leadership Forum
David C. Fletcher
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 387–391
In 1998, the Bronx-Wide Superintendents' Technology and Learning Leadership Forum was created to investigate effective ways to support students' learning and achievement with instructional technology. The formation of the Forum is critical at this ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Leadership, Students
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Putting the E to work in E-teaching
J C Nash
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1977–1980
We consider university teaching from a the viewpoint of the activities in which students and professors engage while taking or giving courses. We seek to apply software and procedural tools to make these processes more efficient, following in...
Topics: Students
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Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Presence in a Distance Learning Environment
Amy S. C. Leh
International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 7, No. 2 (2001) pp. 109–128
Electronic mail (e-mail), a computer-mediated communica-tion (CMC) technology, has become a common and inexpen-sive way to provide distant communication and learning. This study investigated (a) the appropriateness of CMC in distance learning...
Topics: Communication, Students
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Un Meurtre à Cinet (Un homicidio en Toluca): A Web and Email Whodunit to Develop Writing Competence in Intermediate-Level Language Classes
Walter C. Oliver; Terri Nelson
International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 3, No. 2 (1997) pp. 205–217
Un Meurtre à Cinet (Un homicidio en Toluca) is an intermediate-level language, role-playing project in which students collaborate to solve a murder mystery using email, a listserver, and a World Wide Web (Web)-based environment. (See a demonstration ...
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An On-line Learning Environment For Study Skills Development
A. E. Mahdi; C. Bermingham
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 2305–2308
An on-line interactive system for provision of flexible student-centred study & skills training environment is described & preliminary results of its evaluation are reported. The system has been designed to assist 3rd level students develop their...
Topics: Interaction, Training, Evaluation, Students
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Applying Social Cognitive Constructs of Motivation to Enhance Student Success in Online Distance Education
Marios Miltiadou; Wilhelmina C. Savenye
AACE Journal Vol. 11, No. 1 (2003) pp. 78–95
This article relates findings from a review of the literature on six motivational constructs studied in traditional environments to online education concepts to identify methods for ensuring student success in online courses. The six motivational...
Topics: Students
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Researching Student Use of School Science Images
John C. Park; David Slykhuis; Sharon Dotger
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4724–4730
Science teacher uses of images have been documented in the education literature for the past 110 years. Practitioners have used images via student drawings, photographs, projected images, images in microscopes and telescopes, textbook images, and...
Topics: Science, Students, Computer Sciences, Computers
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Incorporating PBL in a High School Computer Science Course
Ling-Chian Chang; Greg C Lee
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 1814–1818
We have conducted an action research to seek the possibility of incorporating pedagogical idea of project-based learning (PBL) in teaching and learning of computer science among high school students. In this study, the course instructor taught the...
Topics: Students, Computer Sciences, Science, Software, Computers
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Computer Use in ESL: Case Studies and Action Research
Amy S. C. Leh; Lori Ogata
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 2360–2365
With the onset of the twenty first century, utilizing computer technology in school curriculum has become not only a reality but a necessity in preparing students for effective transition into today's society. In addition, with the multicultural...
Topics: Computers, Classrooms, Students
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A Hypermedia Supported Problem-based Learning Environment: Alien Rescue
Douglas C. Williams; Susan Pedersen; Liu Min
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (1999) p. 432
Alien Rescue is a hypermedia program that draws on the principles of problem-based learning to engage students in grades 5 and 6 in an inquiry approach to science learning. Its science fiction premise takes students to a newly operational...
Topics: Standards, Science, Information Sciences, Students
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The Effect of Hypermedia Delivered Modeling On Learners’ Self-Directed Study during Problem-Based Learning
Susan Pedersen; Min Liu; Douglas C. Williams
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 1999 (1999) pp. 1212–1213
Problem-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that uses problems as the stimulus and focus for student activity (Baud & Feletti,1991). Research suggests that PBL may help students develop the skills necessary to pursue learning...
Topics: Educational Technology, Students
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Constructing a Cross-platform Map System (CPMS) to Facilitate Adaptation and learning for International Students in a Chinese-speaking Environment
Yen Paniagua; Shelley S. C. Young
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2692–2697
This paper reports on the design of a Cross-platform map system (CPMS) which is intended to help the foreign students solve adaptation problems immediately after they arrive at and live in the Chinese-speaking environment. This proposed system,...
Topics: Languages, Students, Virtual Environments
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International Paradigm for E-Learning in a Computer Course for Undergraduates
Maria Isabel Cabrera; Bradford C. Lister
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 1282–1285
Abstract: This paper summarizes the pedagogical strategies used to achieve student success in an introductory, online computing course for freshman undergraduates at the Monterrey Tec (ITESM) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. This course used three different...
Topics: Learning Objects, Students
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Student assessments as a tool to improve online teaching
Betul C. Ozkan; Betty J. Morris
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1732–1736
Assessment data provides invaluable information for the success of distance education students. Students, who are taking online courses for the first time, may often feel intimidated, isolated and lost in the untraditional nature of the online...
Topics: Assessment, Distance Education, Students
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Building an Effective Peer to Peer Distance Mentoring Program
Barbara K. McKenzie; Betul C. Ozkan
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 740–745
Higher education institutions today are offering more and more online courses to meet the growing demands of students who want courses and programs of study that are easily accessible, convenient, up-to-date, and contain quality course content and...
Topics: Distance Education, Mentoring, Students
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Developing Digital Media Materials – A Team Approach
Duane C. Roberts; David W. Monson
WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) p. 1750
During 1998-99, BYU Broadcast Services Division developed a digital media teaching resource for faculty and students of Civilization 201/202 courses at BYU. A project team was organized with 1 full time project manager, a part time associate...
Topics: Faculty, Teaching Methods, Students
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Interactive Literacy: A Forum for Thinking
Marino C. Alvarez; Michael R. Busby
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 760–765
The Explorers of the Universe is a scientific/literacy project involving middle, secondary, and postsecondary students in "real-life" self directed case-based investigations. This paper describes the school and societal curriculum, and the...
Topics: Middle School Education, Students, Literacy
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Instructional Use of the World Wide Web in Classrooms
Amy S. C. Leh; Ken Decroo
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2356–2360
The web is changing our society and our education. The paper reports how two educators—a university professor and a middle school teacher—use the web for instructional purposes. Their examples will show how the web can motivate students...
Topics: Students, Middle School Education, Schools
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Talking On-line: Promoting Student and Understanding Through the Development of On-line Course Discussions
Charles D. Mize; LeAnn McKinzie; Terence C. Ahern
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 232–236
This paper is a report on the use of synchronous chat for the delivery of an on-line portion of a pre-service teacher training course. The specific course content was legal and ethical issues that pertain to the professional development of a...
Topics: Ethical Issues, Students, Legal Issues, Professional Development, Interaction
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Engaged by Design: Using Simulations to Promote Active Learning
Monica Bulger; Richard E. Mayer; Kevin C. Almeroth
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1770–1777
We test our hypothesis that student in-class Internet actions reflect their attention levels. We predict that an engaging learning environment will result in students performing a higher number of on-task Internet activities. To test our hypothesis, ...
Topics: Internet, Students, Classrooms, Behavior
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The Effect of Writing with Computers versus Handwriting on the Writing Achievement of First-graders
Manuel T. Barrera III; Audrey C. Rule; Afton Diemart
Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual Vol. 2001, No. 1 (2001) pp. 215–229
The written work of 18 first-grade students of mixed ability was compared under two conditions: word processing with computer writing programs and writing by hand. An intact first-grade classroom alternately used computers and hand-writing to...
Topics: Students, Behavior, Computers, Elementary Education
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Engaging Diverse Middle School Students in Learning Through Information and Communication technology (ICT) in a Networked Learning Environment
C. Candace Chou; Miriam Bungert; Douglas Jetton; Chi-Syan Lin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2759–2765
This study examines factors that engage highly diverse middle school students in the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) for collaboration through a global networked learning environment, APEC Cyber Academy. Thirty-eight...
Topics: Schools, Information Communication Technologies, Middle School Education, Networking Technologies, Students
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A Matter of Convenience: Student Perceptions and Rigor in Web-based Course Delivery
Charles D. Mize; James G. Izat; Terence C. Ahern
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 229–231
This is a summary of some of the issues that arise in discussions among administrators, faculty, and students involved in on-line course delivery. The Internet is being seen increasingly as a delivery method for many courses, however, not everyone ...
Topics: Faculty, Students, Administrators
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An Effective Model for Professional Development in Using Technology to Learn
Robert E. Hollon; Susan R. McIntyre; Mona C. Majdalani
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 661–665
The Virtual Learning Technology Community (VLTC) is a collaborative technology professional development model that supports k-12 students, k-12 teachers, university faculty, university preservice teachers, and instructional technology staff ...
Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Students, Community, Teachers, Professional Development
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Virtual Possibilities: A Constructivist Examination of the Educational Applications of Second Life
Jeffrey C. Neely; K. Westmoreland Bowers; Mathew W. Ragas
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 93–110
This study surveyed post-secondary instructors in 15 countries regarding their experiences using the virtual world Second Life as a teaching tool. Qualitative analysis of responses to open-ended questions suggests that Second Life offers a great...
Topics: Educational Technology, Distance Education, Teachers, eLearning, Teaching Methods, Networking Technologies, Classrooms, Post Secondary Education, Students, Virtual Environments
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Levels of Computer Literacy of School Teachers and Students: Case Studies
Amy S. C. Leh; Paul Myers; Chris Fisher
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 1614–1618
The paper reports two case studies conducted at three schools in California. The first case study investigated computer literacy levels of thirty-five teachers at two schools. Findings indicate that teachers do not fully use software available to...
Topics: Training, Computers, Elementary Education, Middle School Education, Students
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Evaluating Computer Lab Modules for Large Biology Courses
MARY B. NAKHLEH; DEANNA L. AUBERRY; DAVID C. EICHINGER
Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 19, No. 3 (2000) pp. 253–275
This article reports a two-year investigation of students' percep-tions of computer laboratory modules (CLM's, also known as Bio LabStations) in a university-level, non-majors biology se-quence. During the 1995-1996 academic year, we conducted field ...
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Attribution as a Predictor of Procrastination in Online Graduate Students
Glenda C. Rakes; Karee E. Dunn; Thomas A. Rakes
Journal of Interactive Online Learning Vol. 12, No. 3 pp. 103–121
Online courses are growing at a tremendous rate, and although we have discovered a great deal about teaching and learning in the online environment, there is much left to learn. One variable that needs to be explored further is procrastination in...
Topics: Students
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STNet: A Network-Supported Environment for Student Teachers
Rong-Guey Ho; Cheng-Chih Wu; Greg C. Lee; Guey-Fa Chiou
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1115–1119
Adopting the rationale of reflective thinking as the underlying philosophy, we developed the Student Teacher Network (STNet) to support student teaching. STNet provides an online place where university supervisors, experienced school teachers,...
Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Students, Schools, Networking Technologies
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Multimedia Computer-Based Training in Accelerator Physics
Andrew A. Browman; William C. Mead; Robert A. Williams; Richard R. Silbar
International Conference on Mathematics / Science Education and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 2–7
Four years ago WhistleSoft, Inc., began developing a computer-based multimedia tutorial for charged-particle beam dynamics under a Small Business Innovative Research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The DOE chose to support such an activity ...
Topics: Multimedia, Business, Students
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Learning from Virtual Students
Lisa A. Dieker; Carrie L. Straub; Charles E. Hughes; Michael C. Hynes; Stacey Hardin
Educational Leadership Vol. 71, No. 8 (May 2014) pp. 54–58
Everything's going wrong in the classroom; the teacher's frustration level is so high that she's ready to walk out and try her hand at any other profession besides teaching. Just as things reach a peak, in steps the coach, who says, ...