The Toe Dip or the Big Plunge: Providing Teachers Effective Strategies for Using Technology

Gary Brown; Jean Henscheid

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 42, No. 4 (1997) pp. 17–21

Washington State University has adopted a new long-term immersion model for incorporating technology into teaching in which teachers invest fewer than 20 hours over 16 weeks getting used to the idea of teaching with technology before committing...

From Measuring to Formal Demonstration Using Interactive Computational Geoboards and Recurrent Electronic Charts

Sergei Abramovich; Gary Brown

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 18, No. 2 (1999) pp. 105–134

The paper shows how the joint use of dynamic geometry program and a spreadsheet may provide a computational environment for exploring geometry on plane lattices that lessens the risk of developing a false empiricist view of mathematics often...

Topics: Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics

Designing Software for Easy Translation into Other Languages

Stanley R. Trollip; Gary Brown

Journal of Computer-Based Instruction Vol. 14, No. 3 (1987) pp. 119–23

Discusses ways of designing software to minimize the problems associated with translating the users interface from English into a foreign language. The Examiner, a test development and delivery system that was translated from English into Dutch, is...

The Role of Computer-Assisted Learning in a Proficiency-Based Language Curriculum

James E. Brown; Gary R. Jahn

Computers and the Humanities Vol. 24, No. 1 (1990) pp. 93–103

Explains the need for and operations of computerized instructional and drill programs for teaching beginning college-level Russian. Describes two such programs developed at the University of Minnesota. States that these programs provide...

Foundations for Validating a Critical Thinking Rubric

Paul Golter; Bernard Van Wie; Gary Brown

Journal of STEM Education Vol. 17, No. 4 (Jan 17, 2017)

There exists a need to develop and validate instruments to measure the non-technical professional skills we are being asked to develop in our undergraduate students. The resulting instruments need to use the language of the engineering disciplines...

Association of Course Performance with Student Beliefs: An Analysis by Gender and Instructional Software Environment

J Richard Alldredge; Gary R. Brown

Statistics Education Research Journal Vol. 5, No. 1 (May 2006) pp. 64–77

The effect of educational technologies on learning is an area of active interest. We conducted an experiment to compare the impact of instructional software on student performance. We hypothesize that some of the impact on student performance may...

Harm reduction: shifting instructional paradigms

Rojann R. Alpers; Gary Brown; Kay Jarrell; Roxena Wotring

Teaching and Learning in Nursing Vol. 3, No. 1 pp. 45–46

Language: English

Emerging Online Learning Environments and Student Learning: An Analysis of Faculty Perceptions

Myers Carrie B.; Dennis Bennett; Gary Brown; Tom Henderson

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 7, No. 1 (2004) pp. 78–86

New educational technologies and online learning environments (OLEs) are infiltrating today's college classes and campuses. While research has examined many aspects of this permeation, one research gap exists. How do faculty perceive the learning...

Making a case for double testing

Roxena Wotring; Rojan R. Alpers; Gary Brown; Kay Jarrell

Teaching and Learning in Nursing Vol. 4, No. 2 pp. 66–67

Language: English

That's edu-tainment! Using games to engage, excite, and educate

Rojann R. Alpers; Gary Brown; Kay Jarrell; Roxena Wotring

Teaching and Learning in Nursing Vol. 2, No. 4 pp. 144–145

Language: English

Those dreaded classroom readings: A successful approach

Roxena Wotring; Rojann R. Alpers; Gary Brown; Kay Jarrell

Teaching and Learning in Nursing Vol. 4, No. 1 p. 28

Language: English

TeleCITE: Telehealth--A Cochlear Implant Therapy Exchange

Joanna Stith; Arlene Stredler-Brown; Pat Greenway; Gary Kahn

Volta Review Vol. 112, No. 3 (2012) pp. 393–402

What might bring the efforts of a physician, a speech-language pathologist, a teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, and a nurse together? The answer is the innovative use of telepractice to deliver high quality, family-centered early intervention ...

Using BaFa' BaFa' in evaluating cultural competence of nursing students

Kay Jarrell; Rojann R. Alpers; Gary Brown; Roxena Wotring

Teaching and Learning in Nursing Vol. 3, No. 4 pp. 141–142

Language: English

Conversation, the constructivist perspective

Gary Ferguson-Smith; David Allibon; Christine Brown; Barry Harper; John Hedberg

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 333–338

This paper is a report in progress on a longitudinal case study over six years at Apollo Parkways Primary School. Apollo Parkways is an elementary school in middle to lower-middle class socioeconomic suburb in Melbourne, Victoria Australia. The...

Topics: Community, Change, Schools, Middle School Education