Profession-Specific Computer Literacy: Microteaching in an Educational Computing Course

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 427–430

“How do you eat an orange?” The teacher education students seated at the computers turn and look quizzically at the teacher. One student answers, “I peel it and divide it into sections.” Another, still puzzled, responds slowly, “I cut mine into...

Bridging the Gap Between T Raditional and Electronic Scholarly Publishing

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 848–853

May you live in interesting times is thought by some to be a blessing and by others to be a curse. Many of those involved in scholarly publishing today are likely to consider it both. Over the past two thousand years scholarly publishing has evolved ...

Instructional Technologies in Schools: Are We There Yet?

Jerry Willis

Computers in the Schools Vol. 20, No. 1 (Aug 04, 2003) pp. 11–33

Some predictions made by the author 20 years ago, in the first issue of Computers in the Schools, are revisited. The author explains how he didn't see some trends that developed and how he predicted things that never came to pass. A distinction is...

Evolution of the Teacher Education Internet Server

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 710–714

In 1993, the Teacher Education Internet Server (TEIS) was developed as an online resource for educators seeking to more effectively integrate technology into teacher education programs. Telecomputing networks have been experiencing explosive growth...

Some Issues Concerning The Creation and Use of Electronic Textbooks

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 903–906

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current developments in the area of electronic books. Following a discussion of the key terminology used in this field, a number of issues will be investigated: computer programs as textbooks at...

Research and Instructional Technology: What We Have and What We Need

Jerry Willis

Computers in the Schools Vol. 8, No. 4 (1991) pp. 115–33

Following a discussion of the research-to-support-theory (RTST) model and problems with its use in research on computer-based instruction, the instructional development (ID) model is proposed. Definition, design, development, and dissemination...

Some Issues Concerning The Creation and Use of Electronic Textbooks

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 903–906

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current developments in the area of electronic books. Following a discussion of the key terminology used in this field, a number of issues will be investigated: computer programs as textbooks at...

Producting Electronic Books: Creating and Using the CD-ROM Version of the Annual

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 575–578

Since the 17th century, the textbook has been one of the primary classroom tools. From the early grades through graduate school, textbooks - stacks of paper bound between two covers linearly arranged - have dominated education (Siegel & Sousa, 1994)....

Technology Diffusion in the "Soft Disciplines": Using Social Technology to Support Information Technology

Jerry Willis

Computers in the Schools Vol. 9, No. 1 (1992) pp. 81–105

Discusses reasons for the slower acceptance of educational technology in the humanities. Highlights include teacher training; support staff skills; software development; lack of equity in funding for hardware and software; technology diffusion; and...

Do We Still Need a Paper Annual

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) p. 25

This is the ninth Technology and Teacher Education Annual, and as I think about it a conversation I had in 1989 floats up from one of those mental storage bins that are never thrown out but rarely opened and examined. The conversation was over...

Graduate Training in Educational Computing: Training the Next Generation of Technology Leaders

Jerry Willis

Computers in the Schools Vol. 8, No. 1 (1991) pp. 333–47

Discussion of graduate programs in educational computing highlights six models of educational computing programs: (1) the computer science model, which stresses programing; (2) the educational psychology model; (3) the programed instruction model; ...

Defining a Field: Content, Theory, and Research Issues

Jerry Willis

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000) pp. 209–219

The emerging field of information technology and teacher education (ITTE) can be defmed in many different ways. This paper proposes that ITTE be defined through a subject matter focus on the use of information technology, in all its forms, in...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Research Methods

A Texas Professional Development and Technology Schools Project

Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 794–798

In 1993, the University of Houston began developing a consortium of four area universities, eight Professional Development and Technology Schools, and local educa-

Commentary: Reflections on the Relationship Between Idealogy and Research

Jerry Willis

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 3, No. 1 (2003) pp. 11–24

The main point of Lederman's (2003) editorial on the nature of scientific research was that projects like the U.S. Department of Education's What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) attempt to select and disseminate only information about how we should teach...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Research Methods

Computers and Qualitative Research

Jerry Willis; Muktha Jost

Computers in the Schools Vol. 15, No. 3 (1999) pp. 21–52

Discusses the use of computers in qualitative research, including sources of information; collaboration; electronic discussion groups; Web sites; Internet search engines; electronic sources of data; data collection; communicating research results;...

Creating Your Own CD- ROM: An Overview

Jerry W. Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1994 (1994) pp. 151–155

For most of teacher education's history the most common form of "instructional support" has been a printed handout. Over the past 90 years the way those handouts were produced has changed regularly as newer technology became available to educators....

Setting the Priorities: Electronic Scholarly Publishing

Jerry Willis; Glen Bull

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000) pp. 9–38

Three journals were dedicated to publishing scholarly and professional papers in the field of educational technology and teacher education at the beginning of the year 2000: * Journal of Computers in Teacher Education (JCTE). * Journal of...

Topics: Teachers, Computers, Educational Technology

Software for Analyzing Qualitative Data

Jerry Willis; Muktha Jost

Computers in the Schools Vol. 15, No. 3 (1999) pp. 117–50

Reviews three of the most popular qualitative data analysis software packages currently available. Describes the purpose of research, including hermeneutic understanding and storytelling; examines the issue of holistic versus atomistic approaches to ...

A Web-Based Instructional Resource for Teacher

Seung H. Jin; Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 447–451

Over the past ten years, there has been dramatically increasing interest in the use of technology to support student-centered/constructivist learning. However, in spite of the great benefits of technology for constructivist learning, the majority of ...

Faculty Perspectives on Instructional Technology: A National Survey

Jerry Willis; Dee Anna Willis; Linda Austin; Brandie Colon

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 795–800

In 1993 the Office of Technology Assessment was asked by several congressional committees to prepare another report in the Power On! tradition that would focus specifically on teacher education. In preparing the report OTA commissioned several new...

Recent Graduate Perspectives on Instructional Technology: A National Survey

Brandie Colon; Jerry Willis; Dee Anna Willis; Linda Austin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 791–794

The Power On! report (OTA, 1988) prepared for Congress by the Office of Technology Assessment remains one of the most frequently quoted documents on the use of technology in American schools. One segment of that report described the relatively poor...

R2D2: A Constructivist/Interpretivist Instructional Design Model

Muktha B. Jost; Polly Mumma; Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1489–1494

Until recently the great majority of instructional design (ID) models have relied on behavioral and information processing theories (Dick, 1996). There is, however, a growing body of literature on the practice of instructional design from a...

Topics: Instructional Materials, Information Sciences, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Cognition

Integrated Learning Systems and Their Alternatives: Problems and Cautions

Cleborne D. Maddux; Jerry W. Willis

Educational Technology Vol. 32, No. 9 (1992) pp. 51–57

Examines the advisability of public school adoption of integrated learning systems (ILSs). Topics discussed include computer networks; alternatives to ILSs, including stand-alone microcomputers and networks without ILSs; ILSs and theories of...

Creating Higher Education Academic and Information Technology Resources in an International Context

Josh Baron; Jerry Willis; Reba-Anna Lee

Computers in the Schools Vol. 27, No. 3 (2010) pp. 288–308

A number of contemporary factors have combined to create a situation that encourages and supports international collaboration among institutions of higher education. Factors such as the globalization of the economy, the increasingly international...

A User's Guide to the CITE Journal

Glen Bull; Jerry Willis; Lynn Bell

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (2000) pp. 4–8

This inaugural issue of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education ( CITE Journal ) appears online in Summer 2000. It is the result of an extended collaboration that began several years ago. In fact, the genesis of the Summer 2000 issue ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Training

WebCT and Its Growth as a Type II Application

Irene Chen; Jerry Willis; Sue Mahoney

Computers in the Schools Vol. 22, No. 1 (July 2005) pp. 147–156

Maddux, Johnson, and Willis mentioned in 1992 some "yet to be developed types" that "have the potential to be Type II software if they are used in such a way that the user is given the ability to learn in new and better ways." The authors of this...

Research on Technology and Teacher Education: Current Status and Future Directions

Jerry Willis; Ann Thompson; William Sadera

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 47, No. 4 (1999) pp. 29–45

Discusses the emergence of information technology in teacher education (ITTE) as a discipline; describes paradigms for research and development work, including empiricism, critical theory, and interpretivism; examines literature reviews, policy...

Paradigms and Frames for R&D in Distance Education: Toward Collaborative Electronic Learning

Walter Heinecke; Kara Dawson; Jerry Willis

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 7, No. 3 (2001) pp. 293–322

This article investigates the relationship between paradigms of teaching and learning and models of distance education. The underlying premise of this article is that fundamental beliefs about the nature of reality (ontology), the nature of...

Topics: Distance Education

Information Technology in Teacher Education: Past, Present, and Future

Cleborne Maddux; Jerry Willis; D. Lamont Johnson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3299–3304

This presentation will present three views of the past, the present, and the possible future of information technology in education in general and in teacher education. These three possibly widely divergent views will be those of three individuals...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology

The Current Status of Technology Teacher Education: An International Comparison

Niki Davis; Jerry Willis; Kathleen Fulton; Linda Austin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 801–804

Concern about the training of tomorrow’s teachers prompted the USA Congress Office of Technology Assessment to fund surveys of teacher educators and recently qualified teachers during 1993. This paper reports comparisons of an English sample with...

In Search Of The Revolutionary Power Of Critical Pedagogy: Issues Of Ideology, Power, And Culture In Technology Teacher Education

Glenn DeVoogd; Jerry Willis; Avril Loveless; Nicola Yelland

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2419–2424

Critical pedagogy is a perspective on teaching that seeks to increase equality, voice, individual & cultural expression and democracy in classrooms. The following three authors describe contexts in which they find critical pedagogy meaningful in...

Topics: Educational Technology

Instructional Materials for Teacher Educators: A Review of SCRTEC's "Active Learning with Technology"

Betul C. Ozkan; Nina Semko; Jerry W. Willis

Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 3, No. 3 (2004)

In this paper, we will review and critique a package of instructional materials developed by a southern education consortium. The materials package is called "Active Learning with Technology," and it is one of only a few instructional...

Profiles in Progress: Case Studies of Exemplary Technology and Teacher Education Programs

John Mergendoller; Jerome Johnston; Saul Rockman; Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1995 (1995) pp. 805–807

The Congressional Office of Technology Assessment will present a report to the U.S. Congress in 1995 on the use of technology by teachers. To inform this work we conducted a qualitative, multi-site case study of exemplary preservice and inservice...

Developing and Researching the International Dimension in Teacher Education and Technology: A SITE Invited Panel.

Therese Laferriere; Niki Davis; Bridget Somekh; Wim Veen; Jerry Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 860–865

SITE'00's theme is building bridges among professional associations so it is only right that one the panels should look at the joys and challenges of developing and researching an international dimension in teacher education. The panelists come from ...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Culture, Information Communication Technologies

Scholarly Knowledge Development and Dissemination in an International Context: Approaches and Tools for Higher Education

Jerry Willis; Josh Baron; Reba-Anna Lee; Mary Gozza-Cohen; Amity Currie

Computers in the Schools Vol. 27, No. 3 (2010) pp. 155–199

This paper looks at the process of collaboratively creating and disseminating information resources, such as journals, books, papers, and multimedia resources in higher education. This process has been facilitated and encouraged by two relatively...