Student Photo Learning Exchange, The 24/7 Curriculum Project

Mark Johnson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 2560–2564

Abstract: Educators cannot avoid the fact that we have entered the world of visual communication and dependence on images to carry information, both current and historic. This is also a time when students are very familiar with the power of the...

Topics: Curriculum

Interactive Media Object Development Tool (IMOD)

Mark Johnson

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) p. 2224

The University System of Georgia's Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) has developed a set of software tools or IMOD's(Interactive Media Object Development Tools), for use in the development of online foreign language instruction.

Topics: Learning Objects

Enabling Faculty to Develop Interactive Multimedia: The iMOD Project

Taft Eaker; Mark Johnson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4202–4205

This demonstration is an overview of the Interactive Media Object Development (iMOD) tool. This software was developed for higher education faculty to design and create interactive multimedia learning objects. These objects generally present a...

Topics: Interaction, Educational Technology, Multimedia, Software, Learning Objects

Computer Assisted Learning: The Potential for Teaching and Assessing in Nursing

Mike Lowry; Mark Johnson

Nurse Education Today Vol. 19, No. 7 (1999) pp. 521–26

Computer-assisted learning can be an effective medium for undergraduate nursing education, especially through the use of graphics and self-assessment exercises. It also has benefits for patient care and education. (SK)

Hybrid Placemaking in the Library: Designing Digital Technology to Enhance Users' On-Site Experience

Mark Bilandzic; Daniel Johnson

Australian Library Journal Vol. 62, No. 4 (2013) pp. 258–271

This paper presents research findings and design strategies that illustrate how digital technology can be applied as a tool for "hybrid" placemaking in ways that would not be possible in purely digital or physical spaces. Digital...

Making Science Fiction Real: Neoliberalism, Real-Life and Esports in Eve Online

Mark Johnson; Robert Mejia

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research Vol. 10, No. 3 (Jan 04, 2018)

In this paper, we argue that EVE Online is a fruitful site for exploring how the representational and political-economic elements of science fiction intersect to exert a sociocultural and political-economic force on the shape and nature of the...

Diversity, Value and Technology: Exposing Value Pluralism in Institutional Strategy

Mark Johnson; Keith Smyth

Campus-Wide Information Systems Vol. 28, No. 4 (2011) pp. 211–220

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to explore ways in which value pluralism in institutional learning-technology strategy can be exposed and managed with the use of learning activities involving stakeholder groups across and between educational...

The 24/7 Curriculum Project

Mark Johnson; Deborah Hargroves

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 685–688

Abstract: Educators cannot avoid the fact that we have entered the world of visual communication and dependence on images to carry information, both current and historic. This is also a time when students are very familiar with the power of the...

Topics: Students, Curriculum

Assessing Regional and Community Needs through the Use of Focus Groups

Mark Johnson; Angela Brenton

Annual Meeting of the Society for College and University Planning 1996 (July 1996)

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and Little Rock's Pulaski Technical College (PTC) have both used the focus group process with key constituents to understand institutional needs and priorities and public expectations of their...

Dallas Region 10 school instructional technologists' perceptions of the evaluation process used to assess their job performance

Thomas Mark Johnson

Dallas@Region@10 school instructional@technologists' perceptions of the evaluation process used to assess their job@performance (2007) pp. 1–105

The work of an instructional technologist is diverse making the evaluation process complex. This study was designed to get an overview of instructional technologists' perceptions of the evaluation process used to assess their work performance. The...

Learning Design, Social Ontology and Unintended Functionalism in Education Projects

Mark William Johnson

Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2016, No. 1 (2016)

For many years there have been well-funded project opportunities for developing educational innovations, both pedagogical and technological, to fulfil the educational ambitions of national governments and European agencies. Projects have been funded ...

Internet-Enabled Audio Communication: A Richer Medium For Students Feedback?

Roy D. Johnson; Mark Keil

International Academy for Information Management (IAIM) Annual Conference: International Conference on Informatics Education & Research (ICIER) 2002 (2003)

This study compared the effects of using voice mail (v-mail) to electronic mail (e-mail) over the Internet to provide student feedback using Media Richness Theory (MRT) and Social Presence Theory (SPT) as the theoretical framework. MRT and SPT would ...

Beyond the Personal Learning Environment: Attachment and Control in the Classroom of the Future

Mark William Johnson; David Sherlock

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 22, No. 2 (2014) pp. 146–164

The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) has been presented in a number of guises over a period of 10 years as an intervention which seeks the reorganisation of educational technology through shifting the "locus of control" of technology...

Adult and Middle School Girls' Perceptions of Risk-Taking Behavior: Implications for School Practitioners

Brett Johnson Solomon; Mark Garibaldi

Journal of At-Risk Issues Vol. 17, No. 2 (2013) pp. 11–22

There is an overwhelming disconnect between young adolescent girls and adults, in relationship to perceptions of middle schoolgirl risk taking. This mixed-methods study investigates the differences between adult practitioners and middle school girls&...

Influencing Children's Pregambling Game Playing via Conditional Discrimination Training

Taylor E. Johnson; Mark R. Dixon

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis Vol. 42, No. 1 (2009) pp. 73–81

Past research has demonstrated a transformation of stimulus functions under similar conditions using gambling tasks and adults (e.g., Zlomke & Dixon, 2006), and the present study attempted to extend this research. Experimenters exposed 7 children ...

Navigating the Blended Learning Classroom: One Teacher?s Perspective on Designing and Delivering Blended Instruction

Adam Barger; Mark Hofer; Lindy Johnson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1434–1442

In this paper, we report on findings from the initial phase of a research study on blended teaching and learning. We focus on the experiences of one teacher as she designs and delivers a blended learning course in a mid-sized high school piloting a...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, K-12 Online Learning

Identifying Differential Item Functioning in Multi-Stage Computer Adaptive Testing

Mark J. Gierl; Hollis Lai; Johnson Li

Educational Research and Evaluation Vol. 19, No. 2 (2013) pp. 188–203

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of CATSIB (Computer Adaptive Testing-Simultaneous Item Bias Test) for detecting differential item functioning (DIF) when items in the matching and studied subtest are administered adaptively...

Learning in Online Continuing Professional Development: An Institutionalist View on the Personal Learning Environment

Mark Johnson; Denise Prescott; Sarah Lyon

Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research (NAER Journal) Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan 15, 2017) pp. 20–27

The nature of institutions is an important question for the Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Whilst the PLE has tended to focus on what is considered to be “non-institutional” technology like social software, most online tools today have a...

Quantifying the Literature of Computer-aided Instruction in Medical Education

Mark D. Adler; Kevin B. Johnson

Academic Medicine Vol. 75, No. 10 (2000) pp. 1025–28

Studied the literature about computer assisted instruction (CAI) in medical education by searching the Medline and ERIC databases. Medical CAI appears to be an increasingly popular topic of research and publication, but such studies tend to be...

Vital Interests: Cultivating Global Competence in the International Studies Classroom

Paula R. Johnson; Mark A. Boyer; Scott W. Brown

Globalisation, Societies and Education Vol. 9, No. 3 (2011) pp. 503–519

Are students being prepared for the challenges they will face in a globalising world? We investigated whether middle school students were interested in global issues, had knowledge of global issues and possessed the skills needed for competence as a ...

Vocational Interests and Needs of Unemployed, Low-Education Adults with Severe Substance Abuse Problems in Anchorage, Alaska

Mark Johnson; Grace Reynolds; Dennis Fisher; Colin Harbke

International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 (April 2011) pp. 1–10

Vocational assessment data were collected from 94 low-education adults with severe substance abuse problems not currently in treatment. Participants completed the My Vocational Situation (MVS), Self-Directed Search (SDS), and Reading-Free Vocational ...

Preparing for disruption: developing institutional capability for decentralized education technologies

Scott Wilson; Oleg Liber; Dai Griffiths; Mark Johnson

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1386–1395

Abstract: A combination of pressures are now affecting institutional technology strategies; these include the increasing richness of the external technology environment, increasing individual technical capabilities, and pressures on institutions to...

Topics: Educational Technology

Examining teacher ethical dilemmas in classroom assessment

Nakia Pope; Susan K. Green; Robert L. Johnson; Mark Mitchell

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 25, No. 5 (July 2009) pp. 778–782

The current spotlight on assessment in education raises ethical issues as practices evolve. This study documents ethical conflicts faced by teachers in the United States regarding assessment of students. Critical incidents generated by practising...

Language: English

The Shared Signal Hypothesis: Effects of Emotion-Gaze Congruency in Infant and Adult Visual Preferences

Silvia Rigato; Enrica Menon; Teresa Farroni; Mark H. Johnson

British Journal of Developmental Psychology Vol. 31, No. 1 (March 2013) pp. 15–29

In this study, 4-month-old infants' and adults' spontaneous preferences for emotional and neutral displays with direct and averted gaze are investigated using visual preference paradigms. Specifically, by presenting two approach-oriented...

Comparison Of High And Low Intrinsically Motivated Students in Their Preparation For College In The Use of Technology

Lincoln Johnson; Korto Scott; Mark Pitterson; Brian Brachio; Elsa-Sofia Morote

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2499–2503

The purpose of this study is to determine if students who are self-taught in the use of technology are better prepared to utilize technology in college in comparison to students who are less self-taught. The data was extracted from the study,...

I: Making Art

Malke Rosenfeld; Marquetta Johnson; Anna Plemons; Suzanne Makol; Meghan Zanskas; Mark Dzula; Meg Robson Mahoney

Teaching Artist Journal Vol. 12, No. 4 (2014) pp. 210–220

Writing about the teaching artist practice should mean writing about art making. As both teacher and artist, the authors are required to be cognizant of their own art-making processes, both how it works and why it is important to them, in order to...

Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems

Scott Wilson; Oleg Liber; Mark Johnson; Phil Beauvoir; Paul Sharples; Colin Milligan

Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society Vol. 3, No. 2 (2007) pp. 27–38

Current systems used in education follow a consistent design pattern, one that is not supportive of lifelong learning or personalization, is asymmetric in terms of user capability, and which is disconnected from the global ecology of Internet...

Professional Development of the Faculty: Past and Present

C William McKee; Mitzy Johnson; William F. Ritchie; W Mark Tew

New Directions for Teaching and Learning Vol. 133 (2013) pp. 15–20

During the past four decades, researchers have studied many of the factors contributing to higher education's efforts to provide opportunities of continued professional development for its most important asset: the college and university faculty....

Cultural Background Modulates How We Look at Other Persons' Gaze

Atsushi Senju; Angelina Vernetti; Yukiko Kikuchi; Hironori Akechi; Toshikazu Hasegawa; Mark H. Johnson

International Journal of Behavioral Development Vol. 37, No. 2 (March 2013) pp. 131–136

The current study investigated the role of cultural norms on the development of face-scanning. British and Japanese adults' eye movements were recorded while they observed avatar faces moving their mouth, and then their eyes toward or away from ...

Case It or Else! Fostering Ethical Awareness about Human Genetics

Mary Lundeberg; Kim Mogen; Mark Bergland; Karen Klyczek; Doug Johnson; Eric MacDonald

Journal of College Science Teaching Vol. 32, No. 1 (2002) pp. 64–69

Uses the case study approach to introduce students to the relationship between science and society. Develops an awareness of ethics, specifically on DNA research, through computer simulations and Internet conferencing. (Contains 20 references.) (YDS)

The GlobalEd Project: Problem-solving and decision making in a web-based PBL

Scott Brown; Paula Johnson; Clarisse Lima; Mark Boyer; Michael Butler; Natalie Florea; Jason Rich

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1967–1973

The GlobalEd Project employs a technology rich environment for middle school students who choose to participate in a simulation of international relations and negotiation. A simulation consists of negotiations on a variety of international policy...

Topics: Schools, Middle School Education, Students

Mathematical Thinking: Challenging Prospective Teachers to Do More than "Talk the Talk"

Mark Prendergast; Patrick Johnson; Olivia Fitzmaurice; Miriam Liston; Lisa O'Keeffe; Niamh O'Meara

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology Vol. 45, No. 5 (2014) pp. 635–647

This paper reports on a research project which aims to improve prospective mathematics teachers' relational understanding and pedagogical beliefs for teaching in second-level Irish classrooms. Prospective mathematics teachers complete their...

Construction of a Rated Speech Corpus of L2 Learners' Spontaneous Speech

Su-Youn Yoon; Lisa Pierce; Amanda Huensch; Eric Juul; Samantha Perkins; Richard Sproat; Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

CALICO Journal Vol. 26, No. 3 (May 2009) pp. 662–673

This work reports on the construction of a rated database of spontaneous speech produced by second language (L2) learners of English. Spontaneous speech was collected from 28 L2 speakers representing six language backgrounds and five different...

Increasing Interest, Confidence and Understanding of Ethical Issues in Science through Case-Based Instructional Technology

Mary A. Lundeberg; Mark Bergland; Karen Klyczek; Kim Mogen; Doug Johnson; Nina Harmes

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1999 (April 1999)

Software designed to promote the use of open-ended investigations in science education was evaluated in a study of whether using case-based simulation enhances students' understanding of ethical issues and data interpretation in science. The...

The Relation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury to Chronic Lapses of Attention

Matthew B. Pontifex; Steven P. Broglio; Eric S. Drollette; Mark R. Scudder; Chris R. Johnson; Phillip M. O'Connor; Charles H. Hillman

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Vol. 83, No. 4 (December 2012) pp. 553–559

We assessed the extent to which failures in sustained attention were associated with chronic mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) deficits in cognitive control among college-age young adults with and without a history of sport-related concussion....

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Volume 106, Issue 2

Louanne Smolin; Kimberly Lawless; Chris Dede; Steve Jones; Camille Johnson-Yale; Francisco Seoane Perez; Jessica Schuler; James W. Pellegrino; Susan R. Goldman; Meryl Bertenthal; Kimberly Lawless; Charalambos Vrasidas; Gene V. Glass; Geneva D. Haertel; Barbara Means; William Penuel; Hilary Goldmann; Mark Warschauer; Sharon Tettegah; Eun Won Whang; Nakia Collins; Kona Taylor; Olga A. Vasquez; Nicholas C. Burbules

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Vol. 106, No. 2 (October 2007) pp. 1–218

There is little dispute that technology has transformed people's everyday lives. People shop online, download news in their iPods, communicate via text and video, take digital photos, and conduct all manner of personal and professional business via...

Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2013

(2013) pp. 1–186

Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education is now in its fifth year of publication, and has become one of the most important journals for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). This journal represents the...