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Self-Confidence versus Usability for Blackboard and Library Databases
Heather Holden; Roy Rada
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 865–869
Two popular technology innovations available in higher education institutions are web-based courseware and bibliographic databases. The literature suggests that a student's sense of self-confidence relative to these technologies has a positive...
Topics: Educational Technology, Databases, Library, Students
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Assessing Teachers’ Self-Efficacy, Percieved Usability, and Attitudes/Perceptions towards Educational Technology Acceptance and Usage
Heather Holden; Roy Rada
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2244–2247
Many teachers use educational technology less than they might. A model is proposed to account for factors influencing their adoption of this technology. The model is an extension of the Technology Acceptance Model. An example of an experimental...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Assessing Teachers' Technology Acceptance and Usage Behavior
Heather Holden; Roy Rada
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 848–857
Many teachers use educational technology less than they might. A model is presented to account for factors influencing their acceptance and usage of technologies they are currently using. The model is an extension of the Technology Acceptance...
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Virtual Education Manifesto: Where Are We Going Technologically and Market-wise?
Roy Rada
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1998 (1998) pp. 30–35
How can we integrate educational technology into the workflow? We will consider three activities: courseware and learning, virtual classroom and teaching, and virtual school and administering. Our own efforts to integrate into the workflow of...
Topics: Educational Technology, Students
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Efficiency and Effectiveness in Computer-Supported Peer-Peer Learning
Roy Rada
Computers & Education Vol. 30, No. 3 (1998) pp. 137–46
Presents three case studies to support the claim that mechanistic groupware can improve efficiency and effectiveness in the classroom. Results indicated that the expertise of the teacher and the motivation of the students are important factors in...
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Technology Use and Acceptance in the Classroom: Results from an Exploratory Survey Study among Secondary Education Teachers in the USA
Heather Holden; Ant Ozok; Roy Rada
Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 5, No. 2 (2008) pp. 113–134
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the current usage and acceptance of classroom technologies by secondary math/science education teachers in one community. Design/methodology/approach: Forty-seven secondary education math and science...
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Building a Web-Based Accountability System in a Teacher Education Program
Xueguang Ma; Roy Rada
Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 13, No. 1 (2005) pp. 93–119
A novel Web-based Accountability Model (WAM) for assessment and learning in a Teacher Education Program was implemented. The objective is to explain the rationale for the WAM model, how it was implemented as the web-based Education Accountability...
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Computer-Supported Collaborative Writing Phases
Roy Rada; Weigang Wang
Journal of Educational Technology Systems Vol. 26, No. 2 (1998) pp. 137–49
This research examined whether collaborative hypermedia systems could improve upon results achieved in traditional collaborative and individual learning environments without a computer. The students did not feel positively disposed to sharing their...
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Individual Effects of a Web-Based Accountability System in a Teacher Education Program
Xueguang Ma; Roy Rada
Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 22, No. 3 (2006) pp. 111–119
This paper describes the results of teacher education candidates' use of a Web-based assessment system including electronic portfolios. A teacher education program adopted a novel Web-based Accountability Model for assessment and learning. The Web...
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Towards Effective Support for Research Group Management: The Hypotheses & Papers Database
Roy Rada
Information Processing & Management Vol. 32, No. 5 (1996) pp. 611–18
Discusses management of a research group and examines the role of collaborative hypertext in supporting the maintenance of a hypertext database about hypotheses and research papers. Highlights include hypothesis formulation; paper revision,...
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Modelling Situated Actions in Collaborative Hypertext Databases
Chaomei Chen; Roy Rada
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Vol. 2, No. 3 (1996)
Develops a probabilistic model of the usage of an awareness-maintaining mechanism in a collaborative hypertext database system. Studies longitudinal time series data of user-database interaction. Finds that the recurring patterns in the occurrences...
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Collaborative Learning and the MUCH System
Roy Rada
Computers & Education Vol. 20, No. 3 (1993) pp. 225–33
Discussion of collaborative learning focuses on the MUCH (Many Using and Creating Hypermedia) System, developed at the University of Liverpool (England) for designing and implementing collaborative learning systems. Examples of applications of the...
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Hypertext Interchange Using ICA
Roy Rada
Journal of Documentation Vol. 51, No. 2 (1995) pp. 99–117
Discusses extended ICA (Integrated Chameleon Architecture), a public domain toolset for generating text-to-hypertext translators. A system called SGML-MUCH has been developed using E-ICA (Extended Integrated Chameleon Architecture) and is presented...
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Retrieval Hierarchies in Hypertext
Roy Rada
Information Processing & Management Vol. 29, No. 3 (1993) pp. 359–71
Describes a collaborative, reuse hypertext system, called MUCH (Many Using and Creating Hypertext). The novel browsing and retrieval characteristics of the system are based on a semantic net connecting documents, thesauri, and discussions. Word...
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Writing and Reading Hypertext: An Overview
Roy Rada
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 40, No. 3 (1989) pp. 164–71
Describes the components of a hypertext system and discusses possible applications from the model of hypertext as a writer plus reader phenomenon. The role of semantic nets is described within the context of both the writer and the reader, and the...
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Ranking Documents with a Thesaurus
Roy Rada; Ellen Bicknell
Journal of the American Society for Information Science Vol. 40, No. 5 (1989) pp. 304–10
Describes exploratory experiments in evaluating and improving a thesaurus through studying its effect on retrieval. A formula was developed to measure the conceptual distance between queries and documents encoded as sets of thesaurus terms....
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“Hour of Code”: Can It Change Students’ Attitudes toward Programming?
Hayden Wimmer; Jie Du; Roy Rada
Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice Vol. 15 (Dec 27, 2015) pp. 53–73
The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science organized by Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. This study investigated the impact of the Hour of Code on students\u2019 attitudes towards...
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Web-Based Education Accountability System and Organizational Changes: An Actor-Network Approach
Xueguang Ma; Roy Rada
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 1–14
The learning and accountability needs in a teacher education department drove the development of a novel, Web-based education accountability system (EAS). To fit the EAS with the organization, actor-network theory (ANT) was used to guide the social...
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?Hour of Code?: Can It Change Students? Attitudes toward Programming?
Hayden Wimmer; Jie Du; Roy Rada
Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice Vol. 15, No. 1 (Dec 27, 2015) pp. 53–73
The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science organized by Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. This study investigated the impact of the Hour of Code on students? attitudes towards...