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This session will demonstrate an innovative web-based learning tool, Still Learning used at A.T. Still University/Kirksville College of Medicine. Still Learning employs video presentations to help the community-based medical school faculty and...

Abstract: Myriad factors influence the growth and revision of curricula for masters' degree programs in instructional and educational technology (IT). Potential curricular influences include accreditation standards, curriculum guidelines provided by ...

This presentation provides guidance on how to optimally design an Internet-based curricular resource site (CURE-SI). Content of the presentation is based upon the author's experiences with developing the EdTech Interconnect site, which is an...

Teaching for understanding is a traditional goal in education that is enhanced through what curriculum theorists Wiggins and McTighe (1998) call "uncovering." In this paper we will describe the ways that interactive computer technology-specifically...

The increasing dominance of EOL in all areas of academia, including conferences, and academic journals requires improved EOL for all international teachers and students globally (Flowerdew, 2007). The unprecedented spread of academic EOL in Asia,...

Ongoing com. differences, increasing geographic separation and a persistent tendency to focus upon a particular aspect of, or an age of deaf/hard-of-hearing (d/hh) students have combined to increase the isolation that is experienced within Deaf...

Qualitative responses were gathered from 120 graduate education majors as to their reasons for selecting either online or traditional course formats. Results indicated that students enrolled in online courses for reasons related to convenience,...

The Virtual Tutee system will be introduced as a prototype of an intelligent tutoring system. The user of this system adopts the role of the tutor and studies photosynthesis by tutoring a virtual tutee residing within the software. The system was...

This brief paper suggests a framework and a process for evaluating the good online professor or teacher, and compares several initial evaluations using this process with student feedback on online teacher performance.

This session tackles issues in teaching foreign languages on the Web. The poster presentation on course design for a Web-based third-year level Chinese reading class will address the following challenges: · creating a model for Web-based course...

Technology in universities, both online and in classrooms, is a swirling controversy these days that winds through departments and libraries. Will the volcanic eruption of technology, driven by the Internet, envelop the higher education campus in a...

This presentation and its accompanying paper will present a review of the literature in Mobile, Ubiquitous Computing. It will also present the findings of several studies which focus on the use of hand held computing in teaching and learning.

This paper addresses the globalization of e-learning. Different markets with a diversity of cultures are emerging to use more technology for their learning needs. One particular aspect of this paper is the need for technological advances in e...

This paper describes how the UW-Oshkosh Teacher Education Program prepares pre-service teachers to integrate technology into instruction. Specifically, how the social studies methods and instructional technology courses are: using a framework for...

This presentation addresses how stakeholders in a PT3 project are taking an inquiry stance to examine ways of integrating technology in teacher education. A serendipitous shift from a community of learners (how to approach technology integration in...

Instructional design researchers and astrophysicists at a large northeastern land-grant university carried out comprehensive analysis of the questions used in a large-enrollment hybrid-format (with both F2F and online components) introductory course ...

LEAP 2 Technology, a video-case based interactive program, is designed and developed by teacher educators to help new teachers (1-3 years experience) situate themselves philosophically and begin to conceptualize effective practices for teaching...

Movies are a good source of problems for scientific analysis. Over time we become conditioned to accept Hollywood science that permeates most fantasy, science fiction, and action / adventure films. But science exaggerations can be found in even...

This paper reports on a study pertaining to students at two elementary schools in Year 1 and Year 7 with the students using Lego robotics in their classrooms. More specifically the robotics is Lego’s green city challenge as the students will be...

With collaborative web technologies such as wikis becoming increasingly popular in the workplace, this case study examined how workers at an education research unit within a graduate school of education perceive the wiki as a platform for...