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Technology Applications in Education: A Learning View » Read Now
by Harold F. O'Neil Jr., Ray S. Perez. 372 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This volume identifies promising learning, teaching, and assessment strategies for the use and assessment of technology in educational settings, specifically: *educational context (e.g., organizational and structural factors that contribute to the effective use of technology in school settings);...
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This volume identifies promising learning, teaching, and assessment strategies for the use and assessment of technology in educational settings, specifically: *educational context (e.g., organizational and structural factors that contribute to the effective use of technology in school settings); *promising learning and teaching strategies; *promising technology-based assessment procedures and methods; *policy implementation issues; and *a summary of current research on the effective use of technology in education. Chapter authors represent a variety of perspectives and disciplines, from computer science, cognitive and educational psychology, and educational administration. Authors represent government, business, and university communities from within and outside the U.S. These multiple perspectives contribute to the overall understanding of current technology use in education and help in identifying future research needs. Technology Applications in Education: A Learning View explores the state of the art of technology in K-16 education from a learning perspective rather than a hardware/software view. It is designed for professionals and graduate students in the educational technology, training, assessment/evaluation, school administration, military psychology, and educational psychology communities. This book is characterized in the following montage of factors: *the primacy of learning as a focus for technology implementation; *a focus on technology uses in K-16 education; *a focus on the assessment of both individuals and teams; *a broad variety of methodological approaches from qualitative to instructional design to quantitative (e.g., structural equation modeling); *a need to support the development of technology-based curriculum and tools; and *a need for theory-driven and evaluation studies to increase our knowledge.
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Technology Enhanced Learning: Opportunities for Change » Read Now
by Paul S. Goodman. 312 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This book focuses on how technology may create new learning environments and enhance basic learning processes. The book identifies and informs some of the strategic decisions involved in designing and implementing new technology to enhance learning. It also examines specific learning applications of...
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This book focuses on how technology may create new learning environments and enhance basic learning processes. The book identifies and informs some of the strategic decisions involved in designing and implementing new technology to enhance learning. It also examines specific learning applications of TEL in order to understand the context of different learning environments, as well as some of the critical lessons learned in designing these environments. Mixing both conceptual perspectives and actual case experiences should create different learning opportunities for the reader. Technology Enhanced Learning is divided into two parts. Part I deals with strategic issues, such as trends in technology, implications for educational systems, designing infrastructure, and learning environments. Part II looks at specific cases of new learning environments to learn about strategy, infrastructure, impact assessment, and change in TEL learning environments.
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Watch IT: The Risks and Promises of Information Technologies for Education » Read Now
by Nicholas C. Burbules, Thomas A. Callister Jr. 194 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Watch IT is an examination of several critical issues in the potential of new information technology (IT) for education. The authors take a close look at the positive and negative consequences of new technologies in the classroom.
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Using Learning Technologies: International Perspectives on Practice » Read Now
by Elizabeth J. Burge, Margaret Haughey. 161 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This collection of first-hand accounts from experienced and accomplished learning technology practitioners highlights issues in using learning technologies for flexible, distance and open learning. Drawing on their own experience, the authors identify and explore the most practical and complex...
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This collection of first-hand accounts from experienced and accomplished learning technology practitioners highlights issues in using learning technologies for flexible, distance and open learning. Drawing on their own experience, the authors identify and explore the most practical and complex issues faced and reflect upon the lessons learned. The definition of learning technologies is broad, encompassing not only the tools (print, audio, video, online applications) but their creative and informed application and social effects. Experiences from eight different countries are presented while the themes addressed include policy development, teaching skills, learner guidance, evaluation and reflective practice. Often, busy practitioners argue that they do not have time for reflection but that they do have time to swap stories with colleagues. Using Learning Technologies promotes such engagement through a broad range of first-hand accounts of facing the challenges entailed in using learning technologies. The stories recounted here speak directly to practitioners, researchers and administrators, provide a model for reflection and offer practical guidelines for comparison with the reader's own experience.
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A Model Curriculum to Promote Teacher-Centered Use of Technology, in PJE. Peabody Journal of Education » Read Now
by Judith K. Ingram. 18 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...appoint full-time Director of Educational Technology in the School/Department...offer a semester- long Educational Technology Workshop to professors of...teachers being...
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Integrating Teaching Styles and Learning Styles with Instructional Technology, in College Teaching » Read Now
by Anthony F. Grasha, Natalia Yangarber-Hicks. 12 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library
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Teacher Education: Preparing Teachers to Integrate Technology, in International Journal of Instructional Media » Read Now
by Devon C. Duhaney. 8 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...prepared" to integrate educational technology in classroom activities...Journal of Information Technology for Teacher Education...The computer as an educational tool;...
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Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy » Read Now
by Thomas K. Glennan, Arthur Melmed. 124 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Assesses current classroom use of technology and proposes a strategy for incorporating technology in America's schools.
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Learning & Teaching with Technology: Principles and Practices » Read Now
by Som Naidu. 300 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

(Originally announced with the title "E-Learning")The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education, teaching and learning is having a profound effect on educational practice in higher education. As ICT becomes more accepted as a way of life for teachers, so the subject is...
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(Originally announced with the title "E-Learning")The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education, teaching and learning is having a profound effect on educational practice in higher education. As ICT becomes more accepted as a way of life for teachers, so the subject is moving out of the "technological closet"; however, there is still a considerable level of uncertainty, if not mystique, about what e-learning actually means, and what its impacts are in terms of real teaching and student learning. Written for educators rather than technology specialists, this crucial book for the digital age will consider just how far the e-revolution has gone, and its effects.Wide ranging and international in scope, "Learning and Teaching with Technology" looks at how far online learning has influenced -- and will influence -- teaching, and at the implications for students' learning. Much has been written about the technology of e-learning; as the technology becomes simpler, it is important for teachers to understand just how technology-enhanced teaching and learning is influencing educational practice and pedagogy, and what t
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Teachers and Technoliteracy: Managing Literacy, Technology, and Learning in Schools » Read Now
by Colin Lankshear, Iiana Snyder, Bill Green. 178 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Shows how schools can best manage technology infrastructure and use of technology in the classroom.
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International Perspectives on the Design of Technology-Supported Learning Environments » Read Now
by Stella Vosniadou, Erik de Corte, Robert Glaser, Heinz Mandl. 396 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Computer-assisted instruction. 3. Educational technology. I. Vosniadou, Stella...The Psychological and Educational Foundations of Technology-Based Learning...
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ICT: Changing Education » Read Now
by Chris Abbott. 130 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is changing the face of education. In this timely and accessible book, Chris Abbott examines the process by which ICT, and its role in relation to literacy has become central to national educational policies.
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Electronic Quills: A Situated Evaluation of Using Computers for Writing in Classrooms » Read Now
by Bertram C. Bruce, Andee Rubin, Carol Barnhardt. 234 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...conception of the technologys use, their...views about educational change, evaluation...visions of technology in relation to educational change. In...evaluation of...
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Computers, Teachers, Peers: Science Learning Partners » Read Now
by Marcia C. Linn, Sherry Hsi. 460 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Linn and Hsi show how computers, teachers, and peers can serve as learning partners--helping students build on their ideas and become lifelong science learners. They invite everyone interested in improving science education to build on their experiences, share insights on the Internet, and create...
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Linn and Hsi show how computers, teachers, and peers can serve as learning partners--helping students build on their ideas and become lifelong science learners. They invite everyone interested in improving science education to build on their experiences, share insights on the Internet, and create instruction. Computers, Teachers, Peers: * offers case studies to bring the ideas of students learning science to life. *Join Sasha, Chris, Pat, and Lee as they try to make sense of experiments using computers to display data in real time;* * provides principles to help teachers improve their instruction, use technology better, and inspire more students to love science. *Find out how to use visualization tools, online discussion, and more to make science relevant;* * gives researchers and instructional designers a model for effective research and curriculum design. *Linn and Hsi report that the partnership approach to research resulted in a 400% increase in student understanding of science;* * helps schools develop technology plans that continuously improve science instruction. *Find out how schools can design better ways to use technology for learning;* * describes a partnership inquiry process where science teachers, science education researchers, discipline specialists, and technologists consider each others' perspectives and jointly design instruction. *Boys and girls are equally successful in the resulting science courses;* and * features practical tools for learning and instruction, including "Points to Ponder"--to encourage reflection on the ideas in each chapter (partnership groups or classes might use the points as discussion starters or assignments), and "Ask Mr. K."--an interview, in each chapter, with the classroom teacher who was a founding member of the CLP partnership (in these interviews Mr. K. adds insights from his own classroom experiences). This book is supplemented by a CD-ROM (included in each copy) and a Web site (www.clp.berkeley.edu) with the Computers as Learning Partners curriculum, lesson plans, a Quicktime virtual reality visit to the classroom, copies of assessments, opportunities to join partnerships, and more. For readers who wish for more information, Related Readings are cited, including works by authors mentioned in each chapter. Additional works by other authors who inspired the authors appear in the bibliography, on the website, and on the CD-ROM. An annotated bibliography of papers by the members of the CLP partnership also appears at the website and on the CD-ROM.
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Higher Education in the Digital Age: Technology Issues and Strategies for American Colleges and Universities » Read Now
by Daniel E. Atkins, James J. Duderstadt, Douglas Van Houweling. 290 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Academic management and administrative processes rely heavily on technology in business offices, virtual laboratories, digital libraries, and the like. Technology also has an impact upon teaching, freeing classrooms from constraints of time and space. Yet many university leaders are hesitant to set...
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Academic management and administrative processes rely heavily on technology in business offices, virtual laboratories, digital libraries, and the like. Technology also has an impact upon teaching, freeing classrooms from constraints of time and space. Yet many university leaders are hesitant to set technology as a priority. This book is designed to address the subject from a perspective appropriate to leaders.
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Untangling the Web: Applications of the Internet and Other Information Technologies to Higher Learning » Read Now
by David J. McArthur, Matthew W. Lewis. 114 pgs.

Collections: Education, Entire Library

This report analyzes the role of the emerging global information infrastructure in helping higher-education institutions to improve learning and teaching, improve the creation of infrastructional and learning materials, create educational communities, compete with new providers, and address policy and planning issues.