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Affect and Acceptability: Exploring Teachers' Technology-Related Risk Perceptions
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Howard, Sarah K. – Educational Media International, 2011
Educational change, such as technology integration, involves risk. Teachers are encouraged to "take risks", but what risks they are asked to take and how do they perceive these risks? Developing an understanding of teachers' technology-related risk perceptions can help explain their choices and behaviours. This paper presents a way to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Integration, Risk, Educational Change
Frequency and Content of Chat Questions by Time of Semester at the University of Central Florida: Implications for Training, Staffing and Marketing
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Goda, Donna; Bishop, Corinne – Public Services Quarterly, 2008
The more than 4,000 "chats" received by the University of Central Florida's (UCF) Ask-A-Librarian digital reference service are the subject of this practitioner-based, descriptive case study. Question content from chats received during four semesters between January 2005 and May 2006 are categorized and plotted, by semester, to show the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Reference Services, Synchronous Communication, Computer Mediated Communication
Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools. Research on High School and Beyond
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Smerdon, Becky, Ed.; Borman, Kathryn M., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
Pressing Forward: Increasing and Expanding Rigor and Relevance in America's High Schools is organized to place secondary education, specifically the goals of preparing young adults to be college and career ready, in contemporary perspective, emphasizing the changing global economy and trends in policy and practice. High school students must be…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, Secondary Education, Global Approach
Data-Driven Decision-Making: Data Pioneers
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Briggs, Linda L. – Campus Technology, 2006
Everyone on your campus needs information, and if your institution is like most schools, you have plenty of it to share. But which types of data warehousing and business intelligence systems you choose, and how accessible, usable, and meaningful those tools make all of that information, remain the big questions for many technologists and…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Database Management Systems, Educational Innovation
A Plea for Infusing Communications Technology in the Middle School Environment: A Case Study
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Sullivan, Ashley – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2004
This case study explores the question of whether school personnel are using the technology available to communicate effectively with the members of their communities? A plethora of communications technology is now accessible to schools, but the question remains whether it is being used to connect with the different members of one's school…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, Middle Schools, Technology Integration, Case Studies
Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) (Madrid, Spain, October 19-21, 2012)
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International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers