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Johnson, Amy F.; Hopper, Fleur; Sloan, James E. – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2016
In 2015, the Maine State Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs commissioned the Maine Education Policy Research Institute (MEPRI) to study the state's Essential Program and Services (EPS) K-12 education funding model in relationship to the funding for Maine's two virtual charter schools. The study was initiated…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Morrison, Gary R.; Morrison, Jennifer R.; Ross, Steven M. – Center for Research and Reform in Education, 2016
For many years, researchers attempted to prove that the use of technology would improve student achievement (Morrison, 1994). Many of these assertions prompted researchers to "test" the effectiveness of these various technologies by comparing a technology such as television or computers to a teacher teaching. While a number of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Smallen, David L. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2005
Benchmarking information technology services has become a vital activity for colleges and universities. The COSTS Project (http://www.costsproject.org/) is an ongoing quantitative effort to benchmark the costs of providing IT services in higher education; the project helps institutions understand their IT budgets and staffing relative to peer…
Descriptors: Costs, Liberal Arts, Information Technology, Higher Education
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Garthwait, Abigail; Weller, Herman G. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
Maine was the first state to put laptops in the hands of an entire grade of students. This interpretive case study of two middle school science-math teachers was driven by the general question: Given ubiquitous computing, how do teachers use computers in constructing curriculum and delivering instruction? Specifically, the researchers sought to…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers, Middle School Teachers
New England Board of Higher Education, Boston, MA. – 1989
New England's economic competitiveness in a global economy and the role of the area's colleges and universities in contributing to that competitiveness are discussed, including a review of a similar analysis from the perspective of the state of Maine. The report examines information developed from a study having three research components: (1) the…
Descriptors: College Role, Economic Change, Economic Development, Economic Impact
Epstein, Susan Baerg – 1984
This document contains the full transcript of a 2-day workshop on library automation. The first day of the workshop was devoted to a review of the state-of-the-art of library automation and the second day included presentation of testimony by Maine librarians. The transcript of the first day includes discussions of the historical development of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Automation, Library Cooperation, Library Networks