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Demski, Jennifer – Campus Technology, 2012
The publication of Anya Kamenetz's "DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education" (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010) caused quite a splash in the higher ed community. If, as she advocates, highly motivated students can access quality online coursework for free--if they can create their own learning paths based on…
Descriptors: Open Education, Conventional Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning
Levin, Douglas A. – Principal Leadership, 2011
Approximately 15 states are changing their policies to give school districts more flexibility in acquiring content. They have changed laws or policies or have bills pending in state legislatures to redefine "textbooks". Most of those changes are similar to the approach Indiana took in its new law: a "textbook" is not only a…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Courseware, Educational Technology, Educational Resources
Shimabukuro, James – American Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Harry Keller is president and a founder of Paracomp, Inc., creator and marketer of Smart Science Education. In this interview, Keller talks about himself and what led him to develop Smart Science labs as an online learning technology. He discusses how schools integrate Smart Science labs into their K-12 science curriculum, the major weaknesses in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Distance Education, Online Courses
Shrock, Sharon A. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2012
Mazoue's ("J Comput High Educ," 2012) article, "The Deconstructed Campus," is examined from the perspective of instructional design practice. Concerns center on: the knowledge base of precision instruction; the differential effectiveness of teaching procedural as opposed to declarative knowledge; the reliance on assessment of online learning; and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Martinez, Monica; Schilling, Susan – New Directions for Youth Development, 2010
Given that information age technologies are as natural to the Net generation as breathing, it is time to provide learning experiences that maximize their use in schools. The authors argue that integrating technology into learning is central to creating the meaningful learning opportunities needed to engage and motivate youth today. To achieve this…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration
Bazalgette, Cary; Buckingham, David – Literacy, 2013
In recent years, literacy educators have increasingly recognised the importance of addressing a broader range of texts in the classroom. This article raises some critical concerns about a particular approach to this issue that has been widely promoted in recent years-- the concept of "multimodality". Multimodality theory offers a broadly…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Instruction, Learning Theories, Multimedia Instruction
Little, Tom – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2013
The seminal tenets of progressive education bear a striking resemblance to the newly fashionable principles associated with with a new movement known as "21st Century Education". This article traces the development of progressive education principles, starting with the founding of the Progressive Education Association, and shows their…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Progressive Education, Educational Change, Federal Legislation
Ohler, Jason – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2011
The reality of students' cyber lives has thrust upon educators a new approach: creating character education programs tuned to digital youth that are both proactive and aggressive. Taking this approach will help integrate students' digital activities within the context of the communities in which they live, both local and digital. The digital age…
Descriptors: Altruism, Ethical Instruction, Boards of Education, Values Education
Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
In this article, the author addresses a problem that plagues virtually all academics, as well as most people in business, K-12 education, and many other walks of life. At one time or another most members of post-millennial western society have suffered through that most hideous of well-intentioned experiences, the botched PowerPoint presentation.…
Descriptors: College Students, Visual Aids, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Karabenick, Stuart A. – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Contributions to this special section represent advances in understanding help seeking as a self-regulated learning strategy that occurs in classrooms, during computer-mediated communications, and when using intelligent systems that provide help to improve learners' help-seeking skills and knowledge acquisition. Collectively, the research and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Help Seeking, Learning Strategies, Models
Bush, Michael D.; Mott, Jonathan D. – Educational Technology, 2009
Educational visionaries and reformers have long predicted a significant transformation of teaching and learning that would be facilitated by technology, essentially providing every learner with the equivalent of a personal tutor. Technology implementations in education, however, have consistently fallen short of achieving these lofty aims. The…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Technology, Networks, Technology Uses in Education
Huwe, Terence K. – Computers in Libraries, 2009
"Embracing the chaos" is an ongoing challenge for librarians. Embracing the chaos means librarians must have a plan for responding to the flood of new products, widgets, web tools, and gizmos that students use daily. In this article, the author argues that library instruction and access services have been grappling with that chaos with…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Library Services, Librarians, Library Instruction
Yang, Yang; Gentry, Marcia – Gifted and Talented International, 2012
To view giftedness research in a global context is an important and desirable attempt. Roland S. Persson (2012a), in the target article entitled Cultural Variation and Dominance in a Globalised Knowledge-Economy: Towards a Cultural-Sensitive Research Paradigm in the Science of Giftedness, delivers thought-provoking views in the cultural influences…
Descriptors: Knowledge Economy, Global Approach, Academically Gifted, Gifted
Pittman, Von – American Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This article presents an interview with Hal Markowitz, a veteran distance educator whose experience in the field is both deep and broad. Building on bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Florida and his doctorate at Columbia University, Markowitz served in leadership roles in several professional organizations and directed distance…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Leadership Responsibility, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
Rossini, Carolina – EDUCAUSE Review, 2010
The change brought about in the networked information environment is deep and structural, in a way that has the potential to empower cultures left out of the Industrial Revolution. Thus, the author stresses that it is fundamental for individuals to understand, from a developing nation's perspective, how the Internet changes the capacity of…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Internet, Influence of Technology, Technological Advancement