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Anastasio, Daniel; Suresh, Aravind; Burkey, Daniel D. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2013
Mobile platforms and cloud computing allow collaborative sharing and submission of work in ways not feasible until recently. In this article, we detail how we took a writing-intensive laboratory and made the submission, reading, grading, and returning of student work online and paper-free, while maintaining familiar elements of pen-and-paper…
Descriptors: Internet, Information Storage, Educational Technology, Chemical Engineering
Christensen, Clayton M.; Horn, Michael B.; Staker, Heather – Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, 2013
The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, formerly the Innosight Institute, has published three papers describing the rise of K-12 blended learning--that is, formal education programs that combine online learning and brick-and-mortar schools. This fourth paper is the first to analyze blended learning through the lens of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Blended Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Martínez-Alemán, Ana M. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2014
Technology's march into the college classroom continues. Generations of college and university faculty have both embraced and resisted instructional technologies such as the book, the mimeograph, the overhead projector, and hand-held calculators. Now college and university faculty are greeting the 21st century's signature…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students
Ahn, June; Asbell-Clarke, Jodi; Berland, Matthew; Chase, Catherine; Enyedy, Noel; Fusco, Judith; Gardner, Shari; Grover, Shuchi; Halverson, Erica; Jona, Kemi; Lane, H. Chad; Martin, Wendy; Mercier, Emma; Moher, Tom; Ogan, Amy; Pinkard, Nichole; Polman, Joseph; Roschelle, Jeremy; Schank, Patricia; Taylor, Katie Headrick; Wilkerson, Michelle; Worsley, Marcelo – Grantee Submission, 2017
Cyberlearning researchers envision and investigate the future of learning with technology. As of summer 2017, the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (CFTL) program of the National Science Foundation (NSF) had made 279 research grant awards. In addition, several hundred other NSF research projects have cyberlearning themes. Many of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Science Course Improvement Projects, Instructional Design, Research Projects
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Misra, Pradeep Kumar – Open Praxis, 2014
Teacher education nowadays needs a change in vision and action to cater to the demands of changing societies. Reforms, improvements, and new approaches in teacher education are an immediate need. Online training of teachers using OER has emerged as a new approach in this direction. This approach is based on the assumption that online training will…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Educational Technology, Teacher Education Programs, Resource Units
Hunt, Frances; King, Richard P. – Development Education Research Centre, 2015
Within the Global Learning Programme (GLP) in England there has been an explicit focus on encouraging more holistic 'whole school' practice and the need for better evidence of its impact. This paper describes how support for a whole school approach to global learning was rationalised and developed within the programme, and how such an approach was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Evidence, Educational Change
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Waters, Lisa Hasler; Leong, Peter – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2014
While teachers in cyber charter schools play the important role of supporting students, many of these schools also rely heavily on the parents or guardians of students to act as co-educators. Teachers are no longer the sole providers of instruction. However, little is known about the roles of parents or guardians, referred to as learning coaches,…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Parent Role, Charter Schools, Online Courses
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Oliver, Kevin M.; Stallings, Dallas T. – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2014
Blended learning environments that merge learning strategies, resources, and modes have been implemented in higher education settings for nearly two decades, and research has identified many positive effects. More recently, K-12 traditional and charter schools have begun to experiment with blended learning, but to date, research on the effects of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Educational Methods, Literature Reviews
Hoffmann, Susan; Dolatowski, Rosemary; McDowell, Bernadette; Mancuso, Patty; Rochkes, Laura L.; Wavra, Theresa Ernst; Selekman, Janice – National Association of School Nurses (NJ1), 2012
Telehealth has been defined as "the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care, patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration" (United States Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], n.d.). Telehealth enables collaboration of…
Descriptors: Health Education, Telecommunications, School Health Services, Child Health
Butin, Dan W. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2013
Engaged learning--the type that happens outside textbooks and beyond the four walls of the classroom--moves beyond right and wrong answers to grappling with the uncertainties and contradictions of a complex world. iPhones back up to the "cloud." GoogleDocs is all about "cloud computing." Facebook is as ubiquitous as the sky.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Internet, Information Technology, Information Management
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Ike, Eucharia; Okechukwu, Ibeh Bartholomew – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2015
We investigated methodological lessons in randomly selected adult secondary schools to construct a case for international partnership while examining education development in Nigeria. Standard database and web-based searches were conducted for publications between 1985 and 2012 on learning systems. This paper presents its absence and finds a heavy…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Secondary Schools, International Cooperation, Educational Development
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Fischer, Gerhard – Distance Education, 2014
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have generated enthusiasm, excitement, and hype worldwide and recently increasing skepticism. They are being broadly discussed in the major news media (and to a smaller extent in academic circles). Rapidly increasing numbers of MOOC providers, MOOC courses and articles, discussion groups, and blogs discussing…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Juban, Rusty L.; Lopez, Tará Burnthorne – Journal of Education for Business, 2013
Using data from student surveys, the authors investigated reading behaviors and attitudes regarding the perceived usefulness of an assigned text and supplemental materials. The findings suggest that even when students are satisfied with the text, they are not likely to read the text as often as suggested, nor are they likely to use the…
Descriptors: Textbook Research, Student Attitudes, Textbooks, College Students
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Oliver, Jason; Kowalczyk, Christine – Marketing Education Review, 2013
Student presentations can often seem like a formality rather than a lesson in representing oneself or group in a professional manner. To improve the quality of group presentations, the authors modified the popular presentation style of Pecha Kucha (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) for marketing courses to help students prepare and deliver…
Descriptors: Marketing, Business Administration Education, Group Activities, Computer Software
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Mendez, Jesse Perez; Le, Ky; De La Cruz, Jose – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2014
Social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook remain prolific on college campuses across the country and touches on various aspects of collegiate life, including the classroom. This case study examines student usage of Facebook, its potential impact on faculty interaction, and institutional policy. After providing a literature review and context…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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