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Demski, Jennifer – Campus Technology, 2009
This article describes how centralized presentation control systems enable IT support staff to monitor equipment and assist end users more efficiently. At Temple University, 70 percent of the classrooms are equipped with an AMX touch panel, linked via a Netlink controller to an in-classroom computer, projector, DVD/VCR player, and speakers. The…
Descriptors: Internet, Technological Advancement, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Uses in Education
Rahman, K. M. Rezanur; Anwar, Sadat; Numan, Sharker Md. – Online Submission, 2008
Today computer has replaced all means of traditional communication significantly. Many distant learning tools claim to be interactive, but few can offer two-way communication. Email is the most popular means of communication medium now-a-days. Therefore, it may be used as an educational tool for learning. In present socioeconomic condition of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology, Computer Mediated Communication
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Merry, Stephen; Orsmond, Paul – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2008
This study explores students' attitudes to the provision of formative feedback on academic work using audio files together with the ways in which students implement such feedback within their learning. Fifteen students received audio file feedback on written work and were subsequently interviewed regarding their utilisation of that feedback within…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Classification, Tutors
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Chen, G.D.; Chang, C.K.; Wang, C.Y. – Computers & Education, 2008
With the growing popularity of computers and the Internet, most teachers are taking advantage of Internet functions to assist in both teaching and student learning. However, students only login to the assisted learning system once or twice a week on average to surf for relevant references, participate in discussions, or hand in assignments, even…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Computer Interfaces, Interaction, Internet
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Stark-Wroblewski, Kimberly; Edelbaum, Jessica K.; Ryan, Joseph J. – Educational Gerontology, 2007
Increases in the aging population and use of computer-related technology have spawned research regarding older adults' use of the Internet. This study examined characteristics differentiating rural Midwestern senior citizens (N = 298) who use e-mail from those who do not. Compared to those who did not use e-mail, e-mail-using seniors were younger…
Descriptors: Internet, Older Adults, Electronic Mail, Rural Areas
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Downes, Stephen – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2007
Stephen Downes reviews Facebook, one of the most widely popular of social networking sites that has emerged in recent years. In his review, Downes notes that Facebook is distinctive because its stronger roots in the academic community, and he proposes that the site's varied and distinctive functions allow it to provide a very different model of…
Descriptors: Internet, Social Networks, Web Sites, College Students
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Roman, Harry T. – Tech Directions, 2007
Conceptually, e-mail is not a whole lot different from regular postal mail ("snail mail"), except that it is much faster. E-mail requires three things: (1) a personal computer; (2) a telephone or communication line; and (3) an Internet provider (e-mail service account). This article provides details on how it works--plus some research activities…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Computers, Telecommunications, Internet
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Phan, Tai; Hardesty, Laura; Sheckells, Cindy; Davis, Denise – National Center for Education Statistics, 2009
This report presents tabulations for the 2008 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) conducted by the United States Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences. This First Look summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year,…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Internet
Buck, Stephanie – Computers in Libraries, 2009
As news outlets create headlines such as "A Cloud & A Prayer," "The Cloud Is the Computer," and "Leveraging Clouds to Make You More Efficient," many readers have been left with cloud confusion. Many definitions exist for cloud computing, and a uniform definition is hard to find. In its most basic form, cloud…
Descriptors: Computers, Libraries, Information Technology, Information Scientists
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Farrell, Lesley; Holkner, Bernard – Studies in Continuing Education, 2006
This article focuses on the kinds of work that language does in contemporary workplaces, the discursive resources that are available to workers, and the challenges that they face, as they learn to build on established language practices, and develop new language practices, in order to do their work. In particular, we are interested in the ways in…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communications, Internet, Foreign Countries
Wingate, Julius Jason – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examines the use of Internet polling at schools to gain student input for the improvement of learning conditions to assist in the continuous improvement planning. The study consists of 2006 respondents and three different schools containing the middle school child. The grades included in the study were 5, 6, 7, and 8. Although two…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Improvement, School Location, Total Quality Management
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Frisoli, Paul St. John – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2010
In this paper, I map important "messy" elements that I learned from my five-month small-scale research project, one that was designed around pivotal works on online social research. I used computers and the Internet with Minan, a young man living in Guinea, West Africa, in order to examine his perceptions surrounding the value of these…
Descriptors: Interviews, Internet, Ethics, Foreign Countries
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Yates, Bradford L.; Adams, Jennifer Wood; Brunner, Brigitta R. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Nearly 700 US journalism and mass communication faculty (all teaching personnel) reported their perceptions of student email use via a web-based survey. This nationwide study focused on the content of email sent by faculty to students, email's effectiveness, and email's effect on student learning. Comparisons were made based on faculty gender,…
Descriptors: Journalism, College Faculty, National Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
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Koopman-Boyden, Peggy G.; Reid, Sarah L. – Educational Gerontology, 2009
Research indicates that significant groups of older people are using Internet/e-mail technology. Using data from a 2007 random sample of 1,680 New Zealanders aged 65-84, predictors of Internet/e-mail usage and the impact of usage on well-being were investigated. Gender, age, education, household composition, income, and work were significant…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Electronic Mail, Well Being, Computer Mediated Communication
Barrett, Laura – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
The Internet can be a tremendous aid to research, information sharing, and social networking, but it also raises Murphy's Law to new heights: If anything can go wrong online, it will. And when it goes wrong, educators' jobs and reputations are sometimes at risk. For example, there is the former student teacher in Pennsylvania who filed a federal…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Internet
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