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Manchester, Helen; Cope, Gillian – Oxford Review of Education, 2019
The international Smart Cities and the Learning Cities movements are not often linked. However, there are learning questions at stake here. Smart city agendas are often criticised as being technocratic and instrumental, prioritising market-led solutions to urban issues. Such criticism has led to moves to place the citizen at the centre of these…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Municipalities, Learning Theories, Foreign Countries
Gropper, George L. – Educational Technology, 2017
What would it take for instructional design to qualify as a bona fide applied discipline? First and foremost, a fundamental requirement is a testable and tested theoretical base. Untested rationales until verified remain in limbo. Secondly, the discipline's applied prescriptions must be demonstrably traceable to the theoretical base once it is…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Oguz, Fatih – College & Research Libraries, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand the organizational level decision factors in technology adoption in the context of digital libraries. A qualitative case study approach was used to investigate the adoption of a specific technology, XML-based Web services, in digital libraries. Rogers' diffusion of innovations and Wenger's communities of…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Case Studies, Electronic Libraries, Adoption (Ideas)
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Gilfoil, David M.; Focht, Jeffrey W. – American Journal of Business Education, 2015
Value-based delivery of healthcare has been discussed in the literature for almost a decade. The concept focuses on the patient and defines value as the improvement of patient outcomes divided by healthcare costs. Further refinements, called the Triple Aim model, focus on improving patient outcomes, reducing treatment costs, and improving patient…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Open Education, Open Source Technology, Online Courses
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Picciano, Anthony G. – Online Learning, 2015
The purpose of this article is to revisit the basic principles of technology planning as applied to online education initiatives. While not meant to be an exhaustive treatment of the topic, the article is timely because many colleges and universities are considering the development and expansion of online education as part of their planning…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Internet
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Hayes, Jeanne; Greaves, Thomas W. – T.H.E. Journal, 2013
Educators have seen the excitement and focus that students show when using digital devices. In hopes of increasing attendance, reducing dropout rates, and improving learning overall, more and more superintendents are driving their districts toward a 1-to-1 environment in which students take control of their own learning. The question is no longer…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, National Surveys, Technology Planning, Cost Effectiveness
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Hess, Frederick M.; Saxberg, Bror – Education Next, 2014
Today's education technology holds immense promise, but what matters more than the tools themselves are how they are used in schools and in classrooms. In "Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age," Frederick M. Hess and Bror Saxberg argue that educators have tended to think of adopting technology as a way to "reform" or…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Best Practices
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Mihai, Maryke; Nieuwenhuis, Jan – South African Journal of Education, 2015
This study concerns the management of an interactive whiteboard (IWB) network started in April 2008 in Mpumalanga, with a leading school partnered with several disadvantaged schools, transmitting lessons in Mathematics and Science. Many educational institutions try to provide learners with better learning opportunities by equipping schools with…
Descriptors: Information Networks, Rural Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Mathematics Instruction
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McLeod, Scott; Richardson, Jayson W.; Sauers, Nicholas J. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2015
Superintendents' instructional leadership is critical to the academic success of school systems. In addition to traditional work complexities, today's superintendents must navigate rapid and significant technological transformations. In this study, an exploratory sample of "technology-savvy" superintendents was interviewed to ascertain…
Descriptors: Superintendents, School Districts, Instructional Leadership, Technological Literacy
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Oblinger, Diana G. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2012
Information technology can be a game changer in higher education, as it has been in other sectors. Information technology has brought about much of the economic growth of the past century, accelerating globalization and fostering democracy. This chapter explores many ways that information technology can be a game changer. Some are as simple as…
Descriptors: Models, Global Approach, Information Technology, Influence of Technology
Dutt, Abhijit – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Improvements in Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and standardization of interoperability standards among heterogeneous Information System (IS) applications have brought a paradigm shift in the way an IS application could be used and delivered. Not only an IS application can be built using standardized component but also parts of it can…
Descriptors: Essays, Economic Factors, Information Technology, Technology Integration
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Marshall, Stephen – Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, 2012
Over an 18-month period four New Zealand educational institutions--a university, a private tertiary enterprise, a wananga, and an institute of technology/polytechnic--have engaged in a process of change influenced by technology. Their e-learning capability was benchmarked using the E-Learning Maturity Model, and this information was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Organizational Change
Brodzik, Michael C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This Executive Position Paper is a one-to-one laptop implementation plan for Pittsgrove Township Schools that can be used as a template for other districts with similar interests. Each of the three chapters fulfills a major purpose. In Chapter One the paper is designed to substantiate the need for the Pittsgrove Township School District to…
Descriptors: School Districts, Position Papers, Laptop Computers, Program Implementation
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Tondeur, Jo; van Braak, Johan; Sang, Guoyuan; Voogt, Joke; Fisser, Petra; Ottenbreit-Leftwich, Anne – Computers & Education, 2012
This study reviewed qualitative studies that focused on strategies to prepare pre-service teachers to integrate technology into their lessons. A meta-ethnography approach was utilized to locate, critically appraise, and synthesize the results of these studies. Based on an extensive search in the Web of Science, 19 articles were included in this…
Descriptors: Evidence, Technology Planning, Role Models, Ethnography
Barrett, Sharon Kebschull; Ableidinger, Joe – Public Impact, 2013
When Rocketship Education, a pioneering, rapidly expanding charter school network, looked at its results, it could have rested on its laurels. With seven schools in California together ranking as the top public school system for low-income elementary students, Rocketship had proof that its blended-learning model--combining online learning with…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, Blended Learning
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