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Franklin, Teresa J. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
Higher education and in particular Colleges of Education are viewed as falling behind in the use of technology for teaching and learning (Lederman & Niess, 2000). With today's student population identified as digital natives and the evening news discussing the potential of virtual worlds as new learning environments, an examination of the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Social Systems, Internet, Social Media
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Loomis, Steven; Rodriguez, Jacob; Tillman, Rachel; Gunderson, John – Teaching Education, 2008
This paper discusses teacher education, institutional growth and the economy of information. It compares the sector of teacher education with global markets, described by Thomas Friedman in his book "The world is flat", as emerging and "flattening" in light of rapid technological and communication advances. The institutional…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Technological Advancement, Global Approach, Teacher Education Programs
White, Rebecca Leigh, Ed. – Alabama Department of Education, 2006
"Alabama Education News" is published monthly except for June, July, and December by the Alabama Department of Education. This publication, authorized by Section 16-2-4 of the "Code of Alabama", as recompiled in 1975, is a public service of the Alabama Department of Education designed to inform citizens and educators about…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, School Buses, Educational Objectives, Distance Education
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Burrows, Toby – Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2006
The impact that electronic information technologies have had on scholarly communications and university libraries is assessed. Early predictions that the dominance of commercial publishers would decline and journal prices would fall have not been realised. The development of institutional repositories have had limited success in making the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Research Libraries, Information Technology, Electronic Publishing
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Holz, Dayna – Journal of Archival Organization, 2006
Based in the context of challenges faced by archives when managing digital projects, this article explores options of looking outside the existing expertise of archives staff to find collaborative partners. In teaming up with other departments and organizations, the potential scope of traditional archival digitization projects is expanded beyond…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Archives, Preservation, Electronic Publishing
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Hennessy, Sara – Studies in Science Education, 2006
This article summarises the main uses and affordances (the perceived qualities of systems that can support or hinder interactions: Greeno & MMAP, 1998) of interactive technologies commonly used in school science. Its main emphasis, however, is on eliciting and documenting the emerging strategies that teachers are developing for exploiting the new…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Science Education
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Schonfeld, Roger C. – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2005
Purpose: To argue for the consideration from an historical perspective of technology-enabled changes in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Uses examples from the author's history of JSTOR as a case study. Findings: That the case of JSTOR offers evidence that technology-enabled changes in higher education will have historical interest.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Higher Education, Historians, Case Studies
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Cuesta, Emerita M. – Acquisitions Librarian, 2005
Electronic resources are transforming the way librarians work. New technological skills have been added to the librarian's tool kit. Some libraries have undertaken large-scale organizational reconfigurations to meet the challenges of the digital environment. Yet libraries still rely on traditional functions such as acquisitions, cataloging, and…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Services, Librarians, Occupational Information
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Skekel, Donna – Acquisitions Librarian, 2005
Libraries are seeking the best possible solution for integrating online journals into their collections. While exploring the different methods and technology available, many libraries still strive to fulfill the original "library mission" proposed by Charles Cutter in his "Rules for a Dictionary Catalog". Providing comprehensive access to…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Access to Information, Information Management, Database Management Systems
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Dalbello, Marija – Library Quarterly, 2005
Institutional processes associated with technological innovation in the library context and the key transformative event, the completion of the National Digital Library Program (NDLP) at the Library of Congress (1995-2000), are discussed in this article and the accompanying article, Part I. Interviews with seven key participants of the program…
Descriptors: Library Services, Technological Advancement, Innovation, Influence of Technology
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Naidu, Som; Cunnington, David – AACE Journal, 2004
This paper describes a research project that seeks to explore the experience of faculty with technology-enhanced teaching and learning. A particular focus of this investigation is on how the use of information and communications technology is influencing teaching practices and students' approaches to learning at the University of Melbourne. This…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, College Faculty, Teaching Experience, Distance Education
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Downes, Stephen – College Quarterly, 2004
The evolution of a new technology passes through two distinct stages. In the first stage, the technology may be seen as a new way of doing an old thing. In the second stage, however, the new technology went beyond the mere replication of an earlier technology. In the field of learning, a very similar evolution is taking place. The introduction of…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Electronic Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Influence of Technology
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Harvey, Virginia Smith; Carlson, Janet F. – School Psychology Review, 2003
School psychologists have an ethical imperative to determine the ways computers can facilitate practice because of the potential to improve effectiveness and efficiency. At the same time, psychologists have a parallel imperative to consider carefully ethical and professional practice implications. The aspects of computers that render them most…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Responsibility, Ethics, Values
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Smolin, Louanne; Lawless, Kimberly; Dede, Chris; Jones, Steve; Johnson-Yale, Camille; Perez, Francisco Seoane; Schuler, Jessica; Pellegrino, James W.; Goldman, Susan R.; Bertenthal, Meryl; Lawless, Kimberly; Vrasidas, Charalambos; Glass, Gene V.; Haertel, Geneva D.; Means, Barbara; Penuel, William; Goldmann, Hilary; Warschauer, Mark; Tettegah, Sharon; Whang, Eun Won; Collins, Nakia; Taylor, Kona; Vasquez, Olga A.; Burbules, Nicholas C. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2007
There is little dispute that technology has transformed people's everyday lives. People shop online, download news in their iPods, communicate via text and video, take digital photos, and conduct all manner of personal and professional business via the Internet. While these technologies have afforded new opportunities to improve efficiency,…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Access to Information, Educational Change, Educational Technology
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Myers, Jamie – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2006
The integration of digital tools and multimodal representations in the English classroom has the greatest potential when we define literacy as multiple socially constructed practices. If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school…
Descriptors: Literacy, Media Literacy, Educational Practices, Reader Response
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