This brochure offers answers to 13 questions about using computers in the social studies classroom. Written by teachers for teachers, its goal is to provide a foundation to consider whether or not computers have a place in the classroom and how to go about using them if they do. The questions are: "What's in this booklet?""Should I be using computers in my social studies classroom?""What can I do with computers that I couldn't do before?""Where do I...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented...
This issue of the higher education information technology magazine, CAUSE/EFFECT, presents in six articles six summaries of the best from this journal since 1978. The articles each summarize the writing done over the years in one of six key areas. The articles are as follows: (1) "Rise of Infrastructure" by Kenneth J. Klingenstein and Mark A. Olson (changes in computing and the resulting impact on applications architecture and technological and economic imperatives); (2)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Information, Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational...
Project "Triple E" is cooperative endeavor initiated by The Robinson Group and International Business Machines, involving six community colleges in efforts to "empower" faculty by increasing access to information about, and communication with, students; to increase faculty "efficiency" by automating record keeping; and to enhance faculty "effectiveness" by freeing them from administrative tasks. Participating institutions agreed to facilitate faculty use...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer...
This newsletter theme issue on distance education serving individuals with disabilities considers historical developments, technology, staff training strategies, and staff training materials. It is noted that improving access to training for staff members can improve the quality of services for individuals with disabilities. The following articles are presented: "Distance Education: Training Service Providers in the Information Age" (Teri Wallace and Dick Weatherman); "Distance...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs,...
The process of assessment in career and technical education (CTE) is changing significantly under the influence of forces such as emphasis on assessment for individual and program accountability; emphasis on the investigation of consequences of assessment; emergence of item response theory, which supports computer adaptive testing; and pressure for authentic assessment by critics of standardized testing. The use of technology for assessment is being increasingly stressed. Potential advantages...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer...
This dissertation studies the motives of community college faculty who decide not to use computers in teaching. For the purpose of the study, non-adoption of computers in teaching is defined as not using computers for more than word processing. In spite of the fact that many of the environmental blocks that inhibit the use of computers have been eliminated at many institutions, many faculty do not use computers. This investigation was conducted at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) through a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Aesthetic Values, Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in...
Historically, data have been collected from survey participants through a paper-and-pencil questionnaire or through interviews in person or on the telephone. This study compares the use of a new approach, interactive telephone data collection (ITDCT) to traditional paper-and-pencil collection. ITDCT administers survey items through a digitized human voice using a computer software program. Respondents enter their responses by pushing telephone keypad numbers. From an initial sample of 5,908...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comparative Analysis, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Educational...
Intended for elementary and secondary teachers and curriculum specialists, this booklet discusses and defines computer literacy as a functional knowledge of computers and their effects on students and the rest of society. It analyzes personal computing and the aspects of computers that have direct impact on students. Outlining computer-assisted learning (CAL), the author delineates two types: tutor mode CAL (the computer imparts knowledge to the student) and tutee mode CAL (the student directs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Oriented Programs,...
In 1983, the California Legislature authorized and funded 15 Teacher Education and Computer Centers (TECCs) to provide staff development services to teachers and administrators. Incorporating earlier staff development programs into a single statewide system, TECCs provide: (1) computer technology instruction, including classroom applications; (2) teaching methodology training; (3) mathematics and science training; and (4) strategies and training for site-based staff development programs,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Oriented Programs, Education Service Centers, Educational Technology,...
The mStar environment for distributed education utilizes the World Wide Web and IP-multicast to enable teacher-student collaboration over large geographic distances. Several educational projects, spanning secondary school courses to company internal training have deployed the mStar environment. This paper reports on experiences gained over a year of practice at the Lulea University of Technology (Lulea, Sweden) and the Center for Distance-Spanning Technology. The paper presents the methodology...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Oriented...
Five PLATO exercises on linear decision models were developed to investigate the feasibility of teaching material from operations research on the PLATO computer-based education system. The exercises were administered to business administration students enrolled in an introductory course in operations research. Each PLATO session was monitored to observe student reactions and performance, and questionnaires and an attitude survey were administered. Results indicated that it is technically and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Autoinstructional Aids, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer...
An exploratory study was conducted to test the assumption that multimode knowledge of results is superior to traditionally presented knowledge of results in maintaining a student's interest and attention. In addition, the relative merit of pictorial format in a lesson was compared with a basic lesson display. The study involved 32 kindergarten children randomly assigned to four treatment groups, each group receiving a version of a PLATO lesson. A 2x2 factorial analysis of variance was used to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Attention Span, Autoinstructional Aids, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer...
This paper presents some of the preliminary results of Project COEXIST at Dartmouth College, an NSF sponsored project to investigate ways to use computers in introductory physics and mathematics teaching. Students use the computer in a number of ways on homework, on individual projects, and in the laboratory. Students write their own programs, whenever possible. On occasion, it is more useful to have the student programs written and saved by the teacher. Five areas of work are described: (1)...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Science, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs,...
A computer-assisted, competency-based instructional model has been developed for a teacher education program. It is based on the assumptions that individuals should control their own lives and that technology should be used to expand the range of human choice. The model uses a systems approach to organize the human, curricular and environmental variables of instruction; in addition, students participate in decision-making, instruction is modular, mastery criteria are used, the affective side of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Affective Objectives, Autoinstructional Aids, Competency Based Education, Competency...
This report consists of three parts--(1) an overview of the use of the Ampex Intrinsic Device (AID) in beginning Spanish classes, (2) a description of the Course Author Language (CAL) computer program, and (3) a description of a supplementary project for the testing of the Appleton-Century-Crofts-Center for Applied Linguistics French Program. The workings of the AID machine are explained and the results of two quarters of its use are discussed. A great deal of additional information about AID,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Branching, College Language Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer...
Three authorities in the field of education offer their views on the technological revolution in instructional materials. Fred Hechinger, education editor of the New York Times, discusses the range of devices available, from film strips to computers. He feels that industry is oversold on the future of educational technology, both because of the generally conservative views of educators and the misunderstandings prevalent about the process of education. John Henry Martin, Senior Vice-President...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Automation, Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Cybernetics, Education,...
This bibliography contains annotations of reports, reviews, and other documents on computer-assisted instruction (CAI) derived from a search of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) system. It covers 1973 to May 1976 and serves as an update to an earlier paper, "The Best of ERIC: Recent Trends in Computer Assisted Instruction" (ED 076 025). Section one covers major issues of interest, and section two presents specific applications and cases of CAI. PLATO and TICCIT, two...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Annotated Bibliographies, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer...
This report is the fourth in a series of reports which the PLATO Services Organization publishes to keep users up to date on curricular developments on the PLATO system. Materials are listed here under 71 subject areas. The report first presents all subject areas in which PLATO lesson development is in progress; it then provides a summary of completed topics available for student use, arranged by subject area together with the number of instructional hours and the names of persons to contact...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Catalogs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum...
The author provides a rationale for the computer making a great impact in the area of vocational counseling. He suggests the Informational System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD) and recommends a process whereby data about educational, military, and vocational opportunities are turned by each inquirer into information about a personally-determined career. The data are primarily like the files of abstracts created by Educational Research Information Centers (ERIC) system. The system guides the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Planning, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Information...
CATTS is a computerized service providing question-answer exercises from a subject content file for specific courses, building successive lessons from the file based on each student's immediately previous performance. The text of the file may correlate with textbooks, diagrams, workbooks and supplementary material. Student files include subject, class and instructor identification, lesson-by-lesson performance records, and a variety of measures and indices of performance. (Author)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs,...
The Task Force responsible for this document was established to study 2 major questions: (1) How should the minicomputer be used in the undergraduate classroom and laboratory program? and (2) What type of minicomputer facilities are needed to carry out the recommended program? The first question is treated in Part 1. Two types of applications are considered. A student in the computer engineering area will need a program that allows him to master all aspects of hardware, software, and system...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Media,...
In the days of the digital Wild West, developers from all backgrounds have joined in the gold rush trying to profit from the almost unbridled spending of well-to-do parents on educational products. In 2016, the Apple App Store had over 80,000 educational apps. The proliferation of educational apps has happened at a furious pace and more apps are being introduced constantly. Although apps are labeled as educational, they are not held to any science-based standards or subject to any certification...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Oriented Programs, Teacher Developed Materials, Educational Technology,...
App Inventor has been used successfully to teach introduction to programming course for CS/IS/IT and Non-CS majors. Now, researchers are looking on how to include the tool in the curriculum of more advanced computing courses. This paper presents some Issues, Challenges and Opportunities observed while teaching courses on Mobile Application Development with App Inventor. In particular, this paper discusses the following topics that instructors should take into consideration when designing their...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Programming, Computer Science Education, Information Systems,...
Students nowadays have strong passion towards the smart mobile phones with all their smart applications. The researcher believes that English language teachers can use the mobile phones, from each now and then, to increase the students' motivation. In this paper, the researcher designed a number of special activities that can be delivered to the students through the application of WhatsApp on the smart mobile phones. The activities are designed for intermediate level but can be modified to suit...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Handheld Devices, Social Media, Computer Oriented Programs, English (Second...
For the thirty-third year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. This is Volume #2 of the 33rd "Annual Proceedings of Selected Papers on the Practice of Educational Communications and Technology." This volume includes papers presented at the national convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology held in Anaheim, California. The papers in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Management Systems, Technology Uses in Education, Web Sites,...
Despite a large body of literature on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), studies on young children's usage of media technology in China are still scant. This paper characterises the variations in Chinese parental acceptance and intent to continue related to their children's use of web-based English as a Foreign Language (EFL) technologies. A sample of 20 parents from an inland city in China participated in individual interviews and reported factors affecting their acceptance and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Liu, Xing, Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Educational Technology, Second...
For the thirty-sixth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Anaheim, California. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with the practice of instructional technology...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Ethnicity, Educational Games, Specialists, Cooperation, Video...
The 21st century is a time to contemplate the power of the technological advances that have occurred today. Computers have become idea engines- a tool used for thinking, performing, processing, and instructing people. No one understands or appreciates this phenomenon more than children suffering with dyslexia. These children's ability to learn or read at a fundamental level is severely deterred. The students' reading proficiencies are more apt to becoming a non-existent entity because of a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Research Design, Educational Technology,...
The growing numbers of ELLs (English language learners) makes the search for new effective and efficient instructional methods a priority. While several teaching methods and tools are used to help ELLs succeed in becoming proficient English speakers, technology has gained substantial attention due to the abundance of new technology tools, which are helping us, achieve more in less time and also due to our increasingly connected world. Tablets and apps are changing the nature of English language...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, English Language Learners, Technology Uses in Education,...
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference on Mobile Learning 2013, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Lisbon, Portugal, March 14-16, 2013. The Mobile Learning 2013 International Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in the field. Papers in these proceedings include: (1) Common Mobile Learning Characteristics--An...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conference Papers, Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Educational...
Faculty and staff are curious about the potential of applications for mobile devices and how they can be used to enhance learning, teaching, and productivity. However, the number of applications seems overwhelming and faculty and staff have limited time and money to consider possibilities. This poster outlines the results of a learning community formed to collaboratively learn more about possibilities and select their favorites to recommend to peers. [For the full proceedings, see ED562140.]
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning,...
The mobility of both the device and the learner will determine how mobile learning takes place. Mobile learning offers new educational opportunities that allow for autonomous, personalized and context aware learning. This paper focuses on contextualized features for mobile language learning apps. Context-awareness is seen as a particularly important app feature in order to create a meaningful mobile learning experience as it adapts learning activities to the learners' real world environments....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Electronic Learning,...
This paper reports on recent research in human-computer interactions, gives examples of some of the most promising uses of educational technology, and categorizes the effective and ineffective applications. The purpose of this paper is to provoke discussion about the problems and the potential benefits of computer use among young people. With a focus on the elements of audience, interactivity, and creative integration, the paper discusses the educational possibilities offered uniquely by the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Attitudes, Computer...
This paper describes the development of a web-enabled information service for constituents of the Information Resources Management College (National Defense University, Washington, DC). The constituents of the College, who include graduates, current students, and prospective students, typically work in the Chief Information Officer (CIO) office of United States federal agencies. The Web-enabled information service, known as "Knowledge Net," is intended to tie the College constituents...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology,...
This paper reports on two related instructional intervention projects: one completed and the other ongoing. The first involved a "Tutored-Videotaped-Instruction" (TVI) strategy in a three-course calculus sequence; the second, an NSF-funded project using microcomputers, television, tutoring, testing, and related technologies and methods in a "Center for Assessment Tutoring and Enrichment Resources" (CATER). Evaluation results from the TVI courses are presented as instrumental...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Calculus, College Mathematics, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Educational...
The report describes three advanced technologies--robotics, artificial intelligence, and computer simulation--and identifies the ways in which they might contribute to special education. A hybrid methodology was employed to identify existing technology and forecast future needs. Following this framework, each of the technologies is defined, considered in terms of the state of the art, discussed according to ratings of scenarios by a panel of technology and special education experts; and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Daily Living Skills,...
This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, empirical and methodological view over the new scenarios and environments for language teaching and learning recently emerged (e.g. blended learning, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, social learning, autonomous learning or lifelong learning), and also over some of the new approaches to language teaching and/or research that can support them (usually by applying ICT), such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Mobile-Assisted Language...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology,...
Opportunities abound for software designers and developers to create impactful tools for teachers, school leaders, students, and their families. This guide for developers, startups, and entrepreneurs addresses key questions about the education ecosystem and highlights critical needs and opportunities to develop digital tools and apps for learning. Crowd-sourced from knowledgeable educators, developers, and researchers who were willing to share what they have learned, this guide is designed to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Computer Software, Design, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology,...
The time available for classroom language learning is often insufficient for attaining reasonable levels of proficiency in the target language. For this reason, optimising time in the classroom is contingent upon what students are able to do outside of class time. In this paper, we introduce Bande à Part, a mobile application (app) that uses music as a pedagogical tool, developed for learners of French as a second or foreign language. As an out-of-class tool, the proposed app has the potential...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction,...
The integration of digital technology confronts teachers, educators and researchers with many questions. What is the potential of ICT for learning and teaching, and which factors are decisive in making it work in the mathematics classroom? To investigate these questions, six cases from leading studies in the field are described, and decisive success factors are identified. This leads to the conclusion that crucial factors for the success of digital technology in mathematics education include...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction,...
Latino families in America increasingly enjoy access to a dizzying array of content on a variety of electronic devices, from televisions and video games to personal computers and mobile devices. Bruce Fuller, José Ramón Lizárraga, James H. Gray raise pressing questions that face Latino families as they adopt technologies that both have the potential to entertain as well as educate. They find a new digital divide in the extent to which digital platforms are used for educational purposes by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Technology, Hispanic Americans, Handheld Devices, Educational Games,...
The Association Supporting Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is a group of people interested in small college computing issues. It is a blend of people from all over the country who use computers in their teaching, academic support, and administrative support functions. ASCUE has a strong tradition of bringing its members together to pool their resources to help each other, and continues the tradition of sharing through its national conference held every year in June, its conference...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Computer Uses in Education, Small...
These proceedings contain the papers of the 12th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2016, which was organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, April 9-11, 2016. The Mobile Learning 2016 Conference seeks to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of mobile learning research which illustrate developments in the field. Full papers presented in these proceedings include: (1) Mobile Devices and Spatial...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Conferences (Gatherings), Conference Papers, Telecommunications,...
In an attempt to understand whether Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) could foster students' self-directed learning, this paper analyzes a self-directed learning experience by means of a language app: Duolingo. In this study, higher education language students were encouraged to use Duolingo outside of the classroom. The data collected via app tracking, surveys and semi-structured interviews reveal that the low activity in the app contrasts the high value students attribute to it....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Oriented Programs, College Students,...
This educational showcase highlights some of the musical applications and devices that run them for adding music-related content and instructional activities to the foreign language (FL) classroom. Actual instructional uses for these mobile information and communications technology (ICT) devices such as the iPod, iPad, and iPhone, and music apps are introduced, and guidelines for what to consider in making program decisions for adopting such technology are given. Features of a classroom...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Music Activities, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld...
There are many mobile applications (apps) for learning in Google Play Store. People usually evaluate the apps based on their personal view/criteria, and others have an idea about that app with its rating score and/or user comments. This study, aims to analyze the educational mobile apps objectively by using a reliable rubric tool; REVEAC (Rubric for the EValuation of Educational Apps for preschool Children). This is a descriptive research based on content analysis method. The mobile apps were...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Özeke, Vildan Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Games, Foreign...
Outdoor learning activities are very time consuming for teachers to prepare and difficult to manage, especially when the activity takes place in a non familiar environment for instance zoos. M-learning could help teachers to conduct outdoor education by involving learners in the creation and orchestration of artefacts (game). For that it is necessary to know how to arrange, orchestrate and monitor such diversified forms of learning in a systematic and technical manner. In pursuit of these goals...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Mettis, Kadri Väljataga, Terje, Game Based Learning, Outdoor Education,...
This research focuses on vocabulary acquisition in foreign language learning. The latest trends of teaching as well as the huge advance of technology allow teachers to utilize online and mobile applications through diverse apps. This quasi-experimental design research investigated Quizlet, in its mobile version, on vocabulary acquisition in English as a Foreign Language (EFL). One group of A2 (according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) EFL learners at a state...
Topics: ERIC Archive, ERIC, Montaner-Villalba, Salvador, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning,...
Today, using spare time to learn is the key demands of mobile education field. With the characteristics of portability, educational Apps highly fit for this kind of demands, and contribute to the learning style on the fingertip, it becoming the new growth direction and growing point of mobile education. The understanding of the present situation and Prospect of educational Apps is the basis for further research on educational Apps. Based on introduction of educational Apps, this paper discussed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Educational...
Instructional designers are increasingly considering how to include students as participants in the design of instructional technologies. This study provides a lens into participatory design with students by examining how students conceptualized learning applications in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) by designing paper prototypes of a learning application related to circuits and electricity. Eighty-nine fifth grade students, including students with learning...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Instructional Design, Computer Oriented...
