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Research suggests that that the educational value of a media format depends upon the ways in which its representational affordances interact with complex features of the learning environment, including learner characteristics, content domains,...

T1/4?se of this interactive session is to present audience members with a new web-based learning environment for preservice education. Audience members, specifically those who teach preservice methods classes, will be invited to use the web-based...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the development and uses of cases for professional development in teaching to help preservice teachers see the complexities of teaching. The purpose of this paper is to introduce teacher educators...

In this paper we introduce our model for faculty development and technology integration that focuses on the complex interplay between content, pedagogy and technology. We exemplify our pedagogic technique for faculty development (called learning by...

Beliefs about the nature of knowledge have been found to influence learning (Hofer & Pintrich, 1997; Schommer, 1990). This study investigated whether epistemological beliefs interact with the observations of preservice teachers regarding teaching...

In this paper, we describe a video- and case-based software designed to help pre-service teachers become skilled teachers of literacy, and how this software was used in one pre-service education course. We present the results of one evaluation study ...

Abstract: In this investigation we assessed whether different formats of media influenced participants' engagement and recall of narrative cases of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. For each of the personal case-narratives used in the study, we...

This study investigated how preservice teachers' beliefs about the nature of knowledge influence how they learn from, and interact with, a case-based hypermedia system designed to highlight exemplary elementary literacy instruction. Specifically, we ...

Ten preschool teachers took part in a study aimed at better understanding the processes involved in using technology for professional development of preschool teachers. Video case studies that are maintained via a hypermedia resource are one method...

Computational thinking (CT) is rapidly becoming an essential skill for the 21st century, and it is important for students as well as teachers to understand it. Although many have recognized the importance of teaching CT across disciplines, there...