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While the ideal of the teaching computer has occupied computer and cognitive scientists for over thirty years, the results have been underwhelming. Intelligent tutoring systems are less subtle than human tutors, less likely to attempt numerous...

While Latin instruction has changed drastically in the last fifty years, the study of the Classics is generally perceived as obsolete by high school student. Knowledge is typically delivered from textbooks and conventional lecture. A more dynamic...

The participatory design and modification, or modding, of commercial video games has become increasingly common due to the growing power and versatility of home hardware and software. Several studies have shown the academic benefits of modding, but...

Communally published websites, or wikis, are often touted as a vehicle for introducing radical changes to the modern classroom. The open source model of wikis seems to promise a new pedagogy based on decentralized discovery learning and...

An increasing number of children are playing video games. If educators wish to harness even a fraction of the excitement and dedication that these games inspire, educational video games must become more like their commercial cousins. However, in...

While mentoring and induction have been proven to be successful tonics for the problem of teacher attrition, previous attempts to introduce e-mentoring programs have been underwhelming. The purpose of this paper is to describe the advantages of...

This paper reports the conceptual framework, cyber-infrastructure, and measures of effectiveness of a state-wide e-mentoring program in development at a Midwestern university. The purpose of this program is to support the transition of novice...

There is a strong push to incorporate authentic assessments into teacher preparation coursework as preservice teachers often have difficulty applying the information they learned in their education coursework to realistic K-12 dilemmas. These...

More and more, classroom teachers are expected to display competence in not only their subject matter, but also in instructional technology. However, many teacher preparation programs relegate instruction on technology integration to one or two...

Despite the increasing popularity of many commercial video games, this popularity is not shared by educational video games. Modified video games, however, can bridge the gap in quality between commercial and education video games by embedding...

The message board is a staple of most distance education courses. Although the tool emerged as a simple way to allow for asynchronous communication, its feature set has stagnated in academia. While message boards outside of academia have adopted...