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Teacher education is shifting, as the dawning of the Information Age presents an innovative new instructional environment for teacher candidates: online learning environments. Effective instructors realize that success of a learning environment...

School districts must ensure that teachers appropriately address learning environments to successfully support students with diverse needs. Case study findings within elementary classrooms of two school districts are discussed in relation to...

Creating and sustaining communities of learning within distance learning environments has become central to the success of distance learning. A focus upon perceived and real interactive activities opens itself towards a more enhanced consideration...

Educator preparation programs must include alignment with required state and national standards. Standards alignment emphasizes course outcomes or products that address the specific standards met by the course content. This roundtable discussion ...

Teacher educators have the task to appropriately and successfully integrate technology into the curriculum, with the modeling of this technology focused upon instructor-centered and learner-centered integration of technology. As such, focusing upon...

Shifting professional environments can mean substantially different surroundings in which to excel. As such, technologically proficient educators meet significantly different opportunities and barriers as they progress through out their career path. ...

The appropriate and successful integration of assistive and adaptive technologies within the learning environment is of utmost importance to the success of all learners. Yet one component that is not always directly addressed is the professional...

Teacher educators must train our preservice candidates and inservice educators not only for the more traditional face-to-face learning environment into which one may successfully integrate instructional technologies so as to successfully support the ...

Abstract: When a university embarks upon a course to offer classes and programs online, there are challenges that arise for even the most prepared. This study research utilized qualitative action research and student focus groups to assess which...

Technology integration into the early childhood environment provides learning opportunities that promote self-directed learning and interaction with peers for young children with disabilities. This study reports the results and implications of a...

The integration of technology within the learning environment has become an area of interest over the previous ten-year period. As such, the appropriate and successful integration of technology, in both instructor-centered and learner-centered...

This study communicates the findings from a dissertation study that investigated factors that create a physical presence in an online environment. Research suggests that, as members of a learning community become familiar with one another, they...

The use of manipulatives within a mathematical classroom environment has traditionally been offered through the use of manufactured or teacher-created concrete objects. Manufactured manipulatives are ones such as Cuisenaire rods, color tiles, Unifix ...

Standards delineated by the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) include competencies in technology that promote teacher development of a supportive technological learning environment for students with disabilities. Personnel preparation programs ...

Electronic learning (eLearning) environments offer numerous strengths, as well as continual areas of further interest. Interactive activities are aspects within the eLearning environment wherein the learner, and the instructor, has the opportunity...

Concerns revolving around digital equity remain relevant concerns, yet growing trends suggest that electronic learning environments and electronically-enhanced learning environments are on the rise. The advancement of electronic learning...

The electronic learning (eLearning) environment offers numerous opportunities for the learners, yet consideration towards the learners' potential aspects of frustration is imperative. Supporting the learners within the eLearning environment enhances ...

Interactive activities within the electronic learning (eLearning) environment are imperative towards learner motivation, self-regulation and cognitive emphasis towards developing both conceptual frameworking and higher order thinking skills. Within...

The appropriate integration of technology into today's learning environment remains a predominant area of importance within the areas of graduate and inservice. Research focused upon face-to-face, Internet-assisted and Internet-based learning...