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Throughout the world, educators are struggling to discover a smooth path to the interactive highway of 21st century digital communications. As a result, a need has emerged to access strategies of program development that seamlessly interface with...

The use of portfolios for documenting student progress is a common practice in higher education. Many disciplines are requiring that a student's work serve as evidence of skills, knowledge, and experience. Many professions require that portfolios be ...

This paper reviews the design, implementation, and testing of Project Links' WWW- based modules developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) to support the integration of mathematics, science and engineering concepts in undergraduate...

This paper is a report of an ongoing longitudinal evaluation assessing the effect of level of technology training on teachers' attitudes and comfort toward using and integrating technology into the curriculum. Multivariate and univariate analyses...

This paper describes Syracuse University's progress in developing a PT3-supported flexible yet comprehenisvie digitally-based system for collecting, archiving,organizing and reporting data on the professional development of its teacher candidates...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential use of videoconferencing technology as a means of enhancing geographically distanced collaborative classrooms in urban education settings. Two hundred teachers certified in various...

Mouza (2002) summed up the current status of real use of technology in education by noting that a major discrepancy exists between potential and reality. It is estimated however, that $6 billion have been invested in providing computers and computer-...

As a result of legislative and accreditation mandates, training, implementation, attitudes and beliefs among special education teachers should reflect a steady positive increase since the enactment of the 1990 Individuals with Disabilities Education ...

Project VIEW, a Federal (US) Technology Innovation Challenge Grant, has developed a model for integrating in-depth content of external providers into K-12 curriculum through interactive videoconferencing. Research and evaluation indicate that the...

Project VIEW focuses on bringing external educational programs and resources into classrooms through interactive videoconferencing. The purpose of this study is to document the characteristics of effective curriculum plans that use interactive...

This paper continues the investigatation of the impact of technology legislation by studying three cohorts of teachers. The first cohort represents those teachers who received their formal training before the enactment of IDEA in 1990 (inclusion of...

With the introduction and implementation of No Child Left Behind legislation, schools are reassessing processes and outcomes pertaining to using technology supported curriculum and instruction in K-12 inclusion classrooms The purpose of this study...

This paper and its supporting presentation offers a model for designing and developing online courses that meet the need for rapid transferal of information in the human services and addictions field and provides evidence that documents the...

Syracuse University has pre-service teachers do eportfolios at the end of Block 1, Block 2, and Student Teaching. The students demonstrate five proficiencies including specific subproficiencies. The students do increase in the number of...

This paper presents a model for creating and documenting systems change in K-12 buildings that will support technology integration. Based on a meta-analysis of change matrices for over 20 buildings that documented steps to successful integration,...

The majority of educational funders now require that grantees produce scientifically based evidence of program outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to present potential research designs that will yield evidence-based practices and to discuss and...

Abstract: In this paper, the authors discuss how integration of the innovative Mobile Studio concept was used to increase the amount of student-centered learning in an engineering program, and document changes in student cognition. The authors...

K-12 curriculum developers are now using digital technologies to enhance reading instruction and support the delivery of content in other areas. The purpose of this paper is to examine the frequency and mode of adolescent reading and to investigate ...