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The political process necessary for planning and implementing a new degree program at Northern Arizona University (NAU), The Educational Technology Master of Education (M. Ed.), began in the spring of 1997. The program was finally discussed and...

This article describes a strategy for modeling the integration of technology in the curriculum of ETC 447, Technology in the Classroom, a required course for preservice lementary educators at Northern Arizona University. Preservice teachers engage...

This paper examines how distributed constructionism was used in designing a graduate course in Contexts of Educational Technology, how that course design was implemented, and how both the instructor and the students in the pilot class reported the...

This paper discusses the importance of conducting formative evaluations. The Master's of Education in Educational Technology at Northern Arizona University is a young online program in its second year of implementation. Because online degree...

Abstract: To facilitate this meaningful learning in an online course the course was designed around a model based on the Constructionist Learning Theory. The Integrated Constructionist Model that was implemented was initially developed in a face-to...

For teachers who are at the moment in the objectivist's camp, technology usually becomes a tool for a more effective way of transmitting knowledge. In this context, the integration of technology usually takes the form of some type of PowerPoint ®...

This paper describes a study that took an action research approach to investigate learners' experience using CMC to engage in a collaborative project in an online learning environment. Communication messages were archived for analysis and a post...

This paper is a report on a study done at the Center for Excellence in Education at Northern Arizona University. In 1984, the Center was created on a concept of moving away from the typical hierarchical structure of a college of education toward a...

The significance of technology in today's society is self-evident. What is less clear is how to ensure that today's children, the workforce of the future, will have the technological literacy and skills to successfully function and support our...

When the courses were designed for the online Masters Degree in Educational Technology at Northern Arizona University, they were designed with various approaches that require collaboration among the students. This approach in online course design...

The Adams Center for Teaching Excellence and the College of Biblical Studies at Abilene Christian University were given the challenge of placing the course: Message of the Old Testament online. The challenge was compounded by the fact it was: (1) a...

In the Spring of 2004, a Colloquium was began entitled "Interactive Art" with the focus to use video game technology as a tool to explore the aesthetic and philosophical questions related to the creation of "narrative art" using a technique of...

In March of 2006, the Phi Delta Kappan did a special section on Educating Leaders for Tomorrow's Schools. The focus of this special section was that university-based educational leadership preparation programs range from "inadequate to appalling."...

The College of Education at Northern Arizona University began a program to make available to Navajo, Hopi and other rural Native Americans an alternative site-based teacher certification program. This introduced some unique issues and challenges for ...

Budget cuts, socioeconomic pressures and an increasing demand for flexible market-led curriculum are key challenges facing Higher Education Institutions. Without an e-learning program and strategies for its implementation, these institutions may be ...

In August of 2002, the Graham County Education Consortium (a consortium of 8 very rural Arizona K-12 school districts), Eastern Arizona College and Northern Arizona University were awarded a three year Enhancing Education Through Technology Grant. ...

What happens when similar-thinking faculty provide a "shared intelligence" to create a new program? How is knowledge building impacted when it is designed to be technology mediated? This panel presentation brings faculty from a southwestern...

From a review of literature, Coomey and Stephenson (2001) identified four major themes that are embedded in four different teacher-learner paradigms. Using a modified version of the Coomey-Stevens paradigms with their associated themes, the teacher-...

Research on activity-oriented, inquiry-based elementary science programs show that these programs are very success ful in developing content mastery and higher order thinking skills as well as science processes (Elsner & Elsner,

In the fall of 1994, the Center for Excellence at Northern Arizona University began an experimental program of offering the complete course work required for elementary teacher certification via Interactive Instructional Television (IITV) on NAUnet. ...