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Globalization of education and the emergence of online learning are two trends in American higher education. They pose new challenges to faculty members. What advices should faculty developers provide to professors? This paper aims to synthesize the ...

The US is plagued by financial illiteracy. Few Americans have received training on financial skills. Many existing financial training programs are limited in terms of quality. More effective financial education approaches are needed. STOCK-TRAK...

Technology-based storytelling is a relatively new method in teacher education. Current practices in this area are still sporadic and haphazard. The field of case-based reasoning (CBR) has a systematic methodology on how to use technology-based...

The goal of our 3-year PT3 project is to prepare technologically proficient teachers for Metropolitan Atlanta's many diverse classrooms with training, support systems, and environmental change. In order to achieve this goal, a Teacher Electronic...

Teacher education programs have increasingly focused on teacher reflectivity as a crucial aspect of teacher preparation. In recent years, the increased power of computer technology renders it possible to develop computer-based scaffolding tools to...

Despite the growing popularity of robotics competitions such as FIRST LEGO League, robotics activities are typically not found in regular K-12 classrooms. We speculate that, among other reasons, limited adoption is due to the lack of empirical...

A teacher education program in a southern research/teaching university created a model pedagogical laboratory that focuses on technology integration. The pedagogical laboratory has been offering robotics programs to elementary and middle school...

Researchers argue that teachers' beliefs are the final barrier that prevents technology integration. To affect change in teacher candidates' beliefs of technology integration, we created a pedagogical laboratory as well as a field experience program ...

As a promising educational research paradigm (National Research Council, 2002), design-based research has demonstrated its potential as a methodology suitable to both research and design of technology-enhanced learning environments (Wang & Hannafin, ...

Teacher candidates enrolled in a technology integration methods course facilitated student-centered lessons in a pedagogical laboratory as they taught a robotics or digital storytelling unit. We adopted a quantitative instrument to measure the...

Many students are not motivated to learn history. In social studies classrooms, history is usually taught as facts to memorize, but not as one that provides students with opportunities to sharpen their analytical thinking skills. Researchers have...

Robotics has the potential to motivate student learning in mathematics, science, and engineering. However, existing robotics activities typically do not have a rich story context to motivate students; and more significantly, they do not often...