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Participants (N = 156) were involved in the teacher preparation program at a large Research 1 university located in the mid-west. The faculty (n = 21) participated in a two-year individualized professional development process to: 1) develop...

Isolation serves as a barrier to the growth of the teaching profession as a whole by restricting the information exchange needed to advance practice. Teachers are isolated from each other by design (i.e. one teacher for every classroom) rather...

The Information Environment for School Leader Preparation (IESLP) is a web-delivered information environment and problem-based instructional system. IESLP provides users with access to an extended set of data from actual community and school...

Educational institutions have long been involved in planning and implementing new initiatives, but with the profusion of technology innovations, the race to stay ahead of the game has intensified. Planet Innovation is a grant-funded organization...

This session offers tools and strategies to incorporate literacy and cross-cultural learning experiences for K-12 students and pre-service teachers through videoconferencing, enabling interactions that can build understanding and appreciation for...

Abstract: This presentation reports summative data for a PT3 implementation grant, describing differences in: 1) faculty and teachers' values of technology tools in teaching and the extent to which they became fluent with technology skill efficacy;...

Schools across the country regularly engage in various educational reform efforts aimed to improve student achievement scores. Schools that analyze and utilize information will be more successful in implementing changes and will understand the...

The influence of PT3 Grants is wide-spread and has caused many teachers to pause to consider the value of integrating technology into instruction and assessment. This descriptive study examined practicing teachers knowledge about classroom and...

This session offers a descriptive study of the process pre-service teachers used to assess individual students' learning by using technology as an assessment tool. Specifically, the session will focus on descriptions and examples within the context...

A four-year completed project included elementary teachers who assessed individual students’ learning using technology as an assessment tool. Specifically, the study focused on 1) teachers’ knowledge, beliefs, and practices related to teaching and...

This paper describes an online graduate program in Educational Technology that prepares individuals to use advanced technologies in classrooms, training centers, and other learning environments with an emphasis on K-12 learners. Students create a...

This paper explicates the process of integrating a social learning platform - Xplana - with a traditional learning management system (Blackboard) in an online graduate course. Features of the Xplana platform and its ability to support meaningful...