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Managing the Dark Side of Online Courses While Enlightening Your Online Students
Judith Smith
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 289–290
For every online distance education program launched, there have been five online distance education programs that have either failed outright, or have been deemed unprofitable, because they were launched without benefit of prior research. This is ...
Topics: Distance Education
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Edu-Effectiveness and Distance Education: How to Measure Success in the Online Classroom
Judith Smith
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1194–1195
How we determine the quality of online education in the classroom is of primary concern for all institutions and organizations providing continuing education via new technologies. Recent statistics from the National Center for Educational...
Topics: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Faculty, Classrooms
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Using Intercollegiate Response Groups To Help Teacher Education Students Bridge Differences of Race, Class, Ethnicity
Judith Singer; Sally Smith
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 2002 (April 2002)
To provide preservice teachers with opportunities for contact with people from racially and ethnically different backgrounds, one university initiated intercollegiate reader response groups using the WebCT format, which allowed students to converse...
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Who Ever Said Studying Art Would Be Easy? The Growing Cognitive Demands of Understanding Works of Art in the Information Age
Judith Smith Koroscik
Studies in Art Education Vol. 38, No. 1 (1996) pp. 4–20
Maintains that the explosion of information technology combined with a cornucopia of new critical approaches places even heavier demands on art teachers and students. Examines some of the cognitive and curricular consequences of these changes....
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Beyond the Book: Using VoiceThread in Language Arts Instruction
Judith Smith; Ellen Dobson
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 712–715
Abstract: New information and communications technologies (ICT) are redefining the concept of literacy. Language arts educators have the responsibility to integrate new literacies into their instruction. VoiceThread is a web-based, collaborative,...
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An analysis of how online faculty manage critical incidents in the online classroom
Judith McCulloch Smith
An analysis of how online faculty manage critical incidents in the online@classroom (2000) pp. 1–168
This research identified teaching situations classified as critical incidents in the online classroom. These teaching events were categorized to help faculty members recognize potential critical events before they start, and to use the incidents to...
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Beyond the Book: Using Web 2.0 Tools to Develop 21st Century Literacies
Judith J. Smith; Ellen Dobson
Computers in the Schools Vol. 28, No. 4 (2011) pp. 316–327
New information and communications technologies (ICT) are redefining teacher education. A university faculty member and an instructional technology consultant incorporated information and communications technologies within a graduate university...
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Women, Webquests, and Controversial Issues in the Social Studies
Margaret Smith Crocco; Judith Cramer
Social Education Vol. 69, No. 3 (Apr 01, 2005)
America has been called "the argument culture," but you would not know it from many social studies classrooms. Despite a longstanding tradition in social studies of teaching controversial issues, all too few of today's classrooms accommodate this...
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A Virtual Hall of Mirrors? Confronting the Digital Divide in Urban Social Studies Teacher Education
Margaret Smith Crocco; Judith Cramer
Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 20, No. 4 (2004) pp. 133–139
Reporting on a PT[superscript 3] grant-funded technology initiative involving social studies preservice students at Teachers College, Columbia University, this article seeks to illumine the many-faceted "digital divide." Data collected between 2000...
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Pre-Service Teachers Use E-learning Technologies to Enhance Their Learning
Judith J. Smith; H Carol Greene
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 12 (2013) pp. 121–140
The purpose of this study was twofold. The primary purpose was to improve pre-service teacher education by using technology to help pre-service teachers bridge the gap between academic preparation and practice. The secondary, but still important,...
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Pre-Service Teachers Use E-learning Technologies to Enhance Their Learning
Judith J. Smith; H Carol Greene
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 12, No. 1 (2013) pp. 121–140
The purpose of this study was twofold. The primary purpose was to improve pre-service teacher education by using technology to help pre-service teachers bridge the gap between academic preparation and practice. The secondary, but still important,...
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Teaching and Community Health Nursing by Distance Methods: Development, Process, and Evaluation
Judith A. Blakeley; Janet Curran-Smith
Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing Vol. 29, No. 4 (1998) pp. 148–53
In 1995, 23 registered nurses working for a bachelor of science degree in nursing completed a community-health course via distance education in Newfoundland. Distance delivery improved access, but students wanted more detailed information about the...
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Reading "The Friendship" and Talking about Race
Sally A. Smith; Judith Y. Singer
Urban Education Vol. 41, No. 4 (2006) pp. 321–342
This study documents literature discussions between groups of teacher education students in two geographically and demographically different universities. Students from an education methods course at each site discussed "The Friendship" by Mildred...
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Higher Education: New Models, New Rules
Louis Soares; Judith S. Eaton; Burck Smith
EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 48, No. 5 (2013) pp. 68–70
The Internet enables new models. In the commercial world, for example, we have eBay, Amazon.com, and Netflix. These new models operate with a different set of rules than do traditional models. New models are emerging in higher education as well--for ...
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The Use of Technology by Nonformal Environmental Educators
Tamara Elizabeth Peffer; Alec M. Bodzin; Judith Duffield Smith
Journal of Environmental Education Vol. 44, No. 1 (2013) pp. 16–37
This study examined the use of instructional and learning technologies by nonformal environmental educators. A 40-question survey was developed to inquire about practitioner demographics, technology use in practice, and beliefs about technology. The ...
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Using Peer Audio Feedback to Facilitate Learning
Kristen Cuthrell; Judith J. Smith; Carolyn Ledford; Elizabeth A. Fogarty
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 4050–4055
Professors in a large southeastern university College of Education share results from a peer feedback study conducted at the undergraduate and graduate level. Results include survey data reflecting student perceptions regarding peer audio feedback...
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Learning, Reflection, and Electronic Portfolios: Stepping toward an Assessment Practice
William H. Rickards; Mary E. Diez; Linda Ehley; Lauralee F. Guilbault; Georgine Loacker; Judith Reisetter Hart; Paul C. Smith
Journal of General Education Vol. 57, No. 1 (2008) pp. 31–50
Electronic portfolios have developed as a medium for learning that makes use of the learners' own reflections on connections among portfolio artifacts. This study used a portfolio-based, mid-program reflection of undergraduate students to elaborate...