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As an academic discipline, education typically does not provide individual technology for experimentation as part of a course component as do other disciplines such as engineering, health care, or business. This brief paper will introduce and...

This paper describes how teacher educators joined forces to provide teacher candidates with various learning strategies that extended outside the boundaries of individual course curricula, kept the content of the assignments interesting and relevant ...

Although mobile technology is still evolving with most mobile devices supporting numerous communications and technology standards, there are currently very few applications of these devices to support teaching and learning activities. Integrated...

Graduate students were asked to create reflective blogs and podcasts in four different courses in a College of Education and Human Development as part of a qualitative study of electronic learning spaces. Adopting Bloom’s Taxonomy as an initial...

Recognizing the continuing challenge for teacher educators to integrate technology into the curriculum, an exploratory project based on a faculty learning community (FLC) was initiated. Two faculty and one graduate teaching assistant (GTA) began...

This study investigated the development and use of educational podcasts and their effect on the self-efficacy of preservice teachers’ technology and teaching skills in an assignment embedded in a secondary social studies methods course. Furthermore, ...

Colleges of Education, like other colleges across a university, are reviewing academic programs and resources with an intensified focus on increasing online offerings both at the programmatic and certificate levels. Universal Design in of online...

Abstract: The paper presents a study conducted in the fall of 2009 as part of a Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program. Through a U.S. Department of State Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) grant, a United States college of...

TThis paper reports on the findings of surveys conducted for the purposes of tailoring an undergraduate preservice teachers’ technology course. Through a pre-course survey, the preservice teacher’s computer skills confidence and technology use were...

Abstract: This paper describes a one year follow-up study of international teachers who spent six weeks in the United States (U.S.) at the University of North Dakota in the College of Education and Human Development in North Dakota as funded by the...

As part of our teacher education program, preservice teachers enroll in coursework linked to a methods’ block of content area classes. For the research, we concentrated on the content areas of reading, writing, social studies, and technology. Three...

Preservice teachers are faced with a myriad of information technology devices to use personally, academically, and at work. Given that ownership of students’ technology is ever increasing, colleges of education ought to be keenly aware about the...

Based on the growth in online enrollments, many faculty members are asked to develop and teach online courses they had previously taught in a traditional face-to-face classroom. This qualitative study explores the transformative process of 10...

This paper describes a follow-up study of international teachers who spent six weeks in the United States at the University of North Dakota College of Education and Human Development as participants of a Department of State grant. The Teaching...

This paper provides an overview of an international professional development program for Turkish educators through the Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) Program. Funded by the Department of State, the International Research and Exchanges...

During 2003, the North Dakota University System began to be concerned about the cost of supporting multiple course management systems. Since 1997, the 11 NDUS institutions had used 9 different course management packages, including one homegrown...