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Typically, online conversations within a university course or a community of professionals tend to take the form of a dialogue or discussion focusing on a given theme. The two different cases presented here are quite different, despite being goal...

Emerging technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web (WWW), computer-mediated communication (CMC) are being discussed around the world by teachers, administrators, parents, researchers, academics, and technology planners. The WEB...

With the increase of Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) usage in the classroom, instructional activities are now being implemented that use online conversation for knowledge-building. Current research with The WEB Project, a Technology Innovation...

The literature is rife with research reports that show "no significant difference" between student performance in a technology-rich learning environment versus a traditional classroom environment. Why is this so? Traditional measures of student...

This review of literature and research into the effectiveness of distance education systems deals with a number of factors which affect their success or failure. These include the influence of distance learning theory upon instructional design and...

TALENT (Teaching And leading for Educational Needs with Technology) is a 2000 PT3 Implementation grant. Besides faculty and K-12 teacher training through focused workshops and weeklong institutes, TALENT has taken an innovative approach in...

Educational technology adoption models have not traditionally incorporated either teacher leadership or the complex systems in which teachers work. This article presents two frameworks for viewing online technologies and implementation practices...

This paper presents the online Personal Learning Planner (PLP) project underway at the National Institute of Community Innovations (NICI), one of the partners in the Teacher Education Network (TEN). The Web-based PLP provides a comprehensive system ...

The Teacher Education Network (TEN) PT3 Catalyst Grant, in conjunction with two of its partners, the Urban Network to Improve Teacher Education (UNITE) and the National Institute on Community Innovations (NICI), created an Urban Teacher Education...

Reforms and innovations showing promise in initial test bed settings often founder when brought to a wider audience (Sabelli & Dede, 1999). The TEN Project, a 2000 PT3 Catalyst Grant, confronted the challenge of scaling and sustaining their work by...

The word "portal" has become a trendy term when referring to interactive and personalized access to a variety of resources and tools. The question is how to design a portal with a set of resources that changes over time, engages the professional...

Typically, online conversations within a university course or a community of professionals tend to take the form of a dialogue or discussion focusing on a given theme. The two cases presented here are quite different, despite being goal-related. ...

During the evaluation of the Boulder Valley Internet Project, members of RMC Research Corporation in Denver, Colorado, developed a structural model of technology adoption and diffusion that comprised technological, individual, organizational, and...

With the recent flow of funding to support instructional technology and interactive learning environments through the E-Rate, Technology Innovation Challenge Grants (TICG), Technology Literacy Grants, Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology (...

A needs assessment was performed to identify the training needs of teachers, site facilitators, and other team members involved in distance learning projects. Rossett's (1991) model was used for the initial research design. Additional considerations ...

This paper presents an alternative, nonlinear view of technology adoption among teachers participating in The WEB Project, a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. It is based on a number of new theories including Activity and Systems Theory, and...

For the evaluation of The WEB Project, a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant (TICG), RMC Research Corporation developed a conceptual framework to measure the impact of instructional technology on student achievement, based on an extension of...

This paper discusses the online Personal Learning Planner (PLP) project underway at the National Institute of Community Innovations (NICI), one of the partners in the Teacher Education Network (TEN), a 2000 PT3 Catalyst grantee. The Web-based PLP...

TALENT began its activities at CSUF in 2000 with a series of weeklong institutes and full day workshops for teaching faculty, university supervisors of field placement, and K-12 master teachers who were participating in its credential program. A...