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This study shares the results of the evaluation of the $1.78 million Title III-A U.S. Department of Education (USDoE) grant to the University of Southern Mississippi from 2001 to 2006. Its primary focus is the Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students' (...

This panel will present an overview of the need for technology literacy for future teachers, enabling them to integrate technology into their classroom instruction. Prior to admittance into the Professional Education Program (PEP) at The University ...

This presentation will introduce the research background of the use of computer games in online education. Arguments for and against the use of educational gaming will be discussed. Nationwide data on high school sophomores from the Educational...

In 2001, in preparation for writing a Title III-A grant and in the midst of the implementation of a PT3 grant, staff from The University of Southern Mississippi implemented a technology survey of all faculty at both the main and auxiliary campuses. ...

This study investigated gender differences in SMARTBoard online training session attendance, participation, attention, comfort level, and learning. Data were gathered from faculty, staff, and graduate students who participated in SMARTBoard online...

Team members will communicate the outcome of three years of the University of Southern Mississippi's (USM's) Technology Mentor Project, one of several activities of USM's PT3 Grant Initiative, in this presentation. Selected Tech Mentor teachers...

In 2001, in preparation for writing a Title III-A grant and in the midst of the implementation of a PT3 grant, staff from The University of Southern Mississippi implemented a technology survey of all faculty at both the main and auxiliary campuses. ...

This study investigated whether the instructional delivery modes primarily, and the institutional barriers to starting and expanding distance education offerings secondarily, could statistically significantly predict the extent to which the...

The present study investigates gender, race, SES, and parent's education level on the amount of time high school sophomores use a computer daily for school work. The Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 served as the database from which 14, 066...

A nationally representative sample of 11,425 U.S. high school seniors were selected from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) to investigate which factors could classify high/low weekend digital game play. The factors "how many hours ...

This project addresses the development and the field testing of a 3D immersive Virtual Reality (VR) environment of Pascagoula River sites for use with middle school students. This VR environment is used in conjunction with actual river field trips...

Students entering high school and college today grew up playing digital games. It is part of their culture and they are comfortable with the media. Like it or not, the games have changed the way current students learn. Unfortunately, teachers are...

Fifteen survey items were administered to higher education faculty in 2001 and 2003 to assess what barriers they perceived to the implementation of instructional technology. Only one of the 15 barriers was significantly reduced in this longitudinal...