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This paper provides educators with a selection and implementation guide for providing academic engagement opportunities for distance education and campus-based students through the use of innovative information technologies. The role of campus-based,...

A challenge in online courses is minimizing learner frustration and dissatisfaction resulting from feelings of perceived distance. Baker (2010) observed that this had less to do with physical distance than the quality of the online learning...

With the level of synchronicity now available to virtually anyone with access to a telephone and a computer, one would expect that the technology that revolutionized the way businesses communicate, would also find its way into distance education...

Over the past decade, mobile computing and communication devices have become essential tools in higher education. It is now routine for faculty and students to carry laptops, cell phones, and PDAs that allow them to access data and information from...

Commercial courseware management systems like Blackboard, WebCT, and Desire2Learn, have made the development of online courses much easier through the integration of plug-and-play applications. Yet, in an attempt to simplify the course development...

Courseware management systems like Blackboard and WebCT have come a long way since they first appeared in the late 1990s. However, in an attempt to make these systems more powerful and inclusive, sacrifices to usability and design freedom have been...

Mobile learning is defined as the intersection of mobile computing (the application of small, portable, and wireless computing and communication devices) and e-learning (learning facilitated and supported through the use of information and...

The present paper is intended to foster a theoretical framework for a Web-based Educational Technology graduate program's evaluation in an U.S. southern state university. Corresponding to two key program goals and state-mandated regulations, an...

According to a study conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (2002), approximately 90 percent of schools, colleges, and departments of education currently use portfolios to make decisions regarding student admission,...

The present paper is intended to promote a theoretical framework for a Web-based Educational Technology graduate program's evaluation in a southern university in the United States. Corresponding to two key program goals and state-mandated...

As one of the series of pre-service technology integration studies, this three-semester-long experimental inquiry is intended to investigate how Mexican-American student teachers' learning behavior pattern affects their computer self-efficacy using...

Prior research in team interaction within the realm of computer supported cooperative learning has been commonly conducted in an asynchronous learning environment. Few studies were centered on text-based team interaction, fewer on audio-based...

Computer anxiety is one of the greatest inhibitors to teachers learning to use technology. Gerard and Sleeth (1996) argue that it is one of the biggest challenges facing trainers of technology today. Thus, innovative methods of training must be...