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This paper will study (1) the various stages of Internet access in China: from censorship to limited self-autonomy, (2) instructional use of the Internet in China. Case studies will be conducted to show how Internet is used in Chinese schools at...

Internet is growing rapidly and has a great impact on Education. Distance education has become an extremely important area of using instructional technology. The Unite State is one of the largest developed countries and China is one of the biggest...

The teacher education in schools, colleges and departments of education (SCDEs) faces the challenge of how to prepare future teachers to teach competently in a digital age. An important question has been raised: how to prepare pre-service teachers...

This paper focuses on how to use assessment tool to effectively integrate educational technology into curriculum. The authors examine the current practices in educational technology and curriculum integration and point out that successful...

Relevant prior knowledge is an important component to learning new, complex topics. However, adults are often faced with learning new topics wherein they have low prior knowledge. Novice learners can experience difficulty learning new topics and...

Online social communication is an important aspect in today's college education experience. The design of effective online communication tools along with the development of collaborative social networks is vital to the success of a students'...

Researchers and educators have been exploring methods to improve science learning. One of the heavily researched areas is to teach with analogy. Recently teaching science using schema induced analogy has drawn attention from educators and...

This study focuses on the effects of situated learning model on students’ knowledge gain by investigating the influence of individual differences in the implementation of such model. 80 participants were recruited from a large research I university...

The current study investigated adolescents’ perceptions in online social communication. Three factors were identified perceived by adolescents as critical to online social communication. They include social environment, self-confidence, and self...

The case study examines the policies and practices for online education at one doctoral/research-extensive university. It uses interview findings from the Chief Information Officer (CIO) as well as key secondary sources to better understand these...

Abstract: The transitions into a knowledge-based society require a reexamination of higher education’s online policies. The paper explores the development of online higher education standards in three distinct phases. The authors have given these...

Our purpose was to test the effect of placement of concept maps on learning complex material online. Blocked by their scores on a test of spatial ability, college students were randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions (map first,...

The paper focuses on an important aspect in Net Geners’ learning, that is, multi-modal/multi-task learning. The findings of the study revealed that multi-tasks can induce high cognitive load thus lowers performance in learning. Although previous...