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The Internet and asynchronous delivery continue to dominate distance education presentations this year. As web-based learning becomes more commonplace, scholars are turning from writing about discovering the medium to investigating the underlying...

Technologies for teaching at a distance are expanding rapidly. Though web-based delivery, using the computer and Internet, has attracted substantial interest recently, other technologies, like full motion video compression, continue to provide...

The Online Initiative to Support Content Development in the Middle Schools is a collaborative partnership among the Northwestern State University College of Education, the NSU Space Science Group, and the Louisiana Middle School Association which...

The Online Initiative to Support Content Development in the Middle Schools is a collaborative partnership among the Northwestern State University College of Education, the NSU Space Science Group, and the Louisiana Middle School Association which...

Desktop Video Conferencing (DVC) is one of newest evolutions indelivering distance learning courses. This paper reports on findings of an ethnographic study conducted in spring 2000 at a mid-sized university thatunderscored the importance of...

This paper is a description of the lesson learned in the design and implementation of two successful grants dealing with online staff development activities. In the first initiative, NSU's Education faculty and its Middle Laboratory School staff...

This research is to compare the teaching/learning styles/methods between Asian and European high schools, and to determine the styles and methods that are more effective for the teaching and learning of English. The purpose of this study is to...

Service learning has proven a valuable and increasingly popular tool for directing post-secondary students into settings that enable their constructing meaningful experience that offers both a significant crucible for their own schooling and...

A research survey “Intent to Use Computer-based Technology” was conducted three times for five years in the computer technology integration class for teacher education students at a major university in Rocky Mountain area between 2003 and 2007....

The research discusses the differences between preservice teachers’ intent to use computer-based technology when they become teachers and inservice teachers’ use of computer-based technology. A research survey “Intent to Use Computer-based...

This is the section introduction for Distance Education, in .doc format. The introduction here is the same as the one e-mailed to Nicole.

Video conferencing for use in education has included the development of expensive yet sophisticated technology capable of delivering quality instruction to multiple sites. Limitations arise from using a closed network and a factor such as cost to...

Contemporary distance education programs attract learners who participate expecting an experience as complete as that of any classroom. That expectation is not unreasonable, for modern, technology based distance education is warranted to be as good...

As institutions expand online programs decisions must be made to continue a design that includes blended or hybrid instruction or to adopt a model that embraces a design where all services are available to all students wherever they may be located....

Northwestern State University of Louisiana has offered a M.Ed. (concentration in Educational Technology) since 1990. Responding to the Board of Regents' Redesign of Teacher Preparation Programs for the M.Ed., it has instituted a new M.Ed. in...

Northwestern State University of Louisiana is a University of Louisiana system institution with a rich tradition in teacher education. As a leader in distance education a million dollar chair was funded to provide resources to recruit an educational ...

Following the demise of vocational education, that profession looked to technology as a avenue to a reinvigorated model for workforce development. Technology education in schools has in many ways replaced traditional vocational education. In many...

Describes how Texas A&M University uses the Internet in preservice teacher education, explaining how to construct a basic interactive Web site, taking the concept of e-mail communication a step further to include use of the Internet to enhance...

Abstract: Distance education is the largest growth area in education. New trends and practices are underway that are just now appearing in the literature. This paper will review current trends and best practices in distance applications,...

Student response systems (SRSs) or clickers have been used in the lessons to create a more active learning environment. Previous studies have showed mixed results regarding the effectiveness of SRSs in increasing student engagement and further...