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This study investigated the use of asynchronous (mailing lists) and synchronous (chat sessions) Internet-based communication and its impact on teachers' attitude toward collaboration, activity completion rate and test performance. Although in this...

There has been great emphasis on utilizing the Internet and the World Wide Web as a teaching tool and instructional medium in teacher education programs across the country. This paper describes the elements of web-enhancements to teacher education...

The Conexiones Project integrates technology with education to increase educational and occupational opportunities among traditionally underserved minority students. K-12 educators and students receive instruction and hands-on experience with object ...

This session will present how a thin-client computing environment was adapted to meet a range of educational learning needs for students with disabilities -- from use of text to speech tool integrated into most software applications to designing...

This paper describes the design, development, and delivery processes of multimedia modules such as Macromedia Flash, Shockwave movies, and Quicktime movies. These modules were employed to teach a undergraduate plant biology class at a large...

As distance learning has grown in importance to learning, and as more face to face courses have acquired an online presence, accessibility of web based resources has become a major issue for people with disabilities. If in fact the World Wide Web is ...

Early digital divide studies focused on demographics and participant benefits, in an effort to identify the nature of the population on the other side of the divide, as well as to determine whether those lacking access to technology would actually...

Best practices of writing with computers have emerged from research and teaching in the fields of both composition and computer-mediated communication. Leveraging the research and networked writing environments has supported writing instruction in...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the computing needs and practices of students at Arizona State University as a means of assisting the university in the decision to implement a one to one (l:1) computing model, in which every student is...

While multimedia-based training is prevalent in education, previous studies do not lead to a converged picture. This discrepancy might be due to the fact that multimedia programs implemented in various training programs are very diverse. A...

Coping with the No Child Left Behind Act, the US education system has to restructure the assessment model under severe resource constraints. This paper illustrates how open source tools, such as PHP and mySQL, can be utilized to construct an item...