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As email, synchronous and asynchronous threaded discussion boards have increasingly become important communication tools for students and teachers, building a hybrid learning environment plays a critical role in enhancing student learning. "Hybrid" ...

Love it or not, college online education will continue to expand. Obviously, we are standing at a crossroads just like when the first airplane was introduced at the time that people traveled on wagons and trains. We have to decide to go one way or ...

In preparing teachers for the 21st century classroom, teacher education faculty should provide role models of technology integration in their teaching for teachers. Teacher education faculty can also stimulate effective use of technology in teacher...

Knowledge is not a stand alone entity but constructed over time through social engagements and ongoing discourses. Learning and teaching need to be embedded in instructions that can be continually reassessed in response to development of predicted...

How can one leverage the technological benefits of an online classroom without losing both the interpersonal advantages of face-to-face contact and pedagogically sound classroom management techniques? A hybrid classroom, combing both traditional...

Over the years, many teacher training programs have introduced online courses to graduate students. The online components help cut travel time for many candidates who work all day in school. While striving to balance the life between working,...

Most adult learners are striving to balance the life between working, studying and taking care of their families, yet they are expected to acquire new knowledge for courses they take. How can one design a course that encourage adult learners learn...

In a collaborative effort, two professors from special education and instructional technology programs innovatively collaborated in designing assignments for teachers to practice working as a team. Collaborative efforts at the PreK-12 level are...

Without having a school assignment behind them, students explore the Web for their own interests, oftentimes encountering other individuals with the same goal. Arguably its most powerful aspect is the Web’s ability to reduce geographical boundaries...

Human being is diverse, and how-to textbooks cannot prepare teachers to face daily challenges in a classroom. On the other hand, online discussion forums provide possibilities for pre-service and in-service teachers to discuss about a complicated...

Moving a course online is not simply taking a syllabus and face-to-face classroom activities online. It calls for a paradigm shift in pedagogy. When a course moves online, communication dynamics are altered. Non-verbal communication cues...

This paper presents results from an ongoing, three-year case study of the perspectives of 13-year-old students on the value of podcasts, PowerPoints, and Web sites for their own scholarly advancement. Thus far, one hundred sixty nine middle school...

In this paper, the mechanism that has caused the most emotional impact—online social networks—will be explored. Online social networks contribute daily to fear, love, disbelief, consternation, validation, and excitement. Without having a school...

Multimedia Juvenile Victimization: Helping Teachers Understand Youth Behavior is a subset of a the larger project, which is a two-year study whose goal and purpose is to contribute to the understanding of Internet and technology-facilitated crimes...

Communication is ongoing process that provides a solid foundation for teaching and learning. Teachers play the role of being a sender and a receiver in and outside classroom. Hence, they face all kind of daily challenges. These challenges need to...

This paper discusses the results of school faculty (N=425) perspectives on youth behavior online. Data was gathered via a 22-item questionnaire in Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii. Issues such as opinions on where students should learn about internet...

Do we need instructors when information is available at our finger tip? Our brain can be augmented by Google, declared Larry Page. Self-motivated learners will not need a college education, suggested Bill Gates. If the world is truly open with...

This paper describes the development challenges of an online learning community for teaching science as inquiry. Fourteen teachers part of the a cohort of teachers patterns of participation were examined via activity logs. Though teachers were...