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In online classes, most students are attracted by the convenience and flexibility of scheduling (Ryan 2001). However, the students' learning characteristics are unknown, making it difficult to design effective instruction. Therefore the first step...

This study sought to address some of the shortcomings in the literature on teacher websites by conducting an online survey of both teachers and parents of elementary schools regarding their beliefs about what is essential and ideal content for...

Educators love WebQuests. It has been the greatest idea of integrating Internet into the curriculum. However, it has also been identified that the learning part of how to publish a website is a serious obstacle for students, faculty, teachers or any ...

While learning portfolio includes collections of artifacts selected by the preservice teacher to reflect on their own learning, assessment portfolio is focused on the artifacts that are related to program standards, and employment portfolio designed ...

While creating HTML pages for a WebQuest is not complex, finding a server to host the files, getting files uploaded to a server and setting access permission are considerably more difficult. Add to those difficulties the complexities of giving a...

Current literature supports the idea of teacher created websites for parental involvement however it does not provide adequate guidelines for determining formal content of a teacher website. While potential benefits are often suggested, specific...

42 preservice teachers have created their online portfolios during the 13 weeks of Educational Technology Course using ZPortfolio during fall 2007 semester. The study investigated perceptions of preservice teachers on building electronic portfolios...

A pilot test of the Moodle learning management system was conducted to teach online educational technology course in a Teacher Education Program at a Southern College during Fall 2008 semester. This study examined preservice teachers’ experiences...

Abstract: WebQuests, invented by Bernie Dodge and Tom March, have been used for many years by teacher educators at all levels as a tool for helping their students use the World Wide Web in a worthwhile way. The problem comes when we expect our...

The goal of this study is to report the results of a comparative usability study conducted in 2008-2009 on two different course management systems, BlackBoard and Moodle. 135 students enrolled in the fall 2008 and spring 2009 section of Introduction ...

WebQuests have been widely used by teachers to integrate technology into teaching and learning. Preservice teachers learn about WebQuests during their teacher education programs and studies support that they are mostly positive about the integration ...

If parents understand what’s going on in the classroom and what’s expected of them and the students, they will be more able to help their child at home and will feel more comfortable with the teacher and the teaching methods employed (Ludwig, 1999). ...

Two Course Management Systems were compared during this study, BlackBoard 7.0 (updated to 8.0 during study) (BlackBoard, 2009) and Moodle 1.9 (Moodle 2009). These CMS’s were used during an Educational Technology course. The researchers investigated...

596 users participated in the study conducted to find out about uses of the web application, ZUNAL, and to identify users’ conceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of using WebQuests for classroom instruction. Findings from the study support...

The researchers in this study undertook development of a webquest evaluation rubric and investigated its reliability. The rubric was created using the strengths of the currently available webquest rubrics and made improvements based on the comments...

This study investigates and reports the first time experiences of mobile device users accessing the course materials on both the web and mobile version of course management system (Web Moodle & Mobile Moodle) during an online course offered at the...