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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Bode, Martina; Khorami, Mehdi; Visscher, Daniel – PRIMUS, 2014
This article details the results of testing an e-book in two differential calculus classes. Although we, as math instructors, were drawn to the components of the e-book that promote conceptual understanding--such as the interactive figures--the students reported liking the assessment support most. We found that students were initially excited…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Calculus, Electronic Publishing, Textbooks
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Hillman, Thomas – Learning, Media and Technology, 2014
This article examines the role students play in shaping the nature of the technologies they use in their classrooms and the role teachers play in supporting students' innovative practices. Drawing on research on the sociology of technological development from the field of Science and Technology Studies, the process by which one student's…
Descriptors: Student Role, Teacher Role, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction
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Quinn, Andrew; Barth, Anna M. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
Sixteen MSW distance programs provided insight into how the implicit curriculum currently exists within their programs. Overall, distance programs carried out the activities necessary for student development; the student population made for a more diverse learning community; and faculty were receiving training. There was still a heavy reliance on…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Social Work, Distance Education, Teaching Methods
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Shorkey, Clayton T.; Uebel, Michael – Journal of Social Work Education, 2014
Since the mid-20th century, instructional technologies and educational media in social work education have undergone significant development with the goals of improving learning and performance and enhancing access. This growth has been marked by technical advances in hardware and by innovations in media, or so-called soft formats. Current…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Educational History, Social Networks
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Roseberry, Sarah; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta M. – Child Development, 2014
Language learning takes place in the context of social interactions, yet the mechanisms that render social interactions useful for learning language remain unclear. This study focuses on whether social contingency might support word learning. Toddlers aged 24-30 months (N = 36) were exposed to novel verbs in one of three conditions: live…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Interactive Video
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Öz, Hüseyin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
This article reports on the findings of a study conducted to investigate teachers' and students' perceptions of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom and to find out differences of perceptions according to some variables such as gender, level of English proficiency, hours of weekly IWB use,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Bulletin Boards
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Merkt, Martin; Schwan, Stephan – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
This study was concerned with identifying prerequisites for the successful use of videos that offer different levels of interactivity. In a homework scenario, 64 ninth graders participated either in a search training demonstrating the efficient use of features facilitating the selection of relevant information or in a control training focusing on…
Descriptors: Interactive Video, Homework, Grade 9, Training
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Kamruzzaman, M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This study reports an action research undertaken at Queensland University of Technology. It evaluates the effectiveness of the integration of geographic information systems (GIS) within the substantive domains of an existing land use planning course in 2011. Using student performance, learning experience survey, and questionnaire survey data, it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Geographic Information Systems, Blended Learning
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Kershner, Ruth; Warwick, Paul; Mercer, Neil; Kleine Staarman, Judith – Education 3-13, 2014
We focus on children's approaches to managing group work in classrooms where collaborative learning principles are explicit. Small groups of 8-10 year olds worked on collaborative science activities using an interactive whiteboard. Insubsequent interviews, they spoke of learning to "be patient" and "wait", for multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Bulletin Boards
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Ince, Elif; Kirbaslar, Fatma Gulay; Yolcu, Ergun; Aslan, Ayse Esra; Kayacan, Zeynep Cigdem; Alkan Olsson, Johanna; Akbasli, Ayse Ceylan; Aytekin, Mesut; Bauer, Thomas; Charalambis, Dimitris; Gunes, Zeliha Ozsoy; Kandemir, Ceyhan; Sari, Umit; Turkoglu, Suleyman; Yaman, Yavuz; Yolcu, Ozgu – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
The purpose of this study is to develop a 3-dimensional interactive multi-user and multi-admin IUVIRLAB featuring active learning methods and techniques for university students and to introduce the Virtual Laboratory of Istanbul University and to show effects of IUVIRLAB on students' attitudes on communication skills and IUVIRLAB. Although…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Laboratories, Interactive Video
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Guy, Richard; Byrne, Bruce; Rich, Peter – Advances in Physiology Education, 2014
The accommodation of diverse student learning approaches and maintenance of good academic outcomes are often difficult to achieve in university courses, particularly where large classes are concerned. These issues become even more significant when dealing with first-year students in science courses with high levels of factual and conceptual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physiology, Science Instruction, Video Technology
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Evmenova, Anya S.; Behrmann, Michael M. – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
There is a great need for new innovative tools to integrate individuals with intellectual disability into educational experiences. This multiple baseline study examined the effects of various adaptations for improving factual and inferential comprehension of non-fiction videos by six postsecondary students with intellectual disability. Video…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Interactive Video, Technology Uses in Education, Narration
Arendale, David R., Comp. – Online Submission, 2014
Peer collaborative learning has been popular in education for decades. As both pedagogy and learning strategy, it has been frequently adopted and adapted for a wide range of academic content areas at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels due to its benefits. The professional literature is filled with reports of individual professors…
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Supplementary Reading Materials, Video Technology, Cooperative Learning
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Savard, Annie; Freiman, Viktor; Theis, Laurent; Larose, Fançois – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
Mathematics teachers, researchers and specialists in educational technology from Quebec, Canada developed virtual tools that make interactive simulations of games of chance. These tools were presented to a group of teachers from New Brunswick through workshops and they then got to test and validate them with their students. Semi-structured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Teachers, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Jong, J-T.; Hong, J-C.; Yen, C-Y. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2013
The different designs of various interactive gaming controllers affect posture and muscle loading of the body. It is assumed that prolonged exposure to the interactive gaming controllers can affect the effectiveness in using the game for the purposes of learning. This study explores the differences in behavioural responses among students with…
Descriptors: Persistence, Children, Kindergarten, Mathematics
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