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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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Valle, Rodrigo del; Duffy, Thomas M. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Interest in online education has grown rapidly over the past and will continue to grow. An increasing number of universities are offering online learning (OL) opportunities. Teacher professional development is part of this trend as well. Numerous recent studies of online teacher professional development environments have been published. Most…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Web Based Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Online Courses
Zygouris-Coe, Vicky; Yao, Yuanming; Tao, Yedong; Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie; Baumbach, Donna – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The Florida Online Reading Professional Development (FOR-PD) program is funded by the Florida Department of Education (DOE) and is housed at the University of Central Florida (UCF). FORPD is an online staff development project designed to help teachers improve reading instruction for learners in grades preK-12. Developed collaboratively with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Teacher Educators, Faculty Development
Johnson, Cynthia; Summerville, Jennifer – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
According to the annual industry report in "Training" magazine, money spent on employee training dropped approximately six percent--the first time that training expenditures have dropped since the mid 1990's. At the same time, web-based training increased from 48% of all computer-based training to 61% in just one year (2002-2003). The most "bang…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Online Courses, Computer Uses in Education
Essex, Christopher – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
College and university faculty face many demands on their time: research, teaching, service, committees, family, and other obligations. One of the major challenges faced by instructional support personnel at colleges and universities is to get their training efforts entered into the faculty members' busy calendars. This paper looks at a new option…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Higher Education, Online Courses
Kale, Ugur – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Teacher professional development is assumed to be enhanced through reflective, collective, collaborative professional communities (Little, 2003). Universities in these teacher community developments play a big role by providing teachers with pedagogical helps and professional developments. By not only encouraging teachers to go to conferences,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Collaboration
Teclehaimanot, Berhane – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
During the spring semester 2003, faculty members in the Colleges of Education and Arts & Sciences were asked to submit their fall 2002 semester syllabi that reflect the integration of technology into the courses they teach as a result of attending 12-15 weeks faculty development/training workshops. Furthermore, a survey was designed to extract…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Technology, Technology Integration, Computer Uses in Education