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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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Freeman, Mark; Bell, Amani; Comerton-Forde, Carole; Pickering, Joanne; Blayney, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper reports the use of Rogers' diffusion of innovation perspective to understand the factors affecting educational innovation decisions, specifically in regard to in class electronic response systems. Despite decreasing costs and four decades of research showing strong student support, academic adoption is limited. Using data collected from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Innovation, Technology Uses in Education
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Freeman, Mark; Blayney, Paul; Ginns, Paul – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
This research presents the results of a study of alternative response methods for in class formative questioning. Students' anonymity from their peers and instructor was studied through a research design that maintained a constant interactive teaching strategy in a large lecture hall, in all respects except for the method used by students to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Communication
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Blayney, Paul; Freeman, Mark – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
This paper reports on the effects of automating formative feedback at the student's discretion and automating summative assessment with individualised spreadsheet assignments. Quality learning outcomes are achieved when students adopt deep approaches to learning (Ramsden, 2003). Learning environments designed to align assessment to learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response)