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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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Hwang, Wu-Yuin; Huang, Yueh-Min; Shadiev, Rustam; Wu, Sheng-Yi; Chen, Shu-Lin – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
This study designed learning activities supported by a mobile learning system for students to develop listening and speaking skills in English as a foreign language (EFL). How students perceive learning activities and a mobile learning system were examined in this study. Additionally, how different practices relate to students' language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Listening Skills, Speech Skills
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Hsiao, Hsien-Sheng; Chang, Cheng-Sian; Lin, Chien-Yu; Chang, Chih-Chun; Chen, Jyun-Chen – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
This study demonstrates the effectiveness of using multi-touch tabletop collaborative game (MTCG) as a collaborative learning platform, in which multiple students can play games using a digital surface. The learning performance of participants is also explored, along with their related behaviours and their experiences. Consisting of 49 Taipei…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Cooperative Learning, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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O'Rourke, John; Main, Susan; Ellis, Michelle – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
Games technology in the form of hand-held game consoles (HGCs) when focussed on specific academic skill development has the capacity to engage students in learning and in turn produce positive academic results. This current research explores teacher perceptions of the implementation of HGCs to enhance the development of mental maths skills (namely…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices, Educational Games
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Yu, Fu-Yun; Tsai, Han-Chang; Wu, Hui-Ling – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2013
This study examined the effects of online procedural scaffolds (in the form of generic question-stems with context-specific examples) and the timing of scaffolding provision (immediate versus delayed) on supporting the online student question-generation learning process in a science class. A total of 78 fifth-grade Taiwanese students participated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
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Lim, Kenneth Y. T.; Ong, Matthew Y. C. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This paper reports data obtained from the use of a bespoke video game--"The Rise of Li' Ttledot"--in promoting a sense of participatory citizenship among young learners. The game was developed through funding awarded by the Ministry of Education in Singapore, and was piloted in a primary school. Citizenship education illustrates well the truism…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Skill Development
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Hao, Chen Fang – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
"Paper Scribbles" (PS) consisting of markers, vanguard sheets and 3M "Post-It" notes, is a pedagogical tool to harness collective intelligence of groups for collaborative learning in the classroom. Borrowing the key features of PS and yet avoiding some of their physical limitations, a computer-based tool called "Group Scribbles" (GS) was designed…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Comparative Analysis, Grade 5, Learning Processes