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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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Bower, Matt; Howe, Cathie; McCredie, Nerida; Robinson, Austin; Grover, David – Educational Media International, 2014
Augmented Reality is poised to profoundly transform Education as we know it. The capacity to overlay rich media onto the real world for viewing through web-enabled devices such as phones and tablet devices means that information can be made available to students at the exact time and place of need. This has the potential to reduce cognitive…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Case Studies, Student Attitudes
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Masterman, Elizabeth; Walker, Simon; Bower, Matt – Educational Media International, 2013
A significant area of learning design research has been the development of software applications that guide teachers' thinking as they plan, construct and revise learning events for their students. In this paper, we review conceptualisations of, and approaches to, the activity of pedagogic design and highlight the implications for the provision of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Adult Education, Higher Education
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Bower, Matt; Highfield, Kate; Furney, Pam; Mowbray, Lee – Educational Media International, 2013
This paper explains a development and evaluation project aimed at transforming two pre-service teacher education programmes at Macquarie University to more effectively cultivate students' technology-enabled learning design thinking. The process of transformation was based upon an explicit and sustained focus on developing university academics'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Instructional Design
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Callaghan, Noelene; Bower, Matt – Educational Media International, 2012
This comparative case study examined factors affecting behaviour and learning in social networking sites (SNS). The behaviour and learning of two classes completing identical SNS based modules of work was observed and compared. All student contributions to the SNS were analysed, with the cognitive process dimension of the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Student Attitudes, Social Networks, Case Studies
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Bower, Matt; Hedberg, John G.; Kuswara, Andreas – Educational Media International, 2010
This paper describes an approach to conceptualising and performing Web 2.0-enabled learning design. Based on the Technological, Pedagogical and Content Knowledge model of educational practice, the approach conceptualises Web 2.0 learning design by relating Anderson and Krathwohl's Taxonomy of Learning, Teaching and Assessing, and different types…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Practices, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Classification
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Bower, Matt – Educational Media International, 2008
This article presents a design methodology for matching learning tasks with learning technologies. First a working definition of "affordances" is provided based on the need to describe the action potentials of the technologies (utility). Categories of affordances are then proposed to provide a framework for analysis. Following this, a methodology…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Methods, Instructional Design, Graduate Study