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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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Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Chen, Wenli; Chai, Ching-Sing; Chin, Chee-Kuen; Gao, Ping – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This paper outlines an adaptable collaborative writing approach employing a wiki to address the typical weaknesses of young Singaporean Chinese students learning Chinese as second language (L2) in Chinese writing. These students' problems in writing include limited and incorrect use of vocabulary, English-style grammar, badly structured passages,…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Collaborative Writing, Writing Processes, Peer Teaching
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Figg, Candace; Jamani, Kamini Jaipal – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Two approaches to teaching with technology to highlight practice-based teacher knowledge and actions for teaching technologically enhanced lessons are presented. Participants were two elementary pre-service teachers teaching during practicum. Qualitative data sources included verbatim transcripts of participant interviews, field notes of planning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Teacher Characteristics, Educational Technology
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Jordan, Kathy – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The use of online discussion has a long history in distance education and higher education generally, and has recently been proposed as a means of supporting beginning teachers as they face the challenge of being new to the profession. Often using text-based asynchronous programs, online discussion is advocated to enable teachers to interact with…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Content Analysis, Beginning Teachers, Case Studies
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Lai, Kwok-Wing – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This paper discusses how the use of digital technologies may support a shift of cultural practices in teaching and learning, to better meet the needs of 21st century higher education learners. A brief discussion of the changing needs of the learners is provided, followed by a review of the overall impact of digital technologies on teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Informal Education, Learning Experience
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Hong, Kian-Sam; Songan, Peter – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
As in the developed nations, developing countries in the Southeast Asian region increasingly are recognising the important role higher education plays in enhancing the human resources of a nation for promoting its development in a world of depleting natural resources. Advances and pervasiveness of ICT in the society mean that higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Technology Uses in Education
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Laxman, Kumar – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Audience response systems or "clickers" are being used widely in both large and small educational settings. Clickers leverage upon a number of technological affordances to allow for adaptive and flexible learning to be accomplished. To promote active learning in its classrooms, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore rolled out a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Responses, Active Learning, Foreign Countries
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Divaharan, Shanti; Lim, Wei-Ying; Tan, Seng-Chee – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This paper traces the evolution of the design framework for the use of technology in a teacher education program in a Singaporean university. This course focuses on developing student teachers' capacity for the use of ICT in teaching and learning. We report our two-level reflection: one that focuses on the trajectory of the course design, and one…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Technology Integration, Educational Technology
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Cheung, Wing Sum; Hew, Khe Foon – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In this paper, we share two blended learning approaches used at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. We have been using these two approaches in the last twelve years in many courses ranging from the diploma to graduate programs. For the first blended learning approach, we integrated one asynchronous communication tool with face to…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Asynchronous Communication, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries
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Buraphadeja, Vasa; Kumnuanta, Jirang – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In its second decade of education reform and its third cycle of national ICT master plans, Thailand struggles to transform its aspirations into practice. This paper chronicles three decades of Thailand's ICT national plans and their relation to education reform. It also discusses the effect of global trends, Asian cultures, and Thai cultures on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Asian Culture
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Teo, Timothy; Wong, Su Luan; Thammetar, Thapanee; Chattiwat, Wisa – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The aim of this study is to assess e-learning acceptance by students, using data collected from 377 students at three public universities in Thailand. Using the "E-learning Acceptance Measure" (Teo, 2010b), participants gave their responses to 21 statements on three factors hypothesised to measure e-learning: tutor quality, perceived usefulness,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Foreign Countries, Preferences, College Students
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Yusoff, Rasimah Che Mohd; Zaman, Halimah Badioze; Ahmad, Azlina – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study investigates users' perception and acceptance of mixed reality (MR) technology. Acceptance of new information technologies has been important research area since 1990s. It is important to understand the reasons why people accept information technologies, as this can help to improve design, evaluation and prediction how users will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intention, Biomedicine, Science Instruction
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Subramaniam, Nantha Kumar; Kandasamy, Maheswari – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This study explores the use of the virtual classroom which has been created in "myVLE", a learning management system used by the Open University Malaysia (OUM). The virtual classroom in "myVLE" is an asynchronous-based online learning environment that delivers course materials to learners and provides collaboration and interaction using an…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Delivery Systems, Management Systems, Independent Study
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Nguyen, Long V. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The paper examines Vietnamese learners' reflections on and perceptions of the application of computer-mediated communication (CMC) into collaborative learning. Data for analysis included an evaluation questionnaire, consisting of 24 4-point Likert scale items, appended with six open-ended questions, and transcripts of 15, out of 30, teacher…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Likert Scales, Language Skills, Inferences
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Churton, Michael W. – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
The costs for providing medical school education and services in Vietnam's universities continue to increase. Through a collaborative project between the Government of the Netherlands and Vietnam's Ministry of Health, a five year experimental program to develop in-country capacity and reduce the dependence upon a foreign medical service delivery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Medical Schools, Medical Education
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Lundeberg, Mary A.; Kang, Hosun; Wolter, Bjorn; delMas, Robert; Armstrong, Norris; Borsari, Bruno; Boury, Nancy; Brickman, Peggy; Hannam, Kristi; Heinz, Cheryl; Horvath, Thomas; Knabb, Maureen; Platt, Terry; Rice, Nancy; Rogers, Bill; Sharp, Joan; Ribbens, Eric; Maier, Kimberly S.; Deschryver, Mike; Hagley, Rodney; Goulet, Tamar; Herreid, Clyde F. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
Although interactive technology is presumed to increase student understanding in large classes, no previous research studies have empirically explored the effects of Clicker Cases on students' performance. A Clicker Case is a story (e.g., a problem someone is facing) that uses clickers (student response systems) to engage students in understanding…
Descriptors: Student Reaction, Program Effectiveness, Biology, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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