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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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Goldberg, Andra K.; Riemer, Frances Julia – Educational Technology & Society, 2006
This paper is an attempt to describe the emergence and growing popularity of online distance education over the past 30 years through changing sociological lenses. Examining the re-casting of the electronic classroom through the euphoria of techno-positivism, the power-embedded analysis of Critical Theory of Technology (CTT), and the critique of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Distance Education, Online Courses, Postmodernism
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Sugar, William; Crawley, Frank; Fine, Bethann – Educational Technology & Society, 2004
This study examined teachers' beliefs about technology adoption as a reasoned, deliberate, intentional decision-making process, as reflected in Ajzen's (1985) Theory of Planned Behavior. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from teachers in four schools located in the southeastern region of the United States. Overall results indicated…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teacher Attitudes, Decision Making, Computer Software