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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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The Relationships among Chinese Practicing Teachers' Epistemic Beliefs, Pedagogical Beliefs and Their Beliefs about the Use of ICT
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Deng, Feng; Chai, Ching Sing; Tsai, Chin-Chung; Lee, Min-Hsien – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
This study aimed to investigate the relationships among practicing teachers' epistemic beliefs, pedagogical beliefs and their beliefs about the use of ICT through survey methodology. Participants were 396 high school practicing teachers from mainland China. The path analysis results analyzed via structural equation modelling technique…
Descriptors: Correlation, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
Positioning Design Epistemology and Its Applications in Education Technology
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Tsai, Chin-Chung; Chai, Ching Sing; Wong, Benjamin Koon Siak; Hong, Huang-Yao; Tan, Seng Chee – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
This position paper proposes to broaden the conception of personal epistemology to include design epistemology that foregrounds the importance of creativity, collaboration, and design thinking. Knowledge creation process, we argue, can be explicated using Popper's ontology of three worlds of objects. In short, conceptual artifacts (World 3)…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Creativity, Educational Technology, Design
A Review of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Chai, Ching Sing; Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
This paper reviews 74 journal papers that investigate ICT integration from the framework of technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). The TPACK framework is an extension of the pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1986). TPACK is the type of integrative and transformative knowledge teachers need for effective use of ICT in…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Journal Articles, Meta Analysis, Literature Reviews
Bridging the Gap: Technology Trends and Use of Technology in Schools
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Lim, Cher Ping; Zhao, Yong; Tondeur, Jo; Chai, Ching Sing; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
Considerable investment has been made to bring technology to schools and these investments have indeed resulted in many "success stories." However there are two significant gaps in educational uses of technology that must be addressed. The first is a usage gap. Compared to how and how much today's students use technology outside…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Technology Planning, Teacher Effectiveness, Technology Integration
Facilitating Preservice Teachers' Development of Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK)
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Chai, Ching Sing; Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Educational Technology & Society, 2010
Preparing preservice teachers for ICT integration in the classrooms is a key focus for many teacher education institutes. This paper examines the perceived development of preservice teachers in terms of their technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, content knowledge and the synthesis of such knowledge, i.e., the technological, pedagogical,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Telecommunications, Information Technology