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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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Liou, Wei-Kai; Chang, Chun-Yen – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
This study proposes an innovation Laser-Driven Interactive System (LaDIS), utilizing general IWBs (Interactive Whiteboard) didactics, to support student learning for rural and developing regions. LaDIS is a system made to support traditional classroom practices between an instructor and a group of students. This invention effectively transforms a…
Descriptors: Lasers, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Interaction
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DiCerbo, Kristen E. – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Interest in 21st century skills has brought concomitant interest in ways to teach and measure them. Games hold promise in these areas, but much of their potential has yet to be proven, and there are few examples of how to use the rich data from games to make inferences about players' knowledge, skills, and attributes. This article builds an…
Descriptors: Persistence, Evaluation Methods, Data Collection, Measurement Techniques
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Zurita, Gustavo; Nussbaum, Miguel; Salinas, Rodrigo – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
One of the most important decisions to be made in a face-to-face collaborative learning activity is how the participating groups are composed. These compositions produce different learning and social interaction results. The ability to change the group member composition in real time and dynamically enables the leveling up of learning results and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction, Group Dynamics
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Yang, Jie Chi; Ko, Hwa Wei; Chung, I. Ling – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
This study reports the development and evaluation of a web-based interactive writing environment designed for elementary school students. The environment includes three writing themes, "story pass on", "story chameleon" and "thousand ideas", to encourage reading comprehension, creativity and problem-solving skills of students. Three assessment…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Socialization, Creative Writing