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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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Rice University: Innovation to Increase Student College Readiness
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Gigliotti, Jennifer – Continuing Higher Education Review, 2012
"College readiness" means that a student can enter a college classroom without remediation and successfully complete entry-level college requirements (Conley, 2012). In order for students to be considered college ready, they must acquire skills, content knowledge, and behaviors before leaving high school. Research on high-school performance…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Innovation, Partnerships in Education
Great Expectations of ICT? "Oh Sairey, Sairey, Little Do We Know Wot Lays Afore Us!"
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Downs, Christopher J.; Palmer, Vivienne – Higher Education Review, 2009
The UK' s Joint Information Systems Committee recently commissioned Ipsos MORI to undertake some research on students' expectations and experiences of the use of ICT in higher education. In this article we attempt to give a flavour of the research findings and comment on some key issues in connection with the use of ICT in higher education. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Use Studies, Technology Uses in Education, Technology Integration