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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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Parton, Becky Sue – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
Foreign sign language instruction is an important, but overlooked area of study. Thus the purpose of this paper was two-fold. First, the researcher sought to determine the level of knowledge and interest in foreign sign language among Deaf teenagers along with their learning preferences. Results from a survey indicated that over a third of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Assistive Technology, Sign Language, Deafness
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Bouhnik, Dan; Deshen, Mor – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
WhatsApp is a Smartphone application for instant messaging. Lately the application's popularity has risen. One of the unique features of the application is its ability to enhance communication within a group. Classroom communication between teaching faculty and high school students using WhatsApp has not yet, to our knowledge, been researched…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Synchronous Communication, Computer Software Reviews, Computer Software
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Brock, Sabra; Brodahl, Cornelia – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
Presentation software is an important tool for both student and professorial communicators. PowerPoint has been the standard since it was introduced in 1990. However, new "improved" software platforms are emerging. Prezi is one of these, claiming to remedy the linear thinking that underlies PowerPoint by creating one canvas and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Cultural Background, Cross Cultural Studies
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Danner, R. B.; Pessu, C. O. A. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
Today's fast-paced world is becoming increasingly characterized by technology driven communication, which has transformed the world into a large global connected community with ever-increasing outreach of information and communication technology (ICT). Technology plays an increasingly important role in people's lives, and it is envisaged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Undergraduate Students
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Dishaw, Mark T.; Eierman, Michael A.; Iversen, Jacob H.; Philip, George – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
As collaboration among teams that are distributed in time and space is becoming increasingly important, there is a need to understand the efficacy of tools available to support that collaboration. This study employs a combination of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) model to compare four different technologies…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Collaborative Writing, Electronic Publishing, Word Processing
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Casey, Gail – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
This article discusses the development of the online spaces that were used to create a learning framework: a student-centred framework that combined face-to-face teaching with online social and participatory media. The author, as part of her Doctoral research study, used action research as a mechanism for continual improvement as she redesigned…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Educational Technology, Action Research, Middle Schools
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Unal, Zafer; Bodur, Yasar; Unal, Aslihan – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
Current literature provides many examples of rubrics that are used to evaluate the quality of web-quest designs. However, reliability of these rubrics has not yet been researched. This is the first study to fully characterize and assess the reliability of a webquest evaluation rubric. The ZUNAL rubric was created to utilize the strengths of the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Test Reliability, Test Construction, Evaluation Criteria