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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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Brown, Pamela; Borrego, Maura – Journal of Technology Education, 2013
The National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) program (NSF, 2012) supports partnerships between K-12 school districts and institutions of higher education (IHEs) and has been funding projects to improve STEM education in K-12 since 2002. As of 2011, a total of 178 MSP projects have received support as part of a STEM…
Descriptors: Colleges, Engineering, Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education
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Dixon, Raymond A.; Johnson, Scott D. – Journal of Technology Education, 2012
A cognitive construct that is important when solving engineering design problems is executive control process, or metacognition. It is a central feature of human consciousness that enables one "to be aware of, monitor, and control mental processes." The framework for this study was conceptualized by integrating the model for creative design, which…
Descriptors: Engineering, Novices, Metacognition, Higher Education
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Fantz, Todd D.; Katsioloudis, Petros J. – Journal of Technology Education, 2011
In order to effectively teach engineering, technology teachers need to be taught engineering content, concepts, and related pedagogy. Some researchers posit that technology education programs may not have enough content to prepare technology teachers to teach engineering design. Certain technology teacher education programs have responded by…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Engineering Education, Content Analysis, College Programs
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Leung, Nelson K. Y.; Shamsub, Hannarong; Tsang, Nicole; Au, Bill – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2014
Due to the successful implementation of knowledge management (KM) in many commercial organizations, KM has been recently extended to higher education institutions (HEIs) to manage scholar knowledge, and institution policies and procedures. To address the lack of insight in regards to the engagement of tertiary students to manage knowledge at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Learning Experience, Knowledge Management
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Jeffrey, Lynn; Hegarty, Bronwyn; Kelly, Oriel; Penman, Merrolee; Coburn, Dawn; McDonald, Jenny – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Higher Education, Self Efficacy
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Beachboard, John; Aytes, Kregg – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
Core MBA IT courses have tended to be survey courses that cover important topics but often do not sufficiently engage students. The result is that many top-ranked MBA programs have not found such courses useful enough to include in their core MBA requirements. In this paper, we present a design of an MBA course emphasizing information technology…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Business Administration Education, Introductory Courses, Core Curriculum
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Kay, Robin H.; Lauricella, Sharon – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
A majority of today's higher education students have been nurtured on a steady diet of technology and Internet access, leading to the increased presence of laptops in higher education classrooms. However, many instructors are unsure whether or how to assimilate this technology into their lessons. The purpose of the following study was to examine…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Laptop Computers, Classroom Environment, Internet
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Brodahl, Cornelia; Hadjerrouit, Said; Hansen, Nils Kristian – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
Web 2.0 technologies are becoming popular in teaching and learning environments. Among them several online collaborative writing tools, like wikis and blogs, have been integrated into educational settings. Research has been carried out on a wide range of subjects related to wikis, while other, comparable tools like Google Docs and EtherPad remain…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Case Studies, Student Attitudes
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Ajayi, A. O.; Olajubu, E. A.; Bello, S. A.; Soriyan, H. A.; Obamuyide, A. V. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
This study presents a cost effective, reliable, and convenient mobile web-based system to facilitate the dissemination of course information to students, to support interaction that goes beyond the classroom. The system employed the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) technology and was developed using Rapid Application Development (RAD) methodology.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Electronic Learning, Integrated Learning Systems
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Razavi, Amir R.; Strommen-Bakhtiar, Abbas; Krause, Paul – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2011
The world is currently going through a transitional period, moving from the Service era to the Information era. Rapid societal and technological innovations are changing the way we live, communicate, and work. As the rate of the technological/societal change increases, pressure on educational institutions also increases. This pressure is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Virtual Universities, Open Education, Networks
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Silveira, Ismar Frango; Ochôa, Xavier; Cuadros-Vargas, Alex; Pérez Casas, Alén; Casali, Ana; Ortega, Andre; Sprock, Antonio Silva; Alves, Carlos Henrique; Collazos Ordoñez, Cesar Alberto; Deco, Claudia; Cuadros-Vargas, Ernesto; Knihs, Everton; Parra, Gonzalo; Muñoz-Arteaga, Jaime; Gomes dos Santos, Jéssica; Broisin, Julien; Omar, Nizam; Motz, Regina; Rodés, Virginia; Bieliukas, Yosly Hernández C. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
Access to books in higher education is an issue to be addressed, especially in the context of underdeveloped countries, such as those in Latin America. More than just financial issues, cultural aspects and need for adaptation must be considered. The present conceptual paper proposes a methodology framework that would support collaborative open…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Post High School Guidance, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing
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Larbi-Apau, Josephine A.; Moseley, James L. – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2012
This study examined the validity of Selwyn's computer attitude scale (CAS) and its implication for technology-based performance of randomly sampled (n = 167) multidiscipline teaching faculty in higher education in Ghana. Considered, computer attitude is a critical function of computer attitude and potential performance. Composed of four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, College Faculty
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Miliszewska, Iwona; Moore, Aidan – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2010
This article reviews strategies designed to improve female participation in ICT studies and careers. In reviewing a range of strategies from around the world, the article identifies the different actors engaging with the "problem" of girls and technology. It points to the many crossovers that occur as governments, higher education providers,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Intervention, Females, Foreign Countries
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Hardman, Elizabeth L. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2012
This article describes the challenges in organizing professional learning communities (PLCs) in special education, identifies the teacher and student benefits of using a PLC approach to professional development, and discusses the promise and pitfalls of organizing web-based PLCs to engage distributed stakeholders in the practice of special…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Special Education, Teaching Methods, Professional Development
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Hendry, Graham D.; Tomitsch, Martin – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2014
In higher education effective teaching includes making learning goals and standards clear to students. In architecture and design education in particular, goals and standards around assessment are often not well articulated. There is good evidence that when teachers engage students before an assessment in marking exemplars, and explain why the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Design, Creativity
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