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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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Bennett, Sue; Oliver, Martin – Research in Learning Technology, 2011
Research into learning technology has developed a reputation for being driven by rhetoric about the revolutionary nature of new developments, for paying scant attention to theories that might be used to frame and inform research, and for producing shallow analyses that do little to inform the practice of education. Although there is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Multimedia Instruction
Wali, Esra; Winters, Niall; Oliver, Martin – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2008
Although mobile learning is a popular topic in current research, it is not well conceptualized. Many researchers rely on under-theorized conceptions of the topic, and those who have tried to refine the ideas involved have found this to be complex and difficult. In this paper a new interpretation of the concept "mobile learning" is offered, drawing…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Telecommunications, Physical Mobility, Educational Technology
Smith, Janice; Oliver, Martin – ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 2005
The aim of this paper is to show how information literacy can be conceptualised as a key learning process related to discipline and academic maturity, rather than as a generic skill. Results of a small-scale study including questionnaires and observation of student behaviour are reported and analysed in relation to Bruce's "seven faces of…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Student Attitudes, Learning Processes, Student Behavior