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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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Land, Susan M.; Smith, Brian K.; Park, Sunghyun; Beabout, Brian; Kim, KyoungNa – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (2000) note that students spend only 14% of their time in school but roughly 53% of their time in the home and community. The context of children's home and community life is largely untapped by schools, partially due to the logistics of organizing and capturing these experiences for study in the classroom. The use of…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Eating Habits, Grade 5, Family School Relationship
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Kemp, Jerrold E.; Lee, Sunnie; Pascoe, Daniel; Beabout, Brian; Watson, William; Moore, Stephanie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
It is important for all Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) members to understand the ways society is changing as people evolve deeper into the information age, and to recognize that these changes require a change in paradigm for education and training systems to be most effective in meeting the needs of individuals…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Models, Ethics, Student Centered Curriculum
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Beabout, Brian; Foley, Shawn; Rickard, Marjorie; Wriddle, Janise Venia; MacDonald, Laurie; Smith, Stephen; Campbell, Rob; Strobel, Johannes – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2006
This article presents seven vignettes that focus on what technology specialists, instructional designers, teacher trainers, teachers, parents, corporate trainers and performance technologists can do to create positive and systemic change in education. These include: (1) "What Technology Specialists Can Do," by Brian Beabout; (2) "What…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Performance Technology, Role Perception, Change Strategies