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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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Ifenthaler, Dirk; Widanapathirana, Chathuranga – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2014
Interest in collecting and mining large sets of educational data on student background and performance to conduct research on learning and instruction has developed as an area generally referred to as learning analytics. Higher education leaders are recognizing the value of learning analytics for improving not only learning and teaching but also…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Case Studies, Higher Education, Context Effect
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Tawfik, Andrew A.; Sánchez, Lenny; Saparova, Dinara – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2014
Various domains require practitioners to encounter and resolve ill-structured problems using collaborative problem-solving. As such, problem-solving is an essential skill that educators must emphasize to prepare learners for practice. One potential way to support problem-solving is through further investigation of instructional design methods that…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Instructional Design
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Stroup, Walter M.; Hills, Thomas; Carmona, Guadalupe – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2011
This paper summarizes an approach to helping future educators to engage with key issues related to the application of measurement-related statistics to learning and teaching, especially in the contexts of science, mathematics, technology and engineering (STEM) education. The approach we outline has two major elements. First, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, High Stakes Tests, Psychometrics, Educational Testing