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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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Boulton, Helen; Hramiak, Alison – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2014
This paper reports on research that took place at two universities in the United Kingdom, over two years. The research focuses on the use of Web 2.0 technology, specifically blogs, with pre-service teachers, both during their university programme and the first year of teaching as full-time newly qualified teachers (NQTs). The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Uses in Education, Barriers, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Irwin, Brian; Hramiak, Alison – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
Teacher education involves an identity transformation for trainees from being a student to being a teacher. This discourse analysis examined the online discussion board communications of a cohort of trainee teachers to better understand the situated identities of the trainees and how they were presented online. Their discussion board posts were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Student Teachers, Discourse Communities
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Hramiak, Alison – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
A purpose-built blend of teaching and learning activities was used with trainee teachers on a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course, and subsequently evaluated in a cyclical action research study, over a period of two years. The purpose of the blend was to engender the formation of a learning community, by giving them access to each…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Community, Action Research, Distance Education