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Shin, Sungwon – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
This paper is a report of a design-based research project undertaken to build a blended teacher education program that focuses on cultivating teachers' competencies for personalized and blended learning in K-12 classrooms. Two iterations were designed and examined in total, with 10 teacher educators and two teacher candidate cohorts. Teacher…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies
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Sweany, Noelle Wall; Finbow, Emily; Li, Yun; Burgner, Rebecca L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This paper offers lessons learned from a partnership between the Texas A&M School of Innovation (I-School) and the Texas A&M Educational Technology program. Taking on the I-School as a "client," online graduate students in an Advanced Instructional Design course spent a semester designing the first of a set of online educational…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Authentic Learning, Distance Education, Institutional Cooperation
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Hopper, Susan B. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
The focus of this paper is a case study of a Texas-based school that implemented global projects to connect their students with many states and countries as a platform for integrating collaboration and communication skills, technology tools, and cultural diversity into an existing curriculum. The school introduced videoconferencing at every grade…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Educational Technology, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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Jones, Greg; Warren, Scott J.; Ennis-Cole, Demetria; Knezek, Gerald; Lin, Lin; Norris, Cathie – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
This article discusses a systemic change that expanded the doctorate in Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas to include a distributed option, delivered primarily online. It provides an overview of the development process from concept to initial implementation. The article examines the specific differences that make the online…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Program Development
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Matthew, Kathryn I.; Felvegi, Emese – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
In this article, students' perceptions of the benefits and the challenges of creating a wiki for a language arts methods class are explored through their online reflections and interview transcripts. The students' own words describe their experiences about learning course content while collaborating to create a course wiki. Reflecting on the…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Student Attitudes, Textbooks, Language Arts
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Landsberger, Joe – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
This article presents an interview with Jeremy Koester, an eighth grade math teacher and football coach at Alamo Heights Junior School in San Antonio, Texas. In this interview, Koester describes his use of technology in his classes and describes his dream of advancing Second Life (SL) as a distance education environment. SL is a "3-D virtual…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Distance Education, Mathematics Teachers, Junior High Schools
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Mims, Clif – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
In fall 2002, Clif Mims was awarded the ECT Foundation's Strohbehn Internship for the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Convention in Dallas, Texas. In this article, Mims reflects about what the award has meant to his participation within AECT and to his career. He says that the internship initially provided him with…
Descriptors: Recognition (Achievement), Professional Associations, Internship Programs, Transformative Learning