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SeHee Jung; Hanwen Wang; Bingyi Su; Lu Lu; Liwei Qing; Xiaolei Fang; Xu Xu – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
This study presents a mobile application (app) that facilitates undergraduate students to learn data science using their own full-body motion data. The app captures a user's movements through the built-in camera of a mobile device and processes the images for data generation using BlazePose, an open-source computer vision model for real-time pose…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Data Science, Handheld Devices, Open Source Technology
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Jiyeon Park; Min Wook Ok – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Technology is recognized as a valuable learning tool, but research indicates that students are also distracted by the use of technology in class. Since college students constantly rely on their devices for learning, it has become imperative for instructors to find effective ways of integrating technology into their lessons while reducing digital…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Handheld Devices, Student Behavior, Classroom Techniques
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Quintana, Rebecca M.; Tan, Yuanru – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
We explore an innovative approach to learning design representations called course composition diagrams, which consist of interactive digital icons representing course elements, such as videos and quizzes. Course composition diagrams present a visual overview of course structure, including the placement and sequence of individual elements within a…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Course Organization, Instructional Design, Course Content
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Gyeonggeon Lee; Xiaoming Zhai – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Educators and researchers have analyzed various image data acquired from teaching and learning, such as images of learning materials, classroom dynamics, students' drawings, etc. However, this approach is labour-intensive and time-consuming, limiting its scalability and efficiency. The recent development in the Visual Question Answering (VQA)…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Alshawaf, Eman – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
iPhoneography is the practice of capturing, enhancing, and sharing images using a smartphone device. With the emergence of image-based social media platforms that highlight the experience of making images, it becomes critical to examine how the act of creating images enhances comprehension of visuals. The practice of iPhoneography and image-based…
Descriptors: Social Media, Creativity, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Viet-Ngu Hoang; Will Connell; Radhika Lahiri; H. Nadeeka De Silva; Xuan-Hoan Pham – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Dashboards have become a crucial element of contemporary business operation and management; therefore, it is desirable for business students to acquire knowledge of them. This article investigates the effectiveness of designing learning activities around investment dashboards in the context of introductory business analytics (IBA) courses. We…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Business Education, Management Systems, Statistics Education
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Karen Ingram; Beth Oyarzun; Daniel Maxwell; Spencer Salas – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Some research has shown that using videos in online courses can promote learner's connection to the instructor (Banerjee et al., 2020). This quasi-experimental self-study aimed to explore the impact of brief three-minute instructor-generated videos in twin segments of an online graduate teacher education seminar focused on Globalization,…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Electronic Learning, Graduate Study, Teacher Education
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Hartsell, Taralynn – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
The use of concept mapping strategies has implications in teaching and learning to improve visual literacy. This study examined pre-service teacher education students' experiences and perspectives in relation to concept map creation and their use in education to promote visual literacy. The data analyzed for this study consisted of concept maps…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Preservice Teacher Education
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Tomita, Kei – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
While authors like Mayer (2009) suggest that designers should avoid using visuals for the purpose of attracting learners' interests, some scholars suggest that visuals could influence learners' emotions. In this study the author investigated whether the perception of the visual appeal of instructional handouts affects learners' self-reported…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Instructional Design, Visual Aids, Instructional Materials
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Kimmons, Royce; Hall, Cassidy – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
We report on a survey of K-12 teachers and teacher candidates wherein participants evaluated known models (e.g., TPACK, SAMR, RAT, TIP) and provided insight on what makes a model valuable for them in the classroom. Results indicated that: (1) technology integration should be coupled with good theory to be effective, (2) classroom experience did…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Siko, Jason P.; Barbour, Michael K. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
This paper is a review of a three-cycle, design-based research study that explored the relationship between the pedagogical research and the actual implementation of a game design project using Microsoft PowerPoint. Much of the initial literature on using homemade PowerPoint games showed no significant improvement in test scores when students…
Descriptors: Design, Visual Aids, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
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Kmalvand, Ayad – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
PowerPoint knowledge presentation as a digital genre has established itself as the main software by which the findings of theses are disseminated in the academic settings. Although the importance of PowerPoint presentations is typically realized in academic settings like lectures, conferences, and seminars, the study of the visual features of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Technology Uses in Education, Applied Linguistics, Teaching Methods
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Evans, Heather K. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2014
Lecture videos are often praised as a great medium of instruction in online education. There is a lack of research, however, that tests whether videos are superior to other teaching tools in online classes. This article examines whether videos are better than lecture notes and still slides in an online introductory political science course. The…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Online Courses
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Betrus, Anthony – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
The content and emphasis of the introductory technology courses for undergraduate preservice teachers has historically been examined, with the earliest study conducted by Stracke in 1932. In an attempt to identify trends in the course DeKieffer conducted a series of studies over ten year intervals, in 1947, 1957, 1967, and 1977. In 2000 the first…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Visual Aids, Social Networks, Web Sites