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Liyanagunawardena, Tharindu R.; Adams, Andrew A.; Rassool, Naz; Williams, Shirley A. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
Communal Internet access facilities or telecentres are considered a good way to provide connectivity to people who do not possess home connectivity. Attempts are underway to utilize telecentres as eLearning centres providing access to learning materials to students who would otherwise not be able to take up eLearning. This paper reports on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers, Educational Technology
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Grieshaber, Susan – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2010
This paper investigates what happened in one Australian primary school as part of the establishment, use and development of a computer laboratory over a period of two years. As part of a school renewal project, the computer laboratory was introduced as an "innovative" way to improve the skills of teachers and children in information and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Computer Centers, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Terris, Ben – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2010
Colleges are looking for ways to cut costs, and most students now own laptops. As a result, many campus technology leaders are taking a hard look at those brightly lit rooms with rows of networked computers, which cost hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to maintain. More than 11% of colleges and universities are phasing out computer labs or…
Descriptors: Campuses, Educational Facilities Planning, Interior Design, Interior Space
Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
North Carolina State University may never build another computer lab. Instead the university has installed racks of equipment in windowless rooms where students and professors never go. This article describes a project called the Virtual Computing Lab. Users enter it remotely from their own computers in dormitory rooms or libraries. They get all…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Educational Technology, Computer Centers
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van den Blink, Clare – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
How can an IT department transform traditional computer labs given the resource limits of a university setting? Before engaging a redesign team, conduct some groundwork and initial research to help guide design and resource decisions. When the author and her colleagues considered modifying the lab spaces at Cornell, they initially engaged in…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Computer Uses in Education, Colleges, Computer Centers
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Louys, Amelie; Hernandez-Leo, Davinia; Schoonenboom, Judith; Lemmers, Ruud; Perez-Sanagustin, Mar – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
This paper describes a pilot study centred on the technology-enhanced self-development of competences in lifelong learning education carried out in the challenging context of the Association of Participants Agora. The pilot study shows that the use of the TENCompetence infrastructure, i.e. in this case the Personal Development Planner tool,…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Competence, Adult Students, Learner Controlled Instruction
Kuzu, Abdullah – Online Submission, 2009
Increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) help individuals to solve several everyday problems, which used to be harder, more complicated and time consuming. Even though ICTs provide individuals with many advantages, they might also serve as grounds for several societal and ethical problems which vary in accordance with…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Content Analysis, Ethics, Interviews
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Brown, Judy – Knowledge Quest, 2007
At one time, the Caldwell High School Library at Caldwell Exempted Village Schools in Caldwell, Ohio, had two sections--the main room with the shelves, circulation desk, and tables and chairs, and an adjoining room with student desks. There was a wide opening to the back room, and glass partitions in the upper half of the wall separating the two…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, School Libraries, Study Centers, Enrollment Trends
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Reedy, Gabriel B. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2008
PowerPoint and other visual technologies have become pervasive in schools. Adoption of these technologies is perceived as a necessary--or, at the very least, an educationally appropriate--innovation in UK schools, even though systematic examination of their use is relatively recent. On the basis of a wider ethnographic study of ICT use in one UK…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Ethnography, Educational Technology, Foreign Countries
Kennedy, Mike – American School & University, 2007
With classroom Internet access nearly universal in public schools and computers ubiquitous on every school and university campus, classroom furnishings have evolved to accommodate the machines so students can take full advantage of the technology. The desks, tables and other furniture that a school chooses for its computers will depend on the…
Descriptors: Computers, Internet, Computer Uses in Education, Computer Centers
Fielding, Randall – School Construction News, 2000
Presents a debate on which technology will be in tomorrow's classrooms and the pros and cons of wiring classrooms and using a wireless network. Concluding comments address the likelihood, and desirability, of placing computers throughout the entire educational process and what types of computers and capabilities are needed. (GR)
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Beckenstein, Wendy; Staunton, Merrill – 1998
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of computer location on first grade students' enjoyment and usage of computers. A large difference was found concerning time spent on computers between in-class and computer lab settings. In-class computer students spent three times as long on computers as computer lab students during the three…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Centers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
Woodard, Mary – Technology Connection, 1995
Discusses the uses and benefits of a centralized, computer operated media retrieval system for school audiovisual equipment and collections. Advantages of these systems include: keyword searching of the database; online scheduling; the ability to pick and choose specific clips for viewing; capability for computer- generated use statistics; and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Centers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology
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Stevens, Lawrence – Social Education, 1993
Describes a variety of computer software programs and student activities utilizing the computer to help teach secondary social studies. Suggests using word processors, painting programs, and computer simulations for history and government courses. Concludes that successful use of computers in social studies instruction depends on the design of…
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Simulation, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education
Shopland, Patricia P.; Kannegieser, Joan K. – 1998
This paper focuses on the preparation for and development of a teacher education computer lab at Eastern Nazarene College (Massachusetts). Topics addressed include: (1) events leading up to the identification of the need for such a facility, including the authors' intense technology-based professional development experiences and the passing of the…
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Technology
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