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Beisser, Sally; Gillespie, Catherine – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2003
"Constructionism" is a theory of learning proposed by Seymour Papert of MIT. Co-instructors for a first year seminar for undergraduate students provided education students with a one-semester constructionist experience to learn by engaging with technology. Students used LEGO[R] construction bricks and pieces to solve problems by building, working…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Undergraduate Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, First Year Seminars
Burgess, William E. – 1997
This volume provides information on 434 institutions which offer academic credit for 4,176 media-assisted courses. Institutions include: colleges and universities, consortiums, public broadcasting stations, and statewide telecommunications services. The book includes a brief foreword that relates some of the history of distance education; an…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Centers, Computer Mediated Communication
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Miller, Jo; Janovsky, Kathy – Australian Educational Computing, 2003
During the 2001 summer holidays, the main Social Science classroom at St Ursula's College, a Catholic Secondary Girls' school of 740 pupils in Toowomba, Queensland was renovated. A mini-computer laboratory of four nests of computers was incorporated into the traditional teaching space. (See Diagram 1 and photograph). This room was named the…
Descriptors: Student Research, Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Social Sciences