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Braun, Patrice; Hollick, Mary – Education & Training, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to share the authors' initial insights into tourism industry capacity building via flexibly delivered online skilling and knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach: An online research survey approach was employed, involving a sample of 64 micro tourism operators. Findings: The paper finds that the major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Internet, Tourism
Franklin, Jennie A. Johnson – 1996
The SchoolTech initiative, a state-funded pilot project, was designed to empower teachers to develop innovative approaches to academic and extracurricular activities using technology. Elementary and secondary schools (n=10) in North Carolina were provided with hardware and software that had the capability of accessing Internet resources. Teachers…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Cooperative Planning
Mosley, Barbra; Edwards, Gloria – 1995
To help students learn to navigate the information superhighway, a 2-hour pilot program with 10 hours of guided access time was developed to test a method for teaching the basics of maneuvering the superhighway and extracting information once located. This pilot was designed as a two-part instructional session. The first instructional session…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Interfaces, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
Fisher, Tony – 1999
This paper examines the experience of some of the teachers participating in the Multimedia Portables for Teachers Pilot, one of 25 projects composed the United Kingdom Education Department's Superhighways Initiative. The Pilot put 1,138 high-specification portable computers in the hands of practicing teachers in a range of schools. The teachers…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Ballantyne, Christina – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
As the World Wide Web becomes an integral part of higher education, universities must determine the viability of using the Internet for their student evaluation systems. This chapter highlights important online-student-rating issues raised in this volume and in other research through a case study of Murdoch University's (Perth, Australia) online…
Descriptors: Internet, Student Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Higher Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers