Using mobile games in education combines situated and active learning with fun in a potentially excellent manner. The effects of a mobile city game called Frequency 1550, which was developed by The Waag Society to help pupils in their first year of secondary education playfully acquire historical knowledge of medieval Amsterdam, were investigated…

Wikis, when used as an open editing tool, can have profound and subtle effects on students' collaborative learning process. Hailed as a collaborative learning and writing tool, many questions remain regarding the pedagogical impacts of using wikis in the classroom. Do students feel comfortable editing each others' wiki articles? Do students learn…

Current concerns about academic plagiarism in student writing assume qualitative and quantitative differences in the writing of students for whom English is a first language (EL1) and English is a second language (EL2), but lack precision in measuring those differences. I examined the citation practices of EL1 and EL2 students in a timed writing…

Canada is an information-rich society where the amount of information and knowledge is doubling at a significant rate (Thornburg, 1997). Technology, a product of this information, has an enormous impact on how educators teach and on how the students learn. Among the questions educators must now address are: How do students learn best in school? …

This report describes the context and goals of the Higher Education Funding Council for England's e-University project to develop Internet-based higher education. It summarizes the proposed business model and outlines next steps in implementing the project. A February 2000 letter announced the project and invited higher education institutions…

This document contains the appendixes to a publication by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), "Business Model for the E-University: A Report to the HEFCE by PricewaterhouseCoopers." The four appendixes are: (1) "Examples of E-Initiatives in Higher Education"; (2) "Options for the Corporate Structure…

This report describes a British study designed to produce a business model for an e-university, a concept that did not previously exist. Part 1, "Aims and Objectives," describes the background of the effort, the challenge to the United Kingdom, goals, and objectives. Part 2, "The Business Model," describes: the basic concept;…

Describes and compares users and non-users of the World Wide Web in terms of web use, comfort level, perceived barriers, and familiarity with predominantly environmental education sites. Findings provide insight into the development of training programs and resources for environmental educators in using the web and offer opportunities for…

Describes how one school brought its computers out of the lab and into the classrooms. Describes the different projects that students work on. (JRH)

Addresses internet training by having graduate counseling students use a structured interview with undergraduate volunteer clients to assess which needs could be met using the Internet. Graduate students then identified relevant Web sites and explored these in a meeting with the volunteer clients. Results indicated that participants encountered…

Explains the prevalence and rationale of ubiquitous computing on college campuses--teaching with the assumption or expectation that all faculty and students have access to the Internet--and offers lessons learned by pioneering institutions. Lessons learned involve planning, technology, implementation and management, adoption of computer-enhanced…

Notes that to take advantage of the Web's pedagogical potential, teachers of composition need to develop a rhetoric of the image that avoids both the Platonic suspicion of the visual and the urge to subordinate images to the Word. Suggests that composition teachers need to be less puritanical about the sensuous dimension of the Web's visual…

Responses from 2,200 physicians indicated that nearly all have Internet access and use it primarily for medical information and professional development, not for communicating with patients. Credibility of source, speed, accessibility, and searching ease were most important. Barriers included information overload and too little information…

Outlines some of the basic access, database, and search tools available on the Internet. Includes a list of reference books, manuals, and online electronic papers about the Internet. (Author/JL)

A growing number of teachers are connecting in virtual chat rooms. Teachers have several options for online interaction, including posting queries and responses on a message board, using Web sites' mailing lists, and going to chat roms that offer live, supervised discussions. Web aficionados point out that valuable professional information gets…