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Meaning Making Using New Media: Learning by Design Case Studies
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Neville, Mary – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2010
This article discusses a study of three Australian middle-years teachers who deployed Learning by Design principles and practice to support multiliteracies learning through students' production of digital/multimodal texts. The aim of the research was to develop an understanding of how three teachers embraced new e-learning pedagogical designs for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Curriculum Development
The "Zurich E-Learning Certificate": A Role Model for the Acquirement of eCompetence for Academic Staff and an Example of a Practical Implementation
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Volk, Benno; Keller, Stefan Andreas – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2010
Since 2002 the "Zurich E-Learning Certificate" offers lecturers and academic staff from the three main universities in Zurich the possibility to take part in a professional development program which supports the acquirement of eCompetence. The program is the result of a cooperation between the University of Zurich (UZH), the Swiss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, College Faculty, Program Development
Let Them Have Micros: An Approach to Computer Literacy for Teachers.
Spero, Samuel – Technological Horizons in Education, 1982
To help overcome their "computer anxiety," college faculty participants in a computer literacy workshop were allowed to keep a microcomputer at home during the 10 week workshop. Weekly meetings consisted primarily of answering questions, demonstrating new/interesting Atari programs, and discussing potential of the computer as an…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Literacy, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Developing Exemplary Technology-Using Teachers. Research Brief #8.
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Parks, Amanda; Pisapia, John – 1994
This research brief answers questions about the in-service training of teachers to use educational technology and offers models of exemplary programs in practice. Only 5% of the teaching force can be considered exemplary technology users, and it is recognized that becoming an accomplished integrator of technology into instruction is a complex and…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
A Curriculum for Preparing Science Teachers to Use Microcomputers.
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Ellis, James D.; Kuerbis, Paul J. – School Science and Mathematics, 1991
ENLIST Micros, a project designed to improve quality and quantity of microcomputer use in science teaching, is described. Rationale and procedures behind its development; description of the pilot test model; results of the initial field test and an implementation study; description of the revised ENLIST Micros curriculum; and recommendations for…
Descriptors: Biology, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
PLATO across the Curriculum: An Evaluation of a Project.
Freer, David – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1986
A project at the University of Witwatersrand examined the implications of introducing a centrally controlled system of computer-based learning in which 13 university departments utilized PLATO to supplement teaching programs and encourage computer literacy. Department project descriptions and project evaluations (which reported positive student…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Managed Instruction, Departments