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May, Richard J.; Tyndall, Ian; McTiernan, Aoife; Roderique-Davies, Gareth; McLoughlin, Shane – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
Online interventions promoted to enhance cognitive ability hold great appeal for their potential positive impact in social, employment, and educational domains. Cognitive training programs have, thus far, not been shown to influence performance on tests of general cognitive aptitude. Strengthening Mental Abilities with Relational Training (SMART)…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Meta Analysis, Intervention, Cognitive Ability
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Law, Nancy; Liang, Leming – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of a network of 10 special education needs schools over a span of 11 years that leveraged the opportunity offered by a government-funded e-learning pilot scheme initiative to further their efforts in providing the same educational opportunities to their students as those in mainstream schools. The…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation
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Rees Lewis, Daniel G.; Easterday, Matthew W.; Harburg, Emily; Gerber, Elizabeth M.; Riesbeck, Christopher K. – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
To provide the substantial support required for project-based learning (PBL), educators can incorporate professional experts as "design coaches." However, previous work shows barriers incorporating design coaches who can rarely meet face-to-face: (1) communication online is time-consuming, (2) updating coaches online is not perceived as…
Descriptors: Barriers, Student Projects, Teaching Methods, Computer Mediated Communication
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Rodriguez, Carolina; Hudson, Roland; Niblock, Chantelle – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Combinations of Conventional Studio and Virtual Design Studio (VDS) have created valuable learning environments that take advantage of different instruments of communication and interaction. However, past experiences have reported limitations in regards to student engagement and motivation, especially when the studio projects encourage abstraction…
Descriptors: Design, Computer Simulation, Architectural Education, Cooperative Learning
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Lane, Andy; McAndrew, Patrick – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Open educational resources (OER) raise many similar issues for education to those that have surrounded Learning Objects (LO). However the greater use and availability of digital technologies and open licensing seems to be enabling OER to have wider acceptance into individual and institutional teaching practice. While the need for appropriate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Change Agents, Educational Technology
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Twining, Peter – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This paper describes and reflects on the development of the Schome Park Programme (SPP), which was established with the specific aim of extending our thinking about schome, which aims to be the optimal educational system for the 21st century. In an earlier stage of the Schome Initiative, it became clear that people find it almost impossible to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Research Methodology, Educational Philosophy, Educational Innovation