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Jeromie Whalen; William Grube; Chenyang Xu; Torrey Trust – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
Launched in November of 2022, the generative artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT garnered immediate societal interest and adoption as its advanced large language modeling proved capable of producing sophisticated, human-like responses to user-generated prompts. In this preliminary study, K-12 teachers in the United States were surveyed on their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Response
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An, Heejung; Sung, Woonhee; Yoon, So Yoon – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
This article presents a collaborative maker project integrating the arts in a synchronous online environment. Based on the Thinkering, Making, Sharing, and Reflecting (TMSR) model, the four components of hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on, and social-on learning were integrated into an online collaborative maker project involving arts, music, and…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Social Emotional Learning, Art Activities, Coding
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Eiland, Lea S. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
Active-learning activities can be successfully implemented into a course even when instructors are not in the same physical classroom as students. Technology can assist with synchronous distance education as well as facilitate active learning. This manuscript describes student perceptions of active learning activities in a re-designed drugs in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Pregnancy, Drug Use
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Zydney, Janet Mannheimer; McKimmy, Paul; Lindberg, Rachel; Schmidt, Matthew – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
Here or There (HOT) instruction is a blended synchronous approach that enables students from on-campus ("here") or a remote location ("there") to participate together in class activities in real time. The purpose of this article is to share three different cases at two universities that illustrate different implementations of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Blended Learning, Synchronous Communication, Class Activities
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Evans, Peter – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2015
This article explores professional learning through online discussion events as sites of communities of learning. The rise of distributed work places and networked labour coincides with a privileging of individualised professional learning. Alongside this focus on the individual has been a growth in informal online learning communities and…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Telecommunications
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Robinson, Heather A.; Sheffield, Anneliese; Phillips, Alana S.; Moore, Michelle – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
In this study, the usability of a social constructivist online teacher preparation course was examined using a framework developed for asynchronous constructivist courses. In particular, students' approaches to learning through interactivity were examined. Students from around the world participated in the course. Data from weekly feedback were…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Online Courses, Teacher Education Programs