The Department of Community Nursing and the Open Learning Centre of Technikon Natal (South Africa) and the community-owned Community Development Programme are collaborating to provide online learning to rural and urban community nurses. The project involves the development of a multimedia pharmacology course, a virtual Internet class, and the…

This paper describes the conceptualization and development of an evaluation system that can be used to monitor and evaluate online instructional efforts. The evaluation system addresses concerns of both program administrators and course instructors. Computer technology is used to provide partial automation to reduce respondent burden and to…

This paper describes the concept of online knowledge communities. The concept is defined, and six qualities of online communities are identified: members (user roles are clearly defined); mission (generally accepted goal-statement, ideas, beliefs, etc.); commitment (members give their loyalty to the mission); social interaction (frequent…

The ACT Student Opinion Survey (ACTSOS) was administered during spring 2000 to 42 randomly selected classes at South Texas Community College (STCC) and to a national sample of 30,326 students drawn from 130 public colleges. Compared with the national sample, students in the STCC sample: (1) generally were more satisfied with their college…

In their 1989 report to the Colorado General Assembly, the Colorado Telecommunications Advisory Commission expressed the widely held belief that regardless of where they live, all Colorodans deserve and can benefit from a statewide telecommunications infrastructure connecting all Colorado schools, libraries, institutions of higher education and…

We have established an environment for German-Japanese school education projects using real time interactive audio-visual distance learning between remote classrooms. In periods of 8-12 weeks, two classes are dealing with the same subject matter, exchanging materials and results via e-mail and Internet. At 3 or 4 occasions the classes met on…

Net-a-Morphosis in Teacher Education is a component of the ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers grant designed to prepare teachers who are proficient in technology use in the classroom and able to effectively infuse it across subject areas and grade levels to enhance learning. This study examined the results of teacher education faculty and…

This final report describes the activities and outcomes of the Interactive Technology Literacy Curriculum (ITLC) project. This federally funded 5-year model demonstration project was designed to advance the availability, quality, use and effectiveness of computer technology in addressing the acquisition of emergent literacy among young children…

This research is mainly concerned with the costs of computers in schools in developing countries. It starts with a brief overview of the information revolution and its consequences. It then briefly examines some of the arguments for the use of computers in schools in developing countries, before reviewing previous work undertaken on the costs of…

This paper describes the Full-Hypermedia Educational Systems Development Model (FHESDM) for designing hypermedia systems that takes advantage (in terms of cognition and learning) of non-linear navigable structures and multimedia. The model is based on constructivist principles, including the subjectivity of the learning process, and assimilation…

As educational institutions continue to explore e-learning alternatives and as people continue to choose e-learning over traditional programs, additional empirically-supported research is required to understand the impacts and implications of e-learning. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of age and efficacy on computer usage…

This document contains the papers on graduate and inservice education from the SITE (Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education) 2002 conference. Topics covered include: Geographic Information Systems in teacher education; re-certification and accreditation; construction of a Web site by graduate teacher education students; Web-based…

Blended learning is much stronger when the Web is used to supplement instruction, rather than merely provide information to the students. This paper establishes a foundational knowledge base, where the stakeholders--technology coordinators, faculty, staff, and administrators--can make informed decisions on the role, importance, use, and…

This 10th anniversary edition of the almanac includes: "Foreword" (Rachel Hendrickson); "Overview" (Harold S. Wechsler); "Faculty Salaries: 2001-2002" (Suzanne B. Clery and John B. Lee); "Diversity, Nonstandard Work, and Academic Employment in the 21st Century" (Henry Lee Allen); "The Federal Role in…

This study investigated the influence of scaffolds on prospective teachers'(PTs') construction of scientific arguments. Participants were enrolled in an innovative science course aimed at providing PTs with experiences learning science using inquiry empowering technologies. PTs' arguments were constructed within the context of a light unit in…