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Weare, William H., Jr.; Toms, Sue; Breeding, Marshall – Library Media Connection, 2011
Do students prefer to use Google instead of the library catalog? Ever wondered why? Google is easier to use and delivers plenty of "good enough" resources to meet their needs. The current generation of online catalogs has two main problems. First, the look and feel of the interface doesn't reflect the conventions adhered to elsewhere on the web,…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Online Catalogs, Library Services, Online Systems
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Hand, Dorcas – Knowledge Quest, 2011
In this article, the author describes the "History as Story" project that has become important to the Annunciation Orthodox School (AOS) and the teachers in many ways. Patience, persistence, and quiet support of individual teachers' projects demonstrated the breadth of possibility if they would collaborate with the school librarian. Teachers do…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Librarians, Instructional Leadership, Partnerships in Education
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Muroff, Jordana; Amodeo, Maryann; Larson, Mary Jo; Carey, Margaret; Loftin, Ralph D. – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This article describes a data management system (DMS) developed to support a large-scale randomized study of an innovative web-course that was designed to improve substance abuse counselors' knowledge and skills in applying a substance abuse treatment method (i.e., cognitive behavioral therapy; CBT). The randomized trial compared the performance…
Descriptors: Internet, Web Based Instruction, Counselor Training, Cognitive Restructuring
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De Fino, Melissa; Lo, Mei Ling – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2011
Collection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, whereas some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional…
Descriptors: Library Services, Selection Tools, Library Materials, Electronic Libraries
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Raman, Arumugam; Don, Yahya – International Education Studies, 2013
"Moodle" also known as Learning Management System is freely available to educators. Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) encourages students and instructors to utilize the teaching and learning process. Moodle enables lecturer to create sequences and facilitate activities for their students, auto-marked online quizzes and exams, navigation…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Learning Processes, Student Teacher Attitudes, Database Management Systems
Zgheib, Rosine S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Technology has been at the center of heated debates in educational settings driving schools to compete for the best technological equipments. However, in Lebanon there is a lag in technology integration matching twenty first century advances. Several barriers related to teacher attitudes, lack of technical skills and organizational constraints to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Integration, School Support, Barriers
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Ring, J. Kirk; Kellermanns, Franz W.; Barnett, Tim; Pearson, Allison W.; Pearson, Rodney A. – Journal of Management Education, 2013
This article reports the results of two studies that examined (a) students' intentions to use a web-based course management system, (b) their actual use of a course management system, and (c) the effect of their use of a course management system on classroom performance. We found that students' attitudes toward the course management…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Web Based Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Courseware
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Payette, Dennis L.; Libertella, Anthony F. – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
This paper reports on the introduction of a curricular innovation in a required capstone course: namely the Business Policy and Strategy course in the School of Business at Adelphi University. The curriculum capstone courses have tended to primarily include business related case studies and business simulation exercises. Consequently, curriculum…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Required Courses, Assignments, Curriculum Enrichment
Morueta, Ramon Tirado; Gomez, Jose Ignacio Aguaded; Gomez, Angel Hernando – Online Submission, 2012
In this paper, the authors examine the rates at which blended learning (b-learning) has been adopted at universities in the region of Andalusia (Spain), as well as the educational model applied to its usage. The authors explore the influence of teachers' perceptions of their competence in the use they make of digital material and to measure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blended Learning, Educational Innovation, Structural Equation Models
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Basal, Ahmet; Gurol, Mehmet; Sevindik, Tuncay – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2012
Language education is important in the rapidly changing world. Every year much effort has spent on preparing teaching materials for language education. Since positive attitudes of learners towards a teaching material enhance the effectiveness of that material, it is important to determine the attitudes of learners towards the material used.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Instructional Materials, Programming, Web Based Instruction
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Lazarony, Paul J.; Driscoll, Donna A. – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
Researchers are often distressed to discover that the data they wanted to use in their landmark study is not configured in a way that is usable by a Statistical Analysis Software Package (SASP). For example, the data needed may come from two or more sources and it may not be clear to the researcher how to get them combined into one analyzable…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Statistical Analysis, Database Management Systems, Experiential Learning
Verbit, Daniel; Kline, Vickie L. – Computers in Libraries, 2011
One of the toughest challenges in an academic library systems office is how to manage and present the extensive selection of electronic resources from a variety of vendors. At York College of Pennsylvania, the authors participated in an admissions-driven web revision cycle and used a campus-provided CMS for 8 years. During this time, they tried…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Online Vendors, Library Administration, Library Automation
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Saarti, Jarmo; Raivio, Jouko – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2011
This article presents a reading of the user interface in one public library system. Its aim is to find out the frames and competences required and used in the communication between the computer and the patron. The authors see the computer as a text that is to be read by the user who wants to search for information from the library. The transition…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Library Networks, Online Catalogs, Online Searching
Schaffhauser, Dian – Campus Technology, 2010
In the past, the learning management system (LMS) was a fairly simple program. Its job was to connect an instructor to a student for an individual course. The student could track grades without harassing the faculty member, and the professor could stop worrying about the prospect of losing a student's paper-based assignment. Often, the LMS…
Descriptors: Management Information Systems, Database Management Systems, Change Agents, Program Effectiveness
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Al-Busaidi, Kamla Ali – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2013
Learning management system (LMS) is playing a major role in higher academic institutions worldwide. Even though full e-learning is becoming a feasible strategy for a number of institutions in the world, some institutions, especially those in developing countries, are resisting a full e-learning environment. Consequently, these academic…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Investigations, Electronic Learning, Questionnaires
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