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Showing 1 to 20 of 151 for “"Education, Technology of"”.
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Determinants of Diffusion and Infusion of a Web-Based Knowledge Management Technology Adopted Under Contingency Authority Decisions
… to in order to achieve an effective transfer of complex technologies adopted under contingent authority decisions in organizations. Two processes, diffusion and infusion, account for change through the effective adoption of complex technologies in organizational systems. Each one of the …
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Communication Unplugged: A Qualitative Analysis of the Digital Divide
The research and analysis in this dissertation indicate that the Digital Divide is still an issue in the 21st century. Through participant observation, narratives and interviews over a four-year period, the results signify a discursive disconnect between policymakers and community leaders, and the …
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The Development and Pilot Testing of a Hypermedia Program to Supplement Undergraduate String Techniques Class Instruction in Upper String Vibrato
A number of modifications are suggested when implementing the treatment in subsequent trials including the use of a larger pool of students, the need for the regular techniques class instructor to also present the in class vibrato instruction, and that vibrato be included as part of the normal …
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A Qualitative Study of Three Secondary Art Teachers' Conceptualizations of Visual Literacy as Manifested Through Their Teaching With Electronic Technologies
… that the situational and holistic engagement of learning with technology challenges the usefulness to teachers of the term visual literacy as it is posited in academic discourse and questions the value of predetermined educational ends that accompany that visual literacy scholarly discourse.
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Automated Assessment of Speech Fluency for L2 English Learners
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2009.
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A Teacher's Dashboard: Monitoring Students in Tablet PC Classroom Settings
… student engagement in, and teacher awareness of, the class; by allowing for a detailed record of the class to be made, they can facilitate educational research. This thesis presents several studies, spanning the period from fall, 2001, to spring, 2008, exploring these possibilities. An early …
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Digital Archives and the Turn to Design
The argument proceeds through case studies of three different digital archive technologies: digital document repositories (web sites that store and provide access to archival collections online), wikis (dynamic, collaboratively authored web sites that anyone can add to or change), and plagiarism …
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Computing Cultures: Information Technologies and Narratives of Self
… focus on--composition classrooms, a corporate software publisher, and a community network--follow my own scholarly progression. All three sites illustrate that to question subjectivity involves an engagement with the multiple institutions that not only shape technology usage, but also construct …
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Disengagement From Intrinsically Transient Social Worlds: The Case of a Distance Learning Community
… these twelve dimensions model the process of disengaging from an intrinsically transient social world.
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The Role of a Mediating Information Structure in a Contextualized System
… sufficient flexibility to evolve as the needs of the community emerge and change.
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Riding the Waves: A Case Study of Learners and Leaders in Library and Information Science Education
The final section of the study proposes a model of learning and leading based on LEEP student experiences. This results in the development of new questions for future exploration.
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"""Learning How to Know How to Do"": Enabling Newcomers to Succeed in Complex Micro-Cultures"
"The oversimplification of ""step-by-step"" approaches to software design and instruction creates conceptual barriers for learning in local communities of practice, micro-cultures. This study explored the efficacy of using a sociocultural-based learning environment to help novice computer users …
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A Study of the Technology Competencies of Preservice Secondary Mathematics Teachers
… showed that students were excited about the technology competencies they gained and would be prepared to teach with technology with some more self-training. However, their views about the role that technology should play in the classroom indicated that full appreciation of technology's role …
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The Internet, Auto -Accompaniment Software, and Spectral Analysis in Undergraduate Voice Lessons
… experienced voice lessons with differing levels of technology integration. Data collected through teacher observations, student journals, and quantitative questionnaires aided both a comparison of the influence of each of the technologies on the attitudes of the participants and instructor and …
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CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A Situated Evaluation of an Innovative Learning Environment
… and qualitative data was collected by means of a variety of probes. Reader-response theory, which seeks to understand the transaction between the reader, text, and context, guided the analysis of the data. Results showed that CARA was used in unique ways by each investigator to construct a …
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Construct Validation of an Integrated, Process-Oriented, and Computerized English for Academic Purposes (Eap) Placement Test: A Mixed Method Approach
… summarize the positive and negative attributes of six research questions investigated in this study: predictive validity, convergent and discriminant validity, improved essay quality, consequential validity, test fairness, and authenticity. Arguments in favor of the CEEPT came from six types of …
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The Relationship Between Computer Attitudes, Usability, and Transfer of Training in E -Learning Settings
… who are not familiar with and are hesitant of using computers in E-learning settings and also E-learning courses need to be developed by following usability heuristics in order to enhance learners' transfer of training in E-learning settings.
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Student Perceptions of Support Services Designed to Overcome Barriers in the Online Learning Environment of Illinois Community Colleges
Respondents reported being aware of most services, but also reported having used only half of them. The course syllabus and college catalog were shown to be the most used and most useful to all groups. More non-completers in the total, traditional age and nontraditional age groups used a variety of …
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Constructing a Joint Story -Writing Space: The Dynamics of Young Children's Collaboration at Computers
… processes in order to understand the nature of peer collaboration and the learning opportunities afforded by peer discourse. Framed by a sociocultural perspective and relying on discourse analysis, this study focused on how children's collaborative roles and patterns changed over time. …
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Analyzing Asynchronous Online Interactions Through Social Network Analysis Techniques and Visualizations
… have this information ""during"" the development of the class, they could act immediately and make the necessary adjustments, for example to integrate somebody that is becoming an isolate in the class."
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