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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Educational technologies"”.
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Development and analysis of educational technologies for a blended organic chemistry course
… as teaching tools. Furthermore, large-scale educational technologies may not be amenable to rigorous, detailed study, limiting evaluation of their effectiveness. Small-scale educational technologies run from the instructor’s own server have the potential to mitigate many of these issues. Such …
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Modification of Instructional Delivery and Student Learning With the Use of Educational Technologies
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if educational technologies, including LCD projectors, interactive whiteboards, tablets, document cameras, and student response systems, modify instructional delivery and student learning. This case study was researched in four classrooms, including an …
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Investigating how educational technologies can enhance learning experiences by assisting different learning activities
Current educational technology implementations are done independently and not necessarily linked, neither with key elements of the pedagogic model, nor accommodating different learning styles. This work focuses on developing a framework that would standardise the use of assistive technologies in …
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Enacting professional identity : an exploration of teacher educators’ entanglement with educational technologies in FE
… use of technology as crucial to achieving educational objectives. However, amid substantial interventions into FE teacher education and practice, decisions about educational technology use are seemingly entrusted to teaching professionals. Drawing on the analytical resources of …
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An Assessment of Contextual Design and Its Applicability to the Design of Educational Technologies
… for the development of effective, innovative educational technologies, there is a need for methods that can integrate the concerns and activities of both instructional and technology designers. This research critically examines a human-computer interaction design method, contextual design …
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Influential factors in the adoption and implementation of educational technology at the University of Liverpool
… of Liverpool (UoL) to adopt and implement educational technologies. The research was based in practice and the UoL examined as a case study. The theoretical framework was based upon innovation research and informed by Rogers’ (2003) Diffusion of Innovations (DOI), and Ely’s (1999) eight …
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Design of an Extended Educational Technology Acceptance Model (EETAM)
Educational technologies provide students with opportunities to learn remotely or on campus, to access learning materials, engage with interactive learning activities and to interact and communicate with the class. Student use may vary depending on several different factors, and technology …
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StarLogo Nova Dashboard for Teachers
… Teacher Education Program at MIT focuses on educational technologies that support learning, with one of the projects being StarLogo Nova, an agent-based game and simulation programming environment [1]. While there are workshops that help teachers learn to integrate StarLogo into their …
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Adoption of learning management systems among information technology educators at a rural South African university : an activity systems perspective
… In as much as there is a drive to adopt emerging educational technologies there needs to be mature research which unpacks adoption. The focus of this research is lecturers and how their perceptions about LMS influence the rate of uptake in the LMS adoption process. It is important to identify the …
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Towards improved inclusive approaches to educational technology support: a case of staff with disabilities at a higher education institution
… challenges when trying to access and use the educational technology and support systems available to them. This study examines the experiences of staff with disabilities at a South African university, focusing on how they engage with the institution's educational technology support. Using a …
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Embedding StarLogo Nova into WISE for a Seamless Student Experience
… Teacher Education Program (STEP) at MIT uses educational technologies to create innovative learning experiences. An example project is StarLogo Nova, a block-based programming environment that facilitates the creation of agent-based models to study complex systems [17]. Currently StarLogo Nova …
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The Perception of Ely's Conditions for Technology Implementation within Community Colleges
… diffusion of innovation which examines how new technologies or innovations are spread throughout a population. Using Ely's (1990) eight conditions that facilitate the implementation of educational technologies, this study was conducted to measure the influence of those conditions for the …
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Developing a community platform for creative learning
… in regional host countries. While digital educational technologies from the West have the potential of mending some of these challenges, there is a lack of locally appropriate solutions. We see this as a reflection of the modest number of innovators who have the technical and pedagogical …
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Improving the Teaching Staff Capacity to Integrate EdTech in the Teaching and Learning Processes at Eduardo Mondlane University
… been implementing training courses in the use of technologies in the teaching and learning process. However, despite the efforts made by the university, the use of these technologies by lecturers at UEM is limited, particularly in faculties outside the main campus. In response to the …
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Frontier Pedagogies: The Rhetorics of Expansion and Reform in Antebellum America
… intellectual trends, religious doctrines, and educational technologies---through which the dialectic of expansion and reform was rhetorically mediated to produce national subjectivity and civic behavior, that is citizenship, on the antebellum frontier."
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A system dynamics approach to educational technology introduction in Developing countries
… focused on ways to use Information and Computing Technologies (ICTs) as springboards to advance their national development in all areas, including education. There are multiple ways in which various organizations are tackling the unique challenges these nations face in equipping their schools with …
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Social Media as Connected Learning Technology: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Facebook for Undergraduate Education
Social media technologies are networked technological tools that can provide opportunities for productive socialization and collaboration. While social media are being incorporated increasingly into formal classroom settings, there is very little research available providing specific evidence for …
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When UTAUT2 meets design thinking mindset: Exploring e-learning champions? Adoption of blended learning at EMU
… in higher education, and to make this possible, educational technologies are crucial. Despite significant improvements to ICT infrastructure, staff training programs and help desk support, uptake differs considerably across contexts (Mohan et al., 2020) and scholars (Sherman & Howard, 2012; …
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Learning to Program From Interactive Example Code (With and Without Intentional Bugs)
… great strides in the current century. Exciting educational technologies are now available and active learning pedagogies are increasingly used. Interest is strong, but the longstanding problem remains: learning to program as an analytical endeavor is quite frustrating for many. The purpose of …
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