Does Technology Help? Resources, Papers, and Organizations
On-line (and other) Papers:
Mind over Matter Sources:
Barone, Carole 2003. Technology and the Changing Teaching and Learning Landscape: Meeting the Needs of Today's Internet-Defined Students, May 2003 AAHEBulletin.com
Carmean, C., and J. Haefner. 2002. Mind over Matter: Transforming course management systems into effective learning environments. EDUCAUSE Review Nov/Dec (27-34.).
Jonassen, D. H., and C. S. Carr. 2000. Mindtools: Affording Multiple Knowledge Representations for Learning. In Computers as Cognitive Tools, Volume Two: No More Walls: Theory Change, Paradigm Shifts, and their influence on the use of computers for instructional purposes , edited by S. P. Lajoie. Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
NSSE Institute 2002. National Survey of Student Engagement: The College Student Report. http://www.iub.edu/~nsse/html/overview_2002.htm
National Education Association, Higher Education Research Center. 2002. Instructional Technology Comes of Age February 2002. Inernet: http://www.nea.org/he/heupdate/vol8no1.pdf. This report reviews the chief academic officers' perceptions of how well prepared the faculty were to use technology as a resource. It also presents an overview of how chief academic officers perceived the use of information technology on the campus.
National Education Association, Higher Education. 2001. Higher Education on the Web February 2001. Internet: http://www.nea.org/he/heupdate/vol7no1.pdf. Public 2-year and private 4-year institutions are playing a leading role in distance education. This report identifies some of the barriers to distance education and discusses the impact the Internet has on the way colleges and universities do business.
Reclaiming Instructional Design, M. David Merrill, Leston Drake, Mark J. Lacy, Jean Pratt ? the ID2 Research Group Utah State University, Published in Educational Technology, 1996, 36(5), 5-7. Internet: http://www.ittheory.com/reclaim.htm. Education and its related disciplines continue to flutter this way and that by every philosophical wind that blows. In an uncertain science and technology, unscientific theories flourish. People are anxious for answers. When answers are slow in coming, uncertain in statement, and difficult to find; then the void is filled with wild speculation and philosophical extremism. This brief statement attempts to make clear our belief that instruction is a science and that instructional design is a technology founded in this science. We attempt to identify some of the assumptions underlying the science-based technology of instructional design, and to clarify its role in the larger context of education and social change
Morrison, James L. and Diana G. Oblinger 2002 Information
Technology and the Future of Education: An Interview with Diana Oblinger,
The Technology Source MARCH/APRIL
2002. Internet: http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=983. Although
we've come a long way in using IT tools to enhance education, at present we're
hampered by our fragmented approach to incorporating them. In almost every institution
you can find islands of innovation, but we have yet to integrate the pieces
into a seamless enterprise.
Cheryl Bullock; Lizanne DeStefano. 2001 Evaluating the use of instructional technology in higher education. Academic Exchange Quarterly, Winter 2001 v5 i4 p149(8) InfoTrac Article Article A83034567
Chickering, Arthur W. and Zelda F. Gamson SEVEN
PRINCIPLES FOR GOOD PRACTICE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION. http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/7princip.htm.
But how can students and faculty members improve undergraduate
education? Many campuses around the country are asking this question. To provide
a focus for their work, we offer seven principles based on research on good
teaching and learning in colleges and universities.
Chickering, Arthur W., and Zelda F. Gamson, "Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education," New Directions for Teaching and Learning Vol. 47 (1991), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers. A brief summary of the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education as compiled in a study supported by the American Association of Higher education, the Education Commission of States, and The Johnson Foundation.
Valdez, Gilbert , Mary McNabb, Mary Foertsch, Mary Anderson, Mark Hawkes, and
Lenaya Raack
Computer-Based Technology
and Learning: Evolving Uses and Expectations. North
Central Regional Educational Laboratory. <http://www.ncrel.org/tplan/cbtl/toc.htm>
The value and use of technology in K-12th-grade education continues to be debated
even though computer-based technology is being credited as one of the major
reasons for the increased work productivity and economic success of the United
States. The authors believe that to understand the value and impact of technology
we must recognize that there have been three distinct phases in technology uses
and expectations: Print Automation, Expansion of Learning Opportunities, and
Data-Driven Virtual Learning.
National Educaton Association. THE INSTITUTE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY. 1999. What's the Difference: A Review of Contemporary Research on the Effectiveness of Distance Learning in Higher Education, http://www.nea.org/he/abouthe/diseddif.pdf
THE POWER OF THE INTERNET FOR LEARNING: MOVING FROM PROMISE TO PRACTICE, REPORT OF THE WEB-BASED EDUCATION COMMISSION TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, DECEMBER 2000. http://www.ed.gov/offices/AC/WBEC/FinalReport/
Council for Higher Education Accreditation. 2001.The Expanding Universe of Distance Learning. Distance Learning in Higher Education CHEA Update • Number 31, http://www.chea.org/Research/distance-learning/distance-learning-3.cfm
CHRIS PIOTROWSKI; STEPHEN J. VODANOVICH. Education, Fall 2000 v121 i1 p48 ARE THE REPORTED BARRIERS TO INTERNET-BASED INSTRUCTION WARRANTEED?: A SYNTHESIS OF RECENT RESEARCH. (InfoTrac Article A66960801)
Institute for Higher Education Policy. 2000 Quality on the Line: Benchmarks for success in Internet-Based Distance Education, http://www.ihep.com/Pubs/PDF/Quality.pdf
Peck, K. L., and Dorricott, D. (1994). Why Use Technology? Educational Leadership, 51 (7) 11(4). http://www.tenet.edu/teks/math/resources/whyusetech.html. Why is it that schools rumble along virtually unchanged by the presence of computers? As D'Ignazio (1993) describes it, businesses have been building electronic highways while education has been creating an electronic dirt road. And sometimes on a dirt road, its just as easy to get out and walk.
Bearman, Margaret 1997 Why use technology?, Centre of Medical Informatics, http://www.med.monash.edu.au/informatics/techme/whyuse.htm
Educom Review Why Technology? 1996. Educom Review Volume 31, Number 3, May/June 1996 http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/review/reviewArticles/31324.html. Educom Review recently challenged a group of information technology leaders in higher education to provide answers to such basic questions as: Why use technology at all? What will justify its cost? What value will it really bring to education? What will its adoption mean for the future of colleges and universities? And what will the future hold?
John W. McCredie 2000 Planning
for IT in Higher Education: I t ' s N o t a n O x y m o r o n, EDUCAUSE
QUARTERLY • Number 4 2000 http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0042.pdf
TLT Incremental Revolution Improving Teaching and Learning with Technology: A Model for Description, Analysis, Planning, and Implementation A Portfolio of Strategies for Collaborative Change The TLT Group, Steven W. Gilbert, (Rev. March, 2002) http://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/strategiesbase.htm
Distance Learning
Resources:
Apple Computer, The Impact of Technology on Student Achievement: Research Findings on Technology's Impact in the Classroom. <http://www.apple.com/education/research/> (June 1, 2002)
The Technology Source (ISSN 1532-0030), a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical published by the Michigan Virtual University, is to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations. http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp
Instructional Technology Global Resource Network, Resources and Tools for the Instructional Technologist, http://www.ittheory.com/
National Education Association, Higher Education Web Site, http://www.nea.org/he/
Critical Issue Bibliography (CRIB) Sheet Technology in Higher Education (last updated 01/2002) http://www.eriche.org/crib/techinhe.html
The TLT Group, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, http://www.tltgroup.org/
The Institute for Higher Education Policy, http://www.ihep.com/
The Campus Computing Project: Focuses on the use of information technology in higher education. http://www.campuscomputing.net/
Green, K. C. 2001. Campus Computing, 2001, The 12th National Survey of Computing and Information Technology in US Higher Education, EDUCAUSE 2001 Presentation, The 2001 Campus Computing Project, http://www.campuscomputing.net
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, http://www.ascd.org/
MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education. With a continually growing collection of online learning materials, peer reviews and assignments, MERLOT helps faculty enhance instruction. MERLOT is also a community of people who strive to enrich teaching and learning experiences. http://merlot.cdl.edu/
The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative is a membership coalition of institutions and organizations sponsored by EDUCAUSE. Its mission is to create new collegiate learning environments that harness the power of information technology to improve the quality of teaching and learning, contain or reduce rising costs, and provide greater access to American higher education. http://www.educause.edu/nlii/
Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology, http://caret.iste.org/
Syllabus, the only monthly magazine that focuses exclusively on the use
of high tech in higher education, provides a platform for advancing new IT solutions
at the college level. http://www.syllabus.com/
Technological Horizons in Education (THE) Journal, http://www.thejournal.com/
National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/