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Research and Best Practices on curriculum, instruction and assessment for 21st Century Teaching and Learning.
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Article that highlights the perceived impact of technology on learning.
APS Professional Development Guidelines - 2007
A standards-based approach to curriculum is one in which open and public statements are apparent about what students should be able to do in academic subjects at key points in their education. Akron Public Schools’ approach to the development of the curriculum is a process which is based on the following premises:
Eighth Grade Social Studies Standards web page, includes OAT prep and pacing guides.
Wisc-Online is a digital library of Web-based learning resources called "learning objects".
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge
The National Repository of Online Courses (NROC) is a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education, high school and Advanced Placement*. This non-profit project, supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, is an Open Educational Resource (OER) and facilitates collaboration among a community of content developers to serve students and teachers worldwide.
"These ten modules have been created for leaders in SREB states to better
understand the creation and use of digital learning content."
NASA Online Short Course Case Study
Research based issues impacting Distance Education
9. Some faculty members are resisting technological course delivery.
As long as distance education contributions are not considered in tenure and promotion decisions, and as long as professors have their own, traditional ways of delivering their courses, many faculty members will be reluctant to participate in online courses (Oravec, 2003). Concerning this reluctance, Dunn has predicted that many faculty members will revolt against technological course delivery and the emerging expectations their institutions will have of faculty members. Dunn forecast that some of the resistance will even be manifest through unionization and strikes (Dunn, 2000). Some have suggested the labor-intensive and time-consuming demands required to develop online modules as reasons for faculty resistance (Brogden, 2002).
10. Faculty members who participate in distance education courses develop better attitudes toward distance education and technology.
Despite some resistance, the results of a four-year study by McGraw-Hill showed a strong increase in overall faculty support for technology in education, with only 22% viewing it as important in 1999 and 57% in 2003. Instructors feel that Web-based technology is helping them achieve their teaching objectives (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2003).
A 2002 study similarly showed that “most teachers (85%) were not philosophically opposed to distance education” (Lindner, 2002, p. 5). Further, teaching at a distance improves perceptions of distance education factors: “Faculty members who had not taught distance education courses perceived the level of support as lower than those who had” (Lindner, 2002, p. 5). Carr (2000) found similar results: 72% of those who had taught distance-learning courses were favorable, compared with 51% who had not taught at a distance.
Learning Objects Characteristics
Welcome to Lessonopoly! We are an open educational resource aiming to make life a little easier for busy educators like you.
Lessonopoly is a free software portal developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation. This site was created with constant input from teachers to deliver a set of effective and easy to use tools, even for teachers who do not have time to learn new technologies. Lessonopoly empowers teachers to organize activities inside and outside the classroom, create and share lesson plans, and connect to other teachers by building online communities.
Virtual Education for Special Education Students
32 items | 7 visits
Research and Best Practices on curriculum, instruction and assessment for 21st Century Teaching and Learning.
Updated on Sep 27, 11
Created on Jul 06, 10
Category: Schools & Education
URL: