Jones, Stephanie; Woglom, James F. (2013). Teaching Bodies in Place. Teachers College Record, v115 n8. Background/Context: This piece draws on literature in justice-oriented teacher education, feminist pedagogy, and postmodern notions of bodies and place to make sense of data generated from a three-year study of an undergraduate teacher education course. A feminist lens was used to engage a body- and place-focused pedagogy that aimed to engage students in recognizing themselves as full-bodied and cultured beings who can work to better understand and expand their perceptions of themselves and others in place. Purpose: The authors argue that postmodern theories of bodies and place can provide complex insights for both theorizing and practicing teacher education. Readers have the opportunity to experience alternative community-based teacher education practice through a graphic presentation and consider both the theoretical and practice implications in the broader field of education. Research Design: This three-year study is an arts-based qualitative inquiry into the experiences of a… [Direct]

(2010). The FCS Body of Knowledge: Shaping the Next 100 Years. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, v102 n2 p7-13. This article shares the Body of Knowledge (BOK) as articulated in the new \Accreditation Documents for Undergraduate Programs in Family and Consumer Sciences\ (2010). The purpose of sharing the BOK is to enhance awareness of the current knowledge base of family and consumer sciences (FCS), whether for new or lifelong AAFCS members, those exploring the profession, or those seeking a current perspective of FCS. With its first 100 years in the rear view mirror, FCS has been provided with an evolving image for moving forward to define and refine the future. Relevant questions such as these are often asked: (1) What is FCS?; (2) How do the parts fit with the whole?; (3) How has the field evolved over time?; (4) What are the frameworks or theories that provide the foundation for a research study?; (5) What do research findings add to the body of knowledge?; and (6) What do FCS professionals do? It is essential that the BOK serve as a touchstone for the future. In addition to refining and… [Direct]

Nam, Kevin Kyung (2010). Arkose: A Prototype Mechanism and Tool for Collaborative Information Generation and Distillation. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan. The goals of this thesis have been to gain a better understanding of collaborative knowledge sharing and distilling and to build a prototype collaborative system that supports flexible knowledge generation and distillation. To reach these goals, I have conducted two user studies and built two systems. The first system, Arkose 1.0, is a prototype collaborative distillation system for a discussion space, which provides a set of augmentative tools to facilitate the filtering, structuring, and organizing of discussion information. Arkose 1.0 supports editors to distill a discussion space incrementally and collaboratively, and allows a gradual increase in the order and reusability of the information space. The study of an online question-answering community, Naver Knowledge-iN, investigates users' knowledge sharing behaviors in a large online question-answering community. Through the analyses of a large quantity of question/answer pairs and 26 user interviews, the study analyzes the… [Direct]

Bostwick, Kerry A.; Donham, Jean; Heinrich, Jill A. (2010). Mental Models of Research: Generating Authentic Questions. College Teaching, v58 n1 p8-14 Jan-Mar. In this paper, we question how we might disrupt positivist research paradigms that preclude students from engaging and experiencing ownership in the research process. We question what we, as professors, could do to facilitate the transition from traditional research reporting to a disposition of inquiry that allows for ambiguity and discovery in the research process. Evidence presented was gathered over the course of a two-year qualitative research project completed in a capstone education course. Like most capstone courses, we required a summative research paper, but student work suggested they had minimal interest or enthusiasm for the project. However, by redirecting our students' research interest from traditional research reporting to the generation of authentic research questions drawn from their student teaching experience, a solution emerged. The students' questions provided the basis for the ensuing qualitative inquiry project that afforded them a new and authentic type of… [Direct]

Dalgarno, Barney; Tinkler, Jacqueline; Winzenried, Arthur (2010). The Interactive Whiteboard: A Transitional Technology Supporting Diverse Teaching Practices. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, v26 n4 spec iss p534-552. This article describes the findings of a qualitative study investigating teacher perspectives on the impact of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) on their classroom teaching practice, using intensive case studies focusing on six primary and secondary teachers from two rural schools. The study found that all teachers were enthusiastic, had seen improvements in student engagement, and were able to develop and evolve their IWB teaching strategies through explicit reflection. However, there was considerable diversity both in the ways in which the IWB was used and in the degree to which teachers changed their classroom teaching practices. Whereas some (Glover and Miller, 2001; Kennewell, 2006) have been critical of IWB adoption without clear pedagogical transformation or without utilisation of all IWB features, we argue that one of the IWB's key benefits is that it can be used initially without requiring a big shift in pedagogy but that it may gradually afford more major pedagogical changes… [PDF]

Graves, Bill (2011). Sharing Expertise: Consulting. School Administrator, v68 n2 p24-30 Feb. A special breed of superintendents who have developed expertise in a particular area find ways of sharing it in other venues as outside consultants. They pull extra duty to put their special skills into practice, to give back to their communities, to stay current and grounded in the field, or to enhance their professional reputations. They teach at universities, guide other school districts through the development of strategic plans, help school boards find new superintendents or coach other administrators who are new to the profession. All are adamant about one point: Their first priority is always to the leadership of their own school districts. Some have negotiated clauses in their contracts that allow a certain number of days over the year to consult with other organizations or individuals. Many insist they are better superintendents for the extra assignments they tackle. Superintendents tend to take on consulting projects, usually by invitation, that fit the specialized talents… [Direct]

Craig, Cheryl J. (2009). Research in the Midst of Organized School Reform: Versions of Teacher Community in Tension. American Educational Research Journal, v46 n2 p598-619. Arising from a longitudinal study examining the influence of school reform on teachers' knowledge communities and communities of knowing, this narrative inquiry traces the development of a workshop approach to reading and writing, principally through the introduction of a staff developer, to the school's professional knowledge landscape and to the literacy teachers' curriculum making over a 3-year period. While some of the school administrators perceived the trainer as building professional learning community through sharing knowledge, skills, and dispositions, the majority of the teachers, and some of the other administrators, appeared to view the staff developer, herself a teacher, as being in collusion with the principal (and vice versa) and as crossing the line concerning what teachers and their communities of knowing are able to tolerate. Different stories produced different visions of community, and a number of issues related to teacher development emerged. Disconnects among… [Direct]

Saima S. Malik (2017). Supporting Early Literacy in Rural Rwanda: Perceptions of Parents Attending Reading Awareness Workshops in Their Village. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University. This study examined perceptions among parents attending reading awareness workshops (RAWs) in two villages in rural Rwanda. The four specific constructs studied included: (a) parent perceptions of the utility of reading and the ability to read in their local context, (b) parent sense of self-efficacy to support the early literacy skill development of their young child, (c) parent belief regarding the role of parents in the early literacy skill development of their young child, and (d) parent perception of their child's level of motivation to read and write. Survey and observational data from 68 parents participating in RAWs and interviews and home observations from eight focal parents were analyzed for changes over the course of participation in RAWs and two months after RAWs. Patterns in parent responses were noted. Focal parent thoughts on patterns of responses were also noted six months after RAWs. All parents felt that learning to read was important for their children. At the… [Direct]

Breeding, Marshall (2008). Library Technology International. Computers in Libraries, v28 n10 p33-36 Nov-Dec. The author has been extremely fortunate over the last few years to have had the opportunity to travel to many different parts of the world and speak and work with librarians in many countries and to have the chance to see first-hand some incredible libraries that demonstrate creative approaches to library services, innovative uses of technology, expansive resource sharing, and pragmatic approaches to library automation. In this article, he gives a quick tour of the libraries he visited. The author believes it's important to have a global perspective, benefiting from the knowledge of how libraries in many different parts of the world approach services, collections, and technology…. [Direct]

Mariger, Heather; Rowland, Cyndi; Siegel, Peter M.; Whiting, Jonathan (2010). Universal Design for the Digital Environment: Transforming the Institution. EDUCAUSE Review, v45 n6 p14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 Nov-Dec. A revolution is about to transform higher education. To participate in this revolution, those in higher education need to explore a critical concept: \universal design.\ Universal design was originally aimed at innovations in architecture, community spaces, and products, but today it is about creating services and products, from the beginning, in ways that will benefit the widest array of users, including those with disabilities, without the need for adaptation or specialized design. It is now time for universal design to make the jump to cyberspace: allowing everyone to engage fully in rich digital experiences is critical not only to a just world but also to a competitive higher education institution. Because people live so much of their lives in the context of online services and information, they will see, over the next five years, a rapid shift in the focus of universal design across campuses nationwide. This shift will be toward Universal Design for Digital Environments (UDDE):… [Direct]

Kise, Jane; Russell, Beth (2009). You Can't Do It All! A Sensible Way to Distribute School Leadership Roles. Principal, v89 n2 p36-40 Nov-Dec. As the demands on school leaders expand, it's becoming more and more important to lead from one's strengths. The authors' review of literature on essential school leadership responsibilities led them to write \Differentiated School Leadership: Effective Collaboration, Communication and Change through Personality Type,\ which revealed 26 separate roles for school principals that have an impact on student achievement. If one tries to fill all 26 roles by himself/herself, he/she: is headed straight for burnout, will probably struggle with some roles that simply do not suit him/her, and will rob others of the chance to add their strengths and ideas to school leadership. This article discusses the use of personality type theory to make the most of one's natural style and build effective teams. This theory can help one move from the old Lone Ranger mentality to sharing leadership in an effective, efficient way. The theory also helps to explain why literature on school leadership emphasizes… [Direct]

Harmon, James; Zenkov, Kristien (2009). Picturing a Writing Process: Photovoice and Teaching Writing to Urban Youth. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, v52 n7 p575-584 Apr. In response to a thirty-year pattern of elevated high school dropout rates and a multi-generational disengagement from traditional school-based literacy practices among urban community members, the project on which this article reports asked a group of city students to document photographically what they perceived as the purposes of, impediments to, and supports for their school success. Grounded in \New Literacy\ and visual sociology traditions, this examination utilized as research tools image-based mechanisms with which city students were already proficient. Findings drawn from three versions of this project conducted with nearly 100 youth suggest that English language arts teachers committed to engaging their students in effective writing instruction might focus more on the use of arts-based methods and open-ended questions as \ways in\ to writing, on sharing these youths' writing efforts with broader–and younger–community members, and on more 1:1 student/teacher interactions… [Direct]

Duman, Gurol (2012). An Examination of Parents' Perceptions of Harmony Schools. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, University of Houston, Clear Lake. Charter schools have grown rapidly in the last 20 years since the first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1991 and has become one of the most popular alternatives in public schools (Center for Education Reform, 2007). Parents may possess various reasons for choosing one charter school over another, or choosing them over traditional public schools. This study examined parents' perceptions on charter schools, in particular, Harmony Schools (HS). Parental perceptions were explored through three research questions: in general, what they value in schooling, factors that motivate them to choose HSs, and parental perceptions of HSs. In addition, it was examined whether there were any correlations between parental perception and ethnicity, income and educational background of parents. A mixed method (quantitative and qualitative) was employed to examine parents' perceptions of Harmony Schools. The parents from 13 Harmony campuses in Houston were asked to take an online questionnaire to… [Direct]

Bragg, Debra D.; Ruud, Collin M. (2011). The Applied Baccalaureate: What We Know, What We Learned, and What We Need to Know. Office of Community College Research and Leadership The evolution of AB degrees has been influenced by an increased emphasis on workforce development, baccalaureate degree attainment, and transfer on the state and institutional levels. Beginning as primarily programmatic decisions made by a few institutions, over time AB degree program decisions have involved more institutions, and eventually states. Led by Barbara Townsend until her untimely death on June 11, 2009, the authors' research team surveyed education agencies in all 50 states and found that as of 2008, AB degrees were offered in at least one public 4-year institution in 39 states. Lumina Foundation's \Big Goal 2025\ (n.d.) focuses on increasing the percentage of Americans with postsecondary credentials to 60% (compared to 39% at the start of Big Goal 2025) and advocates for a policy agenda designed to improve the credentialing of adult and transfer students in the nation. To that end, Lumina encouraged and supported a \Convening\ on the AB degree to bring together policy… [PDF]

Briscoe, Felecia M.; Khalifa, Muhammad A. (2015). A Counternarrative Autoethnography Exploring School Districts' Role in Reproducing Racism: Willful Blindness to Racial Inequities. Teachers College Record, v117 n8. Background: Racialized suspension gaps are logically and empirically associated with racial achievement gaps and both gaps indicate the endurance of racism in American education. In recent U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Office of Civil Rights data, it was revealed that nationally, Black boys are four times more likely to be suspended than White boys. In some geographic areas and for certain offenses, some intersections of race, class, and gender are dozens of times more likely to be suspended than others. Although most educational leaders and district-level officials express disapproval of racism in schools, racialized gaps in achievement and discipline stubbornly persist. Purpose/Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine how school district-level administrators react to investigations and indications of racism in in their school districts. It is relevant because in many school districts that have disciplinary and achievement gaps, the administrators ostensibly… [Direct]

Duo, Samuel N. (2011). Civil Society Organizations in Post-War Liberia: The Role of Education and Training in Strengthening Organizational Capacity. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, The Pennsylvania State University. The purpose of this study was to understand the role of non-formal education and training in the organizational change process of Civil society organizations (CSOs) in post war Liberia. CSOs are the local foundation for democracy and development in Liberia, and serve a wide range of roles in local communities. For example, in post-war Liberia, CSOs provide services in communities that the government does not reach due to limited resources. They educate disenfranchised groups such as women in micro-credit and small business practices that ultimately increase their self-sufficiency and independence. They engage youth in community projects and build the younger generation's civic capacities. They engage fragile communities on the issue of ethnic based conflict and religious intolerance, and they engage government on all spheres of development issues, ranging from governance, transparency, accountability, to grassroots empowerment. However, the capacities of CSOs to achieve these… [Direct]

Chaplin, Duncan; Chiang, Hanley; Hall, John; Harris, Dominic; Kennen, Barbara; Knechtel, Virginia; Sonnenfeld, Kathy; Sullivan, Margaret; Verghese, Shinu (2009). 2008 Principal/Vice Principal Survey Results for Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC). Final Report. Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. In 2006 and 2007, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) awarded Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants for the development of systems to compensate teachers and principals in part based on increases in student achievement. New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS) received five of these grants and is using them to implement its Effective Practice Incentive Community (EPIC) intervention in Memphis City Schools (MCS), the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), a consortium of charter schools, Denver Public Schools, and Prince Georges County Public Schools. EPIC offers performance-based awards to staff in high-performing elementary, middle, and high schools in return for their agreement to work with NLNS in documenting and sharing effective practices. During the 2007-2008 school year EPIC provided over $3 million in financial awards to more than 1,000 educators in 62 schools nationwide. Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) was hired to evaluate the EPIC initiative. MPR's full study… [PDF]

Benito, Manuel; Casquero, Oskar; Ovelar, Ramon; Portillo, Javier; Romo, Jesus (2010). iPLE Network: An Integrated eLearning 2.0 Architecture from a University's Perspective. Interactive Learning Environments, v18 n3 p293-308 Sep. Universities can offer eLearning 2.0 tools and services to learners while obtaining clear benefits from releasing the control over some learning content. This means a shift from the institution centred and monolithic model of traditional virtual learning environments (VLEs) to a more heterogeneous and open model. This article tries to plot an architecture to be put in practice by universities to give learners the control of their learning processes by using eLearning 2.0. We propose an institutionally powered personal learning environment (iPLE) that constitutes our vision of how Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, starting pages), services ("del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube") and people arrangement and data sharing (social networking, learn-streaming) could be applied in an integrated manner to learning processes. First, this article justifies the suitability for a PLE in the context of eLearning 2.0 and European Higher Education Area. Second, an overview of the evolution from VLEs… [Direct]

Kilimci, Songul (2010). Integration of the Internet into a Language Curriculum in a Multicultural Society. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – TOJET, v9 n1 p107-113 Jan. The rapid growth of the Internet, the global collection of interconnected computer networks, is both stimulative and instructive. The Internet has become one of the most powerful resources in accessing information. It is used for entertainment, sharing items, collecting and analyzing data, conducting interviews, chatting, downloading, and so on as well as education. Among the users of the internet, there are the educational researchers who try to enhance exploring of this rich resource. Using the Internet in language teaching has been practiced for a while. Exploiting videoconferencing for teaching the language online, on the other hand, is relatively a new and exciting innovation in education. Using such tools as the skype or msn allows people or groups of individuals to see each other and talk to one another over the internet without a long distance telephone charge as well. It is almost inevitable to ignore the necessity of the Internet in educating the new generation who utilize… [PDF]

Ferriter, William M.; Provenzano, Nicholas (2013). Today's Lesson: Self-Directed Learning . . . for Teachers. Phi Delta Kappan, v95 n3 p16-21 Nov. Thousands of teachers are exploring the boundaries of their practice together on Twitter, in blogs, and at seminars, and they represent a new generation of educators who are actively redefining how innovation occurs in the schoolhouse. For many of these educators, exposure to adjacent possibilities–the first step toward innovation–starts in the strangest of places: Twitter. At the most basic level, Twitter allows users to curate content for one another. Drawing from a collection of over 500 education specific hashtags, thousands of practitioners are posting links, blog entries, and lesson plans at any given time. Want to learn more about project-based learning? Visit Twitter and search for #pblchat. Care about school leadership? Try #cpchat or #edleaders. Twitter can become much more than a tool for simple sharing, though. Connected educators recognize that behind every profile picture is a person walking through similar professional doors. Teachers who use Twitter to build… [Direct]

Cross, Robert J. (2007). Using a Transdisciplinary Service Delivery Model to Increase Parental Involvement with Special Education Students. Online Submission, Paper prepared for the Hawaii International Conference on Education (Jan 3, 2008). Too often special education services are provided in a piece-by-piece fashion with individual support staff members each scheduling service to the child once or twice a week. Travel time and case-load numbers prohibit getting significant service time and frequency to the student. The literature suggests that transdisciplinary service delivery is a model that can remedy this situation by allowing teaching the classroom teacher and parents how to provide those services that can be shared or transferred from the primary service provider to others. Transdisciplinary involves the sharing of skills among and between staff, parents and the primary service provider. To test this proposition, 24 physical, occupational and speech therapists were sampled before, during and after implementation of a transdisciplinary model. Staff developed a list of \role-sharing\ tasks and who could take-on these tasks. Over the next school year, staff implemented these sharing plans and taught others the… [PDF]

Hao, Jing (2018). Being an International Student: Experiences of Chinese Undergraduate Students in a Large Research University. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. This study was designed to explore the experiences of Chinese international students attending a research university in the United States, from the time they received offers of acceptance to study abroad until they left China (pre-arrival period) through the end of their first quarter as freshmen (early post-arrival period). The researcher sought a holistic view by addressing four related areas of the students' lives: academic, social-cultural, typical daily routines and psychological. First, the study surveyed university students in the above areas with survey questions translated into Chinese. The professor of an orientation class for international students then distributed the survey electronically, and sixty-nine students responded. Second, of this population, six individual interviews were conducted entirely in Chinese. The study suggested that the Chinese international student population choosing to study abroad in the United States was different than that of prior research,… [Direct]

Steneken, Marilyn (2011). The Relationship between Environmental Literacy and Students' Participation in Global Online Collaboration. ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Walden University. Recent concerns over global ecology have led to a renewed call for effective environmental education. Since traditional methods of teaching environmental education tend to focus on local issues and perspectives, educators are faced with the problem of providing a more global view of ecological issues. Little research exists exploring the e-learning format as an alternative of teaching environmental education, although current literature confirms that online learning increases knowledge, motivation, and critical thinking skills. The research questions focused on the implementation of online global collaboration as a means to develop environmental literacy and foster self-efficacy among middle school students. This repeated measures quantitative study merged the online venue and environmental learning to assess the combined educational impact. The sample group of 95 middle school students participated in Web-based activities with global peers for 2 months, sharing environmental… [Direct]

Tuduri, Eddie (2008). An Update on the Rhythmic Arts Project. Exceptional Parent, v38 n3 p50-51 Mar. The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) is touching the lives of typical children and adults with various disabilities all over the world and now has programs in two Bulgarian orphanages, day programs in Australia, and, most recently, in the general hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. TRAP is also currently approaching facilities in more than 20 states. It has come a long way since the last article in "Exceptional Parent" in March 2006. In this article, the author provides an update on the Rhythmic Arts Project by sharing the stories of three individuals with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and a rare skin disorder called Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa or EB who have benefited from the TRAP program…. [Direct]

Al-Zoube, Mohammed; El-Seoud, Samir Abou; Wyne, Mudasser F. (2010). Cloud Computing Based E-Learning System. International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, v8 n2 p58-71 Apr-Jun. Cloud computing technologies although in their early stages, have managed to change the way applications are going to be developed and accessed. These technologies are aimed at running applications as services over the internet on a flexible infrastructure. Microsoft office applications, such as word processing, excel spreadsheet, access database and many more can be accessed through the internet, even though the files and applications are housed in the cloud. Cloud computing provides a low cost solution to academic institutions for their researchers, faculty and students. This setup provides an additional benefit because all these browser-based applications can also be accessed through mobile devices in addition to being available to a variety of laptop and desk top computers, provided internet access is available. In this paper we present a solution that is based on cloud computing and can be used for building a virtual environment both for teaching and learning. We present an… [Direct]

Coburn, Dawn; Hegarty, Bronwyn; Jeffrey, Lynn; Kelly, Oriel; McDonald, Jenny; Penman, Merrolee (2011). Developing Digital Information Literacy in Higher Education: Obstacles and Supports. Journal of Information Technology Education, v10 p383-413. The development of digital information literacy (DIL) has been slow in comparison to changes in information communication technologies, and this remains an issue for the higher education sector. Competency in such skills is essential to full participation in society and work. In addition, these skills are regarded as underpinning the ability to maintain life long learning. Evidence suggests that simple exposure to technology is not sufficient to promote adequate levels of literacy. Why has DIL development been so slow? How can we speed the process up? The purpose of this study was to identify obstacles and supports to fostering the development of DIL to staff and students in higher education. The literature identified a range of obstacles that hindered students' ability to develop their technology related skills. The issue of access and the digital divide that has been of interest to those concerned with social equity continues to generate lively discussion. The students' own beliefs… [PDF]

Christopherson, Laura L. (2013). OMG! L2spell Online: The Creative Vocabulary of Cyberlanguage s(~_^)–b. ProQuest LLC, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Increasing use of the Internet has led to a proliferation of online communication and information sharing media. These media, each with its own set of affordances and limitations, are thought to encourage new ways to communicate. Interlocutors refashion general English into abbreviated and often pictographic representations of existing concepts. Prior research has made suppositions about the effects these media have on communication; for example, that synchronous media (e.g., chat) encourage interlocutors to use more abbreviations (e.g., acronyms) than in asynchronous media (e.g., email). These suppositions, however, have not been fully tested because most studies focus on a single medium. Yet a more comprehensive understanding of this language–hereafter referred to as "cyberlanguage"–as it manifests across various online media is needed as users increasingly employ the Internet for communications. Furthermore, such an understanding may help information professionals… [Direct]

Abramo, Giovanni; D'Angelo, Ciriaco; Di Costa, Flavia (2009). Research Collaboration and Productivity: Is There Correlation?. Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, v57 n2 p155-171 Feb. The incidence of extramural collaboration in academic research activities is increasing as a result of various factors. These factors include policy measures aimed at fostering partnership and networking among the various components of the research system, policies which are in turn justified by the idea that knowledge sharing could increase the effectiveness of the system. Over the last two decades, the scientific community has also stepped up activities to assess the actual impact of collaboration intensity on the performance of research systems. This study draws on a number of empirical analyses, with the intention of measuring the effects of extramural collaboration on research performance and, indirectly, verifying the legitimacy of policies that support this type of collaboration. The analysis focuses on the Italian academic research system. The aim of the work is to assess the level of correlation, at institutional level, between scientific productivity and collaboration… [Direct]

Behlol, Malik Ghulam; Kayani, Muhammad Munir; Parveen, Qaisara; Yousuf, Muhammad Imran (2011). Concept of Supervision and Supervisory Practices at Primary Level in Pakistan. International Education Studies, v4 n4 p28-35 Nov. The study was conducted to find out the practices and problems of supervisors working at primary school level in Pakistan. The teachers, Headmasters, Area Education Officers, District Education Officers, Deputy District Education officers working in primary schools of Rawalpindi District were the population of the study. The questionnaire was developed, validated by the experts and pilot tested. Stratified Random sampling technique was used to collect the data of the study. The conclusions of the study reveal that the supervisors don't visit schools to facilitate teachers in solving classroom problems. They behave with them in an autocratic and authoritarian way, and the teachers are not able to share theirs problems with them. They do not believe in the concept of supervision as a process of sharing, helping, guiding, counseling and motivating teachers to solve problems which they face while teaching in classroom. Questioning and creative ideas are taken as breach of discipline. It… [PDF]

Han, Bernard; Rienzo, Thomas (2009). Microsoft or Google Web 2.0 Tools for Course Management. Journal of Information Systems Education, v20 n2 p123-127. While Web 2.0 has no universal definition, it always refers to online interactions in which user groups both provide and receive content with the aim of collective intelligence. Since 2005, online software has provided Web 2.0 collaboration technologies, for little or no charge, that were formerly available only to wealthy organizations. Academic institutions at all levels are experimenting with these technologies to improve student learning experiences, and prepare them for a world in which work can be effectively accomplished through collaboration over the Internet, and geographic and time differences become increasingly irrelevant in sharing knowledge. Web 2.0 technologies are not limited to enriching course content. They can also be incorporated into the management and the delivery of college courses as well as the coordination of virtual teams. Detailed comparisons of the two most popular Web 2.0 office technologies from Google and Microsoft are provided in this teaching tip… [Direct]