SITE 2003--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference
2003
Editors
Caroline Crawford; Niki Davis; Jerry Price; Roberta Weber; Dee Anna Willis
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 1052
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Analysing the Structure of the Hypermedia Information
Jose Maria Monguet, Roberto Rodriguez & Pilar Acosta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
The research works carried out at the Multimedia Laboratory of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya are directed to the improvement of the performance of the products, they have concentrated... More
pp. 226-229
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Add Interactivity to Your Online Courses and Projects: a guide to free Web resources to composing discussion forums, quizzes, surveys, forms
Pavlo Antonenko, CTLT, Iowa State University, United States; Victor Udin, Educational Leadership/Policy Studies, Iowa State University, United States
The paper presents an overview of free online services that are designed to assist education and businesses in the creation of interactive components: discussion forums, quizzes, surveys,... More
pp. 230-232
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Faculty and Student Perspectives on Educational Technology and Online Learning
Jason Baker, Regent University, United States
Regent University offers graduate degree programs through on-campus and online delivery with many programs available in either format. Accordingly, our faculty and students are expected to move... More
pp. 233-236
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Organizing and Reorganizing a Distance Education Consortium
Elaine McIntyre & William Barber, Appalachian State University, United States; Laurie Cochenour, University of North Carolina, United States; Heather Clark, Appalachian State University, United States
The North Carolina Consortium for Distance Education in Communication Sciences and Disorders will soon complete a highly successful masters degree program. The Consortium is now planning a... More
pp. 237-240
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Transitioning Learning to a Global Environment
Julie Bath, Wichita State University, United States
Transforming to a global learning environment provides challenges for those faculty, who are strongly attached to a lecture environment. In order for teaching to be effective in a global... More
pp. 241-243
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FOR-PD: Florida Online Reading Professional Development
Donna Baumbach, Vasilliki Zygouris-Coe & Georgina Long, University of Central Florida, United States
How do you help 50,000 teachers help their students become better readers? This paper and presentation describe the purpose, methods, content, delivery system, impact, and research opportunities... More
pp. 244-247
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Redesigning College Algebra Delivery from Direct Instruction to a Computer Environment - If at First You Don't Succeed...
Brian Beaudrie, Northern Arizona University, United States
In 2001, the Department of Mathematics at NAU received a grant from the PEW foundation to redesign the delivery of College Algebra to one that would be web-based. During the fall of 2001, the... More
pp. 248-251
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Reflection on Six Years of University-Level Online Teaching
Anne Bednar, Eastern Michigan University, United States
Qualitative analysis of a journal of six years of teaching the same university level course both online and in the classroom, forms the basis of this presentation. Moving beyond the foci of... More
pp. 252-253
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Defining and Measuring Quality in On-line Discussions
Kendall Hartley, Alex Spatariu, Ion Sas & Lisa Bendixen, University of Nevada, United States
Abstract: In support of research examining the relationship between epistemological beliefs, metacognition, and the quality of on-line discussions this paper investigates different methods for... More
pp. 254-255
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Barriers to Distance Education: Perceptions of K-12 Educators
Lin Muilenburg & Zane Berge, UMBC, United States
Instructional-use computers are continuing to migrate into the classrooms, with public schools reporting over half the installed base now located in classrooms. Still, education struggles with the... More
pp. 256-259
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Distance Learning: Universal Design, Universal Access
Terry Thompson & Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington, United States
Distance learning courses offer opportunities for education and career enhancement for those who have access to the technologies they employ. However, many people find themselves on the wrong side ... More
pp. 260-266
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Is Content Instruction?
Judi Repman, Elizabeth Downs & Randal Carlson, Georgia Southern University, United States
This paper looks at a new model of open scholarship and free access to course materials on-line that has been called the "open course" movement. This movement follows the "open source" software... More
pp. 267-271
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NASA Center for Distance Learning Video Productions
Randall Caton, Christopher Newport University, United States; Katrina Townes, NASA Langley Research Center, United States
The NASA Center for Distance Learning is a partnership between the NASA Langley Research Center's Office of Education and Christopher Newport University that produces a suite of five distance... More
pp. 272-273
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Development and Management of Virtual Schools: Issues and Trends
Cathy Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States; Rachel Bordelon, Louisiana Center for Educational Technology, United States; Terence Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States; Jan Hinson, Louisiana State University, United States
The number of virtual schools in North America currently exceeds 100, and over thirty publicly funded cybercharter schools have been launched in the past five years. The movement of students and... More
pp. 274-276
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Teaching Educational Technology Off Campus: Across town and across borders – Lessons Learned
Cathy Cavanaugh & Terence Cavanaugh, University of North Florida, United States
After a wide range of off-campus educational technology teaching experience, both teaching at remote sites locally and out of country, instructors share their experiences with situations and... More
pp. 277-279
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Partial Online Learning Environment- An Alternative of Online Learning and Face-to-Face Learning
Hao Cen, University of Texas at Austin, United States
Online learning is to traditional face-to-face learning what e-business is to traditional companies. Much has been know about the disadvantages of online learning. More and more researchers turn to... More
pp. 280-281
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Who Benefits More from Online Learning? - Relationship between Online Learning Styles and Outcomes
C. Y. Janey Wang, Paul Resta & Hao Cen, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Online learning opportunities, offered either entirely online or as a supplement to a face-to-face course, have rapidly expanded in recent years. However, little is known about how learners'... More
pp. 282-284
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Corporations' View of E-degrees
Elizabeth Chaney, Indiana State University, United States
The research question for this study was, "How do human resource personnel in the pharmaceutical industry perceive online degree or coursework completed via distance education?" The intent was to... More
pp. 285-288
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Virtual High Schools in the Midwest: How Could a Rural School Use Distance Education?
Elizabeth Chaney, Indiana State University, United States
Virtual High Schools are growing rapidly on the east and west coasts of our country, but can a rural Mid-west school benefit from on-line instruction as well? Could this be a new distance-learning... More
pp. 289-290
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The Impact of Hypertext Materials on Undergraduate Students: An Experimental Study
Wei-Fan Chen, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
This experimental study was designed primarily to compare two different Elaboration-Theory-based hypertexts with a control-group design that did not employ any instructional theories and principles... More
pp. 291-293
