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Over a decade of promising pedagogical models and technology for music teaching: Can the past still reliably guide the future?
Alan Anderson
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2012 (November 2012)
Research papers reporting the potential of new technologies and pedagogical models have a tendency to mushroom as educators disseminate the results of promising pilot studies. Some ideas and technologies gain traction and prove sustainable while...
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Technology, Design, and the Artist's Hand
Mark Alan Anderson
SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers Vol. 107, No. 1 (2007) pp. 38–39
Computers have changed the ways students study components of design. Once on the computer, students tend to get so excited that they usually neglect to make preliminary sketches. Rather than rely on design software to provide visual solutions, this...
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Assessing Telecommunications Technology as a Tool for Urban Community Building
Teresa E. Anderson; Alan Melchior
Journal of Urban Technology Vol. 3, No. 1 (1995) pp. 29–44
Investigates ways communities can assess their needs and plan ways to use telecommunications technologies to address those needs. Experiences from four urban communities are examined, as are barriers to access and issues regarding telephone service...
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ICT-assisted multi-campus teaching: Principles and practice to impact equity of experience for students
Alan Anderson; Elizabeth Date-Huxtable
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2011 (2011) pp. 85–92
NB, It is acknowledged that publicly available information online may not reflect the internal policy, strategy and resource generation processes currently in action.
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Using the TPACK framework to unite disciplines in online learning
Alan Anderson; Nicholas Barham; Maria Northcote
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 29, No. 4 (Sep 22, 2013)
This paper builds on a previous case study in which a group of lecturers from various disciplines were interviewed about their practice as facilitators of online learning. The lecturers' comments about their teaching practices revealed their...
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Interactive Distance Learning Technology and Connectedness
Brian Devlin; Peter Feraud; Alan Anderson
Education in Rural Australia Vol. 18, No. 2 (2008) pp. 53–62
This three-part paper discusses how the contemporary use of computers in distance education is helping to connect students from our rural communities, whether they are located at pastoral stations, remote community schools or are on the road,...
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First-Year Students' Use of Social Network Sites to Reduce the Uncertainty of Anticipatory Socialization
Isolde K. Anderson; Alan Lerstrom; Nathan Tintle
Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition Vol. 26, No. 1 (2014) pp. 101–121
This study surveyed 399 incoming first-year students at two colleges in the Midwest on their use of social network sites before college entry and its impact on various dimensions of the first-year experience. Significant correlations were found for...
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Satellite Lessons: Vocational Education and Training for Isolated Communities
Kylie Twyford; Stephen Crump; Alan Anderson
Rural Society Vol. 19, No. 2 (August 2009) pp. 127–135
At the Western Institute of Technical and Further Education (WITAFE) in New South Wales (NSW), vocational education and training (VET) courses are being delivered to students in isolated homesteads and remote Aboriginal communities by Interactive...
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Using the TPACK Framework to Unite Disciplines in Online Learning
Alan Anderson; Nicholas Barham; Maria Northcote
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 29, No. 4 (2013) pp. 549–565
This paper builds on a previous case study in which a group of lecturers from various disciplines were interviewed about their practice as facilitators of online learning. The lecturers' comments about their teaching practices revealed their...
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Using desktop video to enhance music instruction
Alan Anderson; Allan Ellis; Allan Ellis
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2001)
In the last few years, many of the early technical limitations of desktop digital video technology have been overcome thus paving the way for its application in various fields of education and training. Fields in which manual skills are passed on by ...
Language: English
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The Impact of Science Fiction Film on Student Understanding of Science
Michael Barnett; Heather Wagner; Anne Gatling; Janice Anderson; Meredith Houle; Alan Kafka
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 15, No. 2 (April 2006) pp. 179–191
Researchers who have investigated the public understanding of science have argued that fictional cinema and television has proven to be particularly effective at blurring the distinction between fact and fiction. The rationale for this study lies in ...
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Do Clickers Work for Students with Poorer Grades and in Harder Courses?
Scott Anderson; Allen Goss; Mike Inglis; Alan Kaplan; Laleh Samarbakhsh; Melissa Toffanin
Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 42, No. 6 (2018) pp. 797–807
We studied the impact of clickers, also known as electronic student response systems, on the performance of students on two undergraduate finance courses. Consistent with some of the recent literature, we found that clickers have very little impact...