Professional Education in Educational Media and Technology: A 75 Year Perspective

Donald P. Ely

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 43, No. 1 (1997) pp. 17–22

Describes the evolution of educational technology curricula and examines its current status. Highlights include graduate curriculum development; the National Defense Education Act; competition between school librarians and media specialists; the...

Computers in Schools and Universities in the United States of America

Donald P. Ely

Educational Technology Vol. 33, No. 9 (1993) pp. 53–57

Describes four aspects of computer technology in education in the United States: (1) the number of computers available to students and teachers; (2) where the computers are located and how they are used; (3) the impact of computer use; and (4)...

The Contemporary College Library: Change by Evolution or Revolution?

Donald P. Ely

Educational Technology Vol. 11, No. 5 (1971) pp. 17–19

The author maintains that the first concern of any library is to determine the information needs of the users it serves and to then consider technology to meet these needs rather than fitting library services to technological devices installed...

Consortium in Educational Media and Techonology

Donald P. Ely

Educational Technology Vol. 9, No. 1 (1969) p. 33

Determining Trends and Issues in Educational Technology through Content Analysis

Donald P. Ely

A content analysis was performed to determine the trends and issues in educational technology for the period from October 1, 1987 through September 30, 1988. Sources for the analysis included five leading professional journals in educational...

Computers in Schools and Universities in the United States of America

Donald P. Ely

The purpose of this paper is to describe four aspects of computer technology in education in the United States: (1) the number of computers available to students and teachers, the number of schools using software for word processing, drill and...

Portability: Cross-Cultural Educational Perspectives

Donald P. Ely

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (1990) pp. 272–83

Discussion of cross-cultural media transfer emphasizes computer software portability. Educational aspects of portability are discussed; types of software most suitable to portability are described; educational guidelines for portability that focus...

Distance Education: By Design or Default?

Donald P. Ely

Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 1996 (February 1996)

Technology is often the driving force in the distance education movement, rather than the needs or educational problems that exist and need to be addressed. This paper considers the questions that should be asked before deciding that distance...

Conditions That Facilitate the Implementation of Educational Technology Innovations

Donald P. Ely

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (1990) pp. 298–305

Describes eight conditions that facilitate the adoption, implementation, and institutionalization of educational technology innovations and suggests applications to the transfer of portable software. Applications of these conditions involving...

Educational Media and Microteaching

Donald P. Ely

Educational Media International Vol. 1 (1972) pp. 7–11

A discussion of the use of media to study behavior, the application that is used by microteaching. (HB)

Classic Writings on Instructional Technology

Donald P. Ely; Tjeerd Plomp

Selected Research and Development Presentations at the 1996 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (1996)

This paper describes the selection process of 17 articles for inclusion in the book, "Classic Writings on Instructional Technology." The book brings together original "classic" educational technology articles into one volume to document the history...

Educational Technology and Mass Media: Editorial Introduction

Tjeerd Plomp; Donald P. Ely

International Review of Education Vol. 32, No. 3 (1986) pp. 225–30

Identifies themes in this special issue on educational technology: emergence of new educational technology definition; pervasiveness of educational technology throughout world; importance of context in applying educational technology to problem...

The Impact of Organization on Curriculum Change

Dennis D. Gooler; Donald P. Ely

Educational Technology Vol. 12, No. 10 (1972) pp. 39–42