A 2020 Vision: Education in the Next Two Decades

James Levin

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 3, No. 1 (2002) pp. 105–14

Contrasts the dominant mode of formal education today with new interactional frameworks enabled by new technologies, including teleapprenticeships and tele-task forces. Explores alternative physical settings for education, including neighborhood...

Teaching Teleapprenticeships: A New Organizational Framework for Improving Teacher Education Using Electronic Networks

James Levin

Machine-Mediated Learning Vol. 4, No. 2 (1994) pp. 149–61

Describes a project at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign that explored several models of teleapprenticeships to provide teacher education students with collaborative, constructivist learning models through the use of electronic networks,...

Activity Cycles in Educational Electronic Networks

James Levin

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 2, No. 1 (1992) pp. 3–13

Examines activity cycles in long-distance educational electronic networks based on experiences on FrEdMail (a grass-roots microcomputer-based electronic network) to create effective network-based learning activities. Yearly, weekly, daily, and other ...

A User-Friendly Forecast

Thomas Knorr; James Levin

Science Teacher Vol. 57, No. 3 (1990) pp. 58–59

The use of the Accu-Weather database system in a junior high school classroom is described. Costs, equipment, and information received are discussed. Two software packages designed for use with meteorological data and Accu-Weather are highlighted....

Digital Video Projects of, by, and for New Teachers: The Multiple Educational Functions of Creating Multimedia

Christopher Halter; James Levin

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 5–28

A three year study of digital video creation in higher education investigated the impact that creating short digital videos by university students in their final class of a teacher education program had on those students. Each student created a...

Education on the Electronic Frontier: Teleapprentices in Globally Distributed Educational Contexts. Interactive Technology Laboratory Report #14

James A. Levin

Contemporary Educational Psychology Vol. 12 (1987) pp. 254–260

The instructional media created by microcomputers interconnected by modems to form long-distance networks present some powerful new opportunities for education. While other uses of computers in education have been built on conventional instructional ...

Reflexibility in Problem Solving: The Social Context of Expertise. Report No. 13

James A. Levin

A series of studies conducted to identify the factors that block and unblock problem solving is described. Through the construction of an isomorph of the classic "water jar" problems developed by A. S. Luchins (1942) as a dynamic graphic micro-world,...

Taxonomies of Educational Technology Uses: Dewey, Chip and Me

James A. Levin

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 11, No. 5 (2014) pp. 439–442

In the early 1990s, Chip Bruce created a taxonomy of education technology uses, which the author of the article helped to expand and evaluate. This taxonomy is based on John Dewey's "four impulses of the child": inquiry, construction, ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Communication

Conceptual Frameworks for Network Learning Environments and Hypertext: Frameworks for Constructing Personal and Shared Knowledge Spaces

Michael Jacobson; James Levin

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 1, No. 4 (1995) pp. 367–388

Educational uses of networks are rapidly expanding as the problems of "ease-of-use" and "access" are gradually being solved. However, even as these problems are being solved, the solutions create second-order problems, such as students and teachers...

Multiplicity in Learning and Teaching: A Framework for Developing Innovative Online Education

James Levin; Sandra R. Levin; Gregory Waddoups

Journal of Research on Computing in Education Vol. 32, No. 2 (1999) pp. 256–69

Describes an approach to using new technologies in online education that consciously uses the multiplicity of options that these technologies provide. Provides a case study of an online course in a master of education program and examines...

Education on the Electronic Frontier: Teleapprentices in Globally Distributed Educational Contexts

James A. Levin

Contemporary Educational Psychology Vol. 12, No. 3 (1987) pp. 254–60

The Inter-cultural Network is an electronic communication network connecting faculty and upper elementary through graduate students in the U.S., Mexico, Japan, and Israel. The students address the problem of water shortage, while learning science...

Observations on Electronic Networks: Appropriate Activities for Learning

James A. Levin

Computing Teacher Vol. 16, No. 8 (1989) pp. 17–19

Discussion of the use of electronic networks for learning activities highlights the Noon Observation Project in which students in various locations measured the length of a noontime shadow to determine the earth's circumference. Electronic pen pals...

Highly Interactive and Effective Online Learning Environments for Teacher Professional Development

Sandra R. Levin; Gregory L. Waddoups; James Levin; James Buell

International Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 (2001)

Reports on a two-year study of an online program for teacher professional development. Survey data from twenty-six online students and in-depth case studies of four students, revealed five dimensions that contribute to effective online learning:...

TEbase: Connecting Preservice Teachers and Technologies Via Web- Enabled Databases

James G. Buell; James A. Levin; Sandra R. Levin

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1865–1870

This paper describes web-accessible databases which form the core of three similar resources for infusing technology into teacher education. The Technology Competency Database is built around the NCATE/ISTE Foundation Standards. Projects in a master'...

Topics: Distance Education, Competencies, Evaluation, Educational Technology, Databases

The Technology Competencies Database: Computer Support for Assessment, Teaching, and Portfolio Management

Michael Waugh; James Levin; James Buell

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 7, No. 4 (1999) pp. 351–363

The teacher education programs at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign have no single, foundational course in instructional technologies. Rather, we work with our instructors to infuse relevant and appropriate instructional technologies...

Topics: Databases, Competencies, Standards, Software, Educational Technology

The Technology Competencies Database:

Michael Waugh; James Levin; James Buell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 740–746

The teacher education programs at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign have no single, foundational course in instructional technologies. Rather, we work with our instructors to infuse relevant and appropriate instructional technologies...

Building Electronic Communities: Success and Failure in Computer Networking

Margaret M. Riel; James A. Levin

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 19, No. 2 (1990) pp. 145–69

Discussion of the use of computer networks to create electronic communities highlights a research strategy that compared educational activities conducted across electronic networks to examine features of successful and unsuccessful electronic...

A Rule-Based and Hypertextual Electronic Mail System for Electronic Learning Environments: Applying the Distributed Network Learning Framework

Michael J. Jacobson; James A. Levin

This paper discusses issues related to the design of software tools that support learners in their participation in network-based learning activities. To guide the development and use of a new class of educationally-oriented network tools, this...

TeleScience Activities: Educational Uses of Electronic Networks

Michael L. Waugh; James A. Levin

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 8, No. 2 (1989) pp. 29–33

Described are successful science activities which have been conducted on an international telecommunications network which links schools in the United States, Mexico, Japan, and Israel. Examined are several activities currently being developed....

Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform (CTER) Online: Evaluation of an Online Master of Education Program

Sandra R. Levin; James A. Levin; James G. Guell; Gregory L. Waddoups

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 46, No. 3 (2002) pp. 30–38

Describes a Master of Education program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign called Curriculum, Technology, and Education Reform OnLine (CTER) that is aimed at K-12 teachers. The evaluation based on program stakeholders includes interface ...

Teachers' Conceptions of the Internet and the World Wide Web: A Representational Toolkit as a Model of Expertise

James A. Levin; Matthew J. Stuve; Michael J. Jacobson

Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 21, No. 1 (1999) pp. 1–23

To examine the role of teachers' conceptual representations of the Internet and World Wide Web, a survey and 10 case studies were conducted among pre- and in-service teachers enrolled in university courses. Results reveal diverse, plausible...

From Student Work to Exemplary Educational Resources: The Case of the CTER White Papers

James A. Levin; Nicholas C. Burbules; Bertram C. Bruce

E-Learning Vol. 2, No. 1 (2005) pp. 39–49

Within the existing system of education, student work rarely has any value beyond the particular course that it is created for. The work is graded and then usually discarded. The authors describe in this article a way that student work can be...

Technologies in Contexts: Implications for Teacher Education

Renee T. Clift; Laurie Mullen; James Levin; Ann Larson

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 17, No. 1 (2001) pp. 33–50

This paper discusses the interaction among school and university contexts, instruction, and individual practice that occurs as telecommunications technology is integrated into teacher education programs. Data from a series of studies of such...