The Impact of the Virtual Schooling Curriculum on Preparing In-Service Teachers for the Roles as Virtual School Facilitators

Michael Barbour; Kelly Unger

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2905–2912

This study examined the second round of data collection from an action research project designed to help in-service teachers become better virtual school facilitators. The data included blog entries and comments from five of the seven graduate...

Challenging Teachers’ Preconceptions, Misconceptions, and Concerns of Virtual Schooling

Michael Barbour; Kelly Unger

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 785–790

This study examined the perceptions of graduate students in an instructional technology course related to K-12 online learning based upon their completion of the Teacher Education Goes into Virtual Schooling (TEGIVS) curriculum. The TEGIVS program...

Examining the factors of a technology professional development intervention

Kelly L. Unger

(2012) pp. 1–257

In response to the ever increasing demand to compete in a global economy, the United States needs to prepare its students with the appropriate technical knowledge and communication skills to be competitive in the 21st century (Watson, 2007)....

Web 2.0 Tools for Instructing In-service Teachers on Virtual Schooling in K-12 Educational Settings

Kelly Unger; Michael Barbour

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3939–3947

This proposal examines a graduate level course designed to help prepare teachers to support students engaged in online learning at the K-12 level. The course objective is to provide K-12 in-service teachers the foundations and knowledge-base of...

Cross Cultural Instruction: An Instructional Design Case

Monica Tracey; Kelly Unger

International Journal of Designs for Learning Vol. 1, No. 1 (Oct 24, 2010)

In an authentic example of linking design and development with learning and performance, an international real estate development firm defined a problem; implementing a cleaning system in the largest mall in the world with a cross-cultural unskilled ...

Language: English

Increasing Employee Productivity through Gamification and Blended Learning

Kelly Unger; Dave Schwartz; Jaime Foucher

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 2538–2545

An information technology operations team was tasked with increasing the productivity of its employees through the use of its digital office productivity and communication tools to address four key business needs. The team developed a low cost and...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems

A Design-Based Research Case Study Documenting a Constructivist ID Process and Instructional Solution for a Cross-Cultural Workforce

Monica W. Tracey; Kelly L. Unger

Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 40, No. 3 (May 2012) pp. 461–476

As the need for instructing a globalized workforce increases, instructional designers must embrace the constraints and the opportunities these projects provide in order to move the field of cross-cultural instructional design (ID) forward. Cross...

Examining the Factors of a Technology Professional Development Intervention

Kelly L. Unger; Monica W. Tracey

Journal of Computing in Higher Education Vol. 25, No. 3 (December 2013) pp. 123–146

This article discusses technology integration literature used to guide the design and implementation of a technology professional development intervention (TPDI) for secondary education teachers. Qualitative multiple-case research methods were used...

Teachers' Perceptions of K-12 Online: Impacting the Design of a Graduate Course Curriculum

Michael K. Barbour; Kelly Unger Harrison

Journal of Educational Technology Systems Vol. 45, No. 1 (2016) pp. 74–92

While K-12 online learning in the United States has increased exponentially, the ability of teacher education programs to adequately prepare teachers to design, deliver, and support has been deficient. A small number of universities have begun to...