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The Prospects for Open Learning
Michael Young
Open Learning Vol. 10, No. 1 (1995) pp. 3–9
Proposes the establishment of a Research Foundation for Open Learning, and reflects on the Open University's achievements and the need for change. (Author/AEF)
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Assessment of Situated Learning Using Computer Environments
Michael Young
Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 4, No. 1 (1995) pp. 89–96
Suggests that, based on a theory of situated learning, assessment must emphasize process as much as product. Several assessment examples are given, including a computer-based planning assistant for a mathematics and science video, suggestions for...
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The Impact of a Collaborative Wiki Assignment on Teaching and Learning in a Teacher Education Program
Vanessa Bravo; Michael Young; Michael Young
Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology / La revue canadienne de l’apprentissage et de la technologie Vol. 37, No. 3 (Nov 17, 2011)
This study explored students’ perceptions and behaviors of public wiki use during a collaborative Wikipedia assignment in a graduate technology and literacy education course. Results confirmed that the majority of students had an overall positive...
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University-Natchaug Integrated Voice, Video & Data Link
Michael Young; Pam Campbell
Interpersonal Computing and Technology Journal Vol. 4, No. 2 (1996) pp. 37–46
The University of Connecticut and Natchaug School established an integrated voice, video, and data link. By using the network for collaboration over distance, participants learned that: (1) students were adept users; (2) technology can demand new...
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Seeing Ourselves Reflected in Our Narratives: Studies in Culture and Communication
Michael W. Young
Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English 1997 (June 1997)
This paper describes and evaluates three wholly integrated classroom programs at Robert Morris College in Pittsburgh, in two different writing/communication curriculums, involving the students' creation of a portfolio as an organic and expanding set ...
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The Unit of Analysis for Situated Assessment
Michael F. Young
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 25, No. 2 (1997) pp. 133–50
Argues that the key distinction of a situated approach to studying intelligent behavior is not the method used but the focus of the investigation, specifically the unit of analysis. Discusses contemporary approaches to assessment, collaborative...
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Free Scholarly Electronic Journals: What Access Do College and University Libraries Provide?
Michael Fosmire; Elizabeth Young
College & Research Libraries Vol. 61, No. 6 (2000) pp. 500–8
The 25 most popular free scholarly electronic journal titles, determined by number of holding institutions on OCLC, were searched on a random sample of library World Wide Web sites and catalogs to provide a separate gauge for access levels provided...
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Information Technology and the Sociology of Education: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Michael F. D. Young
British Journal of Sociology of Education Vol. 5, No. 2 (1984) pp. 205–10
Sociologists in the United Kingdom have neglected the emergence of information technology and the way it has taken on many of the characteristics of a new fashion. Conceptualizing technology is increasingly necessary if they are to make critical...
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Integral Factors Influencing Teaching with Technology
Susan Gilson; Michael Young
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2184–2188
While educational technology has been recognized as a necessary tool, integration within classrooms has remained a challenge. Given that teachers are critical to the success of efforts to reform school through technology integration, the purpose of...
Topics: Educational Technology, Integration, Teachers, Classrooms, Middle School Education
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The Impact of a Collaborative Wiki Assignment on Teaching and Learning in a Teacher Education Program
Vanessa Every; Michael Young
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2426–2433
This study explored students’ perceptions and behaviors of public wiki use during a collaborative Wikipedia assignment in a graduate technology and literacy education course. Results confirmed that the majority of students had an overall positive...
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Instructional Design for Situated Learning
Michael F. Young
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 41, No. 1 (1993) pp. 43–58
Discusses the design of situated learning and the ecological psychology of situated cognition. Topics addressed include the teacher's role; teacher training; anchored instruction; transfer skills; the meaning of learning; apprenticeships; and the...
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Digital plagiarism: An experimental study of the effect of instructional goals and copy-and-paste affordance
Yashu Kauffman; Michael F. Young
Computers & Education Vol. 83, No. 1 (April 2015) pp. 44–56
This paper presents an empirical study of digital plagiarism. Under two experimental conditions, undergraduate writers were guided by different achievement goals to write an essay with or without the copy-and-paste function on a website. The study...
Language: English
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Computer Aided Statistics Instruction Protocol (CASIP) Restructuring Undergraduate Statistics in Psychology: An Integration of Computers into Instruction and Evaluation
Ki-Young Rah; Michael Scuello
Annual Conference on Undergraduate Teaching of Psychology 1996 (March 1996)
As a result of the development of two computer statistics laboratories in the psychology department at New York's Brooklyn College, a project was undertaken to develop and implement computer program modules in undergraduate and graduate statistics...
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Financial Services and the Internet: What Does Cyberspace Mean for the Financial Services Industry?
David Birch; Michael A. Young
Internet Research Vol. 7, No. 2 (1997) pp. 120–28
More than 30 million households own PCs and more than 20% of these use PCs to manage their finances. This article examines the Internet and financial services, consumer needs, and differentiation in service products and predicts future trends in...
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Multimedia Football Viewing: Embedded Rules, Practice, and Video Context in IVD Procedural Learning
Eunsoon Kim; Michael F. Young
This study investigated the effects of interactive video (IVD) instruction with embedded rules (production system rules) and practice with feedback on learners' academic achievement and perceived self efficacy in the domain of procedural knowledge...
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Reliability and Validity of an Ecologically-Grounded Student Teacher Electronic Portfolio Rubric
James Sulzen; Michael F. Young; Robert Hannafin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 153–159
This study investigated the reliability and validity of an ecologically grounded student teacher E-folio evaluation rubric (Sulzen et al. 2007) consisting of eight scales and designed for providing formative and summative feedback on student teacher ...
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What Experts Say and Do Regarding the Use of Technology in the Mathematics Classroom
Valerie Duarte; Michael Young; Thomas DeFranco
Journal of Research and Development in Education Vol. 33, No. 4 (2000) pp. 223–31
Developed profiles of computer-using elementary and middle school mathematics teachers and had experts rank them as though the teachers were receiving a hypothetical award. Experts reported weights of the dimensions they used in making judgments....
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An Academic Technology Initiative for Teacher Preparation Candidates: Implications for Preservice Teacher Programs
Jennifer Vermillion; Michael Young; Robert Hannafin
Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 23, No. 3 (2007) pp. 99–104
Schools of education (SOEs) are experiencing increased pressure to prepare teacher candidates for the effective and innovative integration of technologies. Lack of both ubiquitous on-campus access and effective modeling by SOE faculty are two often...
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Technology Based Learning: Myth or Reality?
Michael Young; Michel Plaisent; Prosper Bernard
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1169–1170
This paper questions the robustness of empirical evidence regarding technology's ability to promote increased learning. The use of a new technology, by itself, does not seem to increase student learning. Most evaluation research has found that...
Topics: Educational Technology
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A Qualitative Study of Public Wiki Use in a Teacher Education Program
Vanessa Every; Gna Garcia; Michael Young
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 55–62
This study reports on students’ perceptions and behaviors regarding the use of Wikipedia and EduTechWiki (public wikis) for a collaborative assignment in a graduate level technology and literacy course. The results demonstrated that initial...
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Teacher In-Service Multimedia Training: A View of Outcomes from a Situated Learning Perspective
Elena Znamenskaia; Yi Guan; Michael F. Young
Annual Convention of the Association for Educational Communication and Technology 1999 (February 1999)
This paper is based on observations of ten middle and high school science teachers in a multimedia workshop during the fall semester of 1997 in a large Northeastern public university. The workshop objective was implementation of multimedia...
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Situations, Interaction, Process and Affordances: An Ecological Psychology Perspective
Michael F. Young; Andrew DePalma; Steven Garrett
Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 30, No. 1 (2002) pp. 47–63
From an ecological psychology perspective, a full analysis of any learning context must acknowledge the complex nonlinear dynamics that unfold as an intentionally-driven learner interacts with a technology-based purposefully designed learning...
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Locating an Ecological Psychology Methodology for Situated Action
Jonna M. Kulikowich; Michael F. Young
Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 10, No. 1 (2001) pp. 165–202
Describes what a methodology for situated action should do for students given problem solving in school settings. Proposes that a methodology for understanding situated action should afford the instructional designer, the methodologist, and the...
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Multimodal Analysis of Language Learning in World of Warcraft Play: Languaging as Values-Realizing
Dongping Zheng; Kristi Newgarden; Michael F. Young
ReCALL Vol. 24, No. 3 (September 2012) pp. 339–360
Applying Communicative Project theory (Linell, 2009), we identify and distinguish between the different coordination and language activities that emerged during an episode of "World of Warcraft" ("WoW") gameplay involving English Language learners ...
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An Academic Technology Initiative for Teacher Preparation Candidates: Implications for Pre-service Teacher Programs
Jennifer Vermillion; Michael Young; Robert Hannafin
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 1343–1348
Schools of education are experiencing both increased pressure and support to prepare teacher candidates for the effective and innovative integration of technologies such as laptops to support student learning. The Academic Technology Initiative ...
Topics: Educational Technology, Integration, Teachers, Schools, Students
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Comments on "Reflections on 'A Review of Trends in Serious Gaming'"
Michael F. Young; Stephen T. Slota; Benedict Lai
Review of Educational Research Vol. 82, No. 3 (September 2012) pp. 296–299
In large measure the authors agree with Tobias and Fletcher's (2012) comments stating that clearer operational definitions of game features are needed to enable research on games and learning. The authors cannot accept that games are a subset of...
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Attitude and Self-Efficacy Change: English Language Learning in Virtual Worlds
Dongping Zheng; Michael F. Young; Robert A. Brewer; Manuela Wagner
CALICO Journal Vol. 27, No. 1 (September 2009) pp. 205–231
This study explored affective factors in learning English as a foreign language in a 3D game-like virtual world, Quest Atlantis (QA). Through the use of communication tools (e.g., chat, bulletin board, telegrams, and email), 3D avatars, and 2D...
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WaveHero: An educational game for K-12 Students
Michael Farrell; William Young; Teresa Franklin; David Chelberg; Chang Liu
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 1430–1435
Educational video game designers are faced with many challenges. Today, most commercial video game systems are capable of handling high-performance interactive 3D graphics. Such advances increase competition between educational game developers and ...
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A Need within a Need
Michael Sutton; John Stone; Nati Gemechisa; Beth Young
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 47, No. 4 (2003) pp. 39–41
Discusses the instructional design process when an additional need is identified in the middle of a project that has already been geared to another need. Topics include determining how critical the additional need is; resources available, including...
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The Effects of Navigational and Generative Activities in Hypertext Learning on Problem Solving and Comprehension
Sasha A. Barab; Michael F. Young; JianJuan Wang
International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 26, No. 3 (1999) pp. 283–309
Describes three experiments that examined college students' self-determination, problem-solving, and reading comprehension when using a linear, navigational, or generative computerized system to solve a problem or to prepare for a reading...
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Student Attitudes toward Multimedia Classrooms
Yi Guan; Jianjun Wang; Robert K. Gable; Michael F. Young
Eastern Educational Research Association 1998 (1998)
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure students' attitudes toward multimedia classrooms and to investigate students' attitudes toward learning in multimedia classrooms. The research questions examined: (1)...
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Effects of Computer versus Paper Administration of an Adult Functional Writing Assessment
Jing Chen; Sheida White; Michael McCloskey; Jaleh Soroui; Young Chun
Assessing Writing Vol. 16, No. 1 (January 2011) pp. 49–71
This study investigated the comparability of paper and computer versions of a functional writing assessment administered to adults 16 and older. Three writing tasks were administered in both paper and computer modes to volunteers in the field test...
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Investigating the Relationship between Dialogue Structure and Tutoring Effectiveness: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach
Kristy Elizabeth Boyer; Robert Phillips; Amy Ingram; Eun Young Ha; Michael Wallis; Mladen Vouk; James Lester
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 21, No. 1 (2011) pp. 65–81
Identifying effective tutorial dialogue strategies is a key issue for intelligent tutoring systems research. Human-human tutoring offers a valuable model for identifying effective tutorial strategies, but extracting them is a challenge because of...
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Comparability of Computer-Based and Paper-and-Pencil Testing in K-12 Reading Assessments: A Meta-Analysis of Testing Mode Effects
Shudong Wang; Hong Jiao; Michael J. Young; Thomas Brooks; John Olson
Educational and Psychological Measurement Vol. 68, No. 1 (2008) pp. 5–24
In recent years, computer-based testing (CBT) has grown in popularity, is increasingly being implemented across the United States, and will likely become the primary mode for delivering tests in the future. Although CBT offers many advantages over...
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Games and Simulations: Global Perspectives
Michael Searson; David Gibson; Young Kyun Baek; Westley Field; Kwonki Yoon
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1805–1807
This panel will present global perspectives on games and simulations by educators who have direct familiarity with US and non-US gaming practices. An overview of similarities and differences of games and simulations across various countries will be...
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A Meta-Analysis of Testing Mode Effects in Grade K-12 Mathematics Tests
Shudong Wang; Hong Jiao; Michael J. Young; Thomas Brooks; John Olson
Educational and Psychological Measurement Vol. 67, No. 2 (2007) pp. 219–238
This study conducted a meta-analysis of computer-based and paper-and-pencil administration mode effects on K-12 student mathematics tests. Both initial and final results based on fixed- and random-effects models are presented. The results based on...
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Negotiation for Action: English Language Learning in Game-Based Virtual Worlds
Dongping Zheng; Michael F. Young; Manuela Maria Wagner; Robert A. Brewer
Modern Language Journal Vol. 93, No. 4 (2009) pp. 489–511
This study analyzes the user chat logs and other artifacts of a virtual world, "Quest Atlantis" (QA), and proposes the concept of Negotiation for Action (NfA) to explain how interaction, specifically, avatar-embodied collaboration between native...
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Gender Identification, Interdependence, and Pseudonyms in CMC: Language Patterns in an Electronic Conference
J Michael Jaffe; Young-Eum Lee; Li-Ning Huang; Hayg Oshagan
Information Society Vol. 15, No. 4 (1999) pp. 221–34
Examines how pseudonymous identification in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) context might: (1) reflect a motivation for gender-based status parity and (2) mitigate supposed gender-based communication differences associated with social...
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Defining Distance Learning and Distance Education
Frederick B. King; Michael F. Young; Kelly Drivere-Richmond; P. G. Schrader
AACE Journal Vol. 9, No. 1 (2001) pp. 1–14
Abstract There is, in most academic and scientific fields, a common yet distinct vocabulary. This precise vocabulary makes it possible for researchers and practitioners within that domain to communicate clearly and succinctly with each other. At...
Topics: Distance Education
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Comprehension Tools for Teachers: Reading for Understanding from Prekindergarten through Fourth Grade
Carol McDonald Connor; Beth M. Phillips; Michael Kaschak; Kenn Apel; Young-Suk Kim; Stephanie Al Otaiba; Elizabeth C. Crowe; Shurita Thomas-Tate; Lakeisha Cooper Johnson; Christopher J. Lonigan
Educational Psychology Review Vol. 26, No. 3 (September 2014) pp. 379–401
This paper describes the theoretical framework, as well as the development and testing of the intervention, "Comprehension Tools for Teachers" (CTT), which is composed of eight component interventions targeting malleable language and...