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Real-time courseware design : the LAVAC Video Sequencer®
Tony Toma
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 831–836
Teachers have already acknowledged the richer learning environment and interactivity of multimedia teaching, its flexibility to different learning styles and a learner's control that allows him or her to engage fully in the learning process. But...
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Cognition and Courseware Design by Teachers: the Concept of Multimediatizing
Tony Toma
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2461–2466
Cognition and multimedia language teaching seem to be at the two extremes of a very long axis. But the evolution of multimedia today makes it necessary to clearly define some seemingly transparent cognitive notions and functions that may otherwise ...
Topics: Multimedia, Teachers, Cognition
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Security Management in a Multimedia System
Emanuil Rednic; Andrei Toma
Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods Vol. 4, No. 2 (2009) pp. 37–47
In database security, the issue of providing a level of security for multimedia information is getting more and more known. For the moment the security of multimedia information is done through the security of the database itself, in the same way,...
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Two decades of charter schools: Expectations, reality, and the future
Eugenia Toma; Ron Zimmer
Economics of Education Review Vol. 31, No. 2 (April 2012) pp. 209–212
The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991 and with it, a new school reform movement began. After two decades, 41 states and Washington D.C. have adopted charter legislation. This special issue provides an opportunity for scholars...
Language: English
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The Degree of Usage of Software Licenses in Schools, High-Schools and Universities
Andrei Toma; Gabriel Ioan
Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods Vol. 1, No. 1 (2006) pp. 51–57
The papers develop main aspects on the legal software usage in educational area. It will be propose indicators for measuring the degree of licenses usage. Case studies are oriented to gymnasia stage.
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Reward or punishment? Class size and teacher quality
Nathan Barrett; Eugenia F. Toma
Economics of Education Review Vol. 35, No. 1 (August 2013) pp. 41–52
The high stakes testing and school accountability components of our K-12 education system create an incentive for principals to behave strategically to maximize school performance. One possible approach is the adjustment of class sizes based on...
Language: English
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Innovation in Business Education: Developing a High Quality Online MBA
C William Roe; Alfred G. Toma; RamMohan R. Yallapragada
American Journal of Business Education Vol. 8, No. 2 (2015) pp. 169–176
Online degree programs were probably pioneered by for-profit universities such as University of Phoenix. Many online degree programs were initially considered low quality academic programs compared to traditional programs. Therefore, many public and ...
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PACALL: Supporting Language Learning Using SenseCam
Bin Hou; Hiroaki Ogata; Toma Kunita; Mengmeng Li; Noriko Uosaki
International Journal of Distance Education Technologies Vol. 11, No. 1 (2013) pp. 14–30
The authors' research defines a ubiquitous learning log (ULLO) as a digital record of what a learner has learned in the daily life using ubiquitous technologies. In their previous works, the authors proposed a model named LORE (Log--Organize-...
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School attendance and district and school size
John T. Jones; Eugenia F. Toma; Ron W. Zimmer
Economics of Education Review Vol. 27, No. 2 pp. 140–148
The size of schools and districts in which they are located has become a salient policy issue in recent years. While consolidation of school districts and expanding high school size were in vogue from the 1960s until recently, funding agencies are...
Language: English
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Teacher retention in Appalachian schools: Evidence from Kentucky
Joshua M. Cowen; J.S. Butler; Jacob Fowles; Megan E. Streams; Eugenia F. Toma
Economics of Education Review Vol. 31, No. 4 (August 2012) pp. 431–441
In this paper we analyze teacher attrition from Appalachian school districts over nearly twenty years of data. We employ a unique panel of public K-12 teachers active in Kentucky between 1986 and 2005, and discern several patterns of interest to...
Language: English