AACE Journal
April 2009 Volume 17, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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What Students Think About Technology and Academic Engagement in School: Implications for Middle Grades Teaching and Learning
John Lee & Hiller Spires, North Carolina State University, United States
Students today live in technology-rich environments that shape their interactions with information and with each other. Children in the 21st century have access to a wide range of technology... More
pp. 61-81
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Copyright and Distance Education: The Impact of the Technology, Education, and Copyright Harmonization Act
Erik Nelson, Arcadia University, United States
Copyright in the United States can be traced back to the U.S. Constitution in 1787. To encourage authorship of creative works, Congress created a limited monopoly in §106 of the Copyright Act of... More
pp. 83-101
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Digital Textbooks: The Next Paradigm Shift in Higher Education?
Kelly Heider, DeAnna Laverick & Bethany Bennett, Indiana University of PA, United States
In recent years, college instructors have begun to abandon traditional approaches to instruction, which merely transfer knowledge from faculty to students, for cutting-edge strategies, which allow ... More
pp. 103-112
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Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) in Mathematics Teacher Education
Patrick Wachira, Cleveland State University, United States; Jared Keengwe & Grace Onchwari, University of North Dakota, United States
Rapid increases in knowledge and technology call for the use of such tools as a personal digital assistant (PDA) to increase the quality of education and student performance. PDAs evolved from... More
pp. 113-125
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Overloading on Slides: Cognitive Load Theory and Microsoft’s Slide Program PowerPoint
Elizabeth Cooper, Master's Candidate, University of Memphis, United States
The integration of Microsoft's PowerPoint and other slideware programs into the classroom setting may hinder educational progress rather than help it. An examination of the literature focusing on... More
pp. 127-135
