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Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study (open access)

Learning and Teaching as Communicative Actions: A Mixed-Methods Twitter Study

This article examines the design of a course that utilized the real-time information network Twitter to spark reflective thinking and communication based on classroom topics.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J. & Alsobrook, Metta
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies (open access)

Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies

This article presents Five-Picture Charades, an instructional activity designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the technical and pedagogical uses of digital images in the classroom.
Date: 2012
Creator: Alexander, Curby & Hammond, Thomas C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers (open access)

Contrasting Perceptions of STEM Content and Careers

This article presents a second year analysis of baseline attitudinal data gathered from a National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers project concerning contrasts between the perceptions of practicing professionals and students toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and careers.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Knezek, Gerald; Christensen, Rhonda & Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations (open access)

How does intrinsic and extrinsic motivation drive performance culture in organizations

This article reviews literature on the subject of employee motivation to determine whether intrinsic or extrinsic motivation is becoming the driving force of business.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Turner, Arielle
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Life Between Big Data Log Events: Learners' Strategies to Overcome Challenges in MOOCs (open access)

The Life Between Big Data Log Events: Learners' Strategies to Overcome Challenges in MOOCs

This article discusses a study in which 92 MOOC learners were interviewed to better understand their worlds, investigate possible mechanisms of student attrition, and extend conversations about the use of big data in education.
Date: June 1, 2016
Creator: Veletsianos, George; Reich, Justin & Pasquini, Laura A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
EDUsummIT: A Global Knowledge Building Community for Educational Researchers, Practitioners, and Policy Makers (open access)

EDUsummIT: A Global Knowledge Building Community for Educational Researchers, Practitioners, and Policy Makers

This paper reports findings of an evaluative study conducted at the conclusion of EDUsummIT 2015 to investigate the effectiveness and impact of EDUsummIT.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Lai, Kwok-Wing; Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald & Gibson, David C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Multilevel System of Quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Indicators (open access)

A Multilevel System of Quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching Indicators

This paper elaborates and extends the work of the EDUsummIT 2015 Thematic Working Group 7 by proposing a set of indicators on quality Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Law, Nancy; Niederhauser, Dale S.; Christensen, Rhonda & Shear, Linda
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World (open access)

Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World

This article provides the background and aim of EDUSummiIT, the Third International Summit on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, with an overview of the contents of this special issue.
Date: September 3, 2015
Creator: Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald & Pareja Roblin, Natalie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique For Professional Development Evaluation (open access)

Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique For Professional Development Evaluation

This article discusses the field test of an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.
Date: 2007
Creator: Allen, Jeff M. & Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development (open access)

Using the mTSES to Evaluate and Optimize mLearning Professional Development

This article reports on the findings from the analysis of data collected using the Mobile Teacher's Sense of Efficacy Scale survey instrument, from an open course about mobile learning called Instructional Design for Mobile Learning that took place from May 4 through June 6, 2015.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Power, Robert; Cristol, Dean; Gimbert, Belinda; Bartoletti, Robin & Kilgore, Whitney
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments (open access)

Conceptualizing the emerging field of smart learning environments

This article suggests that a convergence of advances and developments in epistemology, psychology, and technology provide a foundation for the planning and implementation of smart learning environments. It includes an approach for the evaluation of smart learning environments.
Date: October 16, 2014
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy (open access)

Emerging educational technologies: Tensions and synergy

This article conducts a review of high level sources with regard to new and emerging technologies, including a critique using established principles pertaining to learning and instruction, and a recommended curriculum for advanced learning technologies
Date: November 4, 2013
Creator: Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Seeking, Information Sharing, and going mobile: Three bridges to informal learning (open access)

Information Seeking, Information Sharing, and going mobile: Three bridges to informal learning

This article introduces a new perspective on information behavior in Web 2.0 environments, including the role of mobile access in bridging formal to informal learning.
Date: September 8, 2013
Creator: Mills, Leila A.; Knezek, Gerald & Khaddage, Ferial
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment for 21st Century Learning (open access)

Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment for 21st Century Learning

This article is based on the deliberations of the Assessment Working Group at EDUsummIT 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. All of the members of Thematic Working Group 5 (TWG5) have contributed to this synthesis of potentials, concerns and issues with regard to the role of technology in assessment as, for and of learning in the 21st century.
Date: July 2016
Creator: Spector, J. Michael; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Sampson, Demetrios; Yang, Lan (Joy); Mukama, Evode; Warusavitarana, Amali et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Multi-Institutional Partnerships for Higher Education in Africa: A Case Study of Assumptions of International Academic Collaboration (open access)

Multi-Institutional Partnerships for Higher Education in Africa: A Case Study of Assumptions of International Academic Collaboration

This article examines the expectations, dynamics, and intricacies of academic partnerships and the reality of African academic institutions.
Date: April 15, 2013
Creator: Semali, Ladislaus M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century (open access)

Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century

This article describes the challenges that 21st century educational technologists are, and will be addressing as they undertake the effective integration of new technologies into K-12 educational systems and learning environments.
Date: September 17, 2015
Creator: Mayes, Robin; Natividad, Gloria & Spector, J. Michael
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Value and Pricing of MOOCs (open access)

Value and Pricing of MOOCs

This article reviews the potential for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to transform higher education delivery, accessibility, and costs.
Date: May 27, 2016
Creator: Baker, Rose M. & Passmore, David L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tools to support interpreting multiple regression in the face of multicollilnearity (open access)

Tools to support interpreting multiple regression in the face of multicollilnearity

This article argues that rather than using one technique to investigate regression results, researchers should consider multiple indices to understand the contributions that predictors make not only to a regression model, but to each other as well.
Date: March 14, 2012
Creator: Kraha, Amanda; Turner, Heather; Nimon, Kim F.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein & Henson, Robin K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The "Triple-P" Domains of Ethical Behavior for Higher Education (open access)

The "Triple-P" Domains of Ethical Behavior for Higher Education

This paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses the "Triple-P" domains of ethical behavior: (1) the understanding of privacy ethics, (2) regards to piracy and plagiarism, and (3) pilfering and profiteering.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Mayes, Robin
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Collaborate: The Art of We (open access)

[Review] Collaborate: The Art of We

This article reviews the book "Collaborate: The Art of We," by Dan Sanker, published in 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Joshua-Gojer, Ashwini Esther
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates (open access)

Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates

Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
Date: 2012
Creator: Joshua-Gojer, Ashwini Esther
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Learner to Content Interaction as a Success Factor in Online Courses (open access)

Exploring Learner to Content Interaction as a Success Factor in Online Courses

Article exploring learner to content interaction as a success factor in online courses.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Zimmerman, Tekeisha Denise
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices (open access)

[Review] Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices

This article reviews the book "Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices," by Tanya Joosten and published in 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Pasquini, Laura A.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea (open access)

The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea

This article discusses a research study on the development and assessment of an instrument for measuring mental model styles in Korea.
Date: 2012
Creator: Chermack, Thomas J.; Song, Ji Hoon; Nimon, Kim F.; Choi, Myungweon & Korte, Russel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library