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- Strategic Planning of Technology for Education: A Beginning Framework
- Article discussing strategic planning of technology for education and a beginning framework for future technology implementation in school districts.
- Training Employees With Disabilities: Strategies from Corporate Training
- Article discussing strategies used by corporate trainers to effectively teach populations with disabilities in their corporate workplace.
- The Challenges of Training and Retraining Mature Learners
- Article discussing research on the aging process from physical, cognitive, and social and psychological perspectives, accommodations for age related changes, retraining mature learners, adaptations of the classroom environment, training technology issues, and successful corporate retraining programs to better prepare vocational educators for the workforce of the new millennium.
- Educators', Administrators' and Students' Perceptions of Principles of Technology Programs in Pennsylvania
- This study assesses the Principles of Technology Applied Science high school courses taught in Pennsylvania.
- Enhancing Assignment Completion in Academically Diverse Vocational Classes
- Article on enhancing assignment completion in academically diverse vocational classes.
- Investigating the Screwdriver: 25 Years of Technology Change
- Article broadly discussing some of the technological changes in vocational education over the last 25 years, as well as strategies for implementation and planning in the new millennium.
- Training Older Workers: Implications for HRD/HPT Professionals
- Article discussing training older workers and implications for human resource development (HRD) and human performance technology (HPT).
- Book Jacket as Access Mechanism: An Attribute Rich Resource for Functional Access to Academic Books
- Article discussing book jackets as access mechanisms. Models of document searching and book jacket design are discussed in relation to the individual scholarly searcher and new modes of document searching.
- Modeling Utilization of Planned Information Technology
- Article from the proceedings of the 1998 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. This article discusses modeling utilization of planned information technology.
- Technology in Secondary Career and Technical Education: Issues for the New Millennium
- Article discussing the use of technology in the secondary career and technical education classroom and the number of issues concerned with efficacy of career and technical education.
- A Fixed Effects Panel Data Model: Mathematics Achievement in the U.S.
- Article discussing a study on a fixed effects panel data model and mathematics achievement in the United States.
- Resident Assistant Training: A Southwestern Perspective
- Article discussing a study on the similarities and differences in public and private institutions training of resident assistants in the southwest United States.
- Utilization of Technology-Enhanced Delphi Techniques
- This article discusses the Delphi consensus-building technique. Also discussed are the Delphi Technique's history, the process, and some advantages and disadvantages found in the literature. Finally, this article examines a technology-enhanced version of the process.
- Virtual Libraries: A Service-Based Approach for Virtual Libraries
- Article discussing a service-based approach for virtual libraries and the provision of services to patrons and other users built upon the collective personnel, information, and technological resources that constitute the library.
- Analysis of Management and Employee Job Satisfaction
- Article on an analysis of management and employee job satisfaction for gender, age group, length of time with the organization, and between management and non-management employees.
- Applying Technology to Online Counseling: Suggestions for the Beginning E-Therapist
- Article discussing research on applying technology to online counseling and suggestions for the beginning e-therapist.
- Copyright and Fair Use: An Issue of Ethics in a Changing Learning Environment
- Article discussing copyright and fair use in regards to ethics in a changing learning environment.
- Campus Chaplains: Cult Training and Perceptions
- This article examines the perception of 43 college chaplains across the United States with regard to cult training and perceptions of college and university cult activity.
- Examining MARC Records as Artifacts That Reflect Metadata Utilization Decisions
- Article examining MARC records as artifacts that reflect metadata utilization decisions.
- 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.
- Retrospective Pretest: A Practical Technique for Professional Development Evaluation
- Article discussing a research study to field test an instrument incorporating a retrospective pretest to determine whether it could reliably be used as an evaluation tool for a professional development conference.
- The Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC): A Collaborative Teaching and Research Initiative
- Article dicsussing the Metadata Education and Research Information Commons (MERIC), a collaborative teaching and research initiative.
- Cross-language search: The case of Google Language Tools
- Article on cross-language searching and a case study of Google Language Tools, especially its cross-language search service.
- Reconstructing Bellour: Automating the Semiotic Analysis of Film
- This article discusses automating the semiotic analysis of film, including visual representation, search and retrieval, and ways of seeing.
- Quality Health Information on the Internet: Developing a Diabetes Pathfinder for the Chinese Population
- A Web-based bilingual diabetes information pathfinder was created to help the Chinese population access quality health information on the Internet as part of a collaborative outreach project in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
- 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.
- 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.
- Metadata Records Translation: The Case of The Portal to Texas History
- Article on metadata records translation and a study of The Portal to Texas History.
- Miles to go before we sleep: education, technology, and the changing paradigms in health information
- Article discussing a philosophy of educating health information professionals in a rapidly changing health care and information environment.
- Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness
- This article is part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative called Click! Photography Changes Everything. This article discusses how photography and increased visibility can bridge the gap between the natural world and human interaction.
- Contextual Metadata in Digital Aggregations: Application of Collection-Level Subject Metadata and its Role in User Interactions and Information Retrieval
- Article discussing a study of contextual metadata in digital aggregations. Results of this study prove importance of provision of collection-level metadata in general and subject metadata in particular to enhance user experiences and information retrieval in digital libraries.
- Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries
- Article discussing research on collaboration and crowdsourcing. The purpose of the study is to understand existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and sustaining multilingual digital libraries.
- Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates
- Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
- 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.
- 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.
- Leadership, Training, Mentoring, and Instructional Design
- Editorial article for the second issue of Learning and Performance Quarterly. In this piece, the author describes the second issue and the overall focus on leadership, training, mentoring and instructional design.
- Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play
- This article examines a higher education history course where virtual role play was implemented as an assignment.
- A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation
- Article discussing a preliminary evaluation study of metadata records machine translation. This study evaluates freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records.
- The Subject of Learning and Performance
- This editorial article discusses the inaugural issue of the Learning and Performance Quarterly (LPQ) open access journal. This editorial offers a welcome and introduction to the first issue.
- 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.
- Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review
- This article seeks to support researchers by concisely reviewing key statistical assumptions associated with substantive statistical tests across the general linear model. Additionally, the article reviews techniques to check for statistical assumptions and identifies remedies and problems if data do not meet the necessary assumptions.
- 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.
- "Genomics and Translational Medicine for Information Professionals:" an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians
- This article discusses an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians and meet the demands of the changing health information environment.
- 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.
- Competencies Required for Digital Curation: An Analysis of Job Advertisements
- Article discussing competencies required for digital curation. The results of the analysis show that digital curation jobs are characterized by a complex interplay of various skills and knowledge. The findings of this study present emerging requirements for a qualified workforce in the field of digital curation.
- 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.
- 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
- Bringing the World to the Classroom through Videoconferencing and Project-based Learning
- Article describes a case study of a Texas-based school that implemented global projects to connect their students with many states and countries as a platform for integrating collaboration and communication skills, technology tools, and cultural diversity into an existing curriculum.
- Longitudinal analysis of cognitive constructs fostered by STEM activities for middle school students
- This article studies whether the changes found to occur pre- to post intervention in students' cognitive structures continued to persist two years later.
- 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.