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Lynne Schrum
George Mason University
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Information Age Innovations: A Case Study of Online Professional Development
Lynne Schrum
An online professional development course, Telecommunications and Information Access, offers educators the opportunity to earn graduate credit, learn about an emerging technological field, and interact using a telecommunication network. This...
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Educators and the Internet: A case study of professional development
Lynne Schrum
Computers & Education Vol. 24, No. 3 (1995) pp. 221–228
The purpose of this research was to document a teacher education program's initial effort to introduce telecommunications to inservice educators, to determine support and technological needs, and to inform policy for future practice. This was...
Language: English
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Professional Development in the Information Age: An Online Experience
Lynne Schrum
Educational Technology Vol. 32, No. 12 (1992) pp. 49–53
Describes an online independent study course, "Telecommunications and Information Access," offered by the University of Oregon and the International Society for Technology in Education for educators who want to learn about computer-mediated...
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Introducing Teachers to Telecommunications: California's (ESTTI)
Lynne Schrum
T.H.E. Journal Vol. 15, No. 8 (1988) pp. 85–89
Described is the Elementary Summer Technology Training Institute (ESTTI) which was sponsored by the California State Department of Education. Explains that the ESTTI was established to train teams of educators so they could return to their school...
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Two Federally Supported Rural T Elecommunication Models for Professional Development and I Nstructional Improvement
Lynne Schrum
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1996 (1996) pp. 451–454
Calls abound for education graduates and practicing teachers to use information technologies for professional development and curricular integration. Everyone is expected to possess the skills and experiences necessary to accomplish these goals, yet ...
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Telecommunications for Personal and Professional Use: A Case Study
Lynne Schrum
Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association 1995 (Jul 09, 1995)
This case study investigated educators as they learned about, embraced, and attempted to implement information technologies. It describes the systems that foster continuing use and the implementation successes and difficulties. This was accomplished ...
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Exploring the Past with 21st-Century Tools
Kelly Schrum; Lynne Schrum
Social Studies and the Young Learner Vol. 21, No. 4 (2009) pp. 24–27
Elementary school teachers and students in the U.S. are engaging with the past in new ways. Teachers send students on guided online searches for images. Students explore interactive timelines, create podcasts based on oral history interviews with...
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Teacher Education Goes Online
Lynne Schrum
Educational Leadership Vol. 49, No. 3 (1991)
If technology were incorporated into teacher education and professional development activities, educators might have time to gain confidence, identify appropriate uses, and experiment with specific techniques for their own classrooms. Distance...
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Innovation and the Process of Change: A Case Study in Distance Education
Lynne Schrum
The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze Oregon's efforts to provide equal access to education, training, and information services to its citizens using advanced communication technologies through ED-NET, an innovative state agency for...
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On-Line Education: A Study of Emerging Pedagogy
Lynne Schrum
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education Vol. 78 (1998) pp. 53–61
Online courses raise instructional concerns about goals, philosophy, changes in teaching and teacher roles, and evaluation. Creating interactivity is a crucial issue. Organizational issues include face-to-face components, group interaction, and...
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Ethical Research in the Information Age: Beginning the Dialog
Lynne Schrum
Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 13, No. 2 (1997) pp. 117–25
Qualitative researchers who study electronic communities or describe online communications must change their research tools and adapt their activities to new environments to continue ethical practices. Possibilities of online research within the...
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Student Achievement and Success in Online Environments: Research into Characteristics and Strategies
Lynne Schrum
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 1033–1040
This presentation provides findings from recent research that investigated the characteristics and qualifications of successful online learners. This research also gathered information from successful online teachers to identify their strategies to ...
Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design, Students
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Education and Commercialization: Raising Awareness and Making Wise Decisions
Lynne Schrum
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 2, No. 2 (2002) pp. 170–177
We are living in a world of commercialization-everything has a price tag and conspicuous consumption appears to be the way of the western world. The media and politicians remind us that our educational system must prepare our students to be...
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Distance Education at UAS: A Case Study
Lynne Schrum; Jason Ohler
The Journal of Distance Education / Revue de l'ducation Distance Vol. 20, No. 1 (2005) pp. 60–83
Increased pressure on the University of Alaska Southeast (UAS) to become more involved in distance education compelled UAS to commission a study of the perceptions, problems, and opportunities in the area of distance education as seen by three...
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SITE Fireside Chat #2: Issues and Strategies for Mentoring Doctoral Students in Instructional Technology
Lynne Schrum; Tom Hammond
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1114–1115
This panel continues a conversation started at SITE 2006, in which doctoral students and professors discussed the challenges of preparing for and beginning a career in instructional technology. This year's panel will describe the activities of...
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Telecommunications: Working To Enhance Global Understanding and Peace Education
Lynne M. Schrum
This paper describes educational activities that make use of microcomputers and information networks to link elementary and secondary students electronically using telecommunications, i.e., communication across distances using personal computers,...
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High-speed Internet use and academic gratifications in the college residence
Denise Matthews; Lynne Schrum
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 6, No. 2 (2003) pp. 125–144
A multimethod exploration of undergraduates' high-speed Internet use in residence halls took a uses-and-gratifications approach (U & G) and revealed Internet use as integral to students' lives. Students' negative comments about Internet distractions ...
Language: English
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Theories on Teaching: Why Are They So Hard To Find?!?
Janette R. Hill; Lynne Schrum
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 46, No. 5 (2002) pp. 22–26
Considers instructional theory and defines terminology related to teaching, including instruction, curriculum, teaching, and learning. Discusses historical perspectives; curriculum theory; recent works indexed under instructional theory and...
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Lessons Learned from Exemplary Schools
Lynne Schrum; Barbara B. Levin
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 57, No. 1 (January 2013) pp. 38–42
This article presents lessons learned about successful professional development for promoting technology integration from eight exemplary schools. Through a qualitative investigation into school leaders' and teachers' intentional goals of improving...
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A Challenge for the Information Age: Educators and the Internet
Lynne Schrum; Mary Ann Fitzgerald
International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 2, No. 2 (1996) pp. 107–120
The purpose of this research was to document a unique effort to teach practicing educators to use telecommunications and become change agents in their schools. This was accomplished using one graduate seminar in an experimental format that included...
Topics: Schools
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Technology-Rich Schools Up Close
Barbara B. Levin; Lynne Schrum
Educational Leadership Vol. 70, No. 6 (March 2013) pp. 51–55
This article observes that schools that use technology well have key commonalities, including a project-based curriculum and supportive, distributed leadership. The authors' research into tech-rich schools revealed that schools used three...
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Leadership for Twenty-First-Century Schools and Student Achievement: Lessons Learned from Three Exemplary Cases
Lynne Schrum; Barbara B. Levin
International Journal of Leadership in Education Vol. 16, No. 4 (2013) pp. 379–398
The purpose of this research was to understand ways exemplary award winning secondary school leaders have transformed their schools for twenty-first-century education and student achievement. This article presents three diverse case studies and...
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Lessons Learned from Secondary Schools Using Technology for School Improvement: It's Just Not That Simple!
Barbara B. Levin; Lynne Schrum
Journal of School Leadership Vol. 24, No. 4 (July 2014) pp. 640–665
The purpose of this article is to describe lessons learned from studying the leadership in eight award-winning secondary schools and districts that were recognized for successfully leveraging technology as part of their efforts for school...
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Using Systems Thinking to Leverage Technology for School Improvement: Lessons Learned from Award-Winning Secondary Schools/Districts
Barbara B. Levin; Lynne Schrum
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 46, No. 1 (2013) pp. 29–51
This paper offers lessons learned about what it takes to successfully leverage technology for school improvement based on a cross-case analysis of eight award-winning secondary schools/districts around the United States. The researchers analyzed...
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Educational Leadership and Technology Integration: An Investigation into Preparation, Experiences, and Roles
Lynne Schrum; Lyndsie M. Galizio; Patrick Ledesma
Journal of School Leadership Vol. 21, No. 2 (March 2011) pp. 241–261
This research, looking through the lens of Fullan (1991) regarding the complexity of implementing school wide change, sought to explore preparation and requirements of new administrators with respect to the integration of technology by first...
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Preparing future teachers for diverse schools in an online learning community: Perceptions and practice
Lynne Schrum; Mary D. Burbank; Rosemary Capps
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 10, No. 3 (2007) pp. 204–211
This study provides an example of one institution's efforts to design coursework that meets the simultaneous challenges of supporting the aims of increasing access to online courses and simultaneously better preparing teachers to work in diverse...
Language: English
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Project DAVES: An exploratory study of social presence, e-mentoring, and vocational counseling support in community college courses
Lynne Schrum; Mary C. English; Lyndsie M. Galizio
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (March 2012) pp. 96–101
A FIPSE-funded project was designed to provide support and training to community college faculty electronically, and to develop a model to offer innovative, interactive strategies to support their students' academic and career needs. The goal of the ...
Language: English
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An Invitation to Join an Early Career Mentoring Network in Technology and Teacher Education
Glen Bull; Lynn Bell; Ann Thompson; Lynne Schrum; Debra Sprague; Cleborne Maddux; Kara Dawson; Gerald Knezek
Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 817–828
The spring 2005 edition of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) issued a call for a proactive approach to a research agenda in educational technology. This position paper was collaboratively authored by the editors of six...
Topics: Educational Technology, Training, Teachers, Mentoring, Professional Development
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Editorial: Research on the Effectiveness of Technology in Schools: The Roles of Pedagogy and Content
Lynne Schrum; Anne Thompson; Cleb Maddux; Debra Sprague; Glen Bull; Lynn Bell
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2007) pp. 456–460
The field of educational technology is under external pressure to provide evidence of identifiable learning outcomes that can be attributed to technology. Leaders within the educational technology research community agree about the importance of...
Topics: Research Methods, Teaching Methods, Schools, Teachers, Educational Technology
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Facilitating Effective Technology Research in the Core Content Areas
Lynne Schrum; Ann Thompson; Debra Sprague; Cleborne Maddux; M. d. Roblyer; Lynn Bell; Glen Bull
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4364–4365
The editors of several leading educational technology journals are collectively initiating a dialog to identify productive directions for research in the core content areas. An overview will be provided of the overall goals and objectives of this...
Topics: Educational Technology
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Advancing the Field: Considering Acceptable Evidence in Educational Technology Research
Lynne Schrum; Ann Thompson; Debra Sprague; Cleborne Maddux; Anita McAnear; Lynn Bell; Glen Bull
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 5, No. 3 (2005) pp. 202–209
This editorial provides a follow-up report of the status of one facet of this effort, as promised in the initial call to action. The directions outlined are based on ongoing dialog among the task force of editors of the participating journals during ...
Topics: Library, Leadership, Teachers, Computers, Educational Technology
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An Invitation to Join an Early Career Mentoring Network in Technology and Teacher Education
Glen Bull; Lynn Bell; Ann Thompson; Lynne Schrum; Debra Sprague; Cleborne Maddux; Kara Dawson; Gerald Knezek
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 6, No. 1 (March 2006) pp. 1–10
The spring 2005 edition of the Journal of Research on Technology in Education (JRTE) issued a call for a proactive approach to a research agenda in educational technology. This position paper was collaboratively authored by the editors of six...
Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Computers, Leadership, Schools
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Post-secondary educators' professional development: Investigation of an online approach to enhancing teaching and learning
Lynne Schrum; Mary D. Burbank; Jonathan Engle; Jack A. Chambers; Kelly F. Glassett
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 8, No. 4 (2005) pp. 279–289
Faculty in post-secondary institutions must continually reassess, refine, and revise their teaching, yet it is a challenge for them to gain this professional development with heavy teaching responsibilities and high demands on their time. Creating...
Language: English
Topics: Post Secondary Education