Web-Enhancing University Coursework: An Innovative Professional Development Model to Support a Step-by-Step Approach Towards Web-Enhancing Courses and Empowering Instructors

Caroline Crawford

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 2, No. 1 (2003) pp. 5–13

University faculty have become a microcosm of technology's impact on society. The distinct delineation between the technological "haves" and the technological "have-nots" has become a point of contention among university faculty. It is time that the ...

Topics: Professional Development, Faculty

Overarching Views: Instructional Technology Professional Standards and Their Relation to Subject-Specific Professional Technology Standards

Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 53–58

Preservice educators, inservice educators and teacher education must focus a significant level of time and effort upon professional standards. Of further interest is the alignment of these subject-specific standards, such as the ISTE NETS*S, NETS*T, ...

Topics: Learning Objects, Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Standards, Schools

Web-based Multimedia for Educators Course

Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 804–808

The instructional design that is imperative towards the design and development of a Web-based course environment is of primary consideration when a graduate-level course is the focus of attention. Further, a multimedia course that incorporates the...

Topics: Instructional Design

The Design of a Supportive Faculty Development Model: The Integration of Technology Within the University Faculty’s Teacher Candidate Coursework

Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1299–1303

The integration of instructional technology within the methods coursework aids the teacher candidates through a model of appropriate technology integration within a classroom environment, as well as further enhances their own achievement.

Topics: Integration

Graduate and Inservice Education

Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 768–769

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Perceived, Actual and Hybrid Interactive Activities Within the eLearning Environment: Modeling Pedagogy for Preservice and Inservice Professional Educators

Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 391–396

Interactive activities within the electronic learning (eLearning) environment are imperative towards learner motivation, self-regulation and cognitive emphasis towards developing both conceptual frameworking and higher order thinking skills. Within...

Topics: Interaction, eLearning

Learner Anxiety Levels Within a Web-based Course: Knowledge Acquisition versus Workload versus Isolation

Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 305–308

The Web-based learning environment has offered learners the ability to further enhance their subject matter expertise within numerous subject areas, without consideration towards the physical ability to attend face-to-face courses. Consideration...

Topics: Physical Environments

Can Standards be Met and Evaluated Through an Online Teacher Education Technology Course? A Case Study

Caroline Crawford; Jana Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 459–462

Web-basing coursework has been a major focus of universities around the world for the past five- to ten-year period and has resulted in a bell-curve fallout of subject-specific quality coursework. However, the teacher education units have more...

Topics: Teachers

Preservice Educators and the Integration of Technology to Meet State and National Standards

Sylvia Martin; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 4938–4941

Educator preparation programs must include alignment with required state and national standards. Standards alignment emphasizes course outcomes or products that address the specific standards met by the course content. This roundtable discussion ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Standards, Early Childhood Education

Revamping a Web-based Course to Meet the Instructional Needs of Different Audiences: Instructional Technology, Business and Industry, Computer Science and Teacher Candidate Students

Caroline Crawford; Trudy Driskell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2383–2386

Instructional Technology degree programs must meet the needs of numerous specialized areas of expertise; areas of interest include people from several walks of life and areas of interest that include teacher candidates, PreKindergarten-12 education, ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Computer Sciences

Mathematical Treats from the Stars: Integrating Curricular Elements Through Partnerships Between NASA and Math Methods Faculty

Evelyn Brown; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1054–1055

Mathematics methods coursework can be an innovative environment through which to emphasize the integration of real-world data structures and opportunities. These opportunities can create instructionally informative opportunities for learners, as...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Mathematics

Addressing Instructional Technology Integration into Methods Coursework: Consideration Towards Integral Components

Terry James; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 2270–2274

Teacher educators have the task to appropriately and successfully integrate technology into the curriculum, with the modeling of this technology focused upon instructor-centered and learner-centered integration of technology. As such, focusing upon...

Topics: Integration, Professional Development

Developing a Multimedia Program for Reading/Language Arts Instruction

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 781–784

The world of Reading/Language Arts is a domain in which the beauty of the written word has the ability to create new, imaginary realms for its readers. The development of multimedia has introduced the educational environment to a vast expanse of...

The Design and Development of an NCATE Continuing Accreditation Web Site

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1836–1838

The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) is an accrediting body within the realm of teacher education that has become a driving force within the accreditation arena. The use of technology within this accreditation...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology

Human/Computer Interface Issues for a National Accreditation Web Site

Caroline M. Crawford

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 426–429

The use of the World Wide Web as a tool to disperse information for national accreditation has been severely underutilized. The ability to offer informational documentation concerning the health of an institution, such as a university, in a non...

New Kid on the Block Syndrome: When Faculty Move to a New University, What Changes Occur in Regards to Technological Implementation Within Teacher Candidate Methods Coursework? Two Faculty Experiences

Sylvia Martin; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1021–1024

Shifting professional environments can mean substantially different surroundings in which to excel. As such, technologically proficient educators meet significantly different opportunities and barriers as they progress through out their career path. ...

Topics: Change

Supportive Learning Environments for Students with Diverse Needs and Technology Use: Discussion of Case Studies and Implications for Teacher Training

Sylvia Martin; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3931–3936

School districts must ensure that teachers appropriately address learning environments to successfully support students with diverse needs. Case study findings within elementary classrooms of two school districts are discussed in relation to...

Topics: Educational Technology, Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Learning Disabilities

Masters Students Developing Research Proposals and Published Articles

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 1323–1327

Masters-level students within the specialization area of Instructional Technology have a disconcertingly succinct speaking ability; however, such speaking abilities may not necessarily lend themselves towards the written word. Masters-level ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Students

Developing a Multimedia Program for Reading/Language Arts Instruction

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1997 (1997) pp. 781–784

The world of Reading/Language Arts is a domain in which the beauty of the written word has the ability to create new, imaginary realms for its readers. The development of multimedia has introduced the educational environment to a vast expanse of...

Training School District Instructional Technology Coordinators in Multimedia Development, Instruction and Use

Caroline M. Crawford

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 430–433

The use of technology within the PreK-12 classroom has been steadily increasing within the previous ten-year period. However, teacher training has not kept a similar pace. The training available for the teachers, as well as the administrative...

Topics: Schools, Training, Teachers

The Integration of Assistive and Adaptive Technologies into the Learning Environment: Enhancing Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education Through the Professional Development of Faculty

Sylvia Martin; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2006 (Mar 19, 2006) pp. 4199–4204

The appropriate and successful integration of assistive and adaptive technologies within the learning environment is of utmost importance to the success of all learners. Yet one component that is not always directly addressed is the professional...

Topics: Integration, Professional Development

Development of online documentation for an NCATE continuing accreditation review and implications for quality assurance

Caroline Margaret Crawford

(1998) pp. 1–216

The use of technology provides information distribution and communication channels beyond what had been previously imagined. Technology has the ability to inexpensively disperse large quantities of information and consume fewer natural resources....

G R A D UATE & IN S E RV I C E

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 786–788

The appropriate integration of technology into today's learning environment remains a predominant area of importance within the areas of graduate and inservice. Research focused upon face-to-face, Internet-assisted and Internet-based learning...

Topics: Internet, Integration

Integrating Internet-based Mathematical Manipulatives Within a Learning Environment

Evelyn Brown; Caroline Crawford

Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching Vol. 22, No. 2 (2003) pp. 169–180

The use of manipulatives within a mathematical classroom environment has traditionally been offered through the use of manufactured or teacher-created concrete objects. Manufactured manipulatives are ones such as Cuisenaire rods, color tiles, Unifix ...

Topics: Learning Objects, Classrooms, Mathematics, Teachers

Distance Education: Early Lessons Learned

Caroline M. Crawford

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 268–271

Distance education has become an integral aspect of higher education in recent years. This expansion of institutions of higher education into the foray of a digital learning environment has offered opportunities to the institutions to not only...

Topics: Distance Education

Mining the World Wide Web for Digital Resources: Internet-based Mathematics Resources and Their Correlation to NCTM Standards

Evelyn Brown; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2861–2864

The World Wide Web offers numerous digital resources to the classroom instructor, yet the challenge is appropriately and successfully integrating these resources into the mathematics learning environment. This session will focus upon Web-based...

Topics: Mathematics, Integration

The Design and Development of a Web Site to House National Accreditation Documentation

Caroline M. Crawford

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 421–425

The design and development issues surrounding a World Wide Web-based site to house documentation for a national-level accreditation of a College of Education is daunting, to say the very least. Many different facets introduced themselves through out ...

Topics: Professional Development

Web, Web-Enhanced or 80/20: Choosing the Instructional Model that Makes Sense

Kathryn Ley; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 973–974

The focus upon distance education over the previous decade has offered numerous hardware and software shifts that can support distinctly stand-alone Web-based and Web-enhanced learning environments. Now the question asked is how to make the learning ...

Topics: Distance Education

Web-based Teacher Education Technology Course

Caroline Crawford; Jana Willis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 468–469

Due to the numerous areas of growth and further understanding over the past five year period, the growth in the hardware and software tools available for use within the course structure, as well as the inclination of university faculty facilitating...

Topics: Educational Technology, Faculty, Inclusive Education

Technology Internships for Graduate Students

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 641–644

Teacher education is a developing arena in which technology plays a primary part. Technology is an area that has historically been a strong midstream career change subject area, through which career changing persons enjoy a feeling of rebirth or ...

Topics: Change, Educational Technology, Teachers, Students

GR A D UAT E & IN S E RV I CE

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 601–603

Technology Integration into Special Education Coursework: Instructor-Focused and Learner-Focused Integration

Sylvia Martin; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 2250–2251

The integration of technology with the purpose of enhancing the learning environment and to communicate more easily with learners and learners' families cannot go unnoticed. Teacher candidates must have instructional technology integrated into the...

Topics: Integration, Educational Technology

University Faculty Needs and Desires: Support Model During Web-Basing and Web-Enhancing Courses

Kathryn Ley; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 971–972

Adding the time and effort that is required to follow the instructional design process for Web-basing and Web-enhancing coursework, the faculty have nary enough time to complete their duties. Therein lies the crux of the situation; the best and...

Topics: Instructional Design, Faculty

Integrating Teacher-Centered and Learner-Centered, Internet-Based Resources into Mathematics Methods Coursework: Technology Supporting NCTM Standards

Evelyn Brown; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2859–2860

Integrating Internet-based mathematics resources into mathematics methods coursework offers the ability to directly address the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards emphasizing the integration of technology within the...

Topics: Teachers, Integration, Mathematics

Educational Endeavors for PreK-12 Instructional Design: NASA Partnership Opportunities

Chris Chilelli; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1268–1272

The integration of NASA's real-world data and educational environments makes the curricular planning and implementation less focused upon purely theoretical matter and further focused upon the actual day-to-day understanding of difficult conceptual...

Impacting Learning Environments from PreKindergarten Through Graduate School: Technologically Appropriate Professional Development and Classroom Integration Opportunities for Educators

Caroline M. Crawford

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) p. 969

Professional development has historically been a "one-shot" workshop wherein information barrages the learner in a streaming fashion and little to no information is retained. Even more exasperating is the lack of follow-up support once the workshops ...

Topics: Integration, Professional Development, Classrooms

Metaphorical Representation Within a Distributed Learning Environment

Ruth Gannoncook; Caroline Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1086–1088

The design and development of preservice and inservice teacher education distributed learning environments, specifically World Wide Web-based (Web-based) courses, emphasize the need to think through numerous issues that may not be apparent within ...

Topics: Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education

Supporting Graduate Students Training District Coordinators in Multimedia Development

Caroline M. Crawford

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 1999 (1999) pp. 440–444

The use of graduate students to train surrounding independent school district Instructional Technology Coordinators is an important aspect to each of the entities involved in the situation: the graduate students obtain opportunities to display their ...

Topics: Schools, Students

The Design of a University’s SACS Accreditation World Wide Web Site

Caroline M. Crawford

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 866–867

The design of a Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) World Wide Web site to act as a living documents repository for university accreditation is an integral aspect of the accreditation process. Due to the importance of this...

Topics: Schools

Shifting Classroom Teacher Perceptions of Learning Technologies through a Community of Practice and Community-Embedded Approach

Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 487–492

The intimidation and anxiety that so many classroom teachers experience are recognized as not merely undefined angst and self-efficacy based concerns related to a comfortableness associated with giving up a sense of teacher control and becoming more ...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education, Graduate Education & Faculty Development, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Building a Virtual Village: Constructing Learning Communities through Socially-Supported Online Academic Interactions

Denise McDonald; Caroline Crawford

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 1794–1804

This paper examines how online course interactions (e.g., discussion board postings, chat rooms, etc.) for graduate-level courses (taught from different instructors covering diverse disciplines and topics) influence (i.e., inhibit, thwart, diminish...

Designing and Instructing Hybrid Open Learning Spaces Model to Support Lifelong Learning Engagement

Caroline M. Crawford

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 15, No. 3 (August 2016) pp. 285–312

With a focus upon open and lifelong learning understanding, the real world delineation between formalized higher education graduate school efforts and professional career position lines may be suggested as being blurred. This case study offers an...

Metaphoric Representations of Cognitive Understanding via a Stairway Approach: Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability Theory through a Progressive Cognitive Taxonomical Approach

Caroline M. Crawford; Melissa Semeniuk

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1383–1393

Implicit Cognitive Vulnerability theory emphasizes the cognitive vulnerability and cognitive dissonance realized by learners throughout the learning process. The learning process embraces a recognition of the needs associated with working with the...

Topics: Creativity, Distance/Flexible Education, Research & Evaluation

Current Issues Impacting the Inclusion of Distributed Learning Environments Within a Medical Education Curriculum

Leslie Hunt; Caroline M. Crawford

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 2000 (2000) pp. 889–890

The introduction of educational technology within the medical school environment offers numerous challenges, especially within a distributed learning scenario. The successful integration of technology within the medical education curriculum leads...

Topics: Educational Technology

What Ever Happened to Crayons? How Interactive Activities such as NetConferenceing Enlist Learning

Ruth Gannon-Cook; Caroline Crawford

Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)

Interactive activities offer innumerable possibilities within eLearning environments. As such, one possibility within the interactive activity realm is netconferencing, so as to support the learning objectives. Enhancements within the eLearning...

Young Children and Technology: Building Computer Literacy

Michael Bell; Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 3158–3159

Building upon the young child's prior knowledge and developmental level, computer literacy must be addressed early in each child's educational career. A comfort level or disposition is important to develop for both young children and as well as...

Topics: Educational Technology, Teachers, Early Childhood Education

Graphic Representations for Learning: Developing a Learner’s Conceptual Framework

Anne Henry; Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 1650–1651

The emphasis on knowledge attainment, higher order thinking skills and real-world learning opportunities within teacher education offers numerous opportunities for preservice teachers to develop a conceptual framework through which their future ...

Topics: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Teachers

Recognizing Design-Based Research as Coursework and Experiential Support: Micro-Learning as Integrated Teacher Candidate Coursework and Field-Based Understandings

Caroline M. Crawford; Melissa Semeniuk

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 827–832

Supporting the teacher candidate throughout the teacher education program of study experience as well as the field-based experiential needs has been studied for decades, with a mountain of findings and understandings brought forward as best...

Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Graphic Novels as Visual Human Performance and Training Tools: Towards an Understanding of Information Literacy for Preservice Teachers

Caroline M. Crawford; Jennifer Thomson

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 1270–1275

This discussion focuses upon the development of graphic novels through the implementation of instructional design and communications technological theories and real-world application, towards the enhancement of preservice teachers' experiences...

Integrating Technology into the Young Child Lesson Plan

Michael Bell; Caroline M. Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 3160–3162

The support of the early childhood and instructional technology faculty members offer the teacher candidates a supportive environment through which to design, develop, discuss and revise a lesson plan. Such a learning experience offers the...

Topics: Teachers, Instructional Design