Implementing Technology In-service for Teacher Education Faculty

Christine Boggs; Carl Reynolds

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 2153–2158

Designing and implementing in-service for our faculty has been a trial and error process. Poorly attended seminars and workshops suggested that changes were needed in our approach. By categorizing the type of adopters, we were better able to...

Topics: Faculty

The Virtual Classroom: Student Perceptions of Podcast Lectures in a General Microbiology Classroom

Rachel Watson; Christine Boggs

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 2170–2174

Podcasting has taken the world by storm, expanding and an astronomical rate as a form of entertainment. Despite the huge popularity of podcasting as entertainment it has yet to be well studied as an educational tool. In this study we developed and...

Vodcast Venture: How Formative Evaluation of Vodcasting in a Traditional On-Campus Microbiology Class Led to the Development of a Fully Vodcasted Online Biochemistry Course

Rachel Watson; Christine Boggs

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 3309–3316

Despite the huge popularity of podcasting and vodcasting as entertainment they have yet to be well studied as educational tools. In this study we developed vodcasts to present all content in a fully online Biochemistry course. The vodcast lectures...

The virtual edge: Development and evaluation of virtual labs for a general microbiology classroom

Christine N. Boggs

(2006) pp. 1–96

The purpose of this study was to design, develop and evaluate virtual online labs as a supplement to the General Microbiology hands-on lab course taught at the University of Wyoming and to analyze student and faculty perceptions of the usefulness of ...

Impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online learning environment

Doris U. Bolliger; Supawan Supanakorn; Christine Boggs

Computers & Education Vol. 55, No. 2 (September 2010) pp. 714–722

Researchers investigated the impact of podcasting on student motivation in the online environment during fall 2008 and spring 2009. Data were collected from students enrolled in fourteen online courses at a research university in the United States....

Language: English

Is There a Virtual Edge? An Investigation of the Use of Virtual Labs to Supplement Traditional Microbiology Labs

Rachel Watson; Christine Boggs; Ashley Driscoll

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2013 (Jun 24, 2013) pp. 2353–2363

Accumulating research indicates that computer simulation, in the form of virtual labs, can provide many benefits to traditional hands-on labs. Beginning in the fall of 2005 online labs, called the Virtual Edge, were developed and used as...