Revisiting Teacher Adoption of Technology: Research Implications and Recommendations for Successful Full Technology Integration

Janet Buckenmeyer

College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal Vol. 4, No. 6 (2008) pp. 7–10

Most teachers are still failing to fully integrate technologies in their classrooms to improve student achievement. If certain conditions exist, however, they are more likely to accept and use appropriate technologies in significant instructional...

Effective Technology Integration: Essential Conditions for Success

Janet Buckenmeyer

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 2955–2960

Access to technology in schools has increased substantially over the last decade. The tools are there, but recent reports are confirming the results of earlier studies: teachers are either not using the available technology at all or they are...

Conditions influencing the adoption of selected technology by high school teachers in a suburban district

Janet Ann Buckenmeyer

Conditions influencing the adoption of selected technology by high@school@teachers in a suburban district (2001) pp. 1–121

While research suggests that conditions exist which do influence teacher use of computer technology, it is not known which conditions or combination of conditions are more likely to influence or be related to the secondary teacher's decision to...

Revisiting Technology Integration in Schools: Implications for Professional Development

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer

Computers in the Schools Vol. 26, No. 2 (2009) pp. 130–146

As the technology infrastructure of schools expands, a common concern has been the underutilization of computers and other technologies in the classroom. Teachers are often blamed for failing to integrate technology into their teaching, giving such...

Essential Ingredients of Successful e-Learning Courses

Janet Buckenmeyer; David Freitas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3130–3140

The number of E-Learning courses has dramatically increased throughout the world in the past decade. The quality of these courses has spanned the full spectrum from questionable to exemplary practices. What can we learn from past efforts? In fact,...

THE TOP 5 TECHNOLOGY BOOKS SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENING POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN EDUCATION

David Freitas; Janet Buckenmeyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 684–688

Technology books published in the last three years have had a significant impact on policies and practices. Join the monthly book reviewer for one of the major and most popular online technology websites to discuss the top 5 books. Participants in...

Topics: Implementation Examples & Issues, Policy Issues, Instructional Design

Ensuring the Learning in eLearning: The Must Do's of Course Design

Janet Buckenmeyer; David Freitas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1976–1979

The demand for distance education is increasing as more people look for ways to achieve their educational goals without sacrificing other responsibilities. Distance programs are expanding (note the success of the University of Phoenix, for example). ...

Topics: Distance Education

A Mentorship Program to Support Faculty Transforming Traditional Courses to Online Courses

Janet Buckenmeyer; David Freitas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) p. 3394

Faculty are often responsible for transforming traditional courses to online courses through ill-define, haphazard processes with little institutional support. A major public U.S. university, however, has designed and fully implemented a faculty...

Topics: Faculty

Begin by Changing the Way We Teach: It's the Starting Point for Full Technology Integration in Schools

Janet Buckenmeyer; David Freitas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 2513–2515

Technology is viewed by many as the panacea for improving schools and student achievement. In spite of major technological advances, we still teach the way we did centuries ago. Requiring students to memorize and regurgitate facts, for example, is...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Students

Creating and Sustaining a Vibrant Online Community to Enhance Student Learning: Using the Free and Open Source Moddle Software

David Freitas; Janet Buckenmeyer

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3153–3155

Join over 200,000 educators in over 175 countries currently using Moodle. Moodle is an online course management system offering teachers a variety of tools to supplement and support their learning environments. One of the most powerful tools within ...

Topics: Teachers, Learning Management Systems

THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF EDUCATION REFORMS ON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: THE STATE OF INDIANA SUCCESS STORY

David Freitas; Janet Buckenmeyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 326–330

Many states across our nation are continuing to examine and, in some cases, implement significant educational reforms to improve public schools. Although success has been uneven, Indiana has already demonstrated astonishing and proven results in...

Topics: Evaluation, Implementation Examples & Issues, Policy Issues

Hitting a Moving Target: Meeting Faculty Needs for Online Course Development

Emily Hixon; Heather Zamojski; Janet Buckenmeyer

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1778–1783

The Distance Education Mentoring program at Purdue University Calumet is a cohort-based mentoring program designed to support and assist faculty as they develop an online course. After four years, most of the innovators and early adopters of online...

Assessing Students for Online Learning

Anastasia Trekles Milligan; Janet A. Buckenmeyer

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 7, No. 3 (July 2008) pp. 449–461

Distance education has dramatically increased the educational opportunities for underserved populations. This is evidenced by the fairly recent proliferation and success of online universities, and it is happening in spite of criticism of e-learning ...

Topics: Distance Education, Assessment, Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education, eLearning, Attitudes, Competencies, Adults, Administration, Post Secondary Education, Students

Assessing the Effects of a 1:1 Technology Program on Student Achievement: A Viable Research Design

Janet Buckenmeyer; David Freitas; Emily Hixon

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1051–1053

The one to one (1:1) approach is conceptually defined as an instructional environment where students have a computer and relevant software available to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This strategy enables learners to have immediate and...

Designing High-Impact Faculty Programs for Online Course Development

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; David Freitas

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1771–1777

Does developing and teaching an online course impact faculty’s pedagogical beliefs and result in them making changes to their other courses? This session will present anecdotal and empirical evidence that addresses this important question....

YouTube.com for Teachers: A Useful Resource or Just More Hijinks?

David Freitas; Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4118–4119

The creators of YouTube.com have now moved into the educational arena. Designed especially for teachers, TeacherTube.com contains video clips chronically school and university life. Is this website an invaluable educational resource, or is it just a ...

Mentoring Professors: A Model for Developing Quality Online Instructors and Courses in Higher Education

Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 9, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 7–26

This article presents a four-stage model for mentoring faculty in higher education to deliver high quality online instruction. It provides a timeline that shows the stages of program implementation. Known as the Distance Education Mentoring Program, ...

Topics: Faculty, Adults, Mentoring, Professional Development, Instructional Design, Distance Education, Training

Assessing the Impact of Faculty Development for Online Instructors

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 672–681

This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...

Does Participating in an Online Course Development Program

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2387–2390

There seems to be much anecdotal evidence that many faculty members do experience shifts in pedagogical beliefs after successfully developing and teaching an online course. Some anecdotal accounts have been published in the professional literature; ...

Does Participation In A Faculty Distance Education Mentoring Program Comprehensively Improve Teaching Methods?

Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 12, No. 2 (March 2013) pp. 139–152

The Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP) is an initiative designed to assist faculty in learning the technology and instructional design principles necessary to develop and teach quality online courses. This paper describes the results of a...

Beyond the early adopters of online instruction: Motivating the reluctant majority

Emily Hixon; Janet Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman; Heather Zamojski

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 15, No. 2 (March 2012) pp. 102–107

Now that most of the innovators and early adopters of online instruction are comfortably teaching online, many institutions are facing challenges as they prepare the next wave of online instructors. This research study examines how faculty in this ...

Language: English

Assessment of a University-Based Distance Education Mentoring Program from a Quality Management Perspective

Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman; Emily Hixon

Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning Vol. 19, No. 1 (February 2011) pp. 5–24

This study describes assessment results from the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP) at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana, USA. The program, sponsored by the university's Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, was made available to all...

Wanted: Quality Online Instructors and Courses? Try this Successful Mentoring Model

Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Lori Feldman; David Freitas

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 921–926

If you are looking to design and implement a program that produces successful online faculty teaching effective online courses, then this session is for you. A proven, four-stage model for preparing and certifying higher education faculty to create...

Online Course Quality: What Do Nontraditional Students Value?

Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Penny Ralston-Berg; Janet Buckenmeyer

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 19, No. 4 (2016)

This study analyzes nontraditional students' perceptions of online course quality. Students were categorized into three groups: traditional, moderately nontraditional, and highly nontraditional. A survey instrument designed to assess online course...

Is The Quality Of (Online) Courses Significantly Improved Through Professional Development Of Faculty? Student Perceptions

Janet Buckenmeyer; Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; David Freitas

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 199–203

The Digital Learning Faculty Certificate Program at Purdue University Calumet is a cohort-based mentoring program designed to support and assist faculty as they develop an online or a digitally-enhanced course. Results from previous research studies ...

Mentoring University Faculty to become High Quality Online Educators: A Program Evaluation

Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Janet Buckenmeyer; Lori Feldman

Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 14, No. 4 (2011)

This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...

The Impact of Previous Online Course Experience RN Students' Perceptions of Quality

Emily Hixon; Casimir Barczyk; Penny Ralston-Berg; Janet Buckenmeyer

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 20, No. 1 (2016) pp. 25–40

The purpose of this paper is to explore whether experienced online students (who have completed seven or more online courses) perceive the quality of their courses differently than novice online students (who have completed three or fewer online...

Technology's Role in Learning at a Commuter Campus: The Student Perspective

Janet A. Buckenmeyer; Casimir Barczyk; Emily Hixon; Heather Zamojski; Annette Tomory

Journal of Further and Higher Education Vol. 40, No. 3 (2016) pp. 412–431

Patterns of technology ownership and usage, as well as skills with and preferences for various technologies, affect the college experience (Educause 2012). Students at a commuter campus of a large Midwestern public university were surveyed about...