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Mary Risner
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Integrating Latin American Studies and Technology Through A Blended Professional Development Model
Mary Risner
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3685–3688
As educators face shrinking state and district budgets, limited time, and the need for professional development that has long term impact, a “blended” format for teacher training may be a viable solution. The model proposed here aims to deliver...
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Design and Development of a Community of Practice of Business and Foreign Language Faculty
Mary Risner
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 1884–1889
The goal of this exploratory project is to create a comprehensive list of characteristics, challenges, and necessary actions for developing and maintaining an online community of practice made up of foreign language and business faculty at the...
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Developing intercultural competence through blended learning: The role of peer interaction
Mary E. Risner
(2011) pp. 1–164
The need to increase US competitiveness in the world economy is a driving factor in the recent push to internationalize university campuses across the country. Technical and subject area expertise are no longer sufficient to succeed in the 21st...
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From Course to Classroom: Preservice Teachers’ Understandings and Implementation of Global Education Lessons
Krista Ruggles; Mary Risner; Swapna Kumar; Heather Brown
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) p. 786
As students in K-12 schools become increasingly diverse, there is a need for teachers who are globally competent, understand other cultures and educational systems, and can use innovative teaching approaches that develop critical thinking, problem...
Topics: social studies education, International Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Graduates' Reflections on an Online Doctorate in Educational Technology
Julia S. Fuller; Mary E. Risner; Laura Lowder; Mark Hart; Barry Bachenheimer
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 58, No. 4 (July 2014) pp. 73–80
In recent years online education doctorates have become more prevalent to accommodate the growing need for distance academic preparation. Due to the newness of these degree programs, there is a dearth of information in the literature on learner...