Growth Management in Distance Education: How to Expand Your Distance Offerings

Melanie Hill; Matthew Clay

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 180–181

As distance learning has proven to be a viable and effective means of delivering instruction, the focus for many institutions has shifted from program establishment to program growth. The unexpected demand for and rapid success in new distance...

Designing contemporary music courses for the 21st century musician: virtual worlds as a live music performance space

Lisa Jacka; Matthew Hill

ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 412–421

The landscape has already changed for the music industry in the way that music is created, performed and distributed. Higher education courses in music, including contemporary music, are abundant but in many cases are not preparing students for the...

The effects of making performance information public: Regression discontinuity evidence from Los Angeles teachers

Peter Bergman; Matthew J. Hill

Economics of Education Review Vol. 66, No. 1 (October 2018) pp. 104–113

This paper uses school-district data and a regression discontinuity design to study the effects of making teachers’ value-added ratings available to the public and searchable by name. We find that classroom compositions change as a result of this...

Language: English

ASPEN, the Alberta Special Education Network: Using Appropriate Technology to Bring the Community Together

W Leigh Hill; Matthew Anthony

Journal of Special Education Technology Vol. 11, No. 2 (1991) pp. 99–107

The Alberta Special Education Network (ASPEN) is a computer-based communications and information network geared to the teaching and learning of exceptional children in rural Alberta, Canada. Network features include toll-free telephone access, a...

Local amenities, unobserved quality, and market clearing: Adjusting teacher compensation to provide equal education opportunities

Bradford Tuck; Matthew Berman; Alexandra Hill

Economics of Education Review Vol. 28, No. 1 pp. 58–66

Local school districts differ in their ability to pay for teacher quality, and in the amenities they offer as places to live and work. Market clearing with heterogeneous quality yields geographically varying teacher salary levels that confound...

Language: English

The HTML decision-making report: Preparing students for the information age workforce

David W. Norton; Matthew Segaard; Ann Hill Duin

Computers and Composition Vol. 14, No. 3 pp. 377–394

The online writing environment offers a variety of innovative options for teachers of technical writing and composition. This is especially true in technical writing classrooms in which we prepare students for the writing they will do in the...

Language: English

Developing Collaborative Technology-Enhanced Programs To Create Learning Communities

Nancy Wyatt; George Franz; Karen Hill; Matthew Bodek; Susan Ware

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2000 (2000) pp. 1559–1560

Encouraging effective collaborative learning supported by computer technology requires coordination among faculty, administrators, technical and instructional support staff, and library staff. This paper describes the roles of each of these...

Topics: Instructional Design, Computers, Collaboration

The Impact of Achieve3000 on Elementary Literacy Outcomes: Evidence from a Two-Year Randomized Control Trial

Darryl V. Hill; Matthew A. Lenard; Lindsay Coleman Page

School districts are increasingly adopting technology-based resources in an attempt to improve student achievement. This paper reports the two-year results from randomized control trial of Achieve3000 in the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS)...

Social Network Perspectives Reveal Strength of Academic Developers as Weak Ties

Kelly E. Matthews; Andrea Crampton; Matthew Hill; Elizabeth D. Johnson; Manjula D. Sharma; Cristina Varsavsky

International Journal for Academic Development Vol. 20, No. 3 (2015) pp. 238–251

Social network perspectives acknowledge the influence of disciplinary cultures on academics' teaching beliefs and practices with implications for academic developers. The contribution of academic developers in 18 scholarship of teaching and learning ...