E-portfolios: From Concept to Design

Patricia McGee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 192–193

Increasingly ePortfolios are being seen as a way to serve a variety of functions: a document student development over a course of study; a tool for assessment mapped to standards, courses, and programs; or, a presentation for potential employers all ...

Topics: Standards

Distance learning supports: The intentionality of pre-assessment surveys

Patricia McGee

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 1887–1890

Attrition rates in university-delivered distance learning course are historically high. In response to high drop out rates, support strategies and services have been devised to support the learner during their course and, in some instances, before...

Making Connections With Curriculum: Introductory Technology Course Design

Patricia McGee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 398–402

In many preserice education programs, students are only required to take one technology course which typically focus on procedural skills which are oftentimes not connected to or reinforced by other course work or field experiences. As a means of...

Topics: Educational Technology, Students

E-portfolios: An Open Source Model

Patricia McGee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 5026–5030

The proliferation of electronic portfolio systems available to higher education has been a source of confusion and hurried decision-making as institutions jump on the assessment bandwagon. This paper describes the conceptualization and development...

Supporting Academic Honesty in Online Courses

Patricia McGee

Journal of Educators Online Vol. 10, No. 1 pp. 1–31

Ensuring academic honesty is a challenge for traditional classrooms, but more so for online course where technology use is axiomatic to learning and instruction. With the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) requirement that online course ...

An eBay™+Amazon™ Model for Online Learning Systems

Patricia McGee

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2835–2839

Although Learning/Content/Course Management Systems (L/CMS) in higher education and industry are becoming mainstream, functions and tools that support learning design has yet to follow. A careful consideration of successful e-business services can...

Topics: Learning Management Systems

Teaching Style Revealed in CMS

Patricia McGee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 3650–3654

Teaching online requires skills, aptitudes, and strategies that may or may not be transferred from face-to-face learning environments. Most faculty members use course management systems (CMS) as an ancillary tool to augment classroom instruction....

Topics: Faculty, Instructional Design, Learning Management Systems

PRESERVICE TECHNOLOGY MENTORING

Patricia McGee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 2095–2099

This pilot study investigated the experiences of preservice teachers enrolled in a required technology course as they mentored educators about technology. Data were collected over the course of a semester through e-mail. A qualitative analysis...

Topics: Mentoring

Cognitive Tools in Web-based Learning Environments: Implications for Design and Practice

Patricia McGee

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1262–1264

Cognitive tools are well documented in multimedia learning environments but there has been limited transfer to online learning environments, particularly to Web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS). This paper describes specific tools appropriate ...

Topics: Cognition, Learning Management Systems

Teacher Education Online: Trials, Tribulations, And Successes of Course Development

Patricia McGee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1998 (1998) pp. 936–940

In 1998, the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the University of Texas at Brownsville, and the University of Texas at San Antonio received a grant to collaborate and develop an online master’s degree in educational technology. The grant allowed...

Blended Course Design: Where's the Pedagogy?

Patricia McGee

International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning Vol. 6, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 33–55

Blended or hybrid course design is generally considered to involve a combination of online and classroom activities. However defining blended courses solely based on delivery mode suggests there is nothing more to a blended course than where...

Educational technology graduate programs

Patricia McGee; Leah Wickersham

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 2468–2477

The field of educational (instructional) technology is relatively young, generally applied, and interdisciplinary. Moreover it serves multiple sectors that require specific skill sets, knowledge bases, and abilities. The authors contend that...

Transformative Power of the Learning Object Debate

Kathy Bennett; Patricia McGee

Open Learning Vol. 20, No. 1 (February 2005) pp. 15–30

This article examines the significance of how learning objects have come to be conceptualized and utilized, particularly in higher education. While many articles critique the term and its origins, an examination of the role metaphor plays in our...

Evolution of the Higher Education Learner Role: From Passenger to Driver

Patricia McGee; Jennifer Gurrie

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 3226–3229

There are possibilities for next generation tools and strategies that are informed by learning theory and the distinct characteristics of the digital natives. Next-generation learning can shift from time and location-based systems to ubiquitous and ...

A Learning Object Life Cycle

Patricia McGee; Heather Katz

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1405–1410

By their very nature learning objects require an attention to their conception, development, deployment, use, access, storage, and re-use. They differ from other instructional media in that they are designed for re-use, are interoperable across...

Seeking Deeper Learning within an Online Course

Patricia McGee; Leah Wickershame

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2205–2212

This mixed method action research case study examines evidence of deeper learning principles as designed and evidenced in an online course and corroborated by the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) instrument. Findings indicate...

The WWW, ADDIE, and the ADL Guidelines

Patricia McGee; Leah Wickersham

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2667–2668

The proliferation on online learning requires that instructional designers know and apply sound instructional design. How and where they locate guidelines for ready reference has been addressed by the Joint ADL Co-Lab that provides Design...

Topics: Evaluation, Instructional Design

Unintended professional development in curriculum-based K-12 telementoring projects

Patricia Ann McGee

(1998) pp. 1–247

This study looked at the perceptions of unintentional professional development among teachers and subject matter experts who worked together in the Electronic Emissary project, a non-profit service that matches K-12 teachers and students with...

Planning for the Digital Classroom and Distributed Learning: Policies and Planning for Online Instructional Resources

Patricia McGee; Veronica Diaz

Planning for Higher Education Vol. 33, No. 4 (2005) pp. 12–24

In an era of state budget cuts and a tight economy, distributed learning is often seen as a way to address the needs of colleges and universities looking for additional revenue sources. Likewise, budding virtual universities, consortia, and...

The politics of the program: ms word as the invisible grammarian

Tim McGee; Patricia Ericsson

Computers and Composition Vol. 19, No. 4 (2002) pp. 453–470

Because of its widespread availability to writing students, the grammar and style checker in ms word deserves a thorough critique. Although recent scholarship has addressed general issues surrounding grammar and style checkers, we investigate this...

Language: English

Demystifying the Structures of Online Teaching through Decomposition Model: Exploration of Online Teaching Effectiveness

Yungwei Hao; Patricia McGee

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 2111–2114

A critical issue for online teaching is determining course design and ensuring effective implementation. While course management tools are commonly used in higher education, it is common for faculty members to be more knowledgeable about course...

Topics: Evaluation

Blended Course Design: A Synthesis of Best Practices

Patricia McGee; Abby Reis

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks Vol. 16, No. 4 (June 2012) pp. 7–22

Blended or hybrid course offerings in higher education are commonplace and much has been written about how to design a blended course effectively. This study examines publically available guides, documents, and books that espouse best or effective...

Wikis and Podcasts and Blogs! Oh, My! What Is a Faculty Member Supposed to Do?

Patricia McGee; Veronica Diaz

EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 42, No. 5 (2007) pp. 28–30

The gaps between students' and faculty members' use of technology have widened. Many faculty members today have become so inundated with digital communications from students that it is not unusual for communication protocols and limitations to be...

Perceptions of Satisfaction and Deeper Learning in an Online Course

Leah E. Wickersham; Patricia McGee

Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 9, No. 1 (2008) pp. 73–83

This action research case study examines evidence of deeper learning principles as purposefully designed and evidenced in an online course and corroborated by the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey instrument. Findings indicate that...

Managing Courses Defining Learning: What Faculty, Students, and Administrators Want

Ali Jafari; Patricia McGee; Colleen Carmean

EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 41, No. 4 (2006) pp. 50–52

The use of Learning/Course Management Systems (L/CMSs) has exploded in higher education. Recently, these authors served as editors for a book, "Course Management Systems for Learning," which explored current L/CMS design and usage by documenting...

Pre-service teacher learning through one-on-one tutoring: Reporting perceptions through e-mail

Wanda B Hedrick; Patricia McGee; Kathleen Mittag

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 16, No. 1 pp. 47–63

This formative study investigated the attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of university students seeking teacher certification toward students with content-area difficulties as well as towards their own tutoring experience. A qualitative analysis of ...

Language: English

Tech•Connect: Learning about and with technology

Wanda Hedrick; Leann Steinmetz; Patricia McGee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1693–1695

The University of Texas at San Antonio's Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) project uses a collaborative approach designed to achieve systemic change resulting in an improved teacher preparation program. The Tech•Connect Project...

Topics: Teachers

Blended/Online Learner Orientations: Recommendations for Design

Patricia McGee; Erin Valdes; Danica Bullis

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 15, No. 2 (May 2016) pp. 215–241

While online course offerings have steadily risen over the last decade and it is estimated that 32% of college students have taken an online course (Allen & Seaman, 2013), the process of preparing students for blended and online courses has varied...

Distributed Learning: Making Systems that Work

Patricia McGee; Colleen Carmean; Ali Jafari

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1360–1364

Distributed learning has become a mainstay of course delivery for many if not most universities. However, the course management systems used to deliver academic programs have been designed as information communication tools that manage teaching...

Topics: Learning Management Systems

If we know then what we know now

Patricia McGee; Jashoda Bothra; Jennifer Gurrie; Ameeta Jadav

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 3035–3038

When discussing the delivery of technology mediated instruction, the focus is typically focused on the organizational, managerial (see Gallagher, 2003), or technical (IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. standards and corporate white papers) while...

Learning in a Virtual World, Part 1

Patricia McGee; Colleen Carmean; Ulrich Rauch; Nick Noakes; Cyprien Lomas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3676–3680

Virtual learning environments (VLE) are not new to higher education but are currently gaining much attention in both the popular and academic press. Historically VLEs have been heavy on engagement but weak in user interface and usability. Commercial ...

Topics: Virtual Environments, Interaction, Educational Technology

Learning in a Virtual World, Part 2

Patricia McGee; Colleen Carmean; Ulrich Rauch; Nick Noakes; Cyprien Lomas

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 3681–3685

Virtual learning environments (VLE) are not new to higher education but are currently gaining much attention in both the popular and academic press. Historically VLEs have been heavy on engagement but weak in user interface and usability. Commercial ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Interaction, Virtual Environments

Technology for the Teachers’ Teacher: PT3 in Action

Hayley Mayall; Patricia McGee; Leann Steinmetz; Wanda Hedrick

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3511–3516

The College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) was awarded a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) grant by the US Department of Education. The grant, known locally as Tech...

Topics: Faculty, Attitudes, Educational Technology, Change, Teachers

The match game: Instructional design for every learner

Patricia McGee; Uli Rauch; Colleen Carmean; Cyprien Lomas

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1411–1416

Instructional design for technology-mediated learning is a well-substantiated process serving a community of practitioners that spans K-20 education and workplace training. However, instructional design has been mired in 20th century pedagogies,...