Integrating ISTE & NCATE Standards into Educational Technology Masters Programs

Steven Coombs

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2001 (2001) pp. 819–823

Educational Technology Masters programs are coming of age! The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has published a five-step blueprint outlining the curriculum standards requirement for all advanced programs in educational...

Topics: Educational Technology, Standards

Critical thinking, portfolio assessment and e-scaffolding of continuing professional development for knowledge elicitation

Steven Coombs

Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 4010–4014

Learning and knowledge technology systems that enable the user to transfer ideas and social experiences into new conceptual knowledge are proposed by the author as a knowledge elicitation system (KES). A KES also defines the epistemology of an e...

e-scaffolding: An epistemological framework for e-learning

Steven Coombs

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2007 (Oct 15, 2007) pp. 1449–1467

IT software learning systems that enable the user to transfer ideas and experiences into new conceptual knowledge is proposed by the author to be a knowledge elicitation system (KES), which defines the epistemology of an e-scaffold. The critical...

Living Citizenship: Transcending the Cultural Divide

Steven Coombs; Mark Potts

Educational Action Research Vol. 21, No. 3 (2013) pp. 429–443

Living citizenship emerging from reflection on an international educational partnership makes a unique contribution to the field and importantly fulfils the British Educational Research Association aim of improving educational practice for the...

Video Festival Demonstration: Developing and Integrating Internet-2 video content into Teacher Education Programs

James Fouche; Steven Coombs

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1562–1563

Sonoma State University (SSU) is part of the California State University (CSU) system and has recently been awarded a substantial PT3 Federal catalyst grant over period 2001-2004 for project 'Light Bridge'. The Light Bridge project will develop...

Topics: Internet, Networking Technologies

The challenges and scope of creating and editing an interactive electronic book

Madhumita Bhattacharya; Steven Coombs

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 1953–1958

Editing or publishing a book in interactive electronic format is challenging and requires careful decision-making, long term planning and a commitment to be successful. What does one need to do to edit, author and publish an ebook successfully? In...

Topics: Content Development, Planning, Tools & Systems, Other

Formalytics as Real-Time Feedback and Feedforward for Sustainable Lifelong Learning Pathways

Madhumita Bhattacharya; Steven Coombs

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 1104–1110

This paper explores the usefulness of formalytics for sustainable learning improvement linked to lifelong learning This can be achieved in two ways; firstly, by providing students with automatic VLE generated feedback of information giving an...

Topics: research, Tools & Systems, Implementation Examples & Issues

Smart Learning requires Smart Thinking: The Evolution of Sustainable Learning Environments

Steven Coombs; Madhumita Bhattacharya

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2018) pp. 453–470

The authors propose a definition of Smart Learning linked to digital technologies to see how effective these technologies can enable and empower learning It is argued that smart learning requires smart thinking to underpin the learning process and...

Developing and Integrating Internet-2 video content into Teacher Education Programs

James Fouche; Steven Coombs

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 1560–1561

Sonoma State University (SSU) is part of the California State University (CSU) system and has recently been awarded a substantial PT3 Federal catalyst grant over period 2001-2004 for project 'Light Bridge'. The Light Bridge project will develop...

Topics: Networking Technologies, Internet

Smart Learning requires Smart Thinking: The Evolution of Sustainable Learning Environments

Steven Coombs; Madhumita Bhattacharya

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 303–313

The authors propose a definition of Smart Learning linked to digital technologies to see how effective these technologies can enable and empower learning It is argued that smart learning requires smart thinking to underpin the learning process and...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems, Policy Issues

Technology-assisted Mentoring using Critical Thinking Scaffolds

Steven Coombs; Sarah Fletcher

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 324–331

Critical Thinking Scaffolds (CTS) (Coombs, 2000) are tools, which enable the representation of teachers' tacit knowledge in a form that can be accessed and engaged with by policy makers, instructional designers, researchers and practitioners. CTS...

Topics: Teachers

Formalytics as Real-Time Feedback and Feedforward for Sustainable Lifelong Learning Pathways

Madhumita Bhattacharya; Steven Coombs

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 29, No. 4 (Dec 31, 2018) pp. 497–506

This paper explores the usefulness of formalytics for sustainable learning improvement linked to lifelong learning This can be achieved in two ways; firstly, by providing students with automatic VLE generated feedback of information giving an...

Using the Internet To Deliver Higher Education: A Cautionary Tale about Achieving Good Practice

Steven J. Coombs; Jillian Rodd

Computers in the Schools Vol. 17, No. 3 (2001) pp. 67–90

Reviews the development and delivery of a higher education course module that was designed to provide remote learners in England with computer-supported solutions to access higher education as part of a technology-assisted distance education program....

Educational Technology Learning Plans for Student Scaffolding

Steven Coombs; Vivien Lee Looi Chng

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (2002) pp. 942–945

We all know that lesson plans are introduced to initial teachers as an initial management tool for self-scaffolding organizational learning, but little work has been done to identify what defines the critical thinking process underpinning the...

Topics: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Teachers, Classrooms, Students

Kick-start your professional development and research eportfolio to enhance lifelong career opportunities

Madhumita Bhattacharya; Steven Coombs; Mike Mimirinis

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2016 (Jun 28, 2016) pp. 1292–1293

Designing and developing eportfolios is challenging and time consuming. It requires long term planning and commitment and this paper provides the guidelines to kickstart this process. It is hard to organise all the materials to start your eportfolio ...

The Application of Self-Organised Learning for Educators and Students in a Knowledge-Based Economy: A Reflective Experience

Vivien Lee Looi Chng; Steven John Coombs

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1063–1068

A technology-led knowledge-based economy will require workers to be equipped with new economy skills and dispositions for creating significant and relevant meaning out of the large chunks of transmitted data. In the spirit of building learning...

Topics: Students, Learning Management Systems