ED-MEDIA 2010--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
Jun 29, 2010
Editors
Jan Herrington; Craig Montgomerie
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 609
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Future of Instructional Technology
George Chacko, Matthew Bonilla & Richard Miller III, Pace University, United States
Going beyond traditional needs of both instructors and students, we have designed and implemented a state of the art video conference system, using Tandberg infrastructure and a Creston control... More
pp. 152-153
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Visible Past: An Interactive Learning Platform for History
Xiaojun Chen, Jea Choi & Sorin Matei, Purdue University, United States
The emergence of geographic visualization and location aware technologies provides educators and teachers an opportunity to design more effective instruction materials. Visible Past is an... More
pp. 154-160
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Design and Validation of an Educational Equity Indicators System using Free Software
Alejandro de Fuentes Martínez, Sistema de Universidad Virtual - Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Mexico
Abstract: This paper proposes a method to monitor progress or setbacks that are experienced in the field of educational equity. For this purpose, we propose a statewide system of indicators to... More
pp. 161-166
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Exploring Teachers’ ICT Pedagogy in the North-West Province, South Africa
Christo J. Els & A. Seugnet Blignaut, North-West University, South Africa
South Africa participated in the Second Information Technology in Education Study (SITES 2006) - a large scale international survey on the ICT practices of schools around the world. SITES 2006 did ... More
pp. 167-176
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Developing Youth Leadership Skills through the Application of an Innovative Social-Virtual Curriculum
Nikleia Eteokleous, Frederick University, Cyprus; Despo Ktoridou, Unversity of Nicosia, Cyprus
Technology has been making it to classrooms for over four decades, deeply affecting education. Nowadays, with the advent of Web 2.0, the Internet has become truly interactive, providing a... More
pp. 177-180
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Transforming MYTecC to WYTecC: The Mediterranean Youth Technology Club becoming The World Youth Technology Club
Nikleia Eteokleous, Frederick University, Mediterranean Youth Technology Club, Cyprus
The Mediterranean Youth Technology Club, is a bridge building initiative amongst youth mainly in the Mediterranean Basin; designed to empower and educate youth with a view of providing them with... More
pp. 181-185
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Skypapalooza! How the West Virginia Animation Festival used Skype and Streaming Video to Connect Remote Student Participants to the Live Awards Event.
James Haizlett, West Liberty University, United States
For the past nine years the West Virginia Flash Animation Festival has hosted a juried event that rewards the best student work from a six state region. The Festival has received sponsorship from... More
pp. 186-192
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Starting with the end in sight
Mike Keppell, Charles Sturt University, Australia; Jennifer Munday, Charles Surt University, Canada
The paper describes the use of an ePortfolio in the first stage of an undergraduate Program/Degree, a Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood & Primary). The unique aspect of this initiative is that... More
pp. 193-202
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Creating Working Life Mentoring that Utilises Social Media - A Means to Modernise Online Courses
Irja Leppisaari, Tuula Hohenthal, Markus Maunula & Roni Lamberg, Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Working life should be more actively utilised in higher education as partner in education design. The e-Learning of the Future project (2009–2011, ERDF) meets work-oriented online education... More
pp. 203-212
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The Design and Development of a Media Rich Learning Environment: A Learners-as-Designers model
Min Liu, Lucas Horton, Royce Kimmons, Michael Anderson, Jaejin Lee & Jason Rosenblum, The University of Texas at Austin, United States; Paul Toprac, Southern Methodist University, United States; Yin Li & Woonhee Sung, The University of Texas at Austin, United States
To help students learn the critical thinking skills and the essential strategies for being engaged citizens in a technology- and media-suffused 21st century, digital technologies are often used to ... More
pp. 213-222
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CSI Web Adventures: Challenges and Outcomes of Building a Companion Forensics E-Learning Environment to Accompany a Museum Exhibit
Leslie Miller, Rice University, United States; Yvonne Klisch, RIce University, United States; Charlie Walter, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, United States
How can an online web adventure game format be used to teach substantive forensic science, made popular by the CSI television series and a current traveling museum exhibit? The recently created... More
pp. 223-230
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Performing Arts Education on the Global Space:Theatre education session between Japan and Thailand
Goki Miyakita, Yumiko Murai & Keiko Okawa, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Japan
The purpose of this study is to design a new performing arts education by using ICT to strengthen students’ ability to communicate globally with each other. Performing arts education is now widely ... More
pp. 231-236
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Designing Complex Systems for Informal Learning and Knowledge Maturing in the ‘Web 2.0 workplace’
Andrew Ravenscroft, Learning Technology Research Institute, United Kingdom; Andreas Schmidt, FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany; John Cook, Learning Technology Research Institute, United Kingdom
This article presents an original approach to designing complex systems to realise informal learning and knowledge maturing that is being conducted as part of a large-scale EC project called MATURE... More
pp. 237-242
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ICT implementation in Alternative Teacher Diploma Program as a Boost to New Educators' Teaching Skills and Confidence
Tami Seifert, Ilana Ronen & Miri Shonfeld, Kibbutzim College of Education, Israel
The advantages of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to pre-service teachers in an alternative diploma program are presented in this study. The assumption was that pre-service teachers ... More
pp. 243-247
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Student Engagement and Attitude Change Towards Science When Learning with a Virtual World Based Curriculum: A Case Study
Selen Turkay, Teachers College, Columbia University, United States
The purposes of this case study were to examine if a virtual world based science curriculum can change students’ attitudes toward science and science related careers, and to identify challenges... More
pp. 248-257
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Blended Learning in the ICT-Enabled Learning and Teaching Community of Practice at Charles Sturt University
Philip Uys, Charles Sturt University, Australia
This paper reports the findings of a study conducted at Charles Sturt University (CSU) where the author has been sponsoring a Community of Practice (CoP) about Information and Communication... More
pp. 258-267
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Game Development Distance Learning Instructional Design
Lúcia Baruque & André Luiz Brazil, Fundação CECIERJ / Consórcio CEDERJ, Brazil
Teaching game development at a distance is a great challenge to the instructor and the student. Content development and delivery strategies should be rooted in sound instructional design... More
pp. 268-277
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University in Transition: A Case Study of Redesigning for Blended Learning
Mark Brown, Massey University, New Zealand
This paper describes the opportunities that have arisen from the implementation a new virtual learning environment (VLE) in a major distance education provider. It presents a case study of how the ... More
p. 278
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Using asynchronous online discussion in education: Lessons learned over the last ten years
Wing Sum Cheung & Khe Foon Hew, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Over the last ten years we have been exploring the educational use of asynchronous online discussion (AOD) at a university in Singapore. While the advantages of using AOD have been widely reported,... More
pp. 279-282
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Who are you working with? Visualizing TEL Research Communities
Marco Fisichella, Eelco Herder, Ivana Marenzi & Wolfgang Nejdl, L3S Research Center, Germany
Abstract: Author Co-Citation Analysis (ACA) provides a principled way of analyzing research communities, based on how often authors are cited together in scientific publications. In this paper, we ... More
pp. 283-292
