Educational Informatics

ICT Teachers’ Assigned Roles and Expectations from Them

by Yuksel Goktas

Topu, F. B. & Göktaş, Y. (2012). ICT teachers’ assigned roles and expectations from them. Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 12(1), 461-478. http://www.edam.com.tr/kuyeb/pdf/en/dffdc2f6a7efa2b36df9266f227cc4ef25b.pdf

The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of ICT teachers’ assigned position and to determine school... more The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of ICT teachers’ assigned position and to determine school administrators’ and other teachers’ perceptions towards ICT teachers and these teachers’ positions, and to reveal the similar and discrepant aspects of their tertiary education and the roles (work and responsibilities) assigned to them in schools. For this purpose, a qualitative case study research design was used. The study was conducted within three phases. In the first phase, focus group interview with 2 faculty members at department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies and 6 ICT teachers, in the second phase, a pilot study encompassing an interview with 2 teachers from other branches and 1 school administrators, and finally face to face interviews with 33 participants, 10 of whom were school administrators, 11 of whom were ICT teachers, 12 of whom were teachers from other branches. The data obtained were analyzed using content analysis, and the findings showed that ICT teachers undertook many roles in their schools apart from the assigned positions determined by MoNE. The fundamental reason for this appeared that ICT teachers were perceived as an expert, a technical staff or personnel who knows everything about ICT. Further, there occurred some differences and ambiguities between the education they took and the assigned roles and due to these ambiguities that even the ICT teachers could hardly define their assigned roles in schools was observed.

Educational informatics: an emerging research agenda

by Maggie McPherson

Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through virtual worlds

by Mathew Hillier

Gregory, S., Lee, M., Ellis, A., Gregory, B., Wood, D., Hillier, M., Campbell, M., Grenfell, J., Pace, S., Farley, H., Thomas, A., Cram, A., Sinnappan, S., Smith, K., Hay, L., Kennedy-Clark, S., Warren, I., Grant, S., Craven, D. and Dreher, H. (2010). Australian higher education institutions transforming the future of teaching and learning through virtual worlds. Proceedings of the 26th Annual ASCILITE Conference: Curriculum, technology and transformation for an unknown future, Sydney.
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Assessing students in Second Life – some options.

by Mathew Hillier

Crisp, G., Hillier, M., & Joarder, S. (2010). Assessing students in Second Life – some options. In C. H. Steel, M. J. Keppell, P. Gerbic, & S. Housego (Eds), Curriculum, technology & transformation for an unknown future. Proceedings of the 26th Annual ASCILITE Conference: Curriculum, technology and transformation for an unknown future, Sydney. (pp. 256–261).

Assessing students in Second Life with scripted chatbots

by Mathew Hillier

Crisp, G., Hillier, M., & Joarder, S. (2010). Assessing students in Second Life with scripted chatbots. Paper presented at the ATN Assessment Conference 2010: Assessment: Sustainability, Diversity and Innovation, Sydney, Australia, November 18-19.

Submitted Draft of Student Assessment in the Ubiquitously Connected World

by Andrew Adams

Submitted to Computers and Society

Student cheating on university assessments from entrance exams to finals and from contract cheating on coursework to... more Student cheating on university assessments from entrance exams to finals and from contract cheating on coursework to requesting exam answers using a mobile phone during the exam, has received more and more attention of late. As connection to the Internet becomes ubiquitous and computing and communciations technology more embedded in our environment, it is argued that a re-focussing on providing educational opportunities is needed in higher education, rather than chasing the ever-retreating prospect of perfect, or even adequate, assesment for the purposes of qualification.

Woody Plants of the Southeastern United States: a Field Botany Course on CD-ROM, PC Version Windows

by Bruce Kirchoff

DanVideo: An MPEG-7 Authoring and Retrieval System for Dance Videos

by Rajkumar Kannan

Mining Feedbacks and Opinions In Educational Environments

by Rajkumar Kannan

Modular Assessment System for Modern Learning Settings: MASS

by Rajkumar Kannan

Generic Modeling and Annotation of the Dance Video Semantics

by Rajkumar Kannan