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Research paper thumbnail of Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

OECD Education Working Papers, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Multimedia learning of chemistry

Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning, 2005

This chapter proposes the use of a “situative” theory to complement the cognitive theory of multi... more This chapter proposes the use of a “situative” theory to complement the cognitive theory of multimedia learning of chemistry. The chapter applies situative theory to examine the practices of chemists and to derive implications for the use of various kinds of representations in chemistry education. The two theories have implications for different but complementary educational goals—cognitive theory focusing on the learning of scientific concepts and situative theory on learning science as an investigative process. We go on ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

OECD Education Working Papers, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of What is the main problem being addressed by the study? Is it clearly stated?

Research paper thumbnail of OECD Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing and teaching 21st century skills: A call to action

Research paper thumbnail of ICT and educational change: A global phenomenon

Research paper thumbnail of The Use of Multiple Representations and the Social Construction of Understanding in

Research paper thumbnail of Reflections on the state of educational technology

Research paper thumbnail of Learning with Media

Review of Educational Research, 1991

Abstract This article describes learning with media as a complementary process within which repre... more Abstract This article describes learning with media as a complementary process within which representations are constructed and procedures performed, sometimes by the learner and sometimes by the medium. It reviews research on learning with books, television, computers, and multimedia environments. These media are distinguished by cognitively relevant characteristics of their technologies, symbol systems, and processing capabilities. Studies are examined that illustrate how these characteristics, and the instructional ...

Research paper thumbnail of Computer-based writing tools and the cognitive needs of novice writers

Computers and Composition, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of ICT Policies and Educational Transformation

The dissemination and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in schools has com... more The dissemination and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in schools has come to be seen by education policy-makers as a significant opportunity. They are attracted to the prospect that ICT can improve student achievement, improve access to schooling, increase efficiencies and reduce costs, enhance students' ability to learn and promote their lifelong learning, and prepare them for a globally competitive workforce. As the power and capability of computers have increased, as they have become interconnected ...

Research paper thumbnail of TITLE: Reflections on the State of Educational Technology Research and Development SOURCE: Educational Technology Research and Development 48 no1 5-15 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond the Digital Divide: Technology, Education Reform, and Economic Development in Jordan

While efforts in some developing countries have focused on reducing the digital divide, others ha... more While efforts in some developing countries have focused on reducing the digital divide, others have focused on how to use technology to support development. World Links is a technology-based program in Jordan that supports the Ministry's Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy. Surveys and site visits indicate that as a result of program training, teachers improved their technological and pedagogical skills, employed innovative pedagogy, and collaborated with others. Students increased their technology, leadership, ...

Research paper thumbnail of FINAL REPORT January 2, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of An Effort at Instructional and Faculty Development at the University of Michigan

Abstract: A project at the University of Michigan is described that involved the award of a small... more Abstract: A project at the University of Michigan is described that involved the award of a small number of faculty fellowships that allowed some released time and financial support for development and implementation of classroom innovations. The focus of the Fellowship was the analysis and redesign of target courses regularly taught by the fellows. Technical assistance, equipment, training workshops, seminars, and personal consultation with project staff were provided. The project was based on the conceptual model of Rogers and ...

Research paper thumbnail of ICT, Education Reform and Economic Development

Technology-Enabled Education: A Catalyst for Positive Change, 2007

It is good to be back here in Jordan and here at the Dead Sea for the first time. What I would li... more It is good to be back here in Jordan and here at the Dead Sea for the first time. What I would like to talk to you about today is ICT, Educational Reform and Economic Development. Now many of us all around the world are facing economic challenges and creating new ways of economic development and broad-based prosperity. That is the challenge that we are facing. What I have found is that in traveling to countries around the world and talking to ministries of education, often the economic development rhetoric is used as a rationale for ...

Research paper thumbnail of Toward an African knowledge network: ICT in support of grassroots rural development

Keynote address, ICTe Africa, 2006

In an effort to emulate the dramatic economic success of China and India, the current policy disc... more In an effort to emulate the dramatic economic success of China and India, the current policy discussions related to the use of ICT in Africa have focused on its application in the service and manufacturing sectors. Reflecting successes in Bangalore and Shanghai, much of these discussions advocate the concentration of ICT infrastructure in the urban centers. As such, development policies in Africa envision the use of ICT to support multimedia production houses in Cairo, business incubators in Dakar, call centers in Nairobi, and technology ...

Research paper thumbnail of ICT, education reform, and economic growth: a conceptual framework

San Francisco, CA.: Intel Corporation.(Consultado el 12/03/2010) http://download. intel. com/education/EvidenceOfImpact/Kozma_ICT_Framew ork. pdf, Apr 1, 2008

Executive Summary The 21st century presents tremendous challenges and significant opportunities t... more Executive Summary The 21st century presents tremendous challenges and significant opportunities to national policy makers as they formulate economic and social policies and programs. Increasingly, educational policy makers are being asked to formulate educational policies and programs—particularly those related to information, communication, and technology (ICT)—in ways that advance the nation's economic and social development goals. This first paper of a two-part set describes the factors that influence sustained ...

Research paper thumbnail of Kozma reframes and extends his counter argument

Learning from media: Arguments, analysis, and evidence, 2001

Do media influence learning? Ten years ago, Richard Clark (1983) reviewed the results of comparati... more Do media influence learning? Ten years ago, Richard Clark (1983) reviewed the results of comparative research on educational media and claimed that they provide consistent evidence “... for the generalization that there are no learning benefits to be gained from employing any specific medium to deliver instruction”(p. 445). According to Clark, the results of those studies that appear to favor one medium over another are due not to the medium but to the method or content that are introduced along with the medium. Clark concludes ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

OECD Education Working Papers, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Multimedia learning of chemistry

Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning, 2005

This chapter proposes the use of a “situative” theory to complement the cognitive theory of multi... more This chapter proposes the use of a “situative” theory to complement the cognitive theory of multimedia learning of chemistry. The chapter applies situative theory to examine the practices of chemists and to derive implications for the use of various kinds of representations in chemistry education. The two theories have implications for different but complementary educational goals—cognitive theory focusing on the learning of scientific concepts and situative theory on learning science as an investigative process. We go on ...

Research paper thumbnail of Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

OECD Education Working Papers, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of What is the main problem being addressed by the study? Is it clearly stated?

Research paper thumbnail of OECD Review of the Italian Strategy for Digital Schools

Research paper thumbnail of Assessing and teaching 21st century skills: A call to action

Research paper thumbnail of ICT and educational change: A global phenomenon

Research paper thumbnail of The Use of Multiple Representations and the Social Construction of Understanding in

Research paper thumbnail of Reflections on the state of educational technology

Research paper thumbnail of Learning with Media

Review of Educational Research, 1991

Abstract This article describes learning with media as a complementary process within which repre... more Abstract This article describes learning with media as a complementary process within which representations are constructed and procedures performed, sometimes by the learner and sometimes by the medium. It reviews research on learning with books, television, computers, and multimedia environments. These media are distinguished by cognitively relevant characteristics of their technologies, symbol systems, and processing capabilities. Studies are examined that illustrate how these characteristics, and the instructional ...

Research paper thumbnail of Computer-based writing tools and the cognitive needs of novice writers

Computers and Composition, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of ICT Policies and Educational Transformation

The dissemination and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in schools has com... more The dissemination and use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in schools has come to be seen by education policy-makers as a significant opportunity. They are attracted to the prospect that ICT can improve student achievement, improve access to schooling, increase efficiencies and reduce costs, enhance students' ability to learn and promote their lifelong learning, and prepare them for a globally competitive workforce. As the power and capability of computers have increased, as they have become interconnected ...

Research paper thumbnail of TITLE: Reflections on the State of Educational Technology Research and Development SOURCE: Educational Technology Research and Development 48 no1 5-15 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Beyond the Digital Divide: Technology, Education Reform, and Economic Development in Jordan

While efforts in some developing countries have focused on reducing the digital divide, others ha... more While efforts in some developing countries have focused on reducing the digital divide, others have focused on how to use technology to support development. World Links is a technology-based program in Jordan that supports the Ministry's Education Reform for the Knowledge Economy. Surveys and site visits indicate that as a result of program training, teachers improved their technological and pedagogical skills, employed innovative pedagogy, and collaborated with others. Students increased their technology, leadership, ...

Research paper thumbnail of FINAL REPORT January 2, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of An Effort at Instructional and Faculty Development at the University of Michigan

Abstract: A project at the University of Michigan is described that involved the award of a small... more Abstract: A project at the University of Michigan is described that involved the award of a small number of faculty fellowships that allowed some released time and financial support for development and implementation of classroom innovations. The focus of the Fellowship was the analysis and redesign of target courses regularly taught by the fellows. Technical assistance, equipment, training workshops, seminars, and personal consultation with project staff were provided. The project was based on the conceptual model of Rogers and ...

Research paper thumbnail of ICT, Education Reform and Economic Development

Technology-Enabled Education: A Catalyst for Positive Change, 2007

It is good to be back here in Jordan and here at the Dead Sea for the first time. What I would li... more It is good to be back here in Jordan and here at the Dead Sea for the first time. What I would like to talk to you about today is ICT, Educational Reform and Economic Development. Now many of us all around the world are facing economic challenges and creating new ways of economic development and broad-based prosperity. That is the challenge that we are facing. What I have found is that in traveling to countries around the world and talking to ministries of education, often the economic development rhetoric is used as a rationale for ...

Research paper thumbnail of Toward an African knowledge network: ICT in support of grassroots rural development

Keynote address, ICTe Africa, 2006

In an effort to emulate the dramatic economic success of China and India, the current policy disc... more In an effort to emulate the dramatic economic success of China and India, the current policy discussions related to the use of ICT in Africa have focused on its application in the service and manufacturing sectors. Reflecting successes in Bangalore and Shanghai, much of these discussions advocate the concentration of ICT infrastructure in the urban centers. As such, development policies in Africa envision the use of ICT to support multimedia production houses in Cairo, business incubators in Dakar, call centers in Nairobi, and technology ...

Research paper thumbnail of ICT, education reform, and economic growth: a conceptual framework

San Francisco, CA.: Intel Corporation.(Consultado el 12/03/2010) http://download. intel. com/education/EvidenceOfImpact/Kozma_ICT_Framew ork. pdf, Apr 1, 2008

Executive Summary The 21st century presents tremendous challenges and significant opportunities t... more Executive Summary The 21st century presents tremendous challenges and significant opportunities to national policy makers as they formulate economic and social policies and programs. Increasingly, educational policy makers are being asked to formulate educational policies and programs—particularly those related to information, communication, and technology (ICT)—in ways that advance the nation's economic and social development goals. This first paper of a two-part set describes the factors that influence sustained ...

Research paper thumbnail of Kozma reframes and extends his counter argument

Learning from media: Arguments, analysis, and evidence, 2001

Do media influence learning? Ten years ago, Richard Clark (1983) reviewed the results of comparati... more Do media influence learning? Ten years ago, Richard Clark (1983) reviewed the results of comparative research on educational media and claimed that they provide consistent evidence “... for the generalization that there are no learning benefits to be gained from employing any specific medium to deliver instruction”(p. 445). According to Clark, the results of those studies that appear to favor one medium over another are due not to the medium but to the method or content that are introduced along with the medium. Clark concludes ...