... of effective instruction? Laura Patricia Pate can be contacted at: tpate9988@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Motivation Behaviour Impact Computers Secondary education Technology implementation Technology implementation is the primary focus of most educational...

...Andreas Zendler; O. William McClung; Dieter Klaudt Purpose – The development of a K-12 computer science curriculum based on constructivist principles needs to be informed by knowledge of content and process concepts that are central to the discipline of computer science. The paper aims to discuss...

...Timothy Teo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of gender on pre‐service teachers' computer attitudes. Design/methodology/approach A total of 157 pre‐service teachers completed a survey questionnaire measuring their responses to four constructs which explain computer...

... computer laboratories at a regional university in Australia. Findings The study found that computers within easy access to doors are disproportionately more used than computer that are further away, irrespective of other “incentive” such as windows, wall anchoring or security camera positioning...

...David Cornforth; John Atkinson; Dirk H.R. Spennemann Purpose Many researchers require access to computer facilities beyond those offered by desktop workstations. Traditionally, these are offered either through partnerships, to share the cost of supercomputing facilities, or through purpose‐built...

...John S. Atkinson; Dirk H.R. Spenneman; David Cornforth Purpose To provide administrators at an Australian university with data on the feasibility of redirecting under‐utilised computer laboratories facilities into a distributed high performance computing facility. Design/methodology/approach...

...Jim Hart; Mike Hannan It is often stated that mobile wireless computing is going to be the next big technology revolution that will grip the world in the same way mobile telephones did in the 1990s. However, while the technology is rapidly improving, the rate of uptake has been lower than expected...

... skills and certain computing skills in students. E‐learning was misinterpreted after it was introduced. It was oversimplified and wildly optimistic. People described e‐learning as putting all learning on computers. They felt, e‐learning could bring the savings in instructor salaries, and could keep...

... in beginning computer‐ programming classes. This paper also introduces Visual‐One, a learning tool which utilizes flowcharts to emphasize patterns of logic and design, abstracts out the details of different hardware, and supports a broad range of programming and problem‐solving activities. Visual‐One is able...

.... This paper focuses on improving information management and communication based on the new generation of multimedia computer packages within an academic institutional environment. It is therefore argued that a management information system designed for Moi University needs to reflect the organizational...

... basis: computer‐based tutorial learning, considered particularly important for adult learning. This paradigm, practical today with modern technology, allows a much more individualized approach to learning than is largely available today, for very large numbers at much lower total costs than at present...

... education has been their employment for the delivery of distance education. This article describes the types of technology available for the delivery of distance education (computer‐assisted education systems, audio/video‐mediated education systems, and computer‐mediated education systems), and has...

... structure and philosophy of the organization. To enlarge on the “IT works” statement the Milken Exchange (www.milkenexchange.org) states that emerging trends indicate that under the right conditions technology: © MCB UP Limited 2000 Information technology Computers Internet Education...

...Louis R. Bedell; Mark D. Somers An original computer‐based tool, dubbed CyberInteractor, is described. CyberInteractor is designed to facilitate immediate student feedback to an instructor and to other students in a classroom setting or via the World Wide Web. Feedback is saved in a database...

...Mike L. Downey Details how the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University fundamentally changed the way engineering is taught, by completely remodelling its classrooms and wiring them up to accommodate the use of laptop computers, printers, video and audio in the active teaching...

..., is that 32.7 percent of the internal student population stated that they had no access to e‐mail. In the light of the computer facilities at CSU this response shows that there is a knowledge gap. To some degree this issue is of relevance when discussing the e‐mail use of the students. © MCB UP Limited...

...Andrew Shelffo Shows how both instructors and students can benefit from business writing classes taught in computer classrooms. Instructors will see improvement in the quality of student work, and students will gain real knowledge of how business documents are created. To incorporate computers...

... Communications Computers Internet Librarians Libraries Unix The Library in Academic Computing D. Scoff Brandt UNIX Revisited Last month's column described UNIX's contribution to the internetwork environment and how librarians are likely to interact with UNIX and that environment. In this column I present...