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Helen Beaven

Motivators and Inhibitors for University Faculty in Distance and E-Learning - 0 views

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    Cook, R., Ley, K., Crawford, C., & Warner, A. (2009). Motivators and Inhibitors for University Faculty in Distance and E-Learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, 40(1), 149-163. Retrieved from EBSCOhost. This article reports on four United States studies of how rewards systems, extrinsic and intrinsic, could play an important role in providing incentives for university faculty to teach (or remain teaching) electronic and distance education courses. The first three studies conducted prior to 2003 reported faculty were inherently motivated to teach e-learning and distance education. The fourth study in 2003 reported key findings that differed from the earlier studies. Using a principal components analysis, the researchers found nine indicators of motivation to participate or not participate in electronic or distance education. The implications from the fourth study indicated that, while faculty members were inherently committed to helping students, faculty members wanted their basic physiological needs met by university administration through extrinsic motivators, such as salary increases and course releases..
Helen Beaven

EDTECH: Focus On Higher Education - Small Wonders - 0 views

  • Start with professors. “You’re going to have to invest in the faculty,” says Michael Zastrocky, vice president and education industry research director at Gartner. “Let them have the machines a year before you give them out to the students, and provide them with training. It gets them comfortable, and gives them time to learn how they are going to use them in the classroom.”
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      This is absolutely important for any kind of incentive program. You must allow your faculty to train and learn any new technology before it can be applied in an effective manner.
  • Small colleges that have thriving one-to-one computing programs say success hinges not on the machines’ technical details but on understanding how to use them.
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      Though this article discusses on-to-one computing programs, this success of understanding how to use a technology will be essential regardless of the device, software, etc. Faculty will need to understand how a new technology functions before they can implement it .
Helen Beaven

Cool Tools for School - 2 views

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    This teacher has compiled many free web 2.0 technologies and organized them by category. Though it appears to be geared toward a K-12 audience, I think many of the technologies would be applicable in the higher ed setting.
Helen Beaven

EBSCOhost: Tablet Personal Computer Integration in Higher Education: Applying the Unif... - 3 views

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    This might be useful... This study seeks to measure student acceptance of tablet computers on a college campus where students (mostly 1st years) were issued tablet-style computers for technology integration in the curriculum.
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