(* items are in reading packet)

General Books and Articles on Information Technology in Education

Balderston, Frederick E.  1995.  Managing Today's University: Strategies for Viability, Change and Excellence, 2nd ed.  San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Beattie, K., C. McNaught, S. Wills, eds. 1994. Interactive Multimedia in University Education: Designing for Change in Teaching and Learning. The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

Boettcher, J. V., ed. 1992. 101 Success Stories of Information Technology in Higher Education. The Joe Wyatt Challenge. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

Dolance, Michael G. and Donald M. Norris. 1995.  Transforming Higher Education: A Vision for Learning in the Twenty-first Century. Ann Arbor, MI: Society for College and University Planning.

Ernst, David J., Richard N. Katz, and John R. Sack. 1994. Organizational and Technological Strategies for Higher Education in the Information Age.  Boulder, CO: CAUSE.

Hagel, John and Arthur G. Armstrong.  1997.  Net gain: Expanding markets through virtual communities.  Boston: Harvard Business School Press.

* Massy, William F. and Robert Zemsky. 1995. Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity. EDUCOM, National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), http://www.educom/edu/program/nlii/keydocs/massy.html.

Norris, Donald M.  1997.  Revolutionary Strategy for the Knowledge Age. Ann Arbor, MI: Society for College and University Planning.

*Oblinger, D. G. and M. K. Maruyama. 1996. Distributed Learning. CAUSE Professional Paper Series, No. 14. Boulder, CO: CAUSE. (http://www.cause.org/information-resources/ir- library/abstracts/pub3014.html)

Reigeluth, C. M. and R. J. Garfinkle, R. J., eds. 1994. Systemic Change in Education. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications, Inc.

Rossman, Parker. 1992. The Emerging Worldwide Electronic University: Information Age Global Higher Education. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press

Rudenstine, Neil. L. 1997. The Internet and Education: a Close Fit. Chronicle of Higher Education. Feb. 21, 1997.

Tapscott, Don. 1996. The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence.  New York: McGraw Hill.

Twigg, Carol A.  1994.  The Need for a National Learning Infrastructure.  Washington, DC: EDUCOM.  URL http://www.educom.edu/program/nlii/keydocs/monograph.html

Twigg, Carol A.  1996. Academic Productivity: The Case for Instructional Software. Washington, DC: EDUCOM.  URL http://www.educom.edu/program/nlii/keydocs/broadmoor.html

Twigg, Carol A. and Diana G. Oblinger.  1997.  The Virtual University.  Washington, DC: EDUCOM.  URL http://www.educom.edu/nlii/VU.html
 

WWW and Graphics Design

McCanna, Laurie. 1996. Creating Great Web Graphics. New York: MIS Press.

While I don’t necessarily embrace all of McCanna’s ideas on design, she offers useful tips on achieving clear, crisp graphics at low screen resolutions and with small file sizes. There is also an accompanying web site.

Tufte, E. R. 1990. Envisioning Information. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press.

A beautiful book, filled with illustrations, dealing with general principles of visual design. "It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged." p. 50.

*Alexander, Shirley and John G. Hedberg. 1994. Evaluating technology-based learning: Which model? Chapter in Interactive Multimedia in University Education: Designing for Change In Teaching and Learning, ed. K. Beattie, C. McNaught, and S. Wills. The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

*Cates, W. M. 1992. Fifteen principles for designing more effective instructional hypermedia multimedia products. Educational Technology (December): 5-11.

Frechtling, Joy and Laure Sharp, ed.  1997.  User-Friendly Handbook for Mixed Method Evaluations.  Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation, Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication, NSF Publication NSF 97-153.

Johnson, N. 1994. How to Digitize Video. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (With CD-ROM)

Designed for experienced computer users interested in getting video in and out of Microsoft Windows- based PCs and Apple Macintoshes. Covers the production of digital videos, the equipment needed, and how to avoid costly errors.

McLachlan, Karen. WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Content Evaluation. http://www.cyberbee.com/guide1.html.

McLachlan, Karen. WWW CyberGuide Ratings for Web Site Evaluation. http://www.cyberbee.com/guide2.html.

Designed for use by teachers or students, these rating sheets assess content and design seperately but do so within seven categories: speed, first impression, ease of navigation, use of graphics/sound/video, content/information, currency/last date revised, and availability of further information.

Suggests ways to ground integration of technology in theory and research. Organizes research and theory into a matrix. Components of the matrix are psychological, pedagogical and technological; each of these are divided into general, component, and primary. The authors distill 20 empirical principles with related implications for multimedia.

Weiss, E. 1994. Making Computers People-Literate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

This book "is about what you can do to make computers people-literate, by identifying and redesigning the user interface flaws that get in the way of performance." Includes detailed checklists and a complete case study.

Brinson, J. D. and M. F. Radcliffe. 1994. Multimedia law handbook: A practical guide for developers and publishers. Menlo Park, CA: Ladera Press.

Provides a basic understanding of the legal issues involved in developing and distributing multimedia works, including contracts, licenses, intellectual property rights, and fundamentals of copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret law. The appendix includes sample contract forms, model releases, and listing of content sources.

*Educational Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines Development Committee. 1996. Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia. http://www.indiana.edu/~mediares/mmfairuse.htm.

Steinbach, Sheldon E.  1998.  The Hidden Legal Traps in Distance-Learning Programs.  Chronicle of Higher Education 44 (22) (6 February): A52.

General Issues in Instructional Design, Curriculum Development, and Geography in Higher Education

Alexander, Jane and Marsha Tate. “The Web as a Research Tool: Evaluation Techniques.” http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/evaluout.htm. published as “Teaching Critical Evaluation Skills for World Wide Web Resources,” Computers in Libraries. Nov/Dec 1996: 49-55.

The co-authors describe the five traditional print evaluation criteria (accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage) and adapt these for use in assessing World Wide Web sites as sources of information. Designed to inform teachers, librarians, and others about the importance of and information to include in evaluation. Their site includes a checklist for evaluating an informational web page which is appropriate for use by students. Also, a bibliography lists printed and web resources to consult for more information on evaluation.

Boud David, Jeffrey Dunn, Elizabeth Hegarty-Hazel 1986 Teaching in Laboratories. Guildford, Surrey: Society for Research into Higher Education & NFER-Nelson

Chickering, Arthur W. and Zelda F. Gamson, eds. 1991. Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 47.

*Chickering, Arthur W. and Zelda F. Gamson. 1991. Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. In Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, ed. Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F. Gamson, 63-69. Jossey-Bass. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 47.

English, Fenwick W. 1992. Deciding What to Teach and Test: Developing, Aligning, and Auditing the Curriculum. Newbury Park, CA: Corwin Press, Inc.

Gagné, Robert M. 1977. The Conditions of Learning, 3rd ed. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Geography Education Standards Project. 1994. Geography for Life: National Geography Standards. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.

Gentry, C.G. 1994. Introduction to Instructional Development: Process and Technique. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.

Gold, John R., Alan Jenkins, Roger Lee, Janice Monk, Judith Riley, Ifan Shepherd, and David Unwin. 1991. Teaching Geography in Higher Education: A Manual of Good Practice. Oxford: Blackwell.

Hannafin, M.J. and K.L. Peck. 1988. The Design, Development, and Evaluation of Instructional Software. New York: Macmillan.

*Hill, A.D. 1995. Geography standards, instruction and competencies for the new world of work. Geographical Education 8(3): 47-49.

Jonassen, D. H. 1994. Thinking technology: Toward a constructivist design model. Educational Technology (April): 34-37.

McKeachie, Wilbert J. 1986. Teaching Tips: A Guidebook for the Beginning College Teacher, 8th ed. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath and Company.

Menges, Robert J. and Marilla D. Svinicki, eds. 1991. College Teaching: From Theory to Practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 45.

*Menges, Robert J. 1994. Teaching in the Age of Electronic Information. pp. 183-193. Chapter 19 in McKeachie, Wilbert J. Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and Theory for College and University Teachers. 9th. ed. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co.

*Moser, Susanne and Susan Hanson. 1996.  Notes on Active Pedagogy: A Supplement to the Active Learning Modules. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Rediscovering Geography Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council. 1997. Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

SDSU/Pacific Bell Fellows Applications Design Team/Wired Learning. Application Evaluation Rubric. http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/rubric.html

Useful for teachers and students, the site considers three key areas, the format, the content, and the “learner process.”

Siegel, M. A. and G. A. Sousa. 1994. Inventing the virtual textbook: Changing the nature of schooling. Educational Technology (September): 49-54.

See especially old and new role models of teacher, student, content.

Sweeters, W. 1994. Multimedia electronic tools for learning. Educational Technology (May/June): 47- 51.

Describes popular electronic tools for learning and how they function as part of a learning system. Uses Gagne's "Events of Instruction" to define necessary functions of a learning system.

*Darby, J. 1994. Multimedia: So much promise--so little progress. Chapter in Interactive Multimedia in University Education: Designing for Change In Teaching and Learning, ed. K. Beattie, C. McNaught, and S. Wills. The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

Internet and E-mail in the Classroom

Bailey, Elaine K. and Morton Cotler. 1994. Teaching via the Internet. Communication Education 43 (2): 184-93.

One of several articles in a special issue of Communication Education entitled "The Internet: The National Information Infrastructure." This article was singled out because it is a catalog of innovative ideas for using the Internet to teach college courses. Suggestions run the gamut from giving students feedback on-line, to delivering electronic lectures, to teaching entire courses on-line. Other articles of interest in this collection include "Electronic Discussion Groups" and "Benefits of Computer-Mediated Communication in College Courses."

Hall describes her use of e-mail to encourage full participation from all theory at Earlham College. She found that a class-access only newsgroup did encourage full participation members of a class in feminist international relations and also provided a forum for discussion of topics students considered too contentious for full investigation in-class, e. g. women and the military draft.

This is one of several articles from a special issue of TechTrends entitled "The E-Mail Revolution". Other articles worth a look include "Ethics and Electronic Mail" and "School/University Collaboration Via E- Mail." This article was singled out because it reports on the lessons learned from using an electronic discussion group in a graduate educational psychology course at the University of Colorado at Denver. According to the authors, instructors wishing to use electronic discussion groups need to provide students training and technical assistance for using e-mail, deal with on-line discussion groups as they would in- class discussion groups, realize that students will use and appreciate the electronic forum, and collect information on how electronic discussions aid or hinder learning.

This article is divided into two sections. The first describes the AT& T Teaching theater and the computer and telecommunications hardware/software the theater contains. The second half is an initial, qualitative assessment of the theater's use. The biggest problems were the students' and faculty's unfamiliarity with computers and the inability (for reasons explained in the article) of students to store information on disks or print out assignments in the theater. The article also contains a brief section admonishing teachers who would use multimedia in the classroom to make everything as "normal" as possible -- i. e., ""tests should look like tests".

Poling, Don J. 1994. E-mail as an effective teaching supplement. Educational Technology 34 (5): 53- 55.

Poling describes his extensive use of Clemson's e-mail system to field student questions, counsel students, post class assignments, make general class assignments, give occasional quizzes, and post grades. He balances his account with brief discussions of some of the downsides to extensive reliance on e-mail but concludes that the benefits outweigh the liabilities.

Collaborative Learning

Bruffee, Kenneth A.  1993. Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence and the Authority of Knowledge.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

O'Malley, Claire, ed. 1994. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

The articles in this book were originally presented at the 1989 NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Although some of the work is out of date, the collection is valuable for its emphasis on collaborative distance education through use of telecommunications technologies. More exactly, the papers address the following topics: theoretical and empirical work on peer interaction and learning; research on computer-supported collaborative work; cognitive models of collaborative interaction; computer networks and computer-mediated communication; and, the design of systems to support real-time collaborative learning. Articles of interest include: "Collaborative Problem Solving with Hypercard"; "Computer Support for the Collaborative Learning of Physics"; "Technology's Role in Restructuring for Collaborative Learning"; and, "Issues in Computer Supported Collaborative Learning."

Students who were enrolled in similar quantitative decision-making course at the University of Hawaii and Southern Methodist University had to complete an assignment which required use of e-mail to reach collaborative decisions. According to the authors of this article, this assignment was valuable because it required students to practice many of the skills they will need in the working world; the ability to make quality group decisions and the ability to use electronic communication to overcome difficulties imposed by time and distance. The article concludes with suggestions for using remote collaboration strategies in non-business classes.

CAUSE has hundreds of papers on distance learning, distributed learning, technology in classrooms, etc.

CoverWeb: Tenure and Technology: New Values, New Guidelines

Creating Killer Web Sites

Web Design

Research and Critical Thinking

a list of links to sites related to the following topics: concept mapping, web site evaluation, research skills and tools, search tools and how to use them, and critical thinking and the web. It is part of the “History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers” homepage: http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html.

Created 15 May 1997 by Shannon Crum
Last updated 20 February 1998.  KEF.