Technology-based Education: Bringing Researchers And Practitioners Together

The editors (of the Center for Instructional Innovation, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln) present 11 papers from the Second Nebraska Symposium on Information Technology in Education, held in June of 2004. The goals of the symposium were to extend findings from current research into a set of practical principles for designers, teachers, and managers, to identify technical and design features required to share content; and to target future research and development on high potential areas in technology-based teaching, learning, and assessment. Topics include using technology in preservice teacher education courses, reinventing the computer science curriculum at the U. of Nebraska, building writing assessment skills using Web-based cognitive support features, encoding disruption associated with copy and paste note taking, and designing adaptive diagnostic math assessments for individuals with and without visual disabilities. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)