mercredi 1er février 2017 par Simon Collin, Thierry Karsenti, Alexis Ndimubandi, Hamid Saffari
The objective of this article was to better understand the relationship between students’ age and socioeconomic level, and its influence on students’ digital uses. We conducted a quantitative study of 401 elementary and high school students in Quebec. Four independent variables were initially (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Patrick Giroux, Diane Gauthier, Nadia Cody, Sandra Coulombe, Andréanne Gagné, Suzie Gaudreault
Both media and digital literacies are essential for the 21st century. Consequently, several governments have integrated technologies with school curriculums. Recently, ICT integration efforts, particularly with the digital tablet, have multiplied. Several academic uses of the tablet are (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Stéphanie Simard, Thierry Karsenti
This study aims to understand how preservice programs prepare future teachers to use ICT to develop students’ information literacy skills. A survey was conducted from January 2014 through May 2014 with 413 future teachers in four French Canadian universities. In the spring of 2015, qualitative (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Samuel Fournier St-Laurent, Bruno Poellhuber, Madona Moukhachen
Although research shows that the use of active learning clasrooms, specially designed for the use of technologies and active pedagogies, has positive impacts on learning (Beichner et al., 2007), the process by which teachers come to adopt this type of class setup has yet to be explored in (...)
mercredi 1er février 2017 par Sonia Lefebvre, Ghislain Samson, Alexandre Gareau, Nancy Brouillette
The interactive whiteboard (IWB) is increasingly used for teaching and learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, the ways that teachers incorporate this tool within their teaching practices remain poorly understood. This paper examines elementary and high school teachers’ self-reported practices (…)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Rachel Muehrer, Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins
There is a great deal of enthusiasm for the use of games in formal educational contexts; however, there is a notable and problematic lack of studies that make use of replicable study designs to empirically link games to learning (Young, et al., 2012). This paper documents the iterative design (...)
Sustainable pre-service teacher education is needed to encourage academic success for under-represented populations, through both culturally responsive and alternative programming options (Carr-Stewart, Balzer, & Cottrell, 2013). In 2013, the Western Canadian University that served as the (...)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Lorraine Mary Carter, Mary Hanna, Wayne Warry
Nurses in Canada face diverse challenges to their ongoing educational pursuits. As a result, they have been early adopters of courses and programs based on distance education principles and, in particular, online learning models. In the study described in this paper, nurses studying at two (...)
mardi 9 août 2016 par Heather Marie Farmer, Jennifer Ramsdale
The goals of this study are to identify key competency areas that lead to success in online instruction and to develop a framework that supports professional development and self-assessment. To identify the key competency areas, skills and behaviours presented within current literature were (...)