Education and the Near Future: 2010
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A 5 page paper which examines what classrooms and teaching strategies will be like in the year 2010. The paper focuses on the technological changes that will involve the institution of education. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: RAed2010.rtf

Education Where Mountains Dominate
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A 3 page paper describing the idyllic setting of a mountain valley in the Southeast, followed by the difficulty of gaining a meaningful, complete and high-quality education there. Without access to online programs or those offered by the Dollywood Foundation, gaining a more-than-adequate education in the valley can be greatly frustrating. Those stresses should diminish over time, and those students seeking alternatives now find those alternatives open to them. No sources listed.
Filename: KSeduMntns.rtf

Education: Books Versus Computers:
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This 4 page paper examines the assumption made by some educators that books are better than computers in the educational setting. This paper examines the foundation of this assumption and seeks to determine the validity of such a premise. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: GSBksedu.rtf

Educational And Instructional Technology
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This 11 page paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 discuses the history of technology in education and instruction and the purpose of technology. Part 2 reports a few studies that reveal enhanced learning when today's technology is incorporated into the lesson design. In some cases, specific applications or Web sites are identified. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: PGeditc.RTF

Educational Impact E-Text
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A 3 page research paper/reaction essay that offers a summary of a web site (www.educationalimpact.com), as well as the writer’s reaction to the site and a discussion of its application to classroom situations. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khedimp.rtf

Educational Software For Preschoolers
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This 5 page paper explores the use of educational computer programs, focusing on the pre-school to early elementary age. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KTpresft.wps

Educational Technology and Computer-based Instruction
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This 11 page paper considers the issue of computer-based instructional models as they apply to the developing area of educational technology. This paper considers the evolution of the area, the role of computer-based instructional models, and discusses the potential and actual benefits for educational improvement. This paper also makes predictions about future trends in computer-based instruction. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: MHEdtec4.wps

Educational Technology: A Critical Response
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This 6 page paper provides an overview of this issue.Computer technologies are being utilized in every aspect of higher education. Increasingly, professors are asking students to access information from technological sources, participate in discussion groups in chatrooms and on blackboards, and require students to hand in work via computer. These new technologies require an understanding of a variety of different materials and equipment, including the use of CD-Rom, hypertext cards, the Internet, the World Wide Web, defining the need for instruction, both for educators and students. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: MHEdTech7.rtf

Effective Communication Using Computer Technology for Educators
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A 10 page paper focusing on leadership theory as a basis for encouraging greater use of computer technology among educators, both in their classes and in communication with each other. The proposal here is that educators attend training sessions addressing the subject of electronic communication, using the Elluminate® program as the meeting space. Aspects of situational, contingency and path-goal leadership theories can apply to this type of situation and should be employed to encourage the greatest degree of interaction between attendees within the web conferencing application. The purpose of these interactions will be to share information, but also to provide “hands on” experience to educators who might be reluctant to seek out new communication technologies on their own. Bibliography lists 11 sources. KSeduCommTech.rtf
Filename: KSeduCommTech.rtf

Effective Communication Using Computer Technology for Educators
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A 12 page paper focusing on leadership theory as a basis for encouraging greater use of computer technology among educators. The proposed approach to the problem that teachers make little use of computer technology in their teaching efforts is to institute an informal study of the effects of incorporating PowerPoint® slide presentations into their standard lectures. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: KSeduCommTech2.rtf

Effective School Leadership
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This 7 page paper discusses specific issues related to effective school leadership: maintaining high faculty morale, parent involvement, and inservice training. The writer begins with confirmation of the importance of the principal and how the role of the principal has changed. Sergiovanni's nine essential tasks of the principal are also mentioned. Teacher morale is approached with a study that illustrates some of the many behaviors that positively or negatively affect teacher morale. Ideas to improve morale are provided. The writer then discusses the importance of parent involvement and how principals and teachers might gain more involvement. Finally, the issue of the importance of staff development or inservice training is discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: PGscld.rtf

Effectiveness of Online Learning
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A 73 page paper discussing the history and growth on online learning, underlying theory and web conferencing tools. The paper provides the introduction and literature review, as well as the introduction to the methodology section discussing types of qualitative research. The goal of the research that will round out this work will be to enhance teachers' use of technology in keeping with the ESEA 2000. Bibliography lists 60 sources.
Filename: KSeduStudCCNA.rtf

Effectiveness Of Online Learning In Continuing Education
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This 50 page paper discussed the issue of the effectiveness of Online training and continuing education courses. The essay begins by explaining the terms effective or successful education cannot really be defined. A comprehensive discussion of this issue is provided. This section also includes a discussion of the seven principles of effective education and evaluation processes. The literature review reports and discusses numerous Online continuing education or professional development courses, their purpose, how they were evaluated, when that information is provided, and what critics say about Online learning. The Methodology section provides a comprehensive discussion of the design-based research model, including a comparison with a more scientific model and why design-based is so useful. Specific statistical data included. 1 Table included. Bibliography lists 25 sources.
Filename: PGednt.rtf

eLearning and Web Conferencing
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An 11 page paper discussing the current state of web conferencing, particularly as it applies to distance education. As can be seen from the small sampling provided here, there are many web conferencing applications available. Most are better suited than others to specific kinds of uses; organizations’ choices can be based on the items they have identified as being of greatest importance to them. This is the first 11 pages of a 30-page thesis on the subject. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: KSeduWebConf.rtf

eLearning and Web Conferencing, Part 2
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A 20 page paper continuation of “eLearning and Web Conferencing,” KSeduWebConf.rtf. This continuation includes Observation and Evaluation and a conclusion, and describes the function of several of the recorded forms of live educational sessions conducted by Elluminate. The paper concludes that whether the application is corporate training or academic education, the environment created by Elluminate constitutes an immense improvement over the approach to online education that has become standard. Elluminate provides superlative interactive ability in a real-time setting, emulating the physical class meeting in every way aside from the requirement for physical location at a specific time. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSeduWebConf2.rtf

Electronic Instruction’s Effect on Education
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A 7 page paper written as a transition between a literature review and a methods section (neither included) of a proposed study to assess educators’ attitudes toward required use of integrated database systems in their instructional activities. The paper addresses growth of online offerings and content standardization to conclude that it would appear that systems capable of relieving educators of the more mundane and time-consuming administrative tasks of their work would be well received. But does this type of reception extend to diminished control over content as well? This is a question that the proposed study seeks to answer. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSeduDisTeach.rtf

ELECTRONIC LEARNING IN COLLEGE AND ADULT EDUCATION
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This paper is an essay that argues in favor of computer-based learning for college students and adult education students. Included in this essay are the positive uses that computer-based learning has offered. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: MTcomlea.rtf