Telelearning: Making maximum use of the medium

Lewis, Gail

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“…Eighty-two percent of the students indicated that they would like to take another telelearning course; eighty-four percent said they learned as much as they usually do in a face-to-face situation (Lewis, 1989). In 1987-88, be cause of the program's success, the program was funded for expansion by a Gannett Planning grant and through the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education of Louisiana using Education Quality Trust Funds.…”

Section: Use Of the Technology At The Louisiana Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For the rural school, distance education provides a much needed alternative to inadequate funding, limited faculty resources, and a restricted curriculum (Lewis, 1989;McBride, 1991a). In two states, Indiana and Wisconsin, distance learning delivery systems were used for gifted education as a means of addressing these problems.…”

Section: Distance Education For Rural Schoolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The teacher communicates with the class via an audio convener that processes the sound by sending the teacher's conversation or student's re sponses via the phone line (Lewis, 1989(Lewis, , 1990McBride, 1992). Inter action is immediate and simultaneous for both audio and graphics transmissions.…”

Section: The Technologymentioning

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Sharing the Resources: Electronic Outreach Programs

McBride

Lewis

1993

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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Rural schools struggle with limited resources including an inadequate curriculum, lack of qualified teachers and little access to programming usually available to larger metropolitan schools. Such inequities have prevented many rural students from pursuing scholarship opportunities and entrance to institutions with restricted admissions.The Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts attempts to remediate the problem by serving rural students throughout the state with a distance learning network, Project Outreach, which delivers special classes that otherwise would be unavailable. The system uses interactive computer technology to teach advanced content courses in math, foreign language, science, and survey of the arts. The effectiveness of the outreach program was evaluated as to its potential to provide courses at a distance to rural students in Louisiana. Results of the study included a significant gain in scores between pre-test and posttest scores on a national calculus exam, and open-ended responses revealed favorable comments toward the system from its participants. The distance learning network is seen as one method for connecting rural students to the superior programs offered by special schools.

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Section: Use Of the Technology At The Louisiana Schoolmentioning

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Section: Distance Education For Rural Schoolsmentioning

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Sharing the Resources: Electronic Outreach Programs

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Lewis

1993

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

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“…Whatever form it takes, it links people who are geographically distant; and it is currently used to provide classes for students in remote or rural areas. Lewis (1989) described a distance learning system that transmitted advanced course work to academically talented high school students in rural areas of Louisiana. University of Alaska routinely uses interactive satellite systems, E.mail, electronic conferencing, FAX, and audio and video tapes to reach students in remote settlements.…”

Section: Specific Technologies and Applicationsmentioning

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New technologies and gifted education

Mann¹

1994

Roeper Review

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“…Distance education describes any form of learning that does not involve the traditional classroom setting in which student and instructor are in the same location at the same time (Ko & Rossen, 2001). This may be especially beneficial for students in remote locations who, due to lack of school resources, would not have the opportunity to take advanced course content (Lewis, 1989;McBride & Lewis, 1993;Southern & Spicker, 1989). Audio conferencing via speaker phones, online coursework, electronic blackboards, video conferencing, satellite downlinks are just a few of the various telecommunication formats available (Adams & Cross, 2000;Ko & Rossen, 2001;Mann, 1994).…”

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Technology and the Gifted: Focus, Facets, and the Future

Nugent¹

2001

Gifted Child Today

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In the transition from the industrial age to the information age, the 21st century has brought with it new challenges for the educational needs of the nation's youth. Information-intensive and technology-driven jobs encompass 60% of America's job market (Jukes, 1997). Over the last decade, over half of the new jobs created in the United States have evolved from new technologies (Jukes). Occupational futurists predict that in the first decade of the 21st century, eight out of every ten jobs will be information-intensive (Jukes; Naisbitt & Aburdene, 1990). The National Science Foundation (1997) estimates that by the year 2010, one-fourth of all new jobs will involve technology. Effective leaders and productive citizens will need to possess both skill and confidence in their abilities to use and manipulate technology and information (Jones, 1990; Jukes; Morgan, 1993).

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Telelearning: Making maximum use of the medium

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Sharing the Resources: Electronic Outreach Programs

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Technology and the Gifted: Focus, Facets, and the Future

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