Improving Educational Outcomes by Providing Educational Services through Mobile Technology

ActiveCampus - Sustaining Educational Communities through Mobile Technology

The traditional university campus is designed to foster a thriving community of learners, but modernity has introduced many stresses. Mobile computing holds the potential to strengthen a campus’s traditional institutions of community through a process of indirect mediation. This paper introduces ActiveCampus, a suite of personal services for sustaining an educational community. The design and i...

Improving educational outcomes for disadvantaged children

were in the bottom third of the math distribution. These are similar figures to those for children currently in poverty, and those who have been in poverty consistently since kindergarten, but they differ dramatically from those of children of college-educated mothers. Only 10 percent of children with college-educated mothers score in the bottom third of the fifth grade reading distribution, wh...

Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children

One of the best ways to avoid being poor as an adult is to obtain a good education. Individuals with higher academic achievement and more years of schooling earn more than those with lower levels of human capital. This is not surprising given that we believe that schooling makes people more productive, allowing them to command higher wages in the labor market. This paper offers a message of tem...

Building Educational Technology Partnerships Through Participatory Design

IntroductIon Educational technology provides many examples of how efficient software development and deployment is not enough. Teachers work in a complex and dynamic context in which measurable objectives and underlying values collide on a daily basis. Traditionally, teachers work in isolation from their peers; individual teachers have well-established personal practices and philosophies of edu...

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