This research develops and empirically tests a factor model for understanding college students’ acceptance of Tablet PC (TPC) as a means to forecast, explain, and improve their usage pattern in education. The analysis involved more than 230 students from a regional Midwestern institution. Overall, our model exhibited a good fit with the data and provided satisfactory explanatory power for stude...

taking into account last innovations in the French educational system concerning textbooks and educational resources, this text provides an overview of current research streams in France in the textbook field. It discusses the specific context in France and the implications of this context towards research and textbook situation. After discussing some projects, Emmanuelle databank, and methodol...

This study proposes and illustrates a two-stage strategy to analyze differential item functioning in comparative educational studies. At the first stage, within each country, item difficulties are estimated. At the second stage, results are combined across countries using a meta-analytic framework to investigate (a) whether the items function consistently at the country level, and (b) what coun...

The educational attainment of participants in the Chicago Longitudinal Study (93% Black and 7% Hispanic) was examined. Cluster analysis on measures of human capital resources, family dynamics and demographics was used to identify four distinct profiles of families. In general, children who had family profiles characterized by higher levels of human capital resources and more favorable scores on...

With the call for educational reform in American public schools, various school districts have embarked on the process of reforming classroom instructional practices through technology to enhance quality education and student learning. This article explores the implications for educational technology practices within the context of urban schools. Additionally, this article highlights the need f...

As part of a study of educational innovation in information and communication technology (ICT) disciplines, 83 academics from relevant departments across Australia participated in mini-conferences where they identified and discussed the factors driving and inhibiting educational initiatives. Participants repeatedly noted “the push for flexible delivery” as a factor driving educational innovatio...

This paper combines a search model and signaling game to analyze the interrelationship between labor market outcome and educational choices as well as relevant policy implications, featuring endogenous educational requirement for job application. It explains more than 60% of the unemployment rate difference between college and high school graduates. It predicts that higher unemployment benefit ...

Research has been carried out into the educational and training innovations resulting from the current implementation of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in institutions of higher education in order to understand how these innovations interrelate with teaching and learning; the implications at the institutional level; and the cross-cultural diversity within virtual learning environments, wi...

This study sought to develop meaningful and engaging virtual cyberbullying scenarios that reflect the educational needs of today’s adolescents. In order to inform and script these scenarios, a threestage study was implemented. This paper describes how data collected in each stage informed the cyberbullying scenarios’ development. The authors share implications for educational use in middle scho...

This paper describes how activity theory (AT) and its principle of contradictions may be relied on to guide research in educational technology. The paper begins with a theoretical overview of AT and of its principle of contradictions. It follows with a synthesis of studies that have used AT as a lens to study information and communication technologies (ICTs) in educational contexts. We analyse ...