after development of a great concern (in last decade) about the adequacy and fidelity of the undergraduate educational program of electrical engineering in the electrical engineering department of sharif university of technology, a committee was assigned in 2004, to identify the shortcomings of the program and initiate a dynamic, restructured program to satisfy the educational requirement of a ...

Alsop and Tompsett argued in 2007 that research in educational technology was over-focused on technological design and that empirical research that was pertinent to educational change should be assessed against two distinct scales. The first considers the quality of the experimental design in validating the conclusions that are reached, whilst the second assesses the extent to which the experim...

The primary purpose of this study is to examine science student teachers' experience with educational technology, their intentions for their own use, their intentions for their students’ use, and their beliefs in the value of educational technology in science instruction. Four-hundred-forty-eight science student teachers of different disciplines and levels participated in the study. A questionn...

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In the United States, the use of educational technology is mandated by accredited teacher preparation programs and by state accrediting departments of education. Yet, the majority of teacher education faculty fail to infuse educational technology procedures into their courses at substantial levels (Mitchell, Dipetta and Kerr 2001) and teachers fail to infuse technology into their teaching (Ande...