Incorporating Creativity Values into Teacher Preparation Programs: A Critical Perspective

End User Creativity: A Critical Realist Perspective

There has been a recent trend in the IS literature toward viewing IT systems less as material artifacts and more as imbricated, socio-technical assemblages. This suggests that greater attention must be paid to the detailed processes behind the interaction of users with systems. In this thesis, I explored the creative process that occurs when end users discover or develop novel and useful ways t...

Integrating ICT into teacher education programs from a TPACK perspective: Exploring perceptions of university lecturers

Incorporating Function Values into Quasi-Newton Updates

The traditional quasi-Newton method for updating the approximate Hessian is based on the change in the gradient of the objective function. This paper describes a new update method that incorporates also the change in the value of the function. The method effectively uses a cubic approximation of the objective function to better approximate its directional second derivative. The cubic approximat...

Integration of computers and related technologies into deaf education teacher preparation programs.

The study examined how computer technology is used, modeled, and taught in programs that prepare future teachers of students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Data were collected through two self-reported survey instruments sent to participants from two different groups: (a) deaf education faculty (n = 233) and (b) administrators of programs serving students who are deaf or hard of hearing (n = ...

Integrating Technology into the Mathematics Classroom: the Role of Teacher Preparation Programs

Today’s technology standards (International Society for Technology in Education, 2000) challenge teacher education programs across the nation to address the need to produce computer literate teachers who are confident in their ability to choose and incorporate instructional technology into their classroom teaching. The purpose of this paper is to present a description and analysis of the effect...