34 From MOOCs to MOOPILs: Pushing the Boundaries of Virtual Professional Development and Learning for Teachers; Beverly J. Irby, Texas A&M University, Education Leadership Research Center, Educational Leadership and Human Resource Development Department, College Station, TX, USA Kara L. Sutton-Jones, Texas A&M University, Center for Research and Development in Dual Language and Literacy Acquisi...

We partner communication technology with school information systems to automate the gathering and provision of high-frequency information on students’ academic progress to parents. We use this technology to send weekly automated alerts to parents about their child’s missed assignments, grades, and class absences. The intervention reduces course failures by 38%, increases class attendance by 17%...

A COMMITTEE formed in October, 1921, at the ***instance of the College of Preceptors, to consider the effects of physical education on girls, has drawn up its report. Representatives were appointed by the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons, the British Medical Association, the Medical Women's Federation, the British Association for Physical Training, the Ling Association...

Currently, the application of the network resources and various means of teaching such as multimedia into the classroom has led to the demonstration of multimodality in college English teaching. This paper analyzes the current status of college English teaching and the existing problems, elaborates the research trends of the theory of multimodal discourse analysis, and aims to explore the quest...