Knowledge Management for Educational Innovation : IFIP WG 3.7 7th Conference on Information Technology in Educational Management (ITEM), Hamamatsu, Japan, July 23-26, 2006

by Tatnall, Arthur; Okamoto, Toshio; Visscher, Adrie J.

• ISBN13: 9780387693101
• ISBN10: 0387693106
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-06-30
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This book contains selected papers presented at the seventh Conference on Working Group 3.7 of the Internation Federation for Information Processing. The focus of Working Froup 3.7 is on ITEM: Information Technology in Educational Management. The event toook place in Hamamatsu, Japan, and enabled the exchange of findings and ideas between researchers in educational management and information technology, policy-makers in the field of education, developers of ITEM systems, and vendors. The overall goal of the conference was to demonstrate and explore directions for developing and improving all types of educational institutions through ITEM. Contributions to this conference hailed from all over the world. The papers in this volume investigate how ITEM can support and improve educational practice at the level of instruction as well as at the institutional level, an analysis of the history of ITEM as a field of study and practice, results of researcdh on how training can promote the implementation of ITEM systems, and theoretical analyses of the conditions under which ITEM will have the strongest impact. Moreover, all sectors of educational systems (from schools to universities) are represented by the various chapters of this book.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Ten Years of ITEM Research - Analysis of WG 3.7's Published Work (1994 - 2004)	p. 1
Assessment Information Systems for Decision Support in Schools - A Case Study from Hungary	p. 9
Research Knowledge Management can be Murder - University Research Management Systems	p. 19
A Supporting System of Informatics Education for University Freshmen	p. 27
Lapchat: A Contents-Sharable Management System for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning	p. 33
Supporting teachers' professional development through ICT - Reflections on two case studies	p. 43
Use of ICT by Primary Teachers - The Situation in Taiwan (The Republic of China)	p. 53
Centrally and Wide-Area Integrated Management of School Administration/Academic Affairs - Using a web application browser version	p. 61
Communication Support Technologies for e-Learners	p. 69
Using Educational Management Systems to Enhance Teaching and Learning in the Classroom - An investigative case study	p. 75
WBT Content for Geography and Geology using VRML	p. 83
Training School Managers Works!	p. 89
Technology Enhancing Learning - Limited data handling facilities limit educational management potential	p. 99
Individual Learning Pattern Related to Intention - with a Biological Model of Knowledge Construction	p. 107
Information Technology for Education Management and Open Source Software - Improving Education Management through Open Source	p. 115
Using LAMS to Link Learners in an E-Learning Environment - Learning Activity Management System	p. 123
Evaluation of a Web-Based Training System - for reading scientific documents based on activating visual information	p. 133
Absence Makes the Phone Ring Yonder - An end-to-end attendance recording and tracking system	p. 141
A Development of Learning Management System for the Practice of E-Learning in Higher Education	p. 145
ITEM Everyday	p. 153
Mapping the Future of Research in Web-Based Education Management - Effective HCI Taken to New Horizons	p. 159
ICT PD 4 Me!	p. 167
ITEM in Botswana and Uganda	p. 179
CSCL-Based Pre-Service Teacher Program as Knowledge Building	p. 187
Collaborative E-Test Construction - Using Predicted Response-Time and Score Distributions to Improve Reliability	p. 195
Three Phase Self-Reviewing System - for Algorithm and Programming Learners	p. 203
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