Research, Grants & Projects |
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| BU-PT3 Grant |
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In the BU PT3 Project SED faculty and graduate students have created a community of learners to study the why and how of using technology in support of teaching and learning and to prepare effective technology-based resources that improve teaching. Faculty are collaborating across disciplines and grade levels to share their expertise and learn from each other. Faculty are also collaborating with select K-12 teachers, university technology experts, and a carefully selected consortium of educational technology companies to learn more about what constitutes effective use of technology in education. |
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http://emt.bu.edu/bupt3 |
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| ETAC - Educational Technology Advisory Council |
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Invited members of ETAC are charged with advising the Massachusetts State Board of Education and the Commissioner of Education on policies, current and emerging issues, and management of educational technology resources. |
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http://www.doe.mass.edu/boe/sac/edtech/ |
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| M-PACT - Massachusetts PT3 Action Collaborative |
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Founding member of an organization of PT3 grant recipients dedicated to improving technology integration into teacher preparation programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels across Massachusetts. |
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http://www.masspt3.org/ |
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| BUESED - Boston University Educational Software Evaluation Database |
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"BUESED" is a web-searchable database of educational software evaluations. The database includes evaluations of both stand-alone and web-based software. BUESED captures, organizes, and makes accessible evaluations of educational software written by students and faculty at the School of Education, and will, over time, be open to alumni and other educators outside the university. BUESED is based upon the idea of the knowledge building community in which Scardamalia & Bereiter (1994) advocate creating new patterns of discourse in a classroom or school by creating a community database at the center of instruction. They urge educators to “focus on problems and depth of understanding” by building “collective knowledge.” BUESED achieves the objective of creating a knowledge building community through the use of current database technology. |
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Click here to see an example of the search interface for BUESED. |
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| Gaylen Kelley Distance Education Laboratory |
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The Gaylen Kelley Distance Education Laboratory at the Boston University School of Education enables teachers and students to communicate over distance - across the city or across the globe. In addition to supporting activities such as email, the instructional use of the WWW, and video conferencing that have become normal extensions of university education, the Gaylen Kelley Distance Education Laboratory also will allow courses to be conducted both synchronously and asynchronously with multiple students at multiple locations. |
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http://www.bu.edu/sed/del |
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| IMC - Instructional Materials Center |
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Open to the School of Education (SED) faculty, staff, students and alumni, the Instructional Materials Center (IMC) is dedicated to supporting teaching and learning with technology. The IMC works to inform and expand education and training by applying technology to personal productivity, instructional support, communication and research. |
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http://emt.bu.edu/program/htdocs/resources/imc/index.htm |
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| eFolio as an experiment in the KBC |
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In Development |
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| Teacher as Software Developer |
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Technology Literacy Challenge Grant (1998-2000). Grant program for pre-service and in-service teachers in collaboration with Concord Public Schools, Concord, Massachusetts. Massachusetts State Department of Education Technology Literacy Challenge grant. 1998-2000. (in press). |
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