Instructional Technology

Departmental Representative

Most professional librarians serve as subject bibliographers for one or more academic departments or programs. They work with the faculty members to develop the library's collection, promote its use and provide library instruction.

For the College of Education, the subject bibliographer is:

Chris Guder, Reference Librarian Office: 206 Alden Library, Learning Commons (2nd floor) Phone: (740) 597-1975 E-Mail: guder@ohio.edu

The faculty library liaison person is:

Background Information

The Information Revolution. Opposing viewpoints series. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2004.
Location: Reference Stacks T58.5 I526 2004

Educational media and technology yearbook. Littleton, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1985-latest.
Location: Latest year in Reference Stacks; Earlier years in the General Stacks LB1028.3 .E37

National Educational Technology Standards for Students. International Society for Technology in Education, 2000.
Location: Reference Stacks LB1028.3 .N386 2000x

Technology Counts. Washington, D.C.: Editorial Projects in Education.
Location: Latest year in Reference Stacks; Earlier years in the General Stacks. LB1028.3 .T396 77x

Library Catalogs

Library catalogs generally include references for materials like books, journals, and videos owned by a particular library or group of libraries. They do not include articles within journals, and most (including OU's catalog) don't include ERIC documents. To access those materials, use Indexes and Abstracts

Useful subject headings in these catalogs include:

Computer assisted instruction

Internet in education

Computer managed instruction

Computers and children

ALICE: Ohio University Libraries' Online Catalog

ALICE is the name of the online library catalog for all campuses of Ohio University - Athens, Chillicothe, Eastern, Lancaster, Southern, and Zanesville.

OhioLINK Central Catalog

The OhioLINK Central Catalog represents the combined holdings of more than fifty libraries around the state. (See our page on borrowing books from OhioLINK.)

WorldCat

WorldCat is an international database for bibliographic information catalogued by many thousands of libraries. Consists of over 30 million bibliographic records. This is a good database for identifying materials not held in Ohio libraries. You can't borrow directly through this database. If you find materials here that are not available through OhioLINK, use Ohio University's Interlibrary Loan service.

Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

Indexes and Abstracts

• Indexes 600 international English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and book series in the field of education. Includes books reviews from those publications.
• Coverage of the electronic version is 1983 to the present. It is updated monthly.
• There is also a Retrospective Education Index for 1929-1982.
• Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

• Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.
• Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

• Indexes approximately 600 journals in the field of education and related fields. Also indexes the ERIC document collection. ERIC documents often include papers presented at psychological conferences.
• Coverage is 1966 to the present. It is updated monthly.
• Here is an alternate form of ERIC which is also available in Ohio public schools and public libraries.
• Availability: all on-campus computers; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.
• The ERIC Document Reproduction Service offers free PDF copies of some of the ERIC documents - 80% of the ERIC documents indexed since 1996. (Note: this is for ERIC documents only, not for jounal articles indexed in ERIC.)
• Here is an alternate form of ERIC which is also available in Ohio public schools and public libraries.

• Citations of more than 1.5 million doctoral dissertations and 45,000 masters theses from 550 U.S. and international institutions.
• Selected masters theses and international dissertations included since 1988.
• Abstracts are included from 1981 to the present. Abstracts of earlier dissertations are on microfilm, on the 1st floor of Alden Library. Abstracts are unavailable for years before 1938.
• Supports the ordering of paper and microform copies of dissertations.
• Provides free access to the electronic texts (PDF files) of all Ohio University dissertations published 1997 forward.
• To view or print Portable Display Files (PDF) on your workstation, you will need a copy of the Adobe Acrobat reader loaded on your computer. The Adobe Acrobat reader is distributed free of charge at the Acrobat home page.
• Printing PDF files on the Library's networked printers is NOT recommended because of the length of the printing time and our 7¢ per page printing charge (in addition to the dissertation cost).
• Availability: All on-campus computers with web access; from off-campus, by logging into OhioLink.
• More information on identifying dissertations

• Indexes articles and citations from over 1700 international journals in all areas of the social sciences. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
• Coverage of source journals is 1980 to date. Cited references can come from any time period. It is updated weekly.
• Availability: all on-campus computers with web access; from off-campus, Ohio University students, faculty, and staff have access through a login process.

Instructional Technology Journals

This is a selective list of journals dealing with technology in education. Click on a title to get more information about locations and volumes held.

Association and Other Web Sites

Association for Educational Communications and Technology

URL: http://www.aect.org/

The Association for Educational Communications and Technology is the only international, professional association dedicated to the improvement of instruction through the utilization of media and technology. It provides a forum for the exchange of information among professionals in educational technology: audio-visual media, library and microcomputer specialists; education administrators; researchers; teachers and professors; learning resource specialists; curriculum developers; television producers and directors; and a variety of other professionals who require expertise in instructional technology.

Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education

URL: http://www.aace.org/

AACE is an international, educational, and professional organization dedicated to the advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning and teaching at all levels with information technology. The purpose of AACE is accomplished through the encouragement of scholarly inquiry related to information technology in education and the dissemination of research results and their applications through: publications, conferences, divisions/societies/chapters, inter-organizational projects.

Catalyst

URL: http://depts.washington.edu/catalyst/home.html

Catalyst is an "integrated collection of resources, training, tools, templates, and support" to assist instructors who are implementing new educational technologies into their teaching. It is maintained by the University of Washington's UWired Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology.

Center for Research on Learning and Technology

URL: http://crlt.indiana.edu/

The Center for Research on Learning and Technology (CRLT) promotes and supports a community of scholars dedicated to research and professional development on the design, use, and implementation of technology to improve learning.

Educause

URL: http://www.educause.edu/

EDUCAUSE is an international, nonprofit association whose mission is to help shape and enable transformational change in higher education through the introduction, use, and management of information resources and technologies in teaching, learning, scholarship, research, and institutional management.

International Society for Technology in Education

URL: http://www.iste.org/

ISTE is the largest teacher-based, nonprofit organization in the field of educational technology. Its mission is to help K12 classroom teachers and administrators share effective methods for enhancing student learning through the use of new classroom technologies. ISTE has consistently taken a leadership role in establishing standards for the effective use of information technology in education.

Teaching with Electronic Technology

URL: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teaching.html

The World Wide Web sites collected on this page reflect the considerable variety of uses for computing and related forms of electronic technology in teaching. They are arranged in no strict order, but tend to proceed from rather general and theoretical resources to some instructive examples of specific applications of technology to teaching and learning.

Techlearning

URL: http://www.techlearning.com/

Techlearning serves educators with ideas, tools, and resources for integrating technology into the K-12 school, classroom and curriculum. The individuals behind techlearning.com are the producers of Technology & Learning magazine, SchoolTech Expo & Conference, and the Well Connected Educator Web site.

U.S. Department of Education. Office of Technology

URL: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/index.html

The Office of Educational Technology (OET) encourages and leads education improvement efforts by helping educators, congressional leaders, and administrators utilize available resources to reshape instruction, teaching and learning environments.