ISTC541: Foundations of Instructional Technology
Educational Technology & Instructional Design

International Society for Technology in Education [ISTE]
Includes National Educational Technology Standards [NETS]

e-Learning:Putting a World Class Education at the Fingertips of All Children
[National Educational Technology Plan]
Provides the full e-learning report prepared by the U.S. Department of Education, information on development and revision of the 1996 National Educational Technology Plan, Timeline, and State-by-State Progress on Educational Technology

Encyclopedia of Distributed Learning. 2004
Articles arranged under the broad categories of: Administrative Processes; Policy, Finance, and Governance; Social and Cultural Perspectives; Student and Faculty Issues; Teaching and Learning Processes and Technologies; and Te hnical Tools and Supports.

Topics covered include knowledge building and management, learning communities, designing learning environments, facilitation, online learning, asynchronous formats, delivery systems, learning objects, streaming media, and Web portals.

Ref
LB15 E47

Encyclopedia of Education. 8 v. 2003
Articles provide overviews of educational topics with bibliographies.

Cook Library also subscribes to the online version of this encyclopedia. Access it through the
Cook Library Web Site. You will be prompted for a Library User ID and your last name when you are off campus.

ERIC Digests
Short articles and overviews on recent trends in education. Ceased publication in June 2004.
Note:TU has 95% of the ERIC documents on microfiche. These are housed on 2nd floor of library behind the Periodicals information desk. To retrieve the full-text of an ERIC Document you need only its 6 digit ERIC accession # (e.g. ED123456).

Catalog
Available from the Cook Library Web site

Search for books, media, and journals owned by Cook

Some possible subjects (Search by choosing subject beginning with ):

• educational technology = LB1028.3
• computer-assisted instruction = LB1028.5
• media programs (education) = LB1028.4
• instructional systems - design = LB1028.38
• individualized instruction = LB1031
• internet in education = LB1044.87
• distance education = LC5805

Search by specific technology, for example:

• interactive multimedia
• interactive video

Periodical Databases
Available from the Cook Library Web site

Searching databases from ON CAMPUS:

• Click on Find Articles by Subject, then Education, OR Find Articles by Database Title,
  • then on a database name (e.g. ERIC [EBSCO])

Searching databases from OFF CAMPUS:

• Click on the Research Port link from the Cook Library homeome page
• You will be prompted to enter your 14-digit Library ID/Barcode (on the front of your Towson OneCard (e.g. 2205520XXXXXXX) and last name
• Click on Log in
• Click on the DATABASE BY NAME tab
• Type the name of the database that you want to search
• Click on the name of the database in the resulting list
• From this point, proceed as you would if you were on campus

ERIC [EBSCO] (Requires your library ID from off-campus)

The database of choice for scholarly and professional journal articles and other materials in education.

Use the Thesaurus to find subjects used to index the articles, including scope notes, narrower terms and related terms

After determining appropriate subject to use, click on to search

• MH Descriptors (Major) = major points that an article covers
• SU Descriptors (All) = minor points that an article covers
• May Limit your results by:
  • Educational Level (e.g. Elementary, Secondary, Higher)
  • Publication Type = Choose Report - Research/Technical to search for peer-reviewed (e.g. reseach studies) material
• Click on to return to the limit your results screen
• Click on to determine if a journal article is available in full text from another database or in print on the 2nd floor of Cook Library

Education Abstracts (Requires your library ID from off-campus)

This EBSCO database complements ERIC, indexing articles not only from Education journals, but from other journals outside of the field that are relevant to education.

• Since this is also an EBSCO database, you can search it simultaneously with ERIC
  • To do this, click on
  • Select ERIC and any other databases that you want to search
  • Click on Continue

Computer Science Index (Requires your library ID from off-campus)

Try this EBSCO database for additional articles on topics such as distance education, software programs, computer-assisted and web-based instruction that are in journals not indexed in ERIC.

• Since this is also an EBSCO database, you can search it simultaneously with ERIC
  • To do this, click on
  • Select ERIC and any other databases that you want to search
  • Click on Continue
    

There are over 35 freely accessible electronic journals listed in DOAJ that deal with educational technology. Browse through the alphabetical list of journals listed under Education to see what's available. Search DOAJ by keyword to determine availability of articles on your topic of interest.

Determining if a Periodical is Available through Cook Library

• Check Find Articles by Journal Title on the Cook Library Web site to see if Cook Library currently subscribes to a particular journal, magazine, or newspaper
• Journals in electronic format to which the subscribes are best accessed from off campus by going through Research Port
  • Once logged in, click on the E-Journals tab and type in the name of the journal
• If Cook Library does not own a periodical article that you need, you may order a free copy through Interlibrary Loan (e.g. ILLiad)

Educator's Desk Reference: Educational Technology

• List of annotated Web links on educational technology selected by the Information Institute of Syracuse, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
• Includes Web resources on topics such as distance learning, instructional issues, integrating technology, staff inservice, and technology planning.

Google

• Instructional Technology
• Instructional Design

Yahoo

• Instructional Technology
• Instructional Design

Brief guides to using APA style are available on the Cook Library Web site. I highly recommend Diane Hacker's excellent guide for citing in APA style: Social Sciences:Documenting Sources .

• Note that when you are using articles that are available in full text through a database or Web sites, you must cite them according to the examples given in APA Style for Electronic Sources.
• Citing ERIC in APA Format provides examples of how to cite ERIC Digests and documents.