Terry Gandell

• Managing Director at world wide webbers

Given the importance noted in the literature of interaction skills in face-to-face augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and the new ways of interacting that telecommunications offers to individuals using AAC systems (both graphic and orthographic), this study compared a face-to-face and telecommunications conversation between a speaking...

In this paper, we analyse a collective approach towards enhancing undergraduate Engineering Educa-tion. All the authors, both engineers and faculty developers, have, at some point in this collaboration, been involved in the vision, development or implementation. Our desire is to demonstrate the incremental nature of the process as well as evidence...

To understand the creative possibilities for the instructional uses of technology, it is important to understand what professors’ are thinking about or imagining they could be doing. This article describes how an analysis of teaching improvement grants can inform us regarding professors’ instructional choices for the use of technology in higher edu...

This paper documents how a teaching improvement fund in a research-intensive university exemplifies a scholarly approach to teaching. We describe how the organization of the fund provides professors with the structure to engage in scholarly activities. In other words, professors identify and make explicit their expertise related to teaching, the pr...

This paper describes the process used by a research team to develop a coding system for analyzing data from interview transcripts and situates the process within approaches to qualitative analysis. Successive versions of the coding scheme illustrate its development over several years; the role of team members and verification in this evolution are...

Many individuals are creating instruction that will be used for online learning. This paper reviews four generic categories of instructional principles: Instructional Design (pedagogical issues), Subject Matter (content issues), Language (semantic and syntactic issues), and Presentation (physical issues), that should be used as guidelines when desi...

A patient who sustained brainstem thrombosis provides feedback on hospital care. Twelve months post trauma, the patient discusses the important role of hospital staff and visitors in his recovery and provides helpful feedback to all care-givers.

Augmentative communicators are perceived to have difficulty with reading and writing. This research investigates the effect of increased opportunity to communicate via telecommunications on the reading and writing of adult augmentative communicators who are severely disabled. Two case studies were conducted utilizing a single subject, repeated meas...