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EDU 800 Week 10

This week I decided to further explore the work of Leu and Coiro.  As their work appears foundational to research in New Literacies, I thought it a good idea to explore a theory they suggest for designing research in this area. Leu, D. J., Kinzer, C. K., Coiro, J.,...

EDU 811 Week 10 Article Summaries

de Bruin, A. B. H., & van Merriënboer, J. J. G. (2017). Bridging Cognitive Load and Self-Regulated Learning Research: A complementary approach to contemporary issues in educational research. Learning and Instruction, 51, 1–9....

EDU 800 Week 9

Higashi, R. M., Schunn, C. D., & Flot, J. B. (2017). Different underlying motivations and abilities predict student versus teacher persistence in an online course. Educational Technology Research and Development, 65(6), 1471–1493....

EDU 811 Week 8 Article Summaries

Boelens, R., De Wever, B., & Voet, M. (2017). Four key challenges to the design of blended learning: A systematic literature review. Educational Research Review, 22, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2017.06.001 In this article, the...

EDU 800 Week 8

This week I decided to explore the work of Richardson a bit more as I found her article in the weekly readings useful and well-articulated.  I found the following article which discusses critical thinking and student preferences in discussion boards.   Richardson, J....

EDU 800 Week 7

This week I decided to look at some of the other research involving TPACK.  There’s a wealth of articles out there, so it took some effort to choose which to review.  I ended up going with an article from Koehler, one of the creators of TPACK, referenced below:...

EDU 800 Week 6 Post 2

This week I was able to find a couple of articles concerned with levels of interactivity in online video content.  My search yielded several interesting articles, of which I picked two to review. Below is the first. Delen, E., Liew, J., & Willson, V. (2014). Effects...

EDU 800 Week 6 post 1

This article was the second of two I reviewed that dealt with learning outcomes of various forms of interactivity in video. Cojean, S., & Jamet, E. (2017). Facilitating information-seeking activity in instructional videos: The combined effects of micro- and...

EDU 800 Week 5

This week I decided to explore current hypertext research.  I was able to find an article using similar methods and addressing some of the dame concerns as the readings for the week.   Salmerón, L., Naumann, J., García, V., & Fajardo, I. (2017). Scanning and deep...

EDU 800 Week 4

This week I decided to explore some of the more recent work from Kozma, Solomon and Perkins. I scanned through quite a few articles and found, as might be expected, that the interests of each have shifted over the years in several different directions. Additionally,...

EDU 800 Week 3

This week I took a look at two very similar articles.  Both were studies of trends in educational technology research methodology and subject matter over the course of two starting points and ending in 2014.  I read the article from Scientometrics first, which...

EDU 800 Week 2

This week I was able to find an interesting article from ETRD on conceptual frameworks for educational technology research.  I’ve been trying to follow the AECT lately and this was a nice, relevant find for this week’s topics. Antonenko, P. D. (2015). The instrumental...