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Ochsner, Amanda; Corwin, Zoë B. – Educational Technology, 2017
In 2014, researchers at the Pullias Center for Higher Education at the University of Southern California (USC) received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement in Postsecondary Education's First in the World program to do research aimed at understanding how games can be used to cultivate college knowledge and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Games, Instructional Design, Design Requirements
Jan, Mingfong; Gaydos, Matthew – Educational Technology, 2016
This article aims at clarifying and conceptualizing game-based learning (GBL) in order to pinpoint directions for practices and research. The authors maintain that GBL should be conceptualized toward the transformation of a textbook-learning culture. The authors emphasize the importance of a paradigm shift in learning and a reorientation in…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Research, Educational Games, Learning Strategies
Langton, Matthew; Manwaring, Kristine; Fry, Leanna; West, Richard E. – Educational Technology, 2015
The authors examined articles published in the "Journal of Computing in Higher Education" between 2003 and 2012 with the purpose of determining the main themes of these articles, the types of research published, the major contributing authors, and the most-cited articles. An analysis was made of 129 original papers published by…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Research, Higher Education, Journal Articles
Shaughnessy, Michael F.; Fulgham, Susan M. – Educational Technology, 2015
J. Michael Spector's academic preparation was in philosophy--epistemology and logic, primarily. His dissertation was on skepticism in modern philosophy, and that led him to a deep-seated appreciation for classical skepticism. The word "skeptic" is derived from the Greek word "skepsis," which means investigation. While the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Interviews, Technology Uses in Education, Teacher Education Programs
Fulgham, Susan M.; Shaughnessy, Michael F. – Educational Technology, 2014
Jan Herrington is a Professor of Education at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where she teaches educational technology in the School of Education, including a compulsory first year unit called "Living and Learning with Technology." She has been active in the promotion and support of the effective use of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interviews, Profiles, Higher Education
Reeves, Thomas C.; Hedberg, John G. – Educational Technology, 2014
Rising costs, perceived declining value, and weak evidence of quality outcomes bedevil contemporary higher education. One innovation intended to address these problems is the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). This article recommends that the educational technology community and others get REAL about MOOCs by focusing more serious effort on…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Educational Technology, Higher Education
Nelson, Wayne A. – Educational Technology, 2013
Notions of design, research, and design research in the field of educational technology are quite different from conceptualizations held by other design fields. Examining the ways that research is conducted and used in educational technology in comparison to other design fields can provide novel insights into how research and design practice can…
Descriptors: Design, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Curriculum Design
Akahori, Kanji – Educational Technology, 2011
The author describes a research methodology for college course improvement, and applies the results to education courses. In Japan, it is usually difficult to carry out research on college course improvement, because faculty cannot introduce experimental design approaches based on control and treatment groupings of students in actual classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Courses, Instructional Design
Boutwell, Richard C.; Barton, Grant E. – Educational Technology, 1974
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Cohen, Vicki Blum – Educational Technology, 1985
Discusses how operant conditioning has not brought instructional designers any closer to using feedback effectively in computer assisted instruction they design, defines and describes types of feedback, presents guidelines for effective feedback use, and suggests use of templates to bring instructional design to a sophisticated level of…
Descriptors: Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction, Design Preferences, Educational Research
Kearsley, Greg P.; Frost, Jana – Educational Technology, 1985
Describes examples of outstanding videodiscs, summarizes evidence on effectiveness of videodisc as a teaching tool, and discusses factors associated with design of effective videodisc for instruction. Such factors include interactivity, visual design, organization, active participation, metaphors and models, personality, and a team approach. (MBR)
Descriptors: Branching, Educational Research, Industrial Training, Instructional Design
Laurillard, Diana M. – Educational Technology, 1984
Describes a feasibility study designed to investigate interactive video and the balance of student versus program control with respect to the sequence of content presentation, the choice of how many practice exercises to do, and the strategy for alternating between the modes of receptive and active learning. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making, Educational Research, Feasibility Studies
Briggs, Leslie J. – Educational Technology, 1982
Current strengths and weaknesses of instructional system design are summarized and the future of instructional design is discussed in areas of educational technology and futurism, changes in instructional design models, new research, and future changes in practice settings. Nineteen references are provided. (EJS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Technology, Futures (of Society), Instructional Design
Winn, William – Educational Technology, 1981
Reviews research related to content organization and learning and identifies some strategies for designing meaningful content organization that research has suggested might be useful to instructional designers. Forty references are listed. (Author/CHC)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Algorithms, Cognitive Ability, Course Content
Weinstein, Carol S. – Educational Technology, 1981
Reviews some of the most relevant research regarding classroom design, draws from this research a number of principles for the design and management of classroom space, and discusses issues that need to be examined with respect to the effective use of the physical environment in instruction. Forty-two references are listed. (Author/CHC)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities Design