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Bruce Parsons; John H. Curry – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
This article investigates an artificial intelligence language model, ChatGPT, and its ability to complete graduate-level instructional design assignments. The approach subjected ChatGPT to a needs, task, and learner analysis for a 12th-grade media literacy module and benchmarked its performance by expert evaluation and measurements via grading…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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Jennifer Darling-Aduana; Kristin Hemingway – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
The Reimagining Online Education project used Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) to foster a collaborative, student-driven research process with the aim of amplifying the voices and experiences of students belonging to minoritized groups in curriculum development for online courses. The project provided students the opportunity to evaluate…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Online Courses, Curriculum Design, Participatory Research
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Dennen, Vanessa P.; Rutledge, Stacey A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2018
For American teenagers, social media participation has become a routine feature of everyday life, with ready access to their online networks via smartphones, tablets, and computers. Despite questions and concerns about its effects, relatively few educational researchers have qualitatively explored how students use social media. Complexities such…
Descriptors: Social Media, Educational Research, High School Students, Adolescents
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Shanley, Nicole; Martin, Florence; Hite, Nicole; Perez-Quinones, Manuel; Ahlgrim-Delzell, Lynn; Pugalee, David; Hart, Ellen – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2022
Current research surrounding online computer science education emphasizes the need for high-quality professional development opportunities. However, there is a gap in research in the inclusion of online computer science educators to identify needs and strategies that make the online computer science courses effective. Through a…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Computer Science Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Partnerships in Education
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Luterbach, Kenneth J.; Rodriguez, Diane; Love, Lakecia – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2012
This paper describes an instructional development effort to create effective and compelling instruction for eCommerce students. Results from a small field study inform the development project. Four high school students in an eCommerce course completed the standalone tutorial developed to teach them how to create a web page in the HyperText Markup…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Instructional Development, High School Students, Student Motivation