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Sankaranarayanan, Rajagopal; Leung, Javier; Abramenka-Lachheb, Victoria; Seo, Grace; Lachheb, Ahmed – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
In recent years, publications on microlearning have substantially increased, as this topic has received extensive attention from scholars in the instructional design and technology discipline. To better characterize and understand microlearning, there is a need for comprehensive bibliometrics assessments of the literature on microlearning. To this…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Instructional Design, Bibliometrics, Teaching Methods
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Powers, F. Eamonn; Moore, Robert L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2021
As interest in the use of games and gaming elements within learning environments grows, educators and designers may find it easier to account for winning than for losing and failure. This scoping review examines the role of failure and loss within game-based instructional interventions. Because of the varied methods and relatively small number of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Failure, Instructional Design
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Lohman, Laura – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Underutilized in higher education, soft systems thinking can mitigate common challenges in implementing instructional design and technology initiatives. A valuable approach is soft systems methodology (SSM), which captures multiple stakeholder perspectives in rich pictures and activity models to support structured conversations about how to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Systems Approach, Instructional Design, Information Technology
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Frazier-Aich, Lorraine; Beaudry, Justin; MacDonald, Madeleine; Giacumo, Lisa A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic made being socially distant an essential practice to upskill employees. As employers incorporate measures to keep employees socially distant from one another, they also need to consider technology to make this practice possible. Our project with a large state-wide, multi-campus food bank (FB) in the pacific northwest occurred…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Workplace Learning, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Abaci, Serdar; Pershing, James A. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
Human Performance Technology (HPT) is the applied study and practice of improving organizational performance through training and non-training interventions. For practitioners working in this area that identify themselves as an HPT practitioner, organizational training and performance (OTP) specialist, or instructional designer--offering the right…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Organizational Development, Training, Intervention
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Howell, Dusti D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2010
Hundreds of graduate students were introduced to the fields of instructional design and educational technology with the riddle of the smart machines, yet over the years no one has answered it correctly. After revealing the surprising answer to this riddle, both the negative and positive impacts of smart machines are analyzed. An example of this is…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Computer Assisted Instruction