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Victoria L. Lowell; Weijian Yan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2024
Virtual reality (VR) in education has tremendous potential in providing immersive and interactive experiences for students. Immersive virtual reality (IVR) technologies and IVR learning experiences have been increasingly used in education settings to support a variety of instructional methods and outcomes by providing experiential and authentic…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Instructional Design, Computer Simulation, Learning Experience
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Lowell, Victoria L.; Moore, Robert L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Integrating authentic learning opportunities into online courses can be particularly challenging. These challenges have contributed to a lack of examples (i.e., case studies) of how online instructors have successfully integrated authentic learning into their courses (Vo et al. 2018). This article fills this gap by describing the process of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Online Courses, Instructional Design, Authentic Learning
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Remshagen, Anja; Huett, Kim C. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
As schools endeavor to provide all students with access to computational thinking and computer science, the hackathon emerges as a competitive and high-energy event that uses authentic problems to motivate learners to engage in the domain of computing. This article presents the design case of a hackathon for teenagers as enacted over five…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Software, Group Activities, Problem Solving
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Sweany, Noelle Wall; Finbow, Emily; Li, Yun; Burgner, Rebecca L. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
This paper offers lessons learned from a partnership between the Texas A&M School of Innovation (I-School) and the Texas A&M Educational Technology program. Taking on the I-School as a "client," online graduate students in an Advanced Instructional Design course spent a semester designing the first of a set of online educational…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Authentic Learning, Distance Education, Institutional Cooperation
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Burden, Kevin; Kearney, Matthew; Schuck, Sandy; Burke, Paul – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2019
This article discusses the results of a survey that measured school teachers' and mobile learning (m-learning) experts' perceptions of the relative importance and effectiveness of various pedagogical principles underpinning m-learning designs. A scan of relevant literature produced a set of articles describing effective innovative m-learning.…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Principles, Educational Innovation, Authentic Learning
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Kartoglu, Ümit; Siagian, Ria Christine; Reeves, Thomas C. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2020
Educational design research (EDR) was applied to address the challenge of providing more public health professionals with opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills related to Good Clinical Practices (GCP) inspections. The conduct of clinical research in accordance with the principles of GCP is necessary to ensure that clinical research…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Personnel, Risk, Occupational Safety and Health