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Vishesh Kumar; Peter Wardrip; Rebecca Millerjohn – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Makerspaces, especially in their diverse proliferating forms, support a broad variety of learning outcomes. There is rich work in attempting to understand and describe these learning goals. Yet, there is a lack of support for practitioners and educators to assess the learning in events and programming at makerspaces (and similar environments)…
Descriptors: Shared Resources and Services, Observation, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation
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Kailea Saplan; Sam Abramovich; Peter Wardrip – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Public libraries have embraced the popularity of maker education and makerspaces by integrating maker education in their program offerings, and by developing makerspaces that enable patrons to tinker and create products. But less attention has been paid to supporting librarians and maker educators in assessing the impact of these spaces. To expand…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Design, Shared Resources and Services, Library Personnel
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Kumar, Kari L.; Owston, Ron – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
The use of learning technologies is becoming ubiquitous in higher education. As a result, there is a pressing need to develop methods to evaluate their accessibility to ensure that students do not encounter barriers to accessibility while engaging in e-learning. In this study, sample online units were evaluated for accessibility by automated tools…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Student Participation, Comparative Analysis
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Yanikoglu, Berrin; Gogus, Aytac; Inal, Emre – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
Learning through modules on a tablet helps students participate effectively in learning activities in classrooms and provides flexibility in the learning process. This study presents the design and evaluation of an application that is based on handwriting recognition technologies and e-content for the developed learning modules. The application…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Learning Modules, Handwriting
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García-Cabrero, Benilde; Hoover, Michael L.; Lajoie, Susanne P.; Andrade-Santoyo, Nadia L.; Quevedo-Rodríguez, Lídice M.; Wong, Janice – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2018
The design of online course materials is rarely informed by learning theories or their pedagogical implications. The goal of this research was to develop, implement and assess a virtual learning environment (VLE), SOFIAA, which was designed using the cognitive apprenticeship model (CAM), a pedagogical model based on learning-centered theory. We…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Instructional Materials, Student Centered Learning
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Lee, Jihyun; Lim, Cheolil; Kim, Hyeonsu – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
In response to pedagogical challenges in higher education, blended learning has become a prevalent practice in colleges and universities. Flipped learning (FL) represents a newly emerging form of blended learning, where students individually watch online lectures prior to class and then engage in classroom learning activities interacting with…
Descriptors: Instructional Development, Instructional Design, Models, Blended Learning
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Aslan, Sinem; Reigeluth, Charles M. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Reigeluth et al. ("Educ Technol" 48(6):32-39, 2008) proposed major and secondary functions for educational technology systems for the learner-centered paradigm of education. However, the functions proposed should be formatively evaluated and revised using a variety of cases to develop a better understanding of how technology can support…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mixed Methods Research, Program Evaluation
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Ke, Fengfeng; Hoadley, Christopher – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
This article reviews recent evaluation studies of online learning communities to provide a systematic understanding of how such communities are evaluated. Forty-two representative studies were selected and categorized into a newly developed taxonomy of online learning community evaluations. This taxonomy is divided into four components: evaluation…
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria