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Tracey, Monica W.; Hutchinson, Alisa – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2019
In an effort to create meaningful user experiences, instructional designers participate in continuous projection and reflection during design. Empathic design draws on instructional designers' sensitivity toward their learners as a reference for design. Empathic forecasting, or predictions about an emotional reaction to future events, is an…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Emotional Experience, Empathy, Prediction
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Kahn, Peter; Everington, Lucy; Kelm, Kathleen; Reid, Iain; Watkins, Francine – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017
It is important to develop understanding of what underpins the engagement of students in online learning environments. This article reports on a multiple case study that explored student engagement in a set of postgraduate degrees offered on a fully online basis. The study was based on a theorization of student engagement as the exercise of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Educational Environment
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Razzouk, Rim; Johnson, Tristan E. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of case studies on learning outcomes, attitudes toward instructions, and team shared mental models (SMM) in a team-based learning environment in an undergraduate educational psychology course. Approximately 105 students who participated in this study were randomly assigned to either a case-study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Undergraduate Students, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Whipp, Joan L.; Lorentz, R. A. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2009
While literature suggests that college students may be less reluctant to seek help in online rather than traditional courses, little is known about how online instructors give help in ways that lead to increased student help seeking and academic success. In this study, we used theories and research on learning assistance and scaffolding, teacher…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Online Courses, Helping Relationship, Group Dynamics
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Baylor, Amy L. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2002
Describes an experimental study of preservice teachers who developed an instructional plan for a case study within the Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively (MIMIC) computer-based environment. Discusses systematic instructional planning (instructivist agent); constructivist agent; metacognitive awareness; attitude; and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design
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Darabi, A. Aubteen – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2005
This article reports a case study describing how the principles of a cognitive apprenticeship (CA) model developed by Collins, Brown, and Holum (1991) were applied to a graduate course on performance systems analysis (PSA), and the differences this application made in student performance and evaluation of the course compared to the previous…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Systems Analysis, Apprenticeships, Student Attitudes