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Developing a Digital Tutor as an Intermediary between Students, Teaching Assistants, and Lecturers
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Sebastian Hobert; Florian Berens – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
Individualized learning support is an essential part of formal educational learning processes. However, in typical large-scale educational settings, resource constraints result in limited interaction among students, teaching assistants, and lecturers. Due to this, learning success in those settings may suffer. Inspired by current technological…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
Personalizing Mathematical Content in Educational Applets Repository: Human Teacher versus Machine-Based Considerations
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Cohen, Anat; Ezra, Orit; Hershkovitz, Arnon; Tzayada, Odelia; Tabach, Michal; Levy, Ben; Segal, Avi; Gal, Kobi – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
Personalizing the use of educational mathematics applets to fit learners' characteristics poses a great challenge. The present study adopted a unique approach by comparing personalization processes implemented by a machine to those implemented by a human teacher. Given the different affordances--the machine's access to historical log file data,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teaching Methods
BE COOL! A Digital Learning Environment to Challenge and Socially Include Gifted Learners
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Eysink, Tessa H. S.; van Dijk, Alieke M.; de Jong, Ton – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
This paper describes the development of the BE COOL! learning environment that gives all children, gifted and non-gifted, the opportunity to learn at a level matching their specific needs and abilities within the social context of regular education. BE COOL! uses the ability-adjusted jigsaw method, in which children of varying ability levels work…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academically Gifted, Inclusion, Educational Environment
Using Critical Incidents of Instructional Design and Multimedia Production Activities to Investigate Instructional Designers' Current Practices and Roles
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Sugar, William A.; Luterbach, Kenneth J. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Through consideration of critical incidents, this study analyzed 106 effective, ineffective and extraordinary instructional design and multimedia production (MP) activities discussed by 36 instructional design professionals. This evaluation provided insights into these professionals' best and not so best practices during the past 6 months.…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Theory Practice Relationship, Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
Flipping the Classroom and Instructional Technology Integration in a College-Level Information Systems Spreadsheet Course
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Davies, Randall S.; Dean, Douglas L.; Ball, Nick – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
The purpose of this research was to explore how technology can be used to teach technological skills and to determine what benefit "flipping" the classroom might have for students taking an introductory-level college course on spreadsheets in terms of student achievement and satisfaction with the class. A pretest posttest…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Introductory Courses, Spreadsheets, Teaching Methods
The Influence of Discussion Groups in a Case-based Learning Environment.
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Flynn, Anna E.; Klein, James D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2001
Examines the role of discussion groups in a case-based environment. College students completed two cases individually or in small discussion groups. Overall, participants in groups liked their method significantly better than those who worked alone, felt they learned more working in a group than they would have working alone, and expressed a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Method (Teaching Technique), College Students, Educational Environment