Educational technology - an introduction

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This is an outline for a print text on educational technology and of no interest to you for the moment .... DSchneider 18:22, 26 June 2006 (MEST)

Author: DSchneider

Introduction

• See: educational technology

Learning theoretical foundations

Note: This chapter should be short, "understandable" and demonstrate why learning theory is relevant for educational technology practise and research.

What is learning theory ?

• learning theory
• Behaviorism, including various schools like programmed instruction, etc.
• Cognitivism
• Constructivism, including various schools like socio-constructivism, situated cognition, etc.

Learning types, levels and style

• learning type
• learning level
• learning style

Pedagogical foundations

Note: This chapter also should be quite short, introduce terms and relations, etc. Detailed designs will be presented in the next chapter.

Education, pedagogy and instruction

(this should be very short and strongly be linked to learning theory)

• Explain the difference between educational, pegagocial and instructional theory.
• educational theory
• pedagogical theory
• instructional design

Pedagogical strategies and tactics

(Provide a general overview, terms and well know typologies, such as Joyce, Reeves, etc.)

• Pedagogic strategy
• Pedagogic method
• Pedagogical scenario

Overview of instructional design models

(This is quite closely related to the previous section and maybe should be merged)

• Overview: instructional design model

Major instructional designs

• Goal: present a good sample of designs where the use of technology is relevant

(Several sections)

(one section / per major family here)

• Presentation of the most relevant instructional design models

Technologies in education - an overview

Overview

• educational technologies, including a short categorization of major educational technologies and other relevant technologies

Is technology a driving force ?

• Discuss technology as driving force here.

Major technologies

• Goal: Present all major technologies used today in education, each will be linked to appropriate instructional design models and theory.

(Several sections)

(one section / per major family here) See: educational technologies and other relevant technologies

Research and development

Research schools in educational technology

• Overview
• design-based research
• clinical experimentation
• quasi-experimentation (ecologicallly valid experimentation)
• clinical qualitative research (e.g. qualitative cognitive science like dialog analysis)

Development methodology

• instructional design method
• Plus a choice of 4-5 major approaches like:
  • MISA (heavy industrial)
  • Kemp, ADDIE (medium industrial)
  • Light models, such as Backwards design
  • Teacher-centered lesson planning and associated tools.

Evaluation methodology

• Design / course evaluation methodology (for practicionners)

Change management

• Innovation management methodology (this might be a chapter by its own ...)

Various stuff

(to put somewhere else)