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
Definitions of the field
A short history
The role of technology and media in education
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
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.)
Categorization of learning designs
- Overview: instructional design model
Major instructional designs
(abstract scenarios)
(Several sections)
(one section / per major family here)
- Presentation of the most relevant instructional design models
Technologies in education - an overview
Overview
Is technology a driving force ?
- Discuss technology as driving force here.
Major technologies
This chaper will contain a list of today's most important technologies used in education.
(Several sections)
(one section / per major family here)
- Presentation of the most relevant educational technologies and other relevant technologies
(Several sections)
(one section / per major family here)
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
- design method
- Plus a choice of 4-5 major approaches like:
Evaluation methodology
Change management
The relation between research and the field
Various stuff
(to put somewhere else)