Educational Technology Research: Contexts, Complexity and Challenges

Computer games in educational contexts – didactic challenges

The overall aim of the study has been to gain knowledge about computer games used in an educational context. In our research we have analyzed and interpreted the game`s characteristic interactive dramaturgy exposed in the interplay between the game and the gamer and integrated in the medium itself. We have looked specifically at the challenges that the educator faces in the didactic interaction...

Challenges Facing Educational Research

Six Challenges for Educational Technology

Many exciting applications of information technology in schools validate that new technology-based models of teaching and learning have the power to dramatically improve educational outcomes. As a result, many people are asking how to scale-up the scattered, successful “islands of innovation” instructional technology has empowered into universal improvements in schooling enabled by major shifts...

On the Educational Validity of Research in Educational Technology

Alsop and Tompsett argued in 2007 that research in educational technology was over-focused on technological design and that empirical research that was pertinent to educational change should be assessed against two distinct scales. The first considers the quality of the experimental design in validating the conclusions that are reached, whilst the second assesses the extent to which the experim...

Current Trends in Educational Technology Research

Educational technology research has moved through several stages or “ages”, focusing at the beginning on the content to be learned, then on the format of instructional messages and, finally on the interaction between computers and students. The present paper reviews the research in technology-based learning environments in order to give both a historical perspective on educational technology re...