Beyond functionality and technocracy: creating human involvement with educational technology

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Relationship between Designing Computer-based Educational Games, and Learning Motivation among Elementary Students

Background: Motivation is an important factor in learning. Educational games increase the learning motivation and understanding of students by creating a sense of joy, satisfaction and involvement. However, it is necessary to incorporate learning elements into the games, differently. In this study, the researcher tried to provide a model for designing educational games and determining its relat...

Silicon startup schools: technocracy, algorithmic imaginaries and venture philanthropy in corporate education reform

Technology companies are investing billions of dollars in educational technology, but also creating their own alternative schools. This article traces the emergence of four prototypical ‘silicon startup schools’ as exemplars of a technocratic mode of corporatized education reform: IBM’s P-TECH, part of its Smarter Cities program; AltSchool, a chain of schools based on ‘makerspaces’ established ...

Interactivity in Educational Web Applications: Evaluation Methods and Improvement Strategies

“Interactivity”, a key buzzword of the information age, has become an essential goal of many educational, entertainment and eCommerce Web development efforts. JavaScript-, Javaand Shockwave-applications promise higher involvement of the learner/user, more sophisticated user interactions (beyond the usual hypertext navigation), and Web services that can adapt to the user's skills and preferences...

Using a Single Authoring Environment across the Lifespan of Learning

For a single authoring environment to be sufficiently general to be applicable to contexts across the whole lifespan of learning, some of the benefits that come from knowledge-rich domain specificity have to be sacrificed. Consequently, it is an open question as to whether it is possible to achieve effective learning environments from a generic tool. REDEEM is an authoring environment that aims...