In his article about screen time, Etchells asserts that existing research has not produced sufficient evidence to inform policies which would set screen time guidelines for children. He provides examples of research studies that have not been able to conclusively… Continue Reading →
By Laren Helfer, Sandra Kuipers, Kathy Moore, Mark Regan Clark (1994) and Kozma (1994) see opposite sides of the issue regarding if and how media influences learning. As a team, we were tasked with looking at what is happening in… Continue Reading →
By Sharon Ambata-Villanueva and Laren Helfer Health information management is an important consideration in the delivery of healthcare. Given that we (as partners in this activity) both work with health information systems in our professional lives, we identified a mutual… Continue Reading →
In “First Principles of Instruction”, Merrill illustrates how various instructional theories commonly incorporate five basic principles of instructional design; that learning is promoted when it is problem centered, integrated, activated, applied, and demonstrated (2002). In trying to understand these principles… Continue Reading →
In light of my prior blog post (about the history of Ed-Tech, where I referenced how potential gains in the field weren’t always fully recognized and why that might be), I chose to showcase here an example of Ed-Tech done… Continue Reading →
In comparing Reiser’s account of significant events in the past 100 years or so of educational technology, with Weller’s account of the 20 subsequent years, one theme which seemed to resurface again and again in both articles was that of… Continue Reading →
A quick scan of literature from the Journal of Educational Technology & Society would reveal that contemporary discussions around educational technology might be centered around topics such as mobile devices, web-based distance learning, game-based learning, or virtual reality to name… Continue Reading →
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