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Achieving improved quality and validity: reframing research and evaluation of learning technologies

  • Linda Price
    ,
  • Adrian Kirkwood
Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

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Abstract

A critical reading of research literature relating to teaching and learning with technology for open, distance and blended education reveals a number of shortcomings in how investigations are conceptualised, conducted and reported. Projects often lack clarity about the nature of the enhancement that technology is intended to bring about. Frequently there is no explicit discussion of assumptions and beliefs that underpin research studies and the approaches used to investigate the educational impact of technologies. This presentation summarises a number of the weaknesses identified in published studies and considers the implications. Some ways in which these limitations could be avoided through a more rigorous approach to undertaking research and evaluation studies are then outlined and discussed.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 102-115

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

European Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/01/2015

Publication status

Published - 01/01/2015

ISSN

1027-5207

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/622655

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