Digital learning publications
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It’s About Time: Purpose, Methods and Challenges of Temporal Analyses of Multiple Data Streams
This workshop explores issues emerging from integrating data streams by identifying a set of analytic difficulties researchers commonly face, and illustrating the application of specific methods that address these challenges.
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Assessing Systems Thinking and Complexity in Science
This technical report provides support for designing tasks that assess systems thinking, in the form of a design pattern.
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Scaffolding knowledge communities in the classroom: New opportunities in the Web 2.0 era
This chapter reports two studies that used a wiki to deliver a new curriculum model that blends scripted inquiry activities with collaborative knowledge construction in secondary school biology.
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An Analysis of Student Practices in Asynchronous Computer Conferencing Courses
The current study examined the online habits and “survival strategies” of 57 students enrolled in graduate-level distance education courses.
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Datasets for Inquiry in Geoscience: A Design Model
This article describes the results of a proof of concept project, Data Sets for Inquiry in Geoscience (DIGS), funded by the National Science Foundation.
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Preparing Students for Future Learning with Teachable Agents
One valuable goal of instructional technologies in K-12 education is to prepare students for future learning. Two classroom studies examined whether Teachable Agents (TA) achieves this goal.
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Integration of Technology, Curriculum, and Professional Development for Advancing Middle School Mathematics: Three Large-Scale Studies
The authors present three studies designed to evaluate the impact of replacement units targeting student learning of advanced middle school mathematics.
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Teaching Routines to Enhance Collaboration using Classroom Network Technology
This chapter presents an argument for the use of teaching routines (pedagogical patterns) to engage students in collaborative learning activities using the Group Scribbles classroom network technology.
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Addressing The Assessment Challenge In An Online System That Tutors As It Assesses
Our hypothesis is that we can achieve more accurate assessment by not only using data on whether students get test items right or wrong, but by also using data on…
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Bridging School and Home: Students’ Engagement with Technology-Rich Activities
This poster describes ongoing work that examines students use of a computer-based learning environment designed to bridge school and out-of-school learning contexts by incorporating affordances of both formal and informal…
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Evaluation of the Enhancing Education through Technology Program: Final Report
The purpose of this report is to provide descriptive information about educational technology practices related to the core objectives of the DOE’s Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT) program.
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Analyzing Online Social Networking in Professional Learning Communities: Cyber Networks Require Cyber-Research Tools
The authors argue that conceptual and methodological limitations in existing research approaches severely hamper theory building and empirical exploration of teacher learning and collaboration through cyber-enabled networks.