Since it takes forever for this “Special Issue on Open Educational Resources” in the Journal E-Learning and Digital Media to be published, here are the abstract and preprint of a recent article: What’s Educational about Open Educational Resources? Different Theoretical … Read more

In April 2012, Pew Internet Research  published the results of a study on reading habits. The Reading Habits Survey (PDF, 68 pages) obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,986 people ages 16 and older living in the … Read more

TCC 2012 took place from April 17-19. Over 500 participants gathered online for three days of online presentations and discussions. The conference schedule featured 2 keynotes, 50 general presentations, 40 student presentation and 7 peer-reviewed contributions in two parallel tracks. … Read more

The Technology, Colleges and Community Worldwide Online Conference (TCC Online Conference) is a virtual professional development event held annually online. This event is enables faculty, staff and administrators in higher education worldwide to share their expertise and engage in productive … Read more

Anderson, T. & Shattuck, J. (2012). Design-based research: A decade of progress in education research? Educational Researcher, 41 (1), 16-25. Available at SAGE online. The article summarizes the history of design based research, compares the DBR approach to action research … Read more

This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor ‘real-time’ how new research findings are being read, cited, used and transformed in practical results and applications? … Read more

Here is the translated abstract of a recently published article in the German journal for media pedagogy. Edusphere meets Blogosphere: Weblogs in Higher Education – Citation Cartel or Discourse Revolution? Abstract: This paper deals with the topic “edublogging”, the use … Read more

One thing that is continuously exciting for educational technology researchers about simple Web 2.0 tools such as weblogs is their ability to foster informal learning. Usually we focus on edublogging in the context of e.g., second language acquisition, writing skills … Read more

A survey by Pew Internet states that 64% of online adults in the US use social networking sites – that amounts to half the full adult population. Among internet users, social networking sites are most popular with young adults under … Read more

The online conference Global TIME 2012, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), took place from Feb 7th-9th. Read the conference report and interview with program chair Theo Bastiaens at Educational Technology and Change Journal. … Read more