Australasian Journal of Educational Technology 31:5 Published on EdITLib

An issue of Australasian Journal of Educational Technology has just been added to EdITLib.

The table of contents is available here: http://www.editlib.org/j/AJET/v/31/n/5//

Contents

Educational design research: Signs of progress

Thomas Reeves
This special issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology includes an introductory article by the guest editors and six papers that illustrate the potential of educational design research (EDR) … More

Conjecture mapping to optimize the design-based research process

Helen Wozniak
While educational design research promotes closer links between practice and theory, reporting its outcomes from iterations across multiple contexts is often constrained by the volumes of data generated and the … More

Professional development in higher education: Designing and evaluating an interactive teaching resource portal

Jen Curwood, Martin Tomitsch, Kate Thomson & Graham Hendry
Previous research on professional development identified that face-to-face consultation is an effective approach to support academics’ learning from their Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) results. However, this approach is labour … More

Re-designing university courses to support collaborative knowledge creation practices

Minna Lakkala, Auli Toom, Liisa Ilomki & Hanni Muukkonen
Higher education institutions should not only aim to educate academic experts who master their own fields, but also give their students generic skills important in the current society. New teaching … More

Exploring College Students’ Online Help-Seeking Behavior in a Flipped Classroom with a Web-Based Help-Seeking Tool

Erkan Er, Theodore Kopcha, Michael Orey & Wendy Dustman
Today’s generation often seeks help from each other in online environments; however, only a few investigated the role of Internet technologies and the nature of online help-seeking behavior in collaborative … More

R-NEST: Design-Based Research for Technology-Enhanced Reflective Practice in Initial Teacher Education

Bonnie Thompson Long & Tony Hall
This paper reports research into developing digital storytelling (DST) to enhance reflection within a specific professional learning context – that of a programme of teacher education – while concomitantly producing … More

In search of design principles for developing digital learning & performance support for a student design task

Lars Bollen, Hans van der Meij, Henny Leemkuil & Susan McKenney
A digital learning and performance support environment for university student design tasks was developed. This paper describes on the design rationale, process, and the usage results to arrive at a … More