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How Do I Know It's Working? A Teacher's Search for Evidence
Melissa Warr; Richard West
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1093–1098
Most educators agree that educational efficacy increases when teachers use data to make instructional decisions. Teachers also develop experiential knowledge that assists in many of the day-to-day decisions made in the classroom. When teachers...
Topics: Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, K-12 Online Learning
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Designing for Critical Dialogue Online: Challenges and Opportunities
Melissa Warr; Carrie Sampson
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1303–1308
Critical dialogue is an epistemological tool that uses conflict, reflection, and authenticity to help students address sensitive social issues. The embodied, action-based, and community aspects of critical dialogue make it particularly difficult to...
Topics: Ethical, cultural, historical, and social issues in technology use, online learning environments, Learning Communities
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Best Practices in Implementing an Online Learning Program for Elementary Literacy Intervention
Melissa Warr; Nari Carter
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 718–723
Educators face many challenges when integrating technology into school systems. During the 2015?2016 school year, a school district in the Pacific Northwest received a large technology grant to integrate new programs into its schools. The district ...
Topics: English Education, K-12 Online Learning
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Teachers and Design: A Literature Review
Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 1265–1272
Many scholars have used a design lens to understand teachers and teacher education. Design is changing an existing situation to a desired one; it is the process of creating something new. The literature on teachers and design is broad and describes...
Topics: Creativity, Research & Evaluation, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Beyond TPACK: Expanding Technology and Teacher Education to Systems and Culture
Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra; Ben Scragg
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 2558–2562
Despite copious amounts of research on technology in education, many teachers still struggle to use technology effectively. Much research on technology integration focuses on teacher education and design. For example, the TPACK framework describes...
Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Research & Evaluation, Technology Leadership
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Collaboration, Creation, and Community: A Virtual Community of Practice for Teacher Educators
Jodie Donner; Melissa Warr; Punya Mishra
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 406–410
Instructors who work at large universities or in distance learning programs often have limited face-to-face contact with one another leading to fewer collaboration and co-learning opportunities. A lack of consistent interaction can make designing...
Topics: faculty development
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The 5 Discourses of Design in e-Learning
Punya Mishra; Ben Scragg; Melissa Warr
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 1362–1365
The history of educational technology is littered with cycles of hype and despair about the potential of a new technology and how it would transform education. We suggest that one reason our field has not been successful at changing education is...
Topics: (2017) Research, (2017) Policy Issues, (2017) Instructional Design, Other
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What Do We Mean When We “Design” e-Learning Solutions? An Analysis of Discourses on Design, Technology, and Education
Melissa Warr; Danah Henriksen; Punya Mishra
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2018 (Oct 15, 2018) pp. 717–722
Creators of e-learning solutions often call themselves “designers,” but what does it mean when they “design”? The broader educational research literature has recently seen an increase in interest around design, but the meaning of design across...
Topics: Game-based learning
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Educational Technology Research Journals: "Cognition and Instruction," 2003-2012
Melissa C. Warr; Kari Ross Nelson; Richard E. West
Educational Technology Vol. 54, No. 2 (2014) pp. 26–31
In this study, the authors examined the journal "Cognition and Instruction" to discover trends from the past decade (2003-2012). They looked at trends in article topics, research methods, authorship, and article citations by analyzing...