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Postholm, May Britt – Educational Research, 2020
Background: This article focuses on the complementarity between formative interventions research conducted within the framework of cultural historical activity theory, action research and learning, as well as how this complementarity influences the researcher's role. Purpose: The study suggests how action research, learning and formative…
Descriptors: Action Research, Active Learning, Intervention, Educational Research
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Hokanson, Sarah Chobot; Grannan, Sharisse; Greenler, Robin; Gillian-Daniel, Donald L.; Campa, Henry, III; Goldberg, Bennett B. – Innovative Higher Education, 2019
Designers of professional development activities and programs within higher education generally believe workshop learning outcomes and learner-created materials are what graduate students and postdoctoral scholars value from participating in these activities. We created a new structure for online synchronous workshops that integrates active…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Electronic Learning, Workshops, Graduate Students
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Lin, Tzu-Chiang; Hsu, Ying-Shao; Lin, Shu-Sheng; Changlai, Maio-Li; Yang, Kun-Yuan; Lai, Ting-Ling – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
This content analysis of articles in the Social Science Citation Index journals from 1995 to 2009 was conducted to provide science educators with empirical evidence regarding the effects of scaffolding on science learning. It clarifies the definition, design, and implementation of scaffolding in science classrooms and research studies. The results…
Descriptors: Research, Alternative Assessment, Social Sciences, Active Learning
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Glasson, George E. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
Environmental educators are challenged by how to teach children about global environmental crisis such as the Gulf oil spill, which only serves to engender children's fears and apprehensions about the negative impact of humans on ecosystems. Eduardo Dopico and Eva Garcia-Vazquez's article presents an interesting context from which to analyze and…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Agriculture, Sustainable Development
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van Rooij, Shahron Williams – Computers & Education, 2009
This paper reports the results of a study of the extent to which processes and procedures from the discipline of project management can scaffold online project-based learning in a graduate-level instructional technology course, by facilitating intra-team interaction, enhancing project outcomes and promoting a positive project team experience. With…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Design
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Pelletier, Caroline – E-Learning, 2005
Digital or computer games have recently attracted the interest of education researchers and policy-makers for two main reasons: their interactivity, which is said to allow greater agency, and their inherent pleasures, which are linked to increased motivation to learn. However, the relationship between pleasure, agency and motivation in educational…
Descriptors: Play, Educational Games, Learning Motivation, Educational Technology