scholarly journals Pragmatic meta-analytic studies: learning the lessons from naturalistic evaluations of multiple cases

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Lam ◽  
Carmel McNaught ◽  
Kin-Fai Cheng

This paper explores the concept of pragmatic meta-analytic studies in eLearning. Much educational technology literature focuses on developers and teachers describing and reflecting on their experiences. Few connections are made between these experiential ‘stories’. The data set is fragmented and offers few generalisable lessons. The field needs guidelines about what can be learnt from such single-case reports. The pragmatic meta-analytic studies described in this paper have two common aspects: (1) the cases are related in some way, and (2) the data are authentic, that is, the evaluations have followed a naturalistic approach. We suggest that examining a number of such cases is best done by a mixed-methods approach with an emphasis on qualitative strategies. In the paper, we overview 63 eLearning cases. Three main meta-analytic strategies were used: (1) meta-analysis of the perception of usefulness across all cases, (2) metaanalysis of recorded benefits and challenges across all cases, and (3) meta-analysis of smaller groups of cases where the learning design and/or use of technology are similar. This study indicated that in Hong Kong the basic and non-interactive eLearning strategies are often valued by students, while their perceptions of interactive strategies that are potentially more beneficial fluctuate. One possible explanation relates to the level of risk that teachers and students are willing to take in venturing into more innovative teaching and learning strategies.Keywords: evaluation; meta-analysis; eLearning cases; risk-takingDOI: 10.1080/09687760802315879

Author(s):  
Blanche Jackson Glimps ◽  
Theron Ford

Technology is part of our daily lives; we can observe the use of technology in our cell phones and portable computers and, most notably, within classrooms. If used within the proper pedagogical context, computer-aided technology can be quite advantageous to teacher educators whose pedagogical belief is also centered on teaching and learning that is responsive to students’ needs and cultures. When technology is combined with Problem-Based Learning (PBL), it can be a powerful aid to help pre-service teachers build cultural literacy and the skills needed to be responsive to students’ needs. This chapter presents a single case study of the highly successful academic outcomes through the wedding of PBL and technology.


Author(s):  
David A. Slykhuis ◽  
Rebecca McNall Krall

In this review of recent literature on the use of technology to teach science content, 143 articles from 8 science education journals were selected and analyzed for the use of technologies in teaching science, pedagogies employed, and successes of the implementations. The resultant data provides a snapshot on how technology is being used in the teaching and learning of science, and the research methods used to explore these issues. Levels of research and levels of success were developed and applied to the article data set to characterize the types of research and technology implementations described in the literature. Articles that showed high levels of successful implementation of technology along with a high level of research were explored and explained in greater detail. The review underscores the research trend toward using technology to illustrate abstract concepts and make objects that are invisible to the naked eye, visible and malleable in computer modeling programs. Implications for successful use of technology to teach science are discussed.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Afif Wijang Wahid Ramadhan ◽  
Dhoifullah Dhoifullah ◽  
Husen Husen ◽  
Candra Candra ◽  
Sri Mulyati

In this pandemic era, face-to-face learning cannot be done because the transmission of the virus is very dangerous and after all learning activities must continue, to improve the quality of education in Indonesia, therefore in this sophisticated era we must make the best use of technology for the wrong teaching and learning activities. the only way is by holding it online, but not all schools carry out learning activities with technology, there are still many who do conventional learning such as learning activities in school. The benefit of implementing online learning methods is to make it easier for teachers and students in terms of learning activities. The analysis method used is literature study. design methods that do use the concept of software engineering.


2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (44) ◽  
pp. 97-117
Author(s):  
Alex Alex Sander Miranda Lobo ◽  
Luiz Claudio Gomes Maia ◽  
Fernando Silva Parreiras

Este artigo apresenta uma pesquisa de dissertação, na qual se buscou desenvolver uma ferramenta de visualização de Dados Abertos (Open Data) para uso no processo de ensino e aprendizagem em uma turma do terceiro ano do Ensino Médio na disciplina de Geografia. Teve como objetivo principal verificar como essa ferramenta influenciaria nesse processo. Para atingir o objetivo do trabalho, foi realizada uma pesquisa preponderantemente qualitativa com natureza descritiva, com referencial teórico baseado na aprendizagem significativa e no uso das tecnologias da informação e comunicação no processo de ensino e aprendizagem. Foi realizada uma entrevista inicial junto ao professor da disciplina e a aplicação de questionários ao professor e aos alunos do terceiro ano, após o uso da aplicação de visualização de dados abertos e, por fim, foi proposto um teste avaliativo entre turmas que usaram o aplicativo e turmas que não o usaram. Na análise dos resultados, concluiu-se que a ferramenta trouxe vários aspectos positivos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, como uma atenção maior por parte dos alunos em relação ao conteúdo, uma motivação a mais no processo de ensino e aprendizagem, tendo apresentado aspectos relacionados à aprendizagem significativa e mostrado que os alunos que fizeram o uso da aplicação tiveram um melhor desempenho em relação aos que não fizeram o uso da tecnologia no conteúdo proposto na disciplina.Palavras-Chave: Educação. Dados Abertos. Ensino e AprendizagemAbstractThis article presents a research dissertation, which aimed to develop a visualization tool of Open Data (Open Data) for use in the process of teaching and learning in a class of third year of high school in geography discipline. Aimed to assess how these influence tool in this process. To achieve the goal of the work, mainly qualitative research was conducted with descriptive, and the theoretical framework based on meaningful learning and the use of information and communication technologies in teaching and learning. An initial interview was conducted with the subject teacher and the application of questionnaires to teachers and students of the third year after the use of open data visualization application and, finally, an evaluation test between groups who used the application was proposed and classes than used. In analyzing the results, it was concluded that the tool has brought many positive aspects in the process of teaching and learning, such as greater attention from students regarding the content, one more motivation in the process of teaching and learning, presenting aspects the significant learning and shown that students who have made the use of the application performed better than those who did not make the use of technology in the proposed content of the discipline.Keywords: Education. Open Data. Teaching and Learning. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. p30
Author(s):  
Liu Zhixuan

The outbreak of the COVID-19 caused many Chinese universities to initiate online teaching. This paper aimed to develop Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) practices in online courses to enable teachers and students in China to employ TBLT appropriately and effectively. This research made a case study which was conducted as an online English class with a total of 28 undergraduate students at a university in Guangdong, China. The findings show that the transition from the traditional classroom to online education was successful. This innovative teaching mode promotes students to become the initiator of learning. Besides, the switched roles between students and teachers, advantages as well as problems of this approach have been pointed out. This case study could provide pedagogical implicatures for online English teaching and learning practically and theoretically, which helps to develop new forms that could assist teachers and students to adopt TBLT in class.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-493
Author(s):  
Christine Elizabeth (Noor) Coutts ◽  
Mohamed Buheji ◽  
Dunya Ahmed ◽  
Talal Abdulkareem ◽  
Budhoor Buheji ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND: During the COVID-19 pandemic many education organizations closed their doors to contain the spread of infection, providing learning continuity by distance and online delivery. OBJECTIVE: To explore the challenges educators faced during emergency remote learning so that others may learn from their experience. METHOD: A case study based on the experience of educators compares how education continuity was provided in Bahrain, Iraq, and Russia. Personal insights gathered using Zoom, complemented by documentary evidence, explore the ‘lived experience’ of the emergency changes made to teaching and learning provision. RESULTS: Whilst teachers and students were ill-prepared, and there were issues with electricity supply, stable Wi-Fi, and access to equipment, most countries were able to offer students access to learning using a combination of distance education and online learning. Benefits accrued were greater familiarity with the use of technology and a revaluing of the importance of social relations in teaching and learning. Early indications are that educational inequities may have been widened as a consequence. CONCLUSION: The challenges facing the education sector fall into three main categories: crisis management and decision making, infrastructure readiness, and student receptiveness. A hybrid approach, which blends face-to-face with online learning, is the way forward in the ‘new normal’ post-pandemic.


2016 ◽  
pp. 1324-1337
Author(s):  
Blanche Jackson Glimps ◽  
Theron Ford

Technology is part of our daily lives; we can observe the use of technology in our cell phones and portable computers and, most notably, within classrooms. If used within the proper pedagogical context, computer-aided technology can be quite advantageous to teacher educators whose pedagogical belief is also centered on teaching and learning that is responsive to students' needs and cultures. When technology is combined with Problem-Based Learning (PBL), it can be a powerful aid to help pre-service teachers build cultural literacy and the skills needed to be responsive to students' needs. This chapter presents a single case study of the highly successful academic outcomes through the wedding of PBL and technology.


2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-276
Author(s):  
Laura Guertin

From instructional tools to devices used in the laboratory or in the field to facilitate student interactivity and data collection, the use of technology in the higher-education geoscience classroom is not new. However, as the 2014 Summit on the Future of Undergraduate Geoscience Education stated in its summary report, the geoscience community has not fully embraced existing and emerging technologies to engage students that already are connected with digital information and tools. It is not that technology is viewed as an ineffective tool for teaching and learning, but that the pedagogic challenges lie in technology adoption and raising awareness of the educational impacts with individual faculty, as well as within departments. One opportunity to broaden student experience with technology is through a classroom assignment designed to utilize several technologies as tools to improve student geoscience content as well as overall science and information literacies. Challenging students to author a new “geology 101” article for the SEG Wiki addresses these components. In addition, an SEG Wiki article-authoring assignment serves as an opportunity for students to perform digital outreach by providing a reliable resource that can be used by geoscience professionals, K–16 teachers and students, and the general public. Through contributing to the SEG Wiki, students also satisfy a university's mission of service learning and engaged scholarship.


2005 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-70

Welcome to another year of “Technology Tips.” I, Suzanne Harper, will be the primary editor for the 2005–2006 column issues, and it is my pleasure to introduce this year's new co-editor, Shannon Driskell. Shannon teaches undergraduate and graduate mathematics content courses at the University of Dayton in Ohio. Her main interests include the appropriate use of technology in K–12 mathematics, preservice and inservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge, and the teaching and learning of geometry. We are always looking for new and interesting ways for teachers and students to use technology effectively. If you have a tip that can help other teachers learn how to use a technology application in the classroom, please send ideas to my contact address. I also would like to take the time to thank Hollylynne Stohl Lee for her amazing dedication and guidance as editor of the column last year.


2018 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig E Stiles ◽  
Eugene T Tetteh-Wayoe ◽  
Jonathan P Bestwick ◽  
Richard P Steeds ◽  
William M Drake

Abstract Context Cabergoline is first-line treatment for most patients with lactotrope pituitary tumors and hyperprolactinemia. Its use at high dosages in Parkinson disease (PD) has largely been abandoned because of its association with the development of a characteristic restrictive cardiac valvulopathy. Whether similar valvular changes occur in patients receiving lower dosages for treatment of hyperprolactinemia is unclear, although stringent regulatory recommendations for echocardiographic screening exist. Objective To conduct a meta-analysis exploring any link between the use of cabergoline for the treatment of hyperprolactinemia and clinically significant cardiac valvulopathy. Data Sources Full-text articles published through January 2017 were found via PubMed and selected according to strict inclusion criteria. Study Selection All case-control studies were included where patients had received ≥6 months of cabergoline treatment for hyperprolactinemia. Single case reports, previous meta-analyses, review articles, and articles pertaining solely to PD were excluded. Of 76 originally selected studies, 13 met inclusion criteria. Data Extraction Desired data were compiled and extracted from articles by independent observers. Each also independently graded article quality (bias) and met to reach consensus. Data Synthesis More tricuspid regurgitation was observed (OR 3.74; 95% CI, 1.79 to 7.8; P < 0.001) in the cabergoline-treated patients compared with controls. In no patient was tricuspid valve dysfunction diagnosed as a result of clinical symptoms. There was no significant increase in any other valvulopathy. Conclusions Treatment with low-dose cabergoline in hyperprolactinemia appears to be associated with an increased prevalence of tricuspid regurgitation. The clinical significance of this finding is unclear and warrants further investigation.


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