educational technology
Nori Barari; Abasalt Khorasani; Morteza Rezaeizadeh; Farnoosh Alami
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Introduction Understanding and applying are the most common goals of learning. In the e-learning environments; the only way to ensure that goals are achieved is through feedback. Despite this, there is no comprehensive framework based on the science of education, so that how to create educational feedback ...
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Introduction Understanding and applying are the most common goals of learning. In the e-learning environments; the only way to ensure that goals are achieved is through feedback. Despite this, there is no comprehensive framework based on the science of education, so that how to create educational feedback based on learning objectives. Method The purpose of this study was to compilation the educational standards and their indicators for design effective feedback for the first three layers (remembering, understanding and applying) of the Bloom-Anderson’s taxonomy. The qualitative research approach is used and based on this approach, the phenomenological design strategy has been used. The population included 12 people of subject matter and faculty members in academic e-learning centers which were selected through purposeful sampling. Qualitative data generated from interviews were coded and analyzed by Corbin and Strauss method and Maxquda software. To ensure the consistency of the coding in the qualitative section, inter-coder reliability analysis was performed. To this end, initially, the transcribed data of the interview files (3 random interviews) was scrutinized by a fellow researcher with expertise and experience in research and emerging characteristics noted. Next, through matching the fellow researcher’s noted concepts with those observed by the author(s) of the present study, the percentages of the inter-coding agreement and discrepancy of the extracted concepts were reviewed and modified accordingly.
Results The results of the study led to the development of 4 educational standards and 21indicators based on Bloom-Anderson’s taxonomy to design comprehensive feedback in the field of e-learning. According to the results of this study, educational technologists and assessors can evaluate or design more effective E-learning environments. Developing standards and indicators for feedback methods in e-learning environments can provide a practical guide for instructors and explain the minimum requirements for implementing effective teaching. To ensure the comprehensiveness of these indicators and the ability to cover different learning objectives, these indicators were compared with the Bloom-Anderson taxonomy.
Discussion According to the analysis of interviews; Feedback based on action, Multichannel feedback, Feedback based on the future and Feedback based on obstacles of learning are the indicators for achievement situational learning. Also, Assist leveling feedback, feedback fits user level understanding, Transitional feedback and feedback with dual and delayed are the indicators for feedback based on scaffolding. Finally, it should be said that despite limitations such as the limited number of educators with experience in and expertise on e-learning, the limited number of universities that provide formal education through a learning management system, and the constraints in communication with overseas experts on e-learning, the results of the present study succeeded in developing important indicators of feedback methods in virtual learning environments (VLEs) based on the Bloom-Anderson taxonomy.
educational technology
Seyyed Abbas Razavi; Ahmad Mansouri; Sakineh Shahi
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the status of communication and information technology(ICT) application in the teaching-learning environment of elementary smart schools at Shush City. A mix-method was used in this research. This study was conducted in the boy elementary smart schools ...
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The aim of the present study was to investigate the status of communication and information technology(ICT) application in the teaching-learning environment of elementary smart schools at Shush City. A mix-method was used in this research. This study was conducted in the boy elementary smart schools of Shush City. In the quantitative section, Due to the small size of the school teaching staff, all teachers participated in the study(N=70). The quantitative data were collected using a researcher- made questionnaire. The validity of questionnaire was confirmed by specialists in education. The reliability was estimated by Cronbach alpha (α=0.94). Also in quantitative section, the descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) were used and in the inferential statistics the one-sample t test was used to analyze data. In the qualitative section, 10 principals and 10 teachers were interviewed. For analyzing qualitative data, open and axial coding was used. The findings showed that the status of ICT application in the 5 components of (i) use of electronic content (multimedia) by teachers, (ii) designing an electronic content (multimedia), (iii) the role of students in preparation of electronic content (multimedia), (iv) use of ICT to continuing the teaching-learning process(v) encouraging the students to deploy ICT to learn deeply and widely by teachers; was lower than the desirable level. The qualitative results identified important obstacles such as: (a) lack of sufficient knowledge and skills on the part of teachers, students and families (b) cultural, attitudinal and motivational problems related to teachers, families and students, (c) problems related to infrastructure, facilities and financial resources, and (d) the curricular problems.
educational technology
Abstract
The main objective of this study was to investigate the e-learning opportunities and threats in Razi University of Kermanshah. The methodology was based on a mixed approach consisting of a qualitative components plus a descriptive one. The population consisted of administrators, faculty members and students ...
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The main objective of this study was to investigate the e-learning opportunities and threats in Razi University of Kermanshah. The methodology was based on a mixed approach consisting of a qualitative components plus a descriptive one. The population consisted of administrators, faculty members and students of Razi University of Kermanshah in the academic year 1394-95. 534 participants were selected via random stratified sampling in the quantitative part and 10 participants of in qualitative section. For collecting data a questionnaire (khoshrang et al., 1393) and interviews were used. The reliability measure of questionnaire was a= 0.89. To analyze the quantitative data, Spss 19 and Amos 22 soft wares and for the qualitative analysis, open coding were used. The quantitative results of this study showed that the cost-effectiveness component of learning component was the most important opportunity and mental – emotional component, professor- student communicational component and teaching - learning component were identified as threats for e-learning. In the qualitative analyses, ways of overcoming threats and obstacles to e-learning were identified in the three main categories of organizational instructional and user levels.
educational technology
Amir Mashhadi
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With the rapid advancements in new communication technologies, the authorities of Iranian educational ministry emphasized opening a new room in teaching and learning with the application of the new medium of mobile communication from the early childhood so as to attract the learners as well as to improve ...
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With the rapid advancements in new communication technologies, the authorities of Iranian educational ministry emphasized opening a new room in teaching and learning with the application of the new medium of mobile communication from the early childhood so as to attract the learners as well as to improve their main skills of learning. The current study was conducted to examine the effect of combining two main non formal media of gaming and mobile communication with face to face teaching on learning English language. To that purpose, the performance of 270 Iranian students ranging from 12 to 17 with pre-intermediate proficiency level was traced to highlight their blended learning of new words while being provided with marginal introduction to the contents via digital games within three groups. While the face to face instruction was common to all the participants in the education context, the first group did the prefabricated games and the second and third ones did the native Iranian game of 'Xhane Bazi', which was modified for the purpose of English language instruction, both in real and virtual environments. The assessment of students' performance was not limited to mere reliance on the traditional methods of pretest. Instead, posttest and the formative assessment, survey, and summative assessment were also utilized. The qualitative and qualitative analysis of data revealed a meaningful effect of indigenous instructional games on learning English language.
