Methodological Challenges When Exploring Digital Learning Spaces in Education (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Over the last decade, the practices by which scholarly knowledge is produced – both within and across disciplines – have been substantially influenced by the appearance of digital information resources, communication networks and technology enhanced research tools. Viewed from a methodological perspective, the rich ICT-based environment in educational settings influences research methods, ethics and the general conduct of research. Methodological Challenges When Exploring Digital Learning Spaces in Education represents a collection of work of established academics as well as emerging early career researchers all of whom focus on various methodological challenges. From numerous perspectives, the chapters in this volume deal with three particularly demanding challenges for educational research in digital learning contexts. The first challenge concerns how research manages to explore networked learning within a multi-faceted ICT environment. What kind of research designs and forms of data collection are able to grasp this complexity of multiple learning taking place within these contexts? The second challenge deals with how researchers experience the research context and interact with various actors within these settings. How to capture and understand interaction between contexts and across different dimensions of contexts in time and space? And finally, the third challenge is about exploring how children make meaning across physical places and virtual spaces. All together, these challenges are questioning the traditional research methods that we use and are familiar with. This volume is devoted to stimulating debate about the various methodological challenges facing the researcher in the digital sphere of educational research, and furthermore, exploring what kind of new methodological approaches these challenges impose. It is aimed at students, researchers and academics within education and those working with learning across disciplines and contexts interestedin methodological issues. Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir lives and works in Oslo, where she is a Researcher at the Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education. Kristin Beate Vasbø also works and lives in Oslo, where she is an Associate Professor at the Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo. "

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sense Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789462097377
• Artikelnr.: 44055468

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; 1. Methodological Challenges When Exploring New Learning Sites in Educational Research; PART I: CHALLENGES WHEN EXPLORING NETWORKED LEARNING AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; 2. Mobile Learning Design Solutions: Innovations in Learning through the Use of Mobiles across Contexts; 3. Tracing Resonance: Qualitative Research in a Networked World; 4. Research Challenges for Education in Video-games and Virtual Reality; PART II: CHALLENGES FOR RESEARCHER INTERACTION IN VARIOUS LEARNING SITES; 5. Opening Proprietary Ecologies: Participatory Action Design Research with Young People; 6. Challenges Arising When Using Field Notes and Video Observations: A Close Study of Teachers’ Use of Interactive Whiteboards in a Norwegian School; PART III: CHALLENGES WHEN EXPLORING CHILDREN’S MEANING MAKING IN DIGITAL CONTEXTS; 7. Digital Experiences in Early Childhood: Researching Emerging Perspectives, Ideas, Practices and Cultures; 8. Exploring What Touch-screens Offer from the Perspectives of Children: Methodological Challenges; PART IV: CHALLENGES AHEAD; 9. Tracing Learning across Contexts: Methodological Challenges and Ethical Considerations; List of Contributors.