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EDU 800 Week 15 Annotated Bibliography
Kinmond, K. (2012). Coming up with a research question. In Sullivan, C., Gibson, S., & Riley, S. (Eds) (2012) Doing Your Qualitative Psychology Project. (pp. 23 – 36). Sage. The author provides a user-friendly “how to develop a research question” book chapter emphasizing the importance of clarity of research questions to its audience. The author…
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EDU 800 Week 14 Annotated Bibliography
Dede, C. (2011). Developing a research agenda for educational games and simulations. Computer games and instruction, pp. 233-250. Information Age Publishing. The author offers five fundamental assumptions about a research agenda for educational games and simulations. The format of the original article was a blog. He emphasizes the importance of these assumptions because the beliefs…
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EDU 800 Week 12 Annotated Bibliography
Mikropoulos, T. A. & Natsis, A. (2010). Educational virtual environments: a ten-year review of empirical research. Computers & Education, 56, 769–780. The article establishes a precedent and presents a ten-year critical review of empirical research on the educational applications of Virtual Reality (VR). Results show that although the majority of the 53 reviewed articles refer…
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EDU 800 Week 11 Annotated Bibliography
Ertmer, P. A., Richardson, J. C., Belland, B., Camin, D., Connolly, P., Coulthard, G., Lei, K., & Mong, C. (2007). Using peer feedback to enhance the quality of student online postings: An exploratory study. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(2), 412-433. doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00331.x This study investigates the impact of peer feedback as an instructional strategy to increase…
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Week 10 Annotated Bibliography
Mills, K. A. (2010). A review of the ”digital turn” in the new literacy studies. Review of Educational Research, 80(2), 246–271. This article reviews a decade of empirical work in New Literacy Studies, specifically addressing sign-making practices using digital technologies, thus identifying the shift toward research of digital literacy applications. Notably, the article essentially addresses…
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EDU 800 Week 7 Annotated Bibliography
Harris, J. B., & Hofer, M. J. (2011). Technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in action: A descriptive study of secondary teachers’ curriculum-based, technology-related instructional planning. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 43(3), 211-229. This study aimed to determine how TPACK was used in K-12 learning environments, specifically during instructional planning, and how that effort…
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EDU 800 Week 5 Annotated Bibliography Post
Shapiro, A., & Niederhauser, D. (2004). Learning from hypertext: Research issues and findings. In D. H. Jonassen (Ed), Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (pp. 605-620). Macmillan. The significance of the article showcases a point in time from the education field’s perspective of what has been learned thus far regarding hypertext and the…
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EDU 800 Week 4 Annotated Bibliography Post

Hoepfl, M. C. (1997). Choosing qualitative research: A primer for technology education researchers. Journal of Technology Education, 9(1), 47–63. This article elaborates on the reasons for choosing qualitative methodologies and provides a basic introduction to the features of this type of research for many people who are unfamiliar with these methods. An overview of qualitative…
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EDU 800 Week 3 Annotated Bibliography Post

Barron, B. (2006). Interest and self-sustained learning as catalysts of development: A learning ecologies perspective. Human Development, 49, 193–224. The author describes ecology, specifically learning and information ecology, and how they interrelate with each other. He essentially proposes a learning ecology framework for the education field that emphasizes the need to better understand how learning…