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I hope this is not too basic but I was impressed and surprised to see this area has its own journal. Journal has founded in 2006 and has 43 issues so far, holding more than 200 articles. Journal is peer reviewed and has a high impact factor of 2.692 putting it the 2nd place among educational research journals. I think this success also shows the potentials of the area.

This is a popular journal focusing on all aspects of development, innovations and good practice in higher education teaching and learning, including the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and issues concerning the management of teaching and learning. You can check the abstracts from Abstract/Index part for such titles as educational research, educational administration, PsycINFO and so on.

The article from International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education focuses on the hypothesis that an intelligent tutoring system that provides guidance with respect to students'meta-cognitive abilities can help them to become better learners.

I think the research design they follow is detailed, there is development of a model and then validation of it over time. I have checked one of the authors' recent publications and realized that he has researches on self-regulation during learning ,example-tracing tutors, interesting concepts to examine.

1. The purpose of this paper is to share reflections of the three authors on the process of instructional design and implementation of blended learning for teachers' professional development (PD) in rural western Kenya. 2. There are for different reserach questions but one of them is caught my attention as we have the same problem in our country I think; How appropriate is blended learning for teachers in a rural setting? 3. The design-based research methodology in the study comprised a number of research methods. The methods included ethnographic observations, qualitative interviews, narratives and documentation of design artifacts

In this short paper, Caine&Caine present principles of brain that will help teachers reconceptualize their teaching.

Yelda I really like this article and also it says that eachc brain is unique so iI think this is similar with educators thoughts, every child is unique..:)

This article talks about the relation btw metacognition and expertise. It was published in 1998 in Instructional Science Journal. The main argument of this article is that metacognition is an important part of human abilities which are forms of developing expertise. To the extent that our goal is to understand the bases of individual differences in student academic success, we need to understand metacognition as representing part of the abilities that lead to student expertise.

Driscoll has research centers on learning, instructional theory, and educational semiotics. She is the author or co-author of eight textbooks and an edited research handbook in learning and instruction, and has published numerous articles in professional journals on learning and instruction theory. One of her books is Psychology of Learning for Instruction which also exists in our syllabus.

A study about two major pitfalls impeding achievement of the desired social interaction in CSCL environments which are defined as; taking social interaction in groups for granted and the lack of attention paid to the social psychological dimension of social interaction outside of the task context

This is a new article by Mary C. English and Anastasia Kitsantas from the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem- Based Learning. What do you think about including self-regulated learning in problem based learning?

This article is from Journal of Educational Psychology describing an advanced learning technology used to investigate hypotheses about learning by teaching. The proposed technology is an instance of a teachable agent, called SimStudent, that learns skills (e.g., for solving linear equations) from examples and from feedback on performance. SimStudent has been integrated into an online, gamelike environment in which students act as "tutors" and can interactively teach SimStudent by providing it with examples and feedback.

http://ehis.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=62560df9-81f0-48df-9217-73a31d3da977%40sessionmgr14&vid=3&hid=6 This is the direct link to the article.

While reading the article, I felt surprised because it was published in 1986 but he was sharing really innovative ideas about expertise. I hope you'll enjoy it....

Sermin, I followed similar nominating strategy to identify expert online teachers in my dissertation. Berliner's question is rather important here: How do we identify expert teachers? What should be the selection criteria as well as method?