Learning Sciences

In the video, you will see that a designe to improve the sound of the phone is achived after some failures.

I liked Table1 - Design-based research variants and methods and Table-2 Characteristics of design-based research. Thanks.

"Design-based research and TELE (Technology-enhanced learning environments) designs are reciprocal and, thus, need to be interdependent. In order to stimulate contextually-sensitive practices of learning and instruction in the design and implementation of TELEs, practical, detailed, and contextual advice is necessary. Design-based research, as a pragmatic methodology, can guide TELE designers while generating practical knowledge to be shared among a broad design community. Conversely, TELE design theories, models, and procedures need to ensure that design-based research methodologies can be made operational, formalized, and systematized."

Dr. Reeves answers the questions related to last five years of design based research, and its position in educational area next years.

How can people engaged in design-based research do so in a socially responsible manner? Dr. Tom Reeves discusses issues of ethics surrounding data collection, theory generalization, and tool generation to help design-based researchers conduct socially responsible research.

this is a basic literature review article on design based research studies.

This is very good. We will cover some aspects from this article in class.

This is an article by Chris Dede (Harvard Graduate School of Education August, 2004). It focuses on the importance and difficulties of DBR. You can get help from this article, while trying to answer the questions on LMS.

There was a case in one of the articles, the researchers were asked to provide an example of their research findings which helped them to solve a problem in practice and they were silent. It is a really good example of the gap between research and practice.When I think that research findings will not help to solve problems in the field, I start to question the things I am doing because being a part of the solution, not the problem" was the starting point of my academic life...

I really like the idea offered by DBR that is against the highly controlled laboratory settings are settings that research settings resembling that. But I still can not grasp how multi number of variables can healthly or in a valid sense can be studied all together in DBR. Maybe the local issue gains importance at this point.

This is the webpage from the design based research conference 2012. You can find there some good ideas. You also can download the presentations and work-shop descriptions

I didn't know about this event. Hope they organize the next one. We can check some of the cases in class. I am particularly interested in how DBR is used in teacher education research context.

There is a neurosicence research group at Metu :)

I hope educationists will collaborate with this group soon :)

Hope so :)

Michael Posner here explains how brain develoment and brain function can be applied in educational practice.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson presents his research on how social and emotional learning can affect the brain.

New Centre to research science of learning University of Melbourne education researchers will help shape the new Science of Learning Research Centre which will use scientific methods including neuroscience and psychology to improve our understanding of learning.

It is a good summary of brain-based teaching model. It got more concrete, thanks!

It is really interesting. I am reaaly curious, does it work on other animals?

People tried it on other chickens but it did'nt work.

Turkish students seem to improve in equality and some scores. And they are happy at school.

My recent blog post on PISA 2012: http://evrimbaran.com/?p=854

Şermin, this is a very good article on the current problems of PhD educations in education and educational technology. I particularly agree with the authors' point of view that we have to engage students in research as soon as they start the program. Current PhD programs are course driven and very limited in giving students research experiences. Not only students but professors of education SHOULD READ THİS PAPER.

On this site, you can find some selected DBR studies and overview of it.