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" esearch methods (pdf, 89kb) This table identifies the strengths of different methods of research to help you identify the most appropriate method for your programme or activity Research question bank (Word, 100kb) A question bank that offers useful and relevant research questions to help you customise questionnaires. Questions are divided into categories including: knowledge and understanding; skills; attitudes and values; enjoyment, inspiration and creativity and activity, behaviour and progression Guidelines on involving users (Word, 38kb) This document provides useful tips on how to involve users in identifying learning opportunites Interpreting visual images (Word, 774kb) This useful guide helps you to interpret visual images as research evidence. Particularly useful in researching the impact of your learning activity with children Focus group guide (Word, 40kb) This guide provides information and support on how to run a focus group "

"Using seven design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique - it's a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership."

"This site is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design, also know as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Instructional designers often use instructional technology or educational technology as tools for developing instruction. Instructional design models typically specify a method, that if followed will facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitude to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction. Obviously paying attention to "best practices", and innovative teaching methods will make any instructional design model more effective."

methods of collecting and analyzing

"The purpose of this chapter is to 1) discuss the nature of qualitative inquiry, 2) explore different kinds of qualitative inquiry, 3) explain the role of interpretation, 4) present various participant observation stances, 5) offer ways of gaining access and achieving reciprocity, 6) review stages of qualitative research, 7) suggest practical procedures related to research methods as well as research writing, 8) present sociocultural problems, and 9) give future alternatives for qualitative research. Specifically, stages of qualitative research to be described are data collection, content analysis, and comparative analysis. Practical suggestions for analysis will include such examples as computer programming, icon and color coding of concepts, focus groups and key informants, and spread sheets for comparative and cross-site analysis"

Design-Based Research Collective is a small group of researchers who engage in design-based research, often in technology enhanced learning environments. In our own work, we have come to recognize the need to better define the nature, methods, and outcomes of design-based research so that we may more easily share our own research and build on the work of others.

The design of a web-based, networked learning environment, Future Learning Environment Tools (FLE-Tools) embodies a model of progressive inquiry. In this paper, we introduce the progressive inquiry model and describe how different modules FLE-Tools are designed to facilitate participation in this kind of inquiry. Results of a pilot experiment of using FLE-Tools in higher education are presented. The study was based on an analysis of 125 messages posted by thirteen university students to the FLE-Tools database. The results indicated that the course provided positive evidence for an integration of progressive inquiry and online discussion. The pedagogical and design challenges with which we are currently struggling are discussed: the problems of creating a learning community for students collaborating at distance or managing large number of entries in FLE's database.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs.

The purpose of this guide is to offer suggestions for Federal agencies for successfully using their employee survey results in planning and implementing positive organizational change.

" What makes a learning organisation (Word, 43kb) This document explores the characteristics of a learning organisation Find out what your learning style is (Word, 52kb) An activity you could do with your staff or users to discover their preferred learning styles Defining learning: outline for a training session (Word, 52kb) This training session is designed to be used with groups of up to 15 staff, working with a facilitator to help them explore the broad definition of learning adopted by Inspiring Learning. The session should run for up to 1.5 hours. Building a learning team (Word, 58kb) A document to support you to build a learning team. It identifies that a balance needs to be struck between achieving a task and providing opportunities to reflect on the process itself to promote individual and collective learning within your organisation."

Choosing the right learning or talent management technology is a daunting task. A bad decision could cost an organization immeasurable time and dollars, not to mention the negative impact on talent development. Whether an organization is considering keeping its current learning or talent management technology, or exploring the replacement or supplement of its current technology, Brandon Hall Group's consulting team can provide expert analysis and recommendations. Our proven technology selection methodologies accelerate the time to decision by leveraging Brandon Hall Group's key practices and great research from over 25 industry sectors, covering small and large organizations, public, government, non-profit, and global.

Welcome to the companion website to our ELI presentation on Assessing Learning Spaces. We have made many of our instruments and resources available for your reference. However, since we have worked in cooperation with several institutions and modified their instruments for our use, we'd ask that you contact them directly to get permission to do the same. The San José State University Academic Success Center opened in October 2006 with a goal to increase student success by providing 21st-century technology, informal and formal learning spaces, and the services and support. The objective was to build an integrative center that provides students with an innovative space and technology tools for collaboration and promotes faculty pedagogical innovation through the use of our Incubator Classroom, winner of the 2007 Campus Technology Innovators Award. By combining physical space, technology tools, and an intensive professional development program, the ASC exemplifies a new synergistic model for the campus.

"Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - Activity Analysis Tool Purpose: This tool is designed to analize classroom activities and units for the balance of Higher Order and Lower Order thinking skills. Analysis can either be a simple overview of task construction or a analysis of time allocation to each specific taxonomic level.

iPad curriculum is a set of best in applications, practices, and deployment of the iPad as a learning device.

Quality that Matters standardized rubric assessment, evaluation, debrief

Student/teacher stories and applications for educational technology

Step-by-step guide on how one instructor integrated iPads in the classroom which allowed the combining of student response, just-in-time teaching, constructivist development and several other educational buzz terms in one simple device.

"Action Planning In Improving Practice And Generating Educational Knowledge In Creating Your Living Educational Theory"