But first...

• Mini-project submissions (verify that yours are linked)
• next week TLP speakers: Marcia Linn, Leigh Star, Matt Stuve
• Cyberfest

Visions of education in 2017

• our individual visions
• our joint vision

Casper's "roles of universities"

• education and professional training
• credentialing
• social integration
• providing a rite of passage
• "networking"
• knowledge assessment and creation
• selection of academic elites and peer review
• fostering a worldwide community of scholars
• transfer of knowledge

Research on Educational Technology

• the process of research
• the process of research funding
• the parallel to the structure of this course

The Process of Educational Technology Research

• diversity of methods
• qualitative and quantitative
• formative and summative
• narrow and broad implications

The Process of Research Funding

• RFPs (Requests for Proposals
• Pre-proposals
• proposals
• awards
• progress reports
• presentations at conferences
• final reports
• prospects for further funding

The structure of this course

• Proposals
• Progress reports
• draft of final report
• Final reports (written and oral)
• Evaluation

Milestones for the rest of the semester

• Major project proposals due today (Feb 20)
• Feedback by Feb 27
• Oral progress report
• Written progress report
• Feedback on progress report
• Draft of final report
• Final report, oral and written

Your project proposals

• What questions or issues do you want to address?
• What audience or subject population will be involved?

Questions or issues related to technology uses in education

• by the end of the semester, what would you like to know
• What is interesting and important?

Audience or population

• Do you have access?

Strategy

• can start with a question or issue and find a relevant and accessible population
• can start with a relevant and accessible population and look for an important and interesting question or issue

Proposals

• length: page or two
• submit via: print or email or web

Multiple mental models

• What's your mental model of the World-Wide Web?
• Diversity of models: 27 unique responses of 33 web-experienced subjects
• Stuve, Levin, Jacobson article
  1. Experts' mental models of the Internet and the Web are much more elaborate and detailed than novices'.
  2. Experts have multiple mental models of each area, and use the different models at different time when engaged in problem solving.