Title: What Do Learning Designs Show About Pedagogical Adoption? An Analysis Approach and a Case Study on Inquiry-Based Learning
Abstract: The usage of educational technologies does not necessarily imply the adoption of the pedagogical approaches they are designed to support. Existing works analysing learning design practices often focus on the usage metrics of the authoring platform, the authoring process or structural aspects of the designs themselves. While such usage metrics are useful to understand technology adoption, to understand pedagogical adoption we need to take into account the content of the designs created by practitioners as well. For example, in the case of inquiry-based learning, such content-related aspects include whether the learning designs scaffold the inquiry, promote engagement and collaboration. This paper proposes a concrete content-oriented design analysis approach for inquiry-based learning, which can be applied to digitally-authored inquiry designs. To illustrate its application and usefulness, we have applied this framework to learning designs created within Go-Lab (an initiative to promote inquiry learning in primary and secondary school). More concretely, we manually analyzed 44 learning designs published by Estonian practitioners using content analysis. Despite the small scale of the illustrative case study, the results from the content analysis show the potential of our analytical approach to inform teacher training and the development of authoring tools.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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