"Saving Instructional Technology from Irrelevance: The Promise of Design Research"

Dr. Tom Reeves
Professor, Educational Psychology & Instructional Technology
College of Education, University of Georgia
January 25, 2006, 4:00 pm
Room 116 Aderhold

The effectiveness of the field of instructional technology to fundamentally enhance teaching and learning has increasingly been called into question. The doubt stems primarily from decades of a research agenda that has been largely pseudoscientific and arguably socially irresponsible. It is proposed that more progress may be accomplished through design research. Design research protocols require intensive and long-term collaboration among researchers and practitioners. Guidelines for implementing design research more widely in educational/instructional technology will be presented in this seminar. The implications of design research for other fields in education will also be described.