SXSW EDU 2019

Efficacy Research is Failing Higher-ed Instructors

Description:

Instructors are flooded with choices as new digital learning tools enter the higher-education market. To avoid false starts, frustration, and missed opportunities for a class, they need to know which really contribute to learning, to what degree, for whom, and in what context.


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Takeaways

  1. Understand why current methods for researching the impact of digital learning tools lack utility.
  2. Explain an approach to measuring efficacy at all stages of a product development life-cycle that leads to useful and reliable findings.
  3. Provide tools to instructors for evaluating what digital learning tools will work in their courses.

Speakers


Organizer

Nikki Jones, Senior Director, Communications, 2014


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  • Tags: curriculum design, instruction
  • Event: SXSW EDU
  • Format: Talk
  • Track: Science of Learning
  • Session Focus Area
  • Level: Basic Understanding


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