ee--learning researchlearning researchFrom From organizationorganization and and hardcore technologyhardcore technology

to to mobility and feelingsmobility and feelings

Eva R FEva R FååhrhrææususFFååhrhrææus & Rydbergus & Rydberg

Ulf OlssonUlf OlssonStockholm UniversityStockholm University

The Research field The Research field of eof e--learninglearning

Touches many fields• Pedagogy• Computer Science• Sociology• Ethnography• Psychology• ….

The Research field The Research field of eof e--learning (learning (ctdctd.).)

Conferences• NU2010• Internetforskning.se• CSCL• ICDE• mLearn• ICODL• ….

Journals• Per Distans• LearningNet• Digital kompetanse• E-learning• EJISDC• EMI• Computers &

Education• ReCALL• ….

EE--learninglearning research research beforebefore 20032003

• Typically: a teacher (re)makes a course for distance and studies how it works (descriptive, explorative)

• Implies new research questions, structures, definitions

• Creates models for classification and pedagogic design

EE--learninglearning research research beforebefore 2003 (2003 (ctdctd.).)

• Perspective on learning: behaviorist, constructivist, later: socio-cultural

• Focus: distance, economy, quality; later also technology and pedagogy

• Study object: organization, course, teacher, student

Categories for Categories for recent researchrecent research

• Technology, use of technology

• Method, pedagogy

• Organization• Individual

EE--learning research learning research examples 2003examples 2003--20072007

• Technology, use of technology–Direct communication (S Hrastinski,

2007)

• Method, pedagogy–PBL (U Björck, 2004)–Collaborative learning (E R Fåhraeus,

2003)–Communities of learning (L

Svensson, 2004; O Lindberg, 2005)

EE--learning research learning research examlesexamles 20032003--2007 (2007 (ctdctd.).)

• Organization–University level (G Grepperud, 2005)–School level (J Almqvist, 2005)–Business & administration (M

Baumgarten, 2006; J Lundin, 2005)

EE--learning research learning research examples 2003examples 2003--2007 (2007 (ctdctd.).)• Individual

–Success factors (U Olsson, 2007)– Identity on the Net (F Moinian, 2007)– Importance of context (R-M Olsson,

2005)–Female students (G Wännman

Toresson, 2002)–Cheating, plagiarism (L-E Nilsson,

2008)–Use of information (M Stigmar, 2002)

Recent research Recent research examplesexamples 20082008--20092009

• Technology, use of technology–Modularization of the learning

architecture (F Paulsson, 2008)• Method, pedagogy

–Flexible education in practice (A Mattsson, 2009)

–Multiple dimensions of context (A Kurti, 2009)

–Communication and meaning-making in web-based teacher training (L Reneland-Forsman, 2009)

Recent researchRecent researchexamplesexamples 20082008--2009 (2009 (ctdctd.).)• Organization

–New professionals and new technologies in new higher education? (A Hudson, 2009)

• Individual– ICT in teacher education: thinking and

learning in computer-supported social practice (E Mukama, 2009)

–Conditions of connectivity (S AngenRye, 2009)

–Adult learners on the Net (B Östlund, 2008)

Trends Trends withinwithin ee--learninglearning researchresearch

• The border between distance and campus education is dissolving

• Developing views on knowledge; learning as social process encourages use of ”the social web”

• Young learners as ”digital natives” meet teachers without digital competence

• Mass education creates new needs• Pedagogic needs encourage technological

development and vice versa