Making Sense of Technology-Based Learning Environments: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Educational Technology Scholars

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Approaches to Quality Learning Environments: Active Classrooms, Technology-Based Learning, Classroom Support, and Student Engagement (Table 11)

Abstract

This descriptive-interpretive qualitative study explores the discourses of educational technology scholars in relation to how they define different technology-based learning environments. The analysis of one hundred-five definitions extracted from 191 doctoral dissertations provided a comprehensive guide “Technology-based Learning Environment Evaluation Framework” (TLEEF). In this presentation, we will introduce the TLEEF framework that suggests an approach to how to understand the nature of technology-based learning contexts by questioning the space, time, agents, levels of operation, rules, power, and culture aspects of the built environment. TLEEF helps instructors, students, designers, and program evaluators gain a clear awareness of the physical, social, educational, psychological, and environmental features of any technology-based learning setting

Authors

• Merve Basdogan, Texas Tech University
  Presenting Author

• Curtis J. Bonk, Indiana University
  Presenting Author