Overview
- Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of educational technology research articles
- Presents a clustered analysis showing the trends over the last 20 years
- Discusses the leading authors and journals in the subject area
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (LNET)
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About this book
It captures the trends in a number of research streams within the discipline of educational technology and identifies the point in time when a massive change took place. This is a significant achievement given that, in epistemology and philosophy of science, there have always been discussions of paradigm shifts, but researchers have always identified them qualitatively. This is the first work to identify a paradigm shift using rigorous quantitative methods.
The analysis procedure involved big data and sophisticated analysis, which supported the identification of clusters at several breakpoints from which the richest set was selected in order to provide the most detailed analysis. This comprehensive analysis also shows what has been published and by whom in those ten top-tier journals. This work makes a highly significant contribution to the field of learning technologies and provides the groundwork and a significant data source for other scholars, both new and experienced, to build on and expand in their work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
J. Michael Spector is a Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. He was previously Professor of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia, and Professor of Instructional Systems at Florida State University. He served as Chair of Instructional Design, Development and Evaluation at Syracuse University and Director of the Educational Information Science and Technology Research Program at the University of Bergen. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on intelligent support for instructional design, assessing learning in complex domains, and technology integration in education. Dr. Spector is a Past President of the Association for Educational and Communications Technology. He is editor of Educational Technology Research & Development and serves on numerous other editorial boards. He edited the third and fourth editions of the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, as well as the Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, and has more than 150 publications to his credit.
Nicholas Evangelopoulos is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of North Texas. His research interests include statistics, text mining, and cognitive computing. His publications include articles appearing in Management Information Systems Quarterly, Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and many others. In 2013 he received the University of North Texas College of Business Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award and in 2016 the University of North Texas College of Business Professional Development Institute Fellowship. He has published a book with Springer in 2013 and is currently writing a book which is under contract with Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Analysis of Two Decades of Educational Technology Publications
Book Subtitle: Who, What and Where
Authors: Gloria Natividad, J. Michael Spector, Nicholas Evangelopoulos
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0137-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0136-0Published: 12 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4337-7Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0137-7Published: 11 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2196-4963
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4971
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 202
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Technology, Technology and Digital Education, Computers and Education