Introduction to Virtual Reality in Education

Chris Dede

Themes in Science and Technology Education Vol. 2, No. 1 (2009) pp. 7–9

As an emerging technology for learning, virtual reality (VR) dates back four decades, to earlywork by Ivan Sutherland in the late 1960s. At long last, interactive media are emerging thatoffer the promise of VR in everyday settings. Quasi-VR already...

Commentary: The Growing Utilization of Design-Based Research

Chris Dede

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 5, No. 3 (2005) pp. 345–348

Dr. Roblyer's (2005) excellent overview of educational technology research makes a compelling case for improving the manner in which research on educational technology is conducted. I commend CITE Journal for its initiative in publishing and...

Topics: Educational Technology, Instructional Design

Connecting the Dots: New Technology-Based Models for Postsecondary Learning

Chris Dede

EDUCAUSE Review Vol. 48, No. 5 (2013) pp. 32–34

Advances in technology and in knowledge about expertise, learning, and assessment have the potential to reshape higher education, as well as the many other forms of learning past matriculation from high school. In the next decade, higher education,...

The Evolution of Distance Education: Emerging Technologies and Distributed Learning

Chris Dede

American Journal of Distance Education Vol. 10, No. 2 (1996) pp. 4–36

Examines how emerging technologies may reshape both face-to-face and distance education. Delineates a three-part conceptual framework (knowledge webs, virtual communities, and shared synthetic environments) for understanding the new types of...

"Comments on Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes": Technologies that Facilitate Generating Knowledge and Possibly Wisdom

Chris Dede

Educational Researcher Vol. 38, No. 4 (May 2009) pp. 260–263

Greenhow, Robelia, and Hughes (2009) argue that Web 2.0 media are well suited to enhancing the education research community's purpose of generating and sharing knowledge. The author of this comment article first articulates how a research...

Planning for Neomillennial Learning Styles

Chris Dede

Educause Quarterly Vol. 28, No. 1 (2005) pp. 7–12

Rapid advances in information technology are reshaping the learning styles of many students in higher education. Many faculty will find such a shift in instruction difficult, but through professional development they can accommodate neomillennial...

Distributed-Learning Communities as a Model for Educating Teachers

Chris Dede

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2004 (2004) pp. 3–12

Research documents the power of face-to-face learning communities based on a culture in which everyone collaboratively works towards collective understanding. Emerging interactive media such as wireless handhelds and multi-user virtual environments...

Topics: Interaction, Teachers, Professional Development, Virtual Environments

Emerging Influences of Information Technology on School Curriculum

Chris Dede

Journal of Curriculum Studies Vol. 32, No. 2 (2000) pp. 281–303

Focuses on projects funded by the National Science Foundation that illustrate the potential of computers and telecommunications to convey higher-order skills and knowledge. Discusses two projects, ScienceWare and Learning though Collaborative...

Enabling Distributed Learning Communities via Emerging Technologies--Part Two

Chris Dede

T.H.E. Journal Vol. 32, No. 3 (Oct 01, 2004)

This article represents the second part of a two part article. It begins with a summary of part one of the article published in the September issue of "T.H.E. Journal." This second part of the discussion presents vignettes that demonstrate how many...

Rethinking How To Invest in Technology

Chris Dede

Educational Leadership Vol. 55, No. 3 (1997) pp. 12–16

Regarding technology-based educational improvement, systemic reform involves two major shifts: including possibilities for "distributed learning"--using information technologies off-campus to enhance classroom activities; and reconfiguring existing...

Enabling Distributed Learning Communities via Emerging Technologies--Part One

Chris Dede

T.H.E. Journal Vol. 32, No. 2 (Sep 01, 2004)

In this article, the author discusses that emerging devices, tools, media and virtual environments offer opportunities for creating new types of learning communities for students and teachers. Examples of learning communities include a national mix...

Next Steps for "Big Data" in Education: Utilizing Data-Intensive Research

Chris Dede

Educational Technology Vol. 56, No. 2 (2016) pp. 37–42

Data-informed instructional methods offer tremendous promise for increasing the effectiveness of teaching, learning, and schooling. Yet-to-be-developed data science approaches have the potential to dramatically advance instruction for every student...

The Coming Sea-Change in Teacher Education

Chris Dede

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 30, No. 2 (August 2022) pp. 117–125

All stakeholders in schooling, including teacher educators, are slowly realizing that the pandemic has created a sea-change rather than a temporary discontinuity. The pandemic-as-endemic world is neither a return to pre-pandemic normal nor a new...

Empowering Design-Based Implementation Research: The Need for Infrastructure

Nora Sabelli; Chris Dede

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Vol. 112, No. 2 (2013) pp. 464–480

This chapter discusses frameworks and conceptual lenses that help orient design-based implementation research (DBIR) work to the types of infrastructure required for success, while contributing to theories about the processes of educational...

Design for Scalability: A Case Study of the River City Curriculum

Jody Clarke; Chris Dede

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 18, No. 4 (August 2009) pp. 353–365

One-size-fits-all educational innovations do not work because they ignore contextual factors that determine an intervention's efficacy in a particular local situation. This paper presents a framework on how to design educational innovations for...

Assessment, Technology, and Change

Jody Clarke-Midura; Chris Dede

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 42, No. 3 (2010) pp. 309–328

Despite three decades of advances in information and communications technology (ICT) and a generation of research on cognition and new pedagogical strategies, the field of assessment has not progressed much beyond paper-and-pencil item-based tests....

Collaborative Design of Online Professional Development: Building the Milwaukee Professional Support Portal

David Eddy Spicer; Chris Dede

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 14, No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 679–699

This case study describes an effort to design and pilot an interactive, Web-based, district-wide "professional support portal" to support new teacher retention and professional growth in the Milwaukee Public Schools. The study reviews the...

Topics: Collaboration, Research Methods, Professional Development, research, Instructional Design, design, technology

A Study of the efficacy of an Augmented Reality curriculum

Patrick O'Shea; Chris Dede; Rebecca Mitchell

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2009 (Mar 02, 2009) pp. 1510–1514

This session will describe the results of an examination of an Augmented Reality (AR) curriculum. In AR curricula, the physical environment is overlaid with a layer of virtual elements and students interact with these digital elements as they walk...

Online Gaming: Processes, Structures and Cultural Understandings

Mary Kayler; Debra Sprague; DeDe Chris

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1067–1074

This study explored how online gaming processes and structures shaped individual understandings of diverse worldviews. Three research questions guided our study: In what ways, if any, has online gaming the potential to strengthen cultural...

Topics: Culture

Affordances and Limitations of Immersive Participatory Augmented Reality Simulations for Teaching and Learning

Matt Dunleavy; Chris Dede; Rebecca Mitchell

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 2009) pp. 7–22

The purpose of this study was to document how teachers and students describe and comprehend the ways in which participating in an augmented reality (AR) simulation aids or hinders teaching and learning. Like the multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) ...

The Utility of Using Immersive Virtual Environments for the Assessment of Science Inquiry Learning

Jillianne Code; Jody Clarke-Midura; Nick Zap; Chris Dede

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 24, No. 4 (October 2013) pp. 371–396

Determining the effectiveness of any educational technology depends upon teachers’ and learners’ perception of the functional utility of that tool for teaching, learning, and assessment. The Virtual Performance project at Harvard University is...

Teacher Perceptions of the Practicality and Effectiveness of Immersive Ecological Simulations as Classroom Curricula

Shari Metcalf; Amy Kamarainen; Tina Grotzer; Chris Dede

International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Vol. 4, No. 3 (July 2013) pp. 66–77

Recent research with Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) in education has shown that these platforms can be effective and engaging for students; however, educators and administrators have practical concerns about the adoption of MUVE-based...

Atom Tracker: Designing a Mobile Augmented Reality Experience to Support Instruction About Cycles and Conservation of Matter in Outdoor Learning Environments

Amy Kamarainen; Shari Metcalf; Tina Grotzer; Craig Brimhall; Chris Dede

International Journal of Designs for Learning Vol. 7, No. 2 (Jun 30, 2016)

We describe a mobile augmented reality (AR) experience called Atom Tracker designed to help middle school students better understand the cycling of matter in ecosystems with a focus on the concept of conservation of matter and the processes of...

Language: English

Augmenting Reality for Learning with Wireless Mobile Devices, Part 2

Chris Dede; Patrick O'Shea; Matt Dunleavy; Eric Klopfer

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 1882–1884

Augmented reality (AR) interfaces enable “ubiquitous computing” models. Students carrying mobile wireless devices through real world contexts engage with virtual information superimposed on physical landscapes (such as a tree describing its...

Exploring Ecosystems from the Inside: How Immersive Multi-User Virtual Environments Can Support Development of Epistemologically Grounded Modeling Practices in Ecosystem Science Instruction

Amy M. Kamarainen; Shari Metcalf; Tina Grotzer; Chris Dede

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 2015) pp. 148–167

Recent reform efforts and the next generation science standards emphasize the importance of incorporating authentic scientific practices into science instruction. Modeling can be a particularly challenging practice to address because modeling occurs ...

EcoXPT: Designing for Deeper Learning through Experimentation in an Immersive Virtual Ecosystem

Chris Dede; Tina A. Grotzer; Amy Kamarainen; Shari Metcalf

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 20, No. 4 (2017) pp. 166–178

Young people now must compete in a global, knowledge-based, innovation-centered economy; they must acquire not just academic knowledge, but also character attributes such as intrinsic motivation, persistence, and flexibility. To accomplish these...

Student Perceptions of Immersive Virtual Environments for the Meaningful Assessment of Learning

Jillianne Code; Jody Clarke-Midura; Nick Zap; Chris Dede

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 358–367

The effectiveness of any educational technology depends upon teachers’ and learners’ perception of the functional utility of that medium for teaching, learning, and assessment. The Virtual Performance Assessment project at Harvard University (http://...

Using a Three-Dimensional Thinking Graph to Support Inquiry Learning

Juanjuan Chen; Minhong Wang; Tina A. Grotzer; Chris Dede

Journal of Research in Science Teaching Vol. 55, No. 9 (2018) pp. 1239–1263

The use of external representations has a potential to facilitate inquiry learning, especially in hypothesis generation and scientific reasoning, which are typical difficulties encountered by students. This study proposes and investigates the...

A multi‐user virtual environment for building and assessing higher order inquiry skills in science

Diane Jass Ketelhut; Brian C. Nelson; Jody Clarke; Chris Dede

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 41, No. 1 (January 2010) pp. 56–68

This study investigated novel pedagogies for helping teachers infuse inquiry into a standards‐based science curriculum. Using a multi‐user virtual environment (MUVE) as a pedagogical vehicle, teams of middle‐school students collaboratively solved...

Design of a Three-Dimensional Cognitive Mapping Approach to Support Inquiry Learning

Juanjuan Chen; Minhong Wang; Chris Dede; Tina A. Grotzer

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 20, No. 4 (2017) pp. 191–204

The use of external representations has the potential to facilitate inquiry learning, especially hypothesis generation and reasoning, which typically present difficulties for students. This study describes a novel three-dimensional cognitive mapping ...

Studying Technology-Based Strategies for Enhancing Motivation in Mathematics

Jon R. Star; Jason A. Chen; Megan W. Taylor; Kelley Durkin; Chris Dede; Theodore Chao

International Journal of STEM Education Vol. 1, No. 1 (2014)

Background: During the middle school years, students frequently show significant declines in motivation toward school in general and mathematics in particular. One way in which researchers have sought to spark students' interests and build their...

Five Commentaries: Looking to the Future

Milton Chen; Jane M. Healy; Mitchel J. Resnick; Laurie A. Lipper; Wendy Lazarus; Chris J. Dede

Future of Children Vol. 10, No. 2 (2000) pp. 168–80

Five experts from various disciplines provide their perspectives on the role of computers in children's lives, discussing ways to ensure that computer technology is used equitably, effectively, and ethically to promote positive child development....

A Research Agenda for Online Teacher Professional Development

Chris Dede; Diane Jass Ketelhut; Pamela Whitehouse; Lisa Breit; Erin M. McCloskey

Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 60, No. 1 (2009) pp. 8–19

This article highlights key online teacher professional development (oTPD) areas in need of research based on a review of current oTPD research conducted in conjunction with an oTPD conference held at Harvard University in fall 2005. The literature...

Shifts in Student Motivation during Usage of a Multi-User Virtual Environment for Ecosystem Science

Shari Metcalf; Jason Chen; Amy Kamarainen; Kim Frumin; Trisha Vickrey; Tina Grotzer; Chris Dede

International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments Vol. 5, No. 4 (October 2014) pp. 1–16

In incorporating technology in science education, some have expressed concern that the value added by technology is primarily due to the novelty or excitement about using the devices, resulting in no lasting effect on student motivation or learning...

EcoMOBILE: Integrating augmented reality and probeware with environmental education field trips

Amy M. Kamarainen; Shari Metcalf; Tina Grotzer; Allison Browne; Diana Mazzuca; M. Shane Tutwiler; Chris Dede

Computers & Education Vol. 68, No. 1 (October 2013) pp. 545–556

Positioned in the context of situated learning theory, the EcoMOBILE project combines an augmented reality (AR) experience with use of environmental probeware during a field trip to a local pond environment. Activities combining these two...

Language: English

A multi-user virtual environment to support students' self-efficacy and interest in science: A latent growth model analysis

Jason A. Chen; M. Shane Tutwiler; Shari J. Metcalf; Amy Kamarainen; Tina Grotzer; Chris Dede

Learning and Instruction Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016) pp. 11–22

Using latent growth models, we explored: (a) The effect of middle school students' (n = 189) pre-intervention science self-efficacy and science interest on their initial interest in an Ecosystems Multi-User Virtual Environment (EcoMUVE) and the rate ...

Language: English

Investigating relationships between school context, teacher professional development, teaching practices, and student achievement in response to a nationwide science reform

Christian Fischer; Barry Fishman; Chris Dede; Arthur Eisenkraft; Kim Frumin; Brandon Foster; Frances Lawrenz; Abigail Jurist Levy; Ayana McCoy

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 72, No. 1 (May 2018) pp. 107–121

Situated in the context of the Advanced Placement curriculum reform in the sciences, this quantitative study validates selected elements of Desimone's (2009) conceptual framework on teacher professional development. Using national data sets with...

Language: English

Adapting to Large-Scale Changes in Advanced Placement Biology, Chemistry, and Physics: The Impact of Online Teacher Communities

Kim Frumin; Chris Dede; Christian Fischer; Brandon Foster; Frances Lawrenz; Arthur Eisenkraft; Barry Fishman; Abigail Jurist Levy; Ayana McCoy

International Journal of Science Education Vol. 40, No. 4 (2018) pp. 397–420

Over the past decade, the field of teacher professional learning has coalesced around core characteristics of high quality professional development experiences (e.g. Borko, Jacobs, & Koellner, 2010. Contemporary approaches to teacher...

Model-Based Teaching and Learning with BioLogica[TM]: What Do They Learn? How Do They Learn? How Do We Know?

Barbara C. Buckley; Janice D. Gobert; Ann C. H. Kindfield; Paul Horwitz; Robert F. Tinker; Bobbi Gerlits; Uri Wilensky; Chris Dede; John Willett

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 13, No. 1 (March 2004) pp. 23–41

This paper describes part of a project called Modeling Across the Curriculum which is a large-scale research study in 15 schools across the United States. The specific data presented and discussed here in this paper is based on BioLogica, a...

The International Handbook Summit Call to Action for Learning with Technology in the 21st Century: Next Steps, Part 2

Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Chris Dede; Paul Resta; Mike Searson; Ann Thompson; Therese Laferriere; David Gibson; Margaret Riel; Renate Schulz-Zander; Rhonda Christensen; Kwok Wing Lai; Niki Davis; Rowland Baker; Ian Gibson; Don Knezek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2413–2415

The International Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education (Voogt & Knezek, 2008) provides researchers, policy makers and practitioners with an integrated and detailed overview of this complex field. One of the important ...

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Volume 106, Issue 2

Louanne Smolin; Kimberly Lawless; Chris Dede; Steve Jones; Camille Johnson-Yale; Francisco Seoane Perez; Jessica Schuler; James W. Pellegrino; Susan R. Goldman; Meryl Bertenthal; Kimberly Lawless; Charalambos Vrasidas; Gene V. Glass; Geneva D. Haertel; Barbara Means; William Penuel; Hilary Goldmann; Mark Warschauer; Sharon Tettegah; Eun Won Whang; Nakia Collins; Kona Taylor; Olga A. Vasquez; Nicholas C. Burbules

Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education Vol. 106, No. 2 (October 2007) pp. 1–218

There is little dispute that technology has transformed people's everyday lives. People shop online, download news in their iPods, communicate via text and video, take digital photos, and conduct all manner of personal and professional business via...