[Air-L] PhD course: Current Topics in Technology-Enhanced Learning

[Stefan Hrastinski]

PhD course
Current Topics in Technology-Enhanced Learning, 7.5 ECTS
Oct-Dec, 2011

KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Graduate Programme in Mediated Communication

Course leaders: 
Stefan Hrastinski, associate professor
Martha Cleveland-Innes, visiting professor
Ambjörn Naeve, head of the knowledge management research group
Olle Bälter, associate professor

The aim of this seminar course is to provide an overview of contemporary research topics in technology-enhanced learning (TEL). The course leaders will lead introductory seminars where they put forth current challenges and emerging TEL topics.

Each participant will chose and present two research papers of high quality and provide a critical examination of its aims, theoretical framing, research approach, findings, analysis and implications. All participants will be expected to read and take part in a critical discussion of the selected papers. The papers should have been published in an established and well-known journal during 2010 or 2011.

There are many high quality research journals that publish papers on online learning. We suggest the following journals included in the ISI journal index: Computers & Education, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, British Journal of Educational Technology, Interactive Learning Environments, Journal of Educational Technology & Society and The Internet and Higher Education. We also recommend International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning and International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning.

The final assignment of the course will be to write a literature review on current TEL research. It should be related to the thesis topic of the PhD student and should encompass 3000-4000 words.

The first set of papers will be discussed during a two-day session at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, October 10-11. The second set of papers will be discussed asynchronously by using KTH social. The final assignments will be discussed in video conference sessions, tentatively December 13-14.

If you are enrolled as a PhD student and interested in taking this course, please send an e-mail with a bio to Stefan (stefanhr at kth.se) as soon as possible. The course will include up to ten PhD students.



Stefan Hrastinski, associate professor
Media Technology
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Lindstedtsv. 3
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
Office: +46 8 790 65 68
Mobile: +46 739 75 17 47
stefanhr at kth.se
http://hrastinski.posterous.com