I’m presenting OER Recommender at RecSysTEL today
Posted on September 30th, 2010 by joel
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OER Recommender at RecSysTEL
Richard Mayer comes to USU
Here are my notes from a presentation titled Multimedia Learning that Dr. Mayer gave at USU on January 27, 2004. I had read his book by the same name previously, but it was good to hear it from the horse’s mouth. Over his 30 year career he has focused his research on:
-Transfer as a learning [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2004 by joel
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My Defense
For the record, I successfully defended my dissertation December 12th. I have a running joke with my wife about how human nature is to think that when such and such happens, then I will be happy. After completing my defense I smiled and told my wife, Now I’m happy. Since my defense I’ve made it [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2003 by joel
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Count down to defense
I’ve scheduled my defense date for Nov 24 and the end of Oct to give my committee the final draft of my dissertation. I wrote a first draft and gave it to my chair before edits. Since then I’ve stepped back and asked myself did I write something good? I’ve talked with a statistician, my [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2003 by joel
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Inside Math Classrooms
I just ran across an interesting research report titled Inside US Math and Science Classrooms. The abstract is:A total of 364 mathematics and science lessons were observed using a structured observation protocol. Each lesson was rated on four components: the lesson design, implementation, math/science content addressed, and classroom culture. Observers rated several indicators within each [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2003 by joel
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Case study research
I just ran across Lilia’s post about case study research. I’ve been thinking about my own and doing some writing this morning. I’m still looking at how to best analyze my data. I’ve looked at QSR N6. I am also familiar with and have access to free format text database software called Folio. What I [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2003 by joel
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Ideas for analyzing my qualitative data
Another issue I am thinking about is how to generate categories to characterize the different teachers I have worked with. Dr. Lancy, an experienced qualitative researcher, encouraged me to try sorting the teachers into categories just using my gut instinct. While this seems like a reasonable approach, my natural instinct is to try something more [...]
Posted on September 5th, 2003 by joel
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Retiring on a graduate student salary
Yesterday I met with David Lancy, a Prof here at USU considered to be somewhat of an expert in qualitative research. He has been very generous with his time in visiting with me. His input has been very helpful. I shared with him where I am currently at in my research and asked for his [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2003 by joel
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Is my blog destined for irrelevance?
Absolutely….While rooting around the blogsphere I ran across Brian’s All over for blogs? post. What a let down, after only two days of having a blog, my visions of granduer are ruined, my bubble is burst.
Surely he is being both sarcastic and realistic. I guess when writing a blog you have to decide who you [...]
Posted on August 13th, 2003 by joel
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Warning! Will Robinson! Warning!
Joel has begun blogging. Not nearly as irreverant as I understand a blogger should be, I’m excited to begin authoring in addition to lurking.
Many thanks to my Ph.D. chair David Wiley for getting me started.
My primary interest is in completing my dissertation study titled Design Theory for Authoring Tools that Support Teacher Adaptation of Mathlets [...]
Posted on August 11th, 2003 by joel
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