Handbook of Design in Educational Technology

Introduction

Sadhana Puntambekar

Technology-enhanced environments to support learning are becoming ubiquitous in both formal and informal educational contexts. Often, the use of technology presents many opportunities as well as challenges for evaluating what and how students learn. Further, the use of technology changes the interactions among the different agents and resources in the context; new routines, processes and curricula are often introduced to integrate technology in innovative ways. This warrants examining learning and interactions in the environment by using a variety of approaches. This section on evaluation, therefore, consists of a representation of methods that span a range of dimensions: qualitative and quantitative methodologies, ...