{"id":2427,"date":"2019-05-19T21:06:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:47","slug":"139365-technology-to-support-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/139365-technology-to-support-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"139:365 | Technology to Support Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I came across &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/ies.ed.gov\/ncee\/wwc\/Docs\/PracticeGuide\/wwc-using-tech-postsecondary.pdf#page=5\">Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning<\/a>: A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty&#8221; from Dr. MJ Bishop&#8217;s recent tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I enjoyed the opportunity to serve on this panel&#8230; interesting to see first hand the need to begin framing our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/highered?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#highered<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/edtech?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#edtech<\/a> research around the educational problems we&#8217;re trying to solve instead of around the technologies themselves&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iZncacZlV3\">https:\/\/t.co\/iZncacZlV3<\/a><\/p>\u2014 MJ Bishop (@drmjbishop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drmjbishop\/status\/1130130424792002560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s going to take me a long time to digest this report, but there are a few things that jump out at me:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As shown in Table 1 below, the report breaks down five practice recommendations related to the use of technology based on theory and research. For example, the first recommendation &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jennifermaddrell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/MADDRELL-Dissertation-FINAL-20111102.pdf\">within the ballpark of my dissertation topic<\/a> &#8211; suggests, &#8220;Use communication and collaboration tools to increase interaction among students and between students and instructors.&#8221; While this recommendation is based on the value of the underlying theories of social learning, the report notes &#8220;a minimal level of evidence based on three studies of the effectiveness of communication tools designed to foster collaboration and build community,&#8221; which is a call from the rooftop for additional research! Again, much along the lines of what I outlined in the discussion of my dissertation.<\/li><li>The panel includes leaders in the instructional design field &#8211; yay! For example, Dr. Dabbagh, an early supporter of our work at Designers for Learning, is the panel chair. Also, MJ is a perfect voice to foster evidence-based practice initiatives.<\/li><li>As MJ notes in her tweet, it&#8217;s fantastic to focus on the educational problems and opportunities to support learning instead of around the technologies themselves. Amen!<\/li><li>Finally, the report is in the public domain, so share it to your heart&#8217;s content!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/evidence.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/evidence.png 687w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/evidence-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across &#8220;Using Technology to Support Postsecondary Student Learning: A Practice Guide for College and University Administrators, Advisors, and Faculty&#8221; from Dr. MJ Bishop&#8217;s recent tweet: I enjoyed the opportunity to serve on this panel&#8230; interesting to see first hand the need to begin framing our #highered #edtech research around the educational problems we&#8217;re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}