Act II of 3 · 52 entries
How we tried to build, measure and study it
Having a good theory of how people learn is not the same as being able to build something that helps them.
It follows on from Act I, and sets up the problem Act III inherits.
The 52 entries in Act II
- Long-formArticle 22· Awaiting publication
Udl
Theory: Universal Design for Learning | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,669
- Long-formArticle 23· Awaiting publication
Tpack
Theory: TPACK | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,530
- Long-formArticle 24· Awaiting publication
Multimedia Quality
Theory: Multimedia Quality Scoring | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,459
- Long-formArticle 25· Awaiting publication
Evidence-Centred Assessment
Theory: Evidence-Centred Assessment Design | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,453
- Long-formArticle 26· Awaiting publication
Psychometric Validation
Theory: Psychometric Validation for AI-Generated Assessment | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,675
- Long-formArticle 27· Awaiting publication
Intelligent Tutoring
Theory: Intelligent Tutoring Systems | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,854
- Long-formArticle 28· Awaiting publication
Knowledge Tracing
Theory: Knowledge Tracing & Learner Models | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,687
- Long-formArticle 29· Awaiting publication
Adaptive Learning
Theory: Adaptive Learning Systems | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,554
- Long-formArticle 30· Awaiting publication
Learning Analytics
Theory: Learning Analytics & Multimodal Analytics | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,667
- Long-formArticle 31· Awaiting publication
Device-Aware Delivery
Theory: Device-Aware Content Delivery | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,480
- Long-formArticle 32· Awaiting publication
Lti 1.3
Theory: LTI 1.3 and Learning Interoperability | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,457
- Long-formArticle 33· Awaiting publication
Design Science Research
Theory: Design Science Research | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,486
- Long-formArticle 34· Awaiting publication
Design Science Process
Theory: DSRM Process Model | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,599
- Long-formArticle 35· Awaiting publication
Translational Research
Theory: Translational Research in Learning Systems | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,437
- Long-formArticle 36· Awaiting publication
Ex Ante, Ex Post
Theory: Ex Ante and Ex Post Evaluation | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,415
- Long-formArticle 37· Awaiting publication
Non-Compensatory Decisions
Theory: Non-Compensatory Decision Models | Template: The Debate | Words: 1,678
- Long-formArticle 38· Awaiting publication
Thematic Analysis
Theory: Thematic Analysis | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,778
- Long-formArticle 39· Awaiting publication
Information Power
Theory: Information Power | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,685
- Long-formArticle 40· Awaiting publication
Replication Governance
Theory: Replication Governance in EdTech | Template: The Case File | Words: 1,670
- Long-formArticle 41· Awaiting publication
Source Diversity
Theory: Source Diversity and Evidence Provenance | Template: The Confession | Words: 1,494
- Long-formArticle 42· Awaiting publication
Pragmatism
Theory: Pragmatism | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 2,143
- Long-formArticle 43· Awaiting publication
Critical Realism
Theory: Critical Realism | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,433
- Long-formArticle 44· Awaiting publication
Hermeneutic Circle
Theory: Hermeneutic Circle | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,658
- Long-formArticle 45· Awaiting publication
Inductive And Deductive
Theory: Inductive and Deductive Reasoning | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,424
- Long-formArticle 46· Awaiting publication
Axiology
Theory: Axiology | Template: The Deep Dive | Words: 1,841
- Long-formArticle 47· Awaiting publication
Graceful Degradation
Theory: Graceful Degradation | Template: The Follow-Up | Words: 1,541
- Short-formPost 22
Udl
Most classrooms are designed for a student who does not actually exist.
- Short-formPost 23
Tpack
A teacher who is brilliant at their subject and bad with technology is not automatically worse than one who is the other way around.
- Short-formPost 24
Multimedia Quality
The reason some educational videos work and others do not has almost nothing to do with production values.
- Short-formPost 25
Evidence-Centred Assessment
Most tests are written backwards.
- Short-formPost 26
Psychometric Validation
An AI that writes quiz questions for you is doing half of what a proper assessment designer does.
- Short-formPost 27
Intelligent Tutoring
The dream of a machine tutor that adjusts perfectly to every learner has been around for longer than the smartphone.
- Short-formPost 28
Knowledge Tracing
When a student gets an answer right, we do not actually know what happened.
- Short-formPost 29
Adaptive Learning
Every learning app you have ever used asks you exactly one question about yourself.
- Short-formPost 30
Learning Analytics
Watching how students use a platform is not the same as understanding how they are learning.
- Short-formPost 31
Device-Aware Delivery
A video that will not load is not just annoying. It stops you learning.
- Short-formPost 32
Lti 1.3
The thing that makes your learning platform actually useful is a boring technical standard you have never heard of.
- Short-formPost 33
Design Science Research
Making something and studying something have been treated as opposites for a very long time.
- Short-formPost 34
Design Science Process
The most common mistake in building anything is starting to build too soon.
- Short-formPost 35
Translational Research
There is a gap between what researchers know works and what actually gets used in classrooms, and the gap is roughly seventeen years.
- Short-formPost 36
Ex Ante, Ex Post
We evaluate almost everything after it is built, and then we are surprised when it does not work.
- Short-formPost 37
Non-Compensatory Decisions
Some mistakes cannot be cancelled out by successes elsewhere.
- Short-formPost 38
Thematic Analysis
One of the most widely used research methods in the social sciences is also one of the most misunderstood.
- Short-formPost 39
Information Power
Qualitative research has a guideline that sounds like common sense and almost never is.
- Short-formPost 40
Replication Governance
Most educational technology gets sold on a single impressive study, and single impressive studies are unreliable.
- Short-formPost 41
Source Diversity
An AI tutor that answers every question from one textbook is an AI tutor with one professor's opinions.
- Short-formPost 42
Pragmatism
Some philosophical questions cannot be settled by argument, only by experiment.
- Short-formPost 43
Critical Realism
The loudest argument in research is one you probably did not realise you were being asked to join.
- Short-formPost 44
Hermeneutic Circle
You cannot understand the whole without understanding the parts, and you cannot understand the parts without understanding the whole.
- Short-formPost 45
Inductive And Deductive
There are two ways to build knowledge, and most of us have only been taught one of them properly.
- Short-formPost 46
Axiology
There is no such thing as research without values.
- Short-formPost 47
Graceful Degradation
The most important question about a system is not how it works when everything is fine.