Exercise of Practical Research on Educationl Technology F

Academic unit or major

Graduate major in Social and Human Sciences

Instructor(s)

Toshiki Matsuda / Masao Murota / Kentaro Nagahara

Class Format

Exercise (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

Intensive

Class

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Course Code

SHS.D465

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2024

Offered quarter

3-4Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 14, 2025

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

- Performing problem-analysis, making a research plan, designing a lesson, developing an instructional material or tool, performing formative evaluation before a lesson, conducting a trial lesson, analizing its effect, writing a paper, performing a presentation, and reviewing these activities.
- Building on gaming instructional materials developed in "Exercise of Designing Gaming Instructional Materials" and "Educational Media and Design A & B", students will learn about the methodology of practical research on educational technology through the process of actually evaluating developed instructional materials and writing research paper.

Course description and aims

Students are required to achieve following objectives:
- Master the methods of practical researches on education, analysis of educational effects, and writing academic papers.
- This course focuses on the devices to emphasize the value of the research, such as clarifying originality and heightening general-purpose properties.

Keywords

Practical research in education, lesson study, learning science, qualitative approach, lesson Assessment, learning effect, e-portfolio, research ethics

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

This lesson is offered as intensive lectures and the activities shown in the lesson plan are conducted in consultation with each student.

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.

Textbook(s)

http://www.et.hum.titech.ac.jp/~matsuda/ETresearch/

Reference books, course materials, etc.

・Matsuda, T. (2015). An E-portfolio for Cultivating Ability to Perform Educational Technology Research, Technical Report of Japan Society for Educational Technology, JSET15 (1), 1–8.
・Matsuda, T. (2015). An E-portfolio System to Promote Development of Gaming Instructional Materials for Cultivating Students’ Problem-solving Abilities., In Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning, Chesapeake, VA: AACE, Vol. 2015, No. 1, pp. 961-968.

Evaluation methods and criteria

・Students will be assessed based on the presentation and submitted paper to a conference on educational technology but it should be different from own thesis paper.
・Student are required to be certified his/her research plan before taking this course.

Related courses

• SHS.D445 ： Instructional-Design Theories and Models
• LAT.A407 ： Exercise of Designing Gaming Instructional Materials
• SHS.M445 ： Educational Media and Design A
• SHS.M446 ： Educational Media and Design B

Prerequisites

・Students who took either "Instructional-Design Theories and Models＋Exercise of Designing Gaming Instructional Materials” or "Educational Media and Design A & B" can take this course.
・Students are required to send an application e-mail that includes ID, name, major program, and e-mail address to following contact address after taking above prerequiesites courses.

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Office hours

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