Technology educational affordance: Bringing the gap between patterns of interaction and technology usage

dc.creator	A. Badia
dc.creator	E. Barberà
dc.creator	T. Guasch
dc.creator	A. Espasa
dc.date	2011-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:10:56Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:10:56Z
dc.identifier	2013-9144
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/e2527ee532bf4efe8d8fa873218ee319
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/14030
dc.description	This paper reports on an empirical and descriptive investigation into how teachers and learners use technology in three prototypical learning activities in a higher educational online learning environment. Additionally, the relationship between the educational uses of technology and the overall educational patterns of interaction between teachers and learners, and among learners themselves was analysed. Detailed teacher and learner self-reports about their teaching and learning activity; the asynchronous written messages teachers and learners sent as educational interaction in the online learning environment; and documents produced by students were all obtained. The results from the three learning activities indicated six overall educational uses of technology in an online learning environment. Moreover, the results also indicated differences in technology usage in some different patterns of educational interaction in each learning activity. In conclusion, we argue that the notion of technology educational affordance is useful as an effective bridge between the real use of technology and instructional aims. Therefore the distribution of educational uses of technology is not only related to some attributes of both technology and instruction but also to its interaction.
dc.language	English
dc.language	Spanish
dc.publisher	University of Barcelona
dc.relation	http://greav.ub.edu/der/index.php/der/article/view/177
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2013-9144
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND
dc.source	Digital Education Review, Iss 19, Pp 20-35 (2011)
dc.subject	Online learning environments
dc.subject	Educational technology usage
dc.subject	Patterns of educational interaction
dc.subject	Educational technology affordance
dc.subject	Higher education
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Technology educational affordance: Bringing the gap between patterns of interaction and technology usage
dc.type	article