Open AccessA Call for Dynamic Research in Information Technology in Education
Author(s) -
Leping Liu
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international journal of technology in teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1937-5204
pISSN - 1551-2576
DOI - 10.37120/ijttl.2005.01.1.01
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , relation (database) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , current (fluid) , information technology , data science , quality (philosophy) , management science , knowledge management , engineering , epistemology , data mining , mathematics , electrical engineering , philosophy , pure mathematics , programming language , operating system
This article issues a call for dynamic research in the field of using information technology in education. I have (a) reviewed the quality of current publications in the field, (b) summarized the progress of research in educational information technology in terms of three stages of research along with three stages of technology integration, (c) discussed some factors related to the progress with respect to research design and research ideas in the field, and (d) proposed a dynamic research model in relation to a set of dynamic factors in current research that can be used to systematically generate meaningful research ideas.