Abstract:

Over the past thirty years, there has been much dialogue, and debate, about the conduct of educational technology research and development. In this brief volume, Antoni Seguí helps clarify that dialogue by theoretically and empirically charting the research methods used in the field and provides much practical information on how to conduct educational technology research.

Within this comunication, readers can expect to find answers to the following questions:

(a) What are the methodological factors that need to be taken into consideration when designing and conducting educational technology research?

(b) What types of research questions do educational technology researchers tend to ask?

(c) How do educational technology researchers tend to conduct research?

(d) What approaches do they use? What variables do they examine? What types of measures do they use? How do they report their research?

(e) How can the state of educational technology research be improved?

Keywords:

Educational technology, research, e-learning, research methods, development, instructional technology.