Everyday Learning: Instruction and Technology Designs

Synonyms

Educational technology; Instructional technology; Web-based instruction

Definition

Instruction and technology designs for everyday learning is a multidisciplinary and emerging area of research that places design at the heart of the complex relationship between instruction, learning, and technology. Instruction and learning with technology involves any technology (e.g., telegraph, telephone, typewriter, digital information and communication technology, etc.) that disturbs normative space and time, either in terms of our perception of what is real and what is artificial or of the passage of time. Technology, digital or otherwise, is not merely utilitarian or instrumentalist in its influence on the way we instruct and learn; nor does technology degrade or enhance instruction and learning in uniform ways. Technology use in instruction and learning is a complex domain for study, primarily because it is exceedingly difficult to define the precise natures of technology, instruction,...