The present research aims to explore the different conceptions of reality that university and placement organizations staff, as well as postgraduate students have in the context of a project-based learning class in instructional design of online courses. The methodology used is phenomenography. This project contributes towards filling the research gap concerning technology enhanced learning in ...

Actor-network theory (ANT) has established itself as a valuable resource for the analysis of technology innovation and adoption. One of the main reasons for the success of the Innovation Translation Model (a specific instantiation of ANT) is the fact that it fits very well the emerging dominance of ecosystem or multiple stakeholder perspectives on technology development and technology adoption....

Phenomenography is a methodological approach born few decades ago in educational research that has been little used technology research. Phenomenography, essence, analyses the variations conceptions people have about phenomenon world around them, its focus not on understanding different individuals and help to understand ways of conceiving given phenomenon. In this article we aim describe what ...

Research in information and communication technology in education places an increasing emphasis on the use of qualitative analysis (QA). A considerable number of approaches to QA can be adopted, but it is not always clear that researchers recognize either the differences between these approaches or the principles that underlie them. Phenomenography is often identified by researchers as the appr...

Purpose Personas are lifelike characters that driven by potential or real users’ personal goals and experiences when interacting with a product. support user-centered design focusing on needs. However, the use of personas in educational research requires certain adjustments from its original human-computer interface design. This paper aims to propose process creating phenomenographic studies, w...

This paper reviews the way experience has been understood and the research agendas associated with that understanding in networked learning. In the contemporary context the student 'experience' is part of common speech and often associated with a consumerist discourse, especially in the UK and US. The widespread use of digital and networked technologies in education has also given rise to a dec...