In general, you won't find any, IF you isolate the effects of the instructional design from the effects of the medium.  There is a 50-year history of such studies.  

The implications are:

1) better instructional design is more effective than worse instructional design, regardless of medium.  If your e-learning has better instructional design, that will show. If not, it won't.

2) effects of technology are limited to improved access and use, efficiency, cost, and certain instructional strategies that can only be done using the technology (e.g., visualization, simulation & games).  Some claim greater use (motivation effects), but that's been hard to demonstrate.  You may see improved learning, or cost-effectiveness, if any of these factors are operating. 

For a current discussion of these issues, see:

Spector, M., Merrill, M., Elen, J., Bishop, M.J. (2014) Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, 4th ed., New York: Springer.

I have done a lot of researches on use of ICT in education. Please see the articles listed below:

Article Computer–Based Instructional Simulations in Education: Why and How

Article Web 2.0 in Higher Education

Hi Vittorio,

No answer from your side.

I continuously involve chatting as a blender to what I teach my students.

Hi Hussain,do you think that belended learning can be useful to overcome cultural issues of middle east region?? 

Habib, all my work is applied to Lebanon with my students. However, chatting is done with international managers as required by MBA course requirements.

Regards

To answer your question, when objectives for the exercise are clear, yes the exercise is of benefit to any students.

Dear Habib I also go with @ Hussin Jose Hijase. I am a strong believer/follower of his last sentence ""when objectives for the exercise are clear, yes the exercise is of benefit to any students"" I too use to chat with my students even after completing the course. Thanks

Hello Habib,

I have been working on online structural assessment of knowledge and developing a website. I have not tested its effectiveness but similar studies show that the website can be effective.

You can check out one of my articles If you are interested in.

Article Exploring the Mobile Structural Assessment Tool: Concept Map...

I'm working on line as research coach, mentor, and examiner.

Hi Mehmet,

I tried to download your article "Exploring the Mobile Structural Assessment Tool: Concept Maps for Learning Website" but links are not working. Can you send me a copy of the article or send me a link from where I can download it.

Hi Dr. Khan

I have several proposals related to the technology and the education in Qatar. I am interesting to know what you the title that you are working in it

Ahmed

Hi Dr. Ahmed,

I am working on the possible effects of different technological tools in higher education sector. The focus can be on Cognitive empowerment or Affect empowerment of the students.  

Ok. I will check the possibility of a significant addition to the current research by the end of this coming weekend and I will be back to you

Have a nice afternoon

Ahmed

Hello Habib,

Here is the link of the article.

http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/estad/article/view/47939

Best

Hello Dr. Khan,

We are done research using Robotic, video games, programming tools, learning objects, etc. in higher educational level.

Maybe we can do some research, Im from Mexico.

Thanks

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Michel García

Dear Dr Khan

I would definitely be interested, as my current research is on that subject. 

Kindly forward me your contact details, so we may discuss in details.

Kind Regards

Dr SL Churchill

Hi Stephne, Yoiu can reach to me directly on my email [email protected]

Looking forward for your contact soon.

Hi Michel, Your field are interesting. We can discuss it further. You can reach to me directly on [email protected]

We can think to have a research group in a combined theme.

Hi, everyone! I have some experiences in Brazil. I think the work of Michel García can be amazing!!!

Hello to everyone!  I am interesting on this research section. I have done some work with my 1st year students.  

Dear all,

I have conducted a research on undergraduate students of Qatar about the use of video lecture capture technology and its possible effects on learning. If any one of you want to have similar type of research in your instituion, we can go for comparative study analysis. If any one is interested, he/she can contact me on my email [email protected]

Habib

Two M.Phil students conducted research/thesis in my supervision and i am interested for further research on this topic.Is it possible to conduct joint research?

Dear Dr. Mahmood, drop me an email on [email protected] to discuss possibilities of joint research.

Hello,

We are engaged in ubiquitous learning R&D in Argentina. If you are interested, write to me: [email protected]

Sure Maria, I will contact you if I will be interested. 

Dear Maurice, Sure ... once you are ready email me on [email protected]

Dear Dr Khan

I am intersting on the effects of different technologies on the learning process of students as I have done some research in the past. My e-mail is [email protected]

Good morning

I would like to be part of this reaserch

ivgc

Dear Habib,

At the University of York we are currently running a study on the impact of lecture recordings on student learning - specifically looking at how students engage with recordings as part of their study strategy. We are due to present on our findings in September, but a description of the ersearch and some preliminary findings are available at: https://elearningyork.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/interim-report-why-do-students-use-lecture-capture/

It would be interesting to compare our findings with other research studies of this kind .

Richard

In general, you won't find any, IF you isolate the effects of the instructional design from the effects of the medium.  There is a 50-year history of such studies.  

The implications are:

1) better instructional design is more effective than worse instructional design, regardless of medium.  If your e-learning has better instructional design, that will show. If not, it won't.

2) effects of technology are limited to improved access and use, efficiency, cost, and certain instructional strategies that can only be done using the technology (e.g., visualization, simulation & games).  Some claim greater use (motivation effects), but that's been hard to demonstrate.  You may see improved learning, or cost-effectiveness, if any of these factors are operating. 

For a current discussion of these issues, see:

Spector, M., Merrill, M., Elen, J., Bishop, M.J. (2014) Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, 4th ed., New York: Springer.

Hi Richard, I already collected data about the use of this technology and my study is going on as I am adding data at the end of each semester. If your initial data is collected.... we can have a comparative analysis about the collected data... Once you think.... you are ready.... just drop me an email on [email protected] to start exchanging our views further.... any how it is good to read that you are following same pattern research.

Dear Welleseley,

You are right .... technology is just a tool... it is like a weapon... if we don't know how to use it or how to use it properly, we will not be able to get proper results. Good planning and design with proper specification are vital points to proceed further in any educational research.

The greatest issue I have found in literature is the fact too many educators use technology for the sake of using technology instead of utilizing technology to supplement instruction. The second major issue with utilizing technology is an objective assessment of the success from using technology.

Brain you are right, right technology at the right situation is required. 

All situations on will not suit all sort of technologies. This is the reason proper planning and design is required to meet certain learning outcomes .

Technology is to support the learning process. Is a medium not the actor. In my PhD this is obvious. 

This is interesting discussion. i am interested about the use of mobile devices for teaching and learning. Anyone who have studies on this area?

 Yes, of course. Many researchers are interested in this topic but What part of ET you want to address. For instance, e-learning, user modelling, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, adaptive e-learning, etc.All of them are examples on ET research. I am interested in intelligent e-learning systems and will be happy to help if there is any way to do it. I am sure there are other colleagues in Qatar Uni who are working on ET as well.

Thanks

Hi Rawad, I am currently working on different tools of leaming and their possible impacts on the learning of higher education students. What kind of intelligent e-learning systems are you using over there?

how to model student behaviour to make learning process more attractive for him. I am doing this through ontology and semantic representation 

This is a fairly apples to oranges question.  You should follow the Clark/Kozma debate on this issue  - from Kozma's perspective we should not be doing comparison studies because the different modalities present different methods.  Technology is not simply a delivery device.  Different tools lead to different learning and as such different outcomes.

The way that we use technology during the learning and teaching process depends on the subject its self, subject delivery organisation, the students and the teacher (lecturer). 

Hello Brian,

Although I agree with you that one should not use technology for the sake of using Technology, I tend to believe that Technology as supplement instruction is also not that effective. I think that the real breakthrough is the Integration of Technology in learning Environments and that comes when students create and/or extend their own knowledge through its use in a meaningful context. When students create it also easier for an objective assessment of their learning success to take place.

The Point nowadays is that we have "too much Technology" at Hand... it is difficult to Keep the pace... from Laptops to Tablets to Smartphones to wearables, from Internet to Intranet to LMS to B-Learning to MOOC... from Desktops to Rasberry Pis et. al, from Legos to Lego Control to Lego Mindstorms to IoT... Drones, VR, Serious Gaming... and it will not stop...  and many times our students have already tried the Technology or mastered it before we do, because they learn "at their own pace, when they want and what they want"... and it's all available "online"... Teaching & Learning has never been more challenging and exciting as in the present time!

Good comments Mariela, this is why blended education is successful. It integrates just the right amount of technology to teaching based on Learning objectives.

Hello Hussin, thank you for your comment!

I agree Blended Learning is a great opportunity to get the best of both worlds together, but it is also not easy to get it right... I have seen cases where schools think that by having an LMS with courses and resources available to students they are "blending the learning"... the truth is that they continue with a traditional teacher centred approach and use the LMS as supplement, to post lectures, readings or homework...

Blended Learning implies that one learns actively and interactively through the use of the available Technology and integrates that with face-to-face, social or collaborative learning activities. For example, one can apply the "Flipped the classroom" approach and have students first research or carry out preparation activities at home or anywhere else, before coming to School to put the newly acquired knowledge into practice in e.g. a problem-solving activity or a case study.

What I find fascinating and a real challenge is to design learning activities that infuse a Passion for independant learning, that what I suggest is only the tip of the iceberg and makes the students curious and wanting to learn  more. When they come back and challenge me with more questions or teach me something new, then I am a happy teacher, regardless of the age group :)

The best way is to to get students to start trying different means of technology in their learning and then asses how effectively you perceive the impact to be on the outcome of their learning and assessment. 

I agree with you Emerson that learning outcomes should be main focus on any learning strategy.

I am interested in conducting collaborative research with colleagues in the field.

Please see my profile and looking forward to know from your side!

my contact: [email protected]

Good morning

I am doing a MOOC

ingrid

I'm interested doing research in this field and related to mathematics education...

I'm also interested doing research in Chemical Science and Technology field and related to computational mathematics