Webinar: Cyberlearning - Revealing knowledge bases of educational research

Date/Time:	Friday, 25 Sep 2015 from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
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Educational research covers a diverse area of topics ranging from psychological principles of learning and the role of language in cognition to the history of educational institutions and education's economic impact. Such diversity presents integration challenges and questions how research can be connected so that collective knowledge may advance.

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We used a scientometric analysis to examine the knowledge bases of educational research and present a global map that consists of 18 research clusters or subfields that are connected by distinct sets of references. The nature of these sets of references varied, breaking down differently into theory-based, method-based, domain-based, empirical and consensus document references. Five of the clusters are centrally focused on research in education in that they appear to concentrate on teaching and learning directly.

Five other clusters are more peripherally focused on research in education because they also work on other topics. A comparison of the clusters with AERA Divisions and SIGs show some close one-to-one matches and we argue that this gives evidence for clusters grouping articles in way relevant to communities of practice. Lastly, we examined the place of educational research within research in social sciences and found that educational research is distributed across diverse fields, actively incorporating and connecting multiple disciplines. Our interactive on-line maps of research in education can be used by students, researchers and practitioners to explore the collectively built knowledge bases of research in education.

Please note that those interested in portfolio analysis may find aspects of Dr. Lund's talk to be of interest.

This webinar is part of a National Science Foundation webinar series.

The Presenter:
Dr. Kristine Lund, CNRS Senior Research Engineer in the ICAR language sciences laboratory, University of Lyon

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