Research
Our Kindle Project was first formulated in early 2009, by Professor Charles Crowell, in his Entrepreneurship Lab course in the college's Build The Sustainable Enterprise program and as part of his ongoing investigations into complex inquiry and learning methodologies in virtual environments.
The stages of our Kindle research Project are (1) to explore initial applications of the Kindle in classroom and extra-curricular learning modalities, collect data, and more explicitly formulate our research inquiry into the applications of the Kindle in three courses during the Fall, 2009 semester, and (2) pursue more explicit and narrowly defined research questions, which draw on our initial experiences with the Kindle, during the Spring, 2010 semester. By way of illustration, within the first month of our use of Kindles, several of our learners proposed an expanded learning methodology that was based on their own experimentation with the device.
The general parameters for our Kindle research Project include using the Kindle in three types of courses: a seminar-style course, a hybrid course, and a largely virtual course. Our initial research project design also anticipated using the Kindle 2.0 in an advanced organisational finance course, but the scale of the preparation necessary to pursue that use exceeded the planning and development time we had available. We expect to examine larger scale quantitative use in a later stage of our research project.
Our research project emphasizes pedagogical applications of the Kindle.
Our initial Kindle research is expected to continue through at least May, 2010, with an additional iteration in the 2011 academic year.
You may contact Professor Crowell at ccrowell@svc.edu for a more detailed discussion of our research project and any current, yet-to-be published research results.
The stages of our Kindle research Project are (1) to explore initial applications of the Kindle in classroom and extra-curricular learning modalities, collect data, and more explicitly formulate our research inquiry into the applications of the Kindle in three courses during the Fall, 2009 semester, and (2) pursue more explicit and narrowly defined research questions, which draw on our initial experiences with the Kindle, during the Spring, 2010 semester. By way of illustration, within the first month of our use of Kindles, several of our learners proposed an expanded learning methodology that was based on their own experimentation with the device.
The general parameters for our Kindle research Project include using the Kindle in three types of courses: a seminar-style course, a hybrid course, and a largely virtual course. Our initial research project design also anticipated using the Kindle 2.0 in an advanced organisational finance course, but the scale of the preparation necessary to pursue that use exceeded the planning and development time we had available. We expect to examine larger scale quantitative use in a later stage of our research project.
Our research project emphasizes pedagogical applications of the Kindle.
Our initial Kindle research is expected to continue through at least May, 2010, with an additional iteration in the 2011 academic year.
You may contact Professor Crowell at ccrowell@svc.edu for a more detailed discussion of our research project and any current, yet-to-be published research results.