Social Issues

Article Date: January 2017

Title: BLENDED PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE

INTERSECTION OF SOCIAL LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY

Author: ROISIN DONNELLY

Journal: Psychosociological Issues in Human Resource Management

DOI: 10.22381/PIHRM5220172

Summary: This article talks about problems with the teachers integrating technology in their
classrooms as well as changing curriculum for basic teaching, such as lectures to using
technology to present the lessons and materials. The article focuses on how to blend face-to-face
learning with online learning. To use the web, one must interact constantly and become more
involved to learn the different aspects of it. With the use of technology, it is important that group
work is involved because it helps develop skills such as cooperative working.

Solution: The solution is to provide students with blended learning so they can get the best of
both worlds. Studies have already shown that students perform better with face-to-face teaching
as well as online work instead of just having one or the other.

Educational Issues

Article Date: October 6, 2015

Title: Personalized Integrated Educational System: Technology Functions for the Learner
Centered Paradigm of Education

Author: Charles M. Reigeluth, Sinem Aslan, Zengguan Chen, Pratima Dutta, Yeol Huh, Dabae
Lee, Chun-Yi Lin, Ya-Huei Lu, Mina Min, Verily Tan, Sunnie Lee Watson, and William R.
Watson

Journal: Educating Computing Research

DOI: 10.1177/0735633115603998
Summary: This article is about a research team who comes up with four major functions that
support a student-centered paradigm rather than teacher-centered. The major functions are
recordkeeping for student learning, planning for student learning, instruction for student learning,
and assessment for and of student learning. Personalized Integrated Educational System (PIES)
was also created from this research study as a way to describe the integrated technology system.
PIES is also another way of thinking about functions to support all that are involved in in the
education system such as teachers, administrators, parents, and students. Recordkeeping is
keeping record of what a student has learned over time with a detailed description as oppose to a
report card which only tells how well a student did compared to other students in the class. The
planning function is very important in student learning because it helps the teacher decide on
appropriate curriculum as well as be able to recognize opportunity for teachable moments in the
classroom.

Solution: I feel as though this article addresses the issue by creating PIES. This way of doing
things focuses more on the student with the support of technology other then anything else. This
was an interesting article and all of the functions were explained well.

Cultural/Equity:

Article Date: December 2016

Title: Assistive Technology for Students with Disabilities: A Legal Analysis of Issues

Author: Susan Larson Etscheidt

Journal: Journal of Special Education Technology

DOI: 10.1177/0162643416673912

Summary: This article talks about how some students with disabilities may need appropriate
assistance with technologies that they are able to use. Although this is an issue, many schools
and educational places have not requested services or schools may not have had the support
needed for it to be available to students. A study was also conducted on many students to see if
Assistive Technology was needed. Some of the studies conducted showed that Assistive
Technologies were not needed while others when a student was observed it was realized that the
student did need the services.

Solution: The solution in the article talked about how instructors should be effectively trained to
teach with assistive technologies as well as allowing for some students to even use Assistive
technologies at home and school.

Legal/Ethical

Article Date: September 4, 2015

Title: A legal perspective on university technology transfer

Author: Christopher S. Hayter and Jacob H. Rooksby

Journal: Journal of Technology Transfer

DOI: 10.1007/s10961-015-9436-5

Summary: This article is about the research of how the legal aspect is involved in the technology
transfer in higher education. Technology is improving and changing, and it is only right to
include it, but no one ever really talks about the legal part and that is what this article refers to.
Many have gone based off the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 but, as time has gone by and even before,
universities have learned about the formal and informal technology transfer activities. It is
believed that people in universities today have a higher level of awareness of regarding IP and
the potential value of it. The article also talks about the consequences of not obeying the legal
rules.

Solution: The purpose to make readers aware of the legal parts and how it relates to the use of
technology.