E-Research in Educational Contexts

Jocelyn Wishart is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Bristol, UK. She specialises in researching the use of new and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning. She is Membership Secretary for the International Association for Mobile Learning and is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Mobile Learning in Schools. Prior to entering teacher education she taught science, psychology, and ICT in secondary schools.Michael Thomas is an Associate Professor in Digital Education and Learning at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has taught at universities in Germany and Japan, and is the author or editor of fifteen books, mostly in the field of technology-enhanced learning. He is lead editor of the book series, Digital Education and Learning and Advances in Digital Language Learning and Teaching.

• Introduction: Introducing e-research in educational contexts, digital methods and issues arising 1. Capturing children’s knowledge-making dialogues in Minecraft 2. Digital stories as a method for evidence-based practice and knowledge co-creation in technology-enhanced learning for children with autism 3. Studying professional knowledge use in practice using multimedia scenarios delivered online 4. Disqus website-based commenting as an e-research method: engaging doctoral and early-career academic learners in educational research 5. Hermeneutics as a methodological resource for understanding empathy in on-line learning environments 6. Advancing ethics frameworks and scenario-based learning to support educational research into mobile learning