Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology: A Project of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT Series)

Sponsored by the Association of Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), the second edition of this groundbreaking handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues, and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into seven sections, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly changing field: theoretical foundations, hard technologies, soft technologies, instructional design, instructional strategies, instructional message design, and research methodologies. All chapters have been updated, some extensively. New chapters include those on programmed instruction, everyday cognition and situated learning, ecological psychology, Internet-based learning, library media centers, foreign language labs, microworlds, automated instructional design, cognitive apprenticeship, case-based learning aids, and conversational analysis. All articles are organized around a numerical cross-referencing system that permits the construction of front-end databases, hypertexts, and summaries.

This handbook is intended for graduate students, professors, instructional designers and researchers in educational communication and technology.

The increasing popularity of online degree programs and the infusion of technology in classrooms, elementary school through higher education, make this book a valuable resource for students and practitioners....the information provided is unparalleled.
—CHOICE

The handbook as a whole provides a breathtaking and wonderfully thorough 'state-of-the-art' look at this growing area of study. As more and more schools incorporate technology in learning (both in the classroom and in distance education programs), the research presented here will become even more valuable and something with which all teachers and administrators should become familiar....The handbook gives an extraordinary introduction to the field and is a reference book to which one can return frequently and profitably.
—Communication Research Trends