Studying Digital Learning Experiences

My research has focused on understanding how digital learning experiences can be designed and used most effective in helping students to learn. Much of this work is design-based research, so I am fortunate to be working with the ETX Center at ASU, who are continually exploring new ways to make effective use of technology in education.

One productive area of work has been the fully online Habitable Worlds course. The course exemplifies the learning design approach and use of educational technology that ETX strives to use in each of its designs. Our article, published in the journal Astrobiology, describes the course as a whole. We also take advantage of the course's powerful learning analytics capabilities to present evidence of learning in the course. I am currently studying the effects of sending targeted, early-intervention emails to students which is informed by analysis of the success or failure of students from prior course offerings.