Design Research at CCNMTL

Design Research integrates the exploration and development of digital technologies with pedagogical theory and practice. CCNMTL rejects the long-standing division between theory-oriented educational research and service-oriented technical support and development. We seek to combine research and practice in a process that can best be summarized with a simple phrase: "build to learn."

News

ANNOUNCEMENTS | April 15, 2011

Anthology Features Chapter on Video Annotations

Jonah Bossewitch, CCNMTL lead technical architect, and Michael Preston, former CCNMTL senior educational technologist, co-authored a chapter entitled, Teaching and Learning with Video Annotations, for the recently released anthology, Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy. Their chapter... MORE

ANNOUNCEMENTS | February 23, 2011

Brownfield Action Featured in Science Education and Civic Engagement Journal

February 23, 2011. The Science Education and Civic Engagement International Journal published an article on the CCNMTL-developed simulation, Brownfield Action, in its Winter 2011 issue. Created in partnership with Barnard Professor of Science Peter Bower, Brownfield Action is an interactive... MORE

ANNOUNCEMENTS | January 31, 2011

Register for the University Seminar, Triangle Initiative Interventions in HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Progress Report

January 31, 2011. Join us at the next University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning, "Triangle Initiative Interventions in HIV Prevention and Treatment: A Progress Report," on February 3, 2011, from 3:30 - 5:00pm in Butler Library. In this... MORE

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Recent Publications

Bossewitch, Jonah, Michael Preston. "Teaching and Learning with Video Annotations Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy." Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy, eds. R. Trebor Scholtz, 175-184 New York: The Institute for Distributed Creativity: 2011. <website>

Bower, Peter, Ryan Kelsey and Frank Moretti. "Brownfield Action: An Inquiry Based Multimedia Simulation for Teaching and Learning Environmental Science." Science Education & Civic Engagement: An International Journal (Winter 2011). <pdf>

Featured Case

Communication: Brownfield Action
CCNMTL, Professor Bower, and Dr. Cornelia Brunner, an independent evaluation consultant on this project from the Center for Children and Technology, worked in concert to research and develop a set of evaluation instruments that measure the effectiveness of BA as...