Conference Session

The 2017 Zone Best Paper Session

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean St. Clair, Oregon Institute of Technology

Tagged Topics

Council of Sections

fields, to propose that the use of such technologies in the classroom may increaselearning1. Researchers point out that very few classroom-based studies exist, however, to definethe relationship between instructional technology and retention9,10. Many studies have beenconducted in laboratory settings by cognitive scientists and psychologists in an attempt toestablish a link between instructional technology and retention11. Whether or not these laboratorystudies—which often utilize simple learning activities and short retention spans—can begeneralized to classroom learning is questioned by some3.Alternatively, there are multitudinous examples of classroom-based research linking technologywith learning and retention, but the vast majority of these