Failing forward in research around technology enhanced learning

Abstract

There are lessons to be learned from undertaking 'successful' research but we do not hear much about the lessons learned when your research doe not come-off. But in many cases there are some very important lessons that can be learned that others may benefit from, particularly for those who are new to research around the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), as opposed to discipline based research that is reputedly conducted more from an empirical persepctive. This paper reports on some of the lessons learned by two researchers from two universities on research that could have been done better in relation to technology enhanced learning (TEL). Why do we need to hear about these lessons? For the sake of our students; we want to improve our teaching and do not want to make the sane mistakes that others may have done.