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Challenges Arising When Using Field Notes and Video Observations

A Close Study of Teachers’ Use of Interactive Whiteboards in a Norwegian School

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Methodological Challenges When Exploring Digital Learning Spaces in Education

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It is often useful for educational researchers to visit schools and follow teachers and pupils during lessons. However what is the role of the researchers when visiting schools? Are they supposed to be silent observers or to provide feedback to the schools? Feedback from researchers to teachers can have impact on and change teachers practice.

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  1. Department of Technology and Analysis, The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education, Norway

    Ove Edvard Hatlevik

  2. Department of Education, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

    Gunstein Egeberg

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  1. The Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education, Oslo, Norway

    Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir

  2. Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Norway

    Kristin Beate Vasbø

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Hatlevik, O.E., Egeberg, G. (2014). Challenges Arising When Using Field Notes and Video Observations. In: Gudmundsdottir, G.B., Vasbø, K.B. (eds) Methodological Challenges When Exploring Digital Learning Spaces in Education. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-737-7_6

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