Michael K. Thomas

TL;DR: The Quest Atlantis (QA) project as discussed by the authors is a learning and teaching project that employs a multiuser, virtual environment to immerse children, ages 9-12, in educational tasks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe critical design ethnography, an ethnographic process involving participatory design work aimed at transforming a local context while producing an instructional design that can be used in multiple contexts, and reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerged as we built local critiques then reified them into a designed artifact that has been implemented in classrooms all over the world.

TL;DR: The authors argue that the community of learning scientists is well positioned to build transformative models of what could be, to develop learning and teaching interventions that have impact, and to advance theory that will prove valuable to others.

TL;DR: Barab et al. as mentioned in this paper described the trajectory of an online course in which graduate students collaboratively investigated and shared their personal experiences with respect to adult development and identified the specific emergent issues that characterized course dynamics using open, axial, and, to a lesser degree, selective coding.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that education is inherently a process that involves human interaction with the deliberate purpose of promoting the social values, norms, and mores of a given society, and that the knowledge a society chooses to convey says something about the culture of that society.