My research spans two themes - the first focuses on designing technology-enhanced learning environments to address student learning of disciplinary practices, and the second relates to the effective integration of technology by teachers.

Technology Enhanced Learning of Disciplinary Practices (TELeaD)

An important goal of education is that in addition to content, students develop disciplinary practices such as design thinking, systems thinking, divergent-convergent thinking, question-posing, estimation, modeling and so on. Learners are expected to use these practices for sense-making and problem-solving within and across various disciplines, in educational settings and in the workplace. Using a design-based research approach, we design and implement technology enhanced learning environments to promote disciplinary practices among undergraduate students.

Some relevant publications related to this area are:

• MEttLE: A Modelling-based Learning Environment for Undergraduate Engineering Estimation Problem Solving. Aditi Kothiyal and Sahana Murthy. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, November 2018. [PDF]
• Pedagogical framework for developing thinking skills using smart learning environments. Sahana Murthy, Sridhar Iyer and Madhuri Mavinkurve. In Learning, Design and Technology - An international compendium of theory, research, practice and policy. (AECT Springer Online Major Reference Work). Eds. J. M. Spector, B. Lockee and M. D. Childress. Switzerland, Springer International Publishing, 2016. [PDF]
• Students learning paths in developing micro-macro thinking: productive actions for exploration in MIC-O-MAP learning environment. Anura Kenkre and Sahana Murthy. 24th International Conference on Computers in Education (ICCE 2016), Mumbai, India. Nov 28- Dec 2, 2016. [PDF]
• Development of engineering design competencies using TELE-EDesC: Do the competencies transfer? Madhuri Mavinkurve and Sahana Murthy. IEEE 15th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2015), Hualein, Taiwan, July 7-9, 2015. [PDF]

Teacher use of educational technology

The potential of educational technology tools is lost without integration appropriate pedagogical strategies. Instructors not only need to have a knowledge of which tools are relevant, but more importantly how to integrate them effectively in the teaching-learning process. This research has led to the creation of frameworks and models for effective integration of ET tools, designs for faculty professional development programs and development of technology enhanced learning systems for instructors to create meaningful learning designs. Some relevant publications related to this area are:

• LCM: A model for planning, designing and conducting Learner-Centric MOOCs. Sahana Murthy, Jayakrishnan Warriem, Sameer Sahasrabudhe and Sridhar Iyer. 9th International conference on Technology for Education, T4E 2018, Chennai, India. [PDF]
• Technology Integration for Student-Centered Learning: A Model for Teacher Professional Development Programs. Sahana Murthy, Jayakrishnan Warriem and Sridhar Iyer. In "Emerging Practices in Scholarship of Learning and Teaching in a Digital Era”, Eds. S.C. Kong, T. L. Wong, M. Yang, C. F. Chow, and K. H. Tse. Singapore, Springer, 2017. [PDF]
• ET4ET: A large-scale professional development program on effective integration of Educational Technology for engineering faculty. Sahana Murthy, Sridhar Iyer and Jayakrishnan Warriem. Educational Technology & Society, vol. 18(3), pp. 16-28. [PDF]
• CuVIS: An interactive tool for instructors to create effective customized learning designs with visualizations. Gargi Banerjee and Sahana Murthy. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(2), 2018. [PDF]

A complete list of publications is in my CV.

 

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IIT Bombay
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Email: sahanamurthy[at]iitb.ac.in