The Integration of Educational Technology in Education and in the Workplace

For the last two decades, researchers and practitioners have been exploring the potential of digital educational technologies in both schools and the workplace. Some of the early research offered fairly mixed results (Clark & Mayer, 2008). Many of these early studies were mainly focused on the usability, efficiency, and reliability of these new learning environments compared to their classroom counterpart (Oncu & Cakir, 2011). The major question investigated in these exploratory experiments was “can we really effectively learn with these technologies?”