Welcome to the Education, Technology & Culture Lab — also referred to as the etcetera lab. The etc. lab is directed by Dr. Fernando Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of Teaching, in the School of Education at UC Irvine.

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Our lab studies the impacts of technology-centered learning on student attitudes and behaviors. These settings include online courses, cloud-based collaborative work, social learning platforms, and using AI tutoring systems.

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We also study how technologies impact the culture of learning; the values, attitudes, and practices students have towards studying and collaboration. Finally, we consider how social learning platforms can be used to promote collaborative online international learning and global engagement. 

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Our work is informed by cognitive and motivational theories and we use a variety of approaches (learning analytics, eye-tracking, large language models) to analyze learning behaviors and outcomes.

 

The etc. lab is tailored towards training undergraduates in research design, statistics, and programming in R. 

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