Issues and Trends in Instructional Technology: Issues and Trends in Instructional Technology: Increased Engagement with Distance Learning Informs Live Instruction and Classroom Design -- Synchronous Distance Education and Being Live Online -- Parental Perception and English Learners’ Mobile-assisted Language Learning: An Ethnographic Case Study from a Technology-based Funds of Knowledge Approach -- The 2020 Scholarship Rankings -- The Preparation of Instructional Designers: An Exploration of Design Pedagogy and Praxis -- Robotics Education as an Integrator Tool -- Leadership Profies -- Organizations and Associations in North America -- Graduate Programs in Learning, Design, Technology, Information, or Libraries -- HyeIntroduction -- Mediagraphy.

This book is Volume 43 of the Educational Media and Technology Yearbook. For the past 40 years, our Yearbook has contributed to the field of Educational Technology by presenting contemporary topics, ideas, and developments regarding diverse technology tools for education. The Yearbook has inspired researchers, practitioners, and teachers to consider how to develop technological designs, curricula, and instruction. The audience for the Yearbook typically consists of media and technology professionals in K-12 schools, higher education, and business contexts. The Yearbook editors have dedicated themselves to providing a record of contemporary trends related to educational communications and technology and strive to highlight special movements that have clearly influenced the educational technology field. This volume continues the tradition of offering topics of interest to professionals practicing in other areas of educational media and technology. Includes research on emerging and contemporary topics in the field of educational technology; Provides an ongoing report on the current issues in the field of educational technology; Contains a section presenting organizations dedicated to educational technology; Includes a section presenting graduate programs in the field of educational technology; Includes a section presenting mediagraphy in the field of educational technology.