Web-based youth communities in the light of cyberspace psychology
The internet new media creates new types of communities - online
or web-based communities in virtual reality. Everyone, to a certain degree, is
involved in building and creating online communities. The main aim of this
study is to make an overview of cyberspace technology and to extrapolate the
influence of computers, technology and virtual environments on the psychology
of Bulgarian students (individuals and groups). This study is focused on
the chief features of web-based life in web-based com
Harnessing Technology: Transforming Learning and Children's Services
This document is the Department for Education and Skill's first cross-sector e-learning strategy. The strategy focuses on what the technology can do for informing and advising citizens, for supporting children and learners of all ages in their encounters with the system, and for transforming the experience of learning. To make this happen, it identifieds six priorities, to provide:
• An integrated online information service for all citizens
• Integrated online personal support for children
10 issues to think about the future of research on TEL
This document is a contribution to the workshop organized by the European Commission on February the 15th an 16th with the objective of identifying key questions for the future of research on Technology Enhanced Learning. It is based on the contributions and ideas of team leaders from the FP6 Network of Excellence Kaleidoscope (noe-kaleidoscope.org).,"Les Cahiers Leibniz", n°147
Futurelab - Teachers Learning with Digital Technologies: A review of research and projects
If we are interested in changing education, we need more than ever to be interested in teacher education, teacher knowledge and teacher learning. If we want to encourage different approaches to teaching and learning, and new relationships between pupils and teachers, we need to understand the ways in which teachers come to learn, adapt and make such new approaches a reality. This review aims to provide an overview of the research on teacher education, and a roadmap for how this might best be sup
Initial queries into the notion of Power Users of Technology
In this paper I shall address and investigate some ideas and hypotheses, which I find very important in order to understand the notion of “Power Users of Technology”. The Power Users research initiative has noted and emphasises
the heavy increase in children’s, adolescents’ or young people’s use of technology. What distinguishes the Power User research initiative and makes it qualitatively different from similar studies is that it is not merely looking into changed patterns in adolesce
Implementation of ICT in Higher Education as Interacting Activity Systems
Implementation of ICT in higher education is not a trivial process. It is however a process leading to a number
of challenges and problems. The paper develops a theoretical model of the implementation of ICT in higher
education based on activity theory and on a case study in a Danish university. The model suggest that
implementation in itself is an activity system. The implementation activity is composed of three processes:
Selection of ICT; adaptation of ICT and change of practice with ICT. Fur
A Robot in Kindergarten
These thought are the result of work in progress, started in 1999, within the scope of the
Trás-os-Montes Digital/SCETAD, project (sub-project: ICEI – Computers in Early
Childhood Education Contexts). The work took place in Portuguese kindergarten
rooms, with children aged 3, 4, 5 and 6.
The ICEI sub-project aims to promote the use of ICT in a playful but pedagogical way,
be it free or directed. This use is intended to occur within the scope of activities
developed for the micro-spaces of the
Mathematics and E-Learning: A conceptual framework
This paper starts from the study of the epistemological statute of the didactics of the
mathematics (Henry, 1991; D'Amore, 1999), which faces the phenomenon of
learning from the point of view of fundaments, in order to give useful and specific
considerations for e-learning environments. Investigations on how the triangle
teacher-pupil-knowledge changes are presented. Then the model of a-didactic
situations (Brousseau, 1997) is analysed in the context of e-learning platforms.
Didactic Decision-Making Process
In a Surgery Learning Environment
In this paper we present our model of the didactic decision-making process and our
method to define the apprenticeship utility function. This model is embedded in a computer-based
learning environment dedicated to orthopedic surgery. The decision model allows the production
of feedback relevant to the user’s knowledge during her/his activities with the learning
environment.
The surgical knowledge in the learning environment is represented with Bayesian Networks and
the decision-making process
Baghera Assessment Project, designing an
hybrid and emergent educational society
The Baghera Assessment Project (BAP) has the objective to ex plore a new avenue for the design of e-Learning environments. The key features of BAP's approach are: (i) the concept of emergence in multi-agents systems as modelling framework, (ii) the shaping of a new theoretic al framework for modelling student knowledge, namely the cK¢ model. This new model has been constructed, based on the current research in cognitive science and education, to bridge research on education and research on the
Educational Tool for Nanophysics Using Multisensory Rendering
The presentation and the evaluation of an educational tool used to teach physical phenomena that take place at a nanometer scale are the central objectives of the work presented in this paper. Through concepts and tools, the real phenomena are connected to the virtual world, which furnish sensorial representations (haptic, visual, auditory) for the student who is experimenting.
A computer representation of the nanoscene at the atomic level offers a multisensory tangible artifact of nanoworld ina
How internal and external scripts guide argumentative knowledge construction in a web-based collabor
Collaboration scripts are a powerful means to improve collaborative inquiry learning. More
specifically, they can be designed to support argumentative knowledge construction, a core
activity in inquiry learning. However, not only externally induced collaboration scripts but
also the learners’ internal scripts on collaborative argumentative knowledge construction
influence the way they argue with scientific concepts and evidence, thereby affecting what
kind of knowledge is acquired during colla
Mobile
technologies: prospects for their use in learning in informal science
settings
Recent developments in mobile technologies have offered the potential to support learners
studying a variety of subjects. In this paper we explore the possibilities related to science
learners and in particular focus on science learners in informal settings and reflect on a
number of recent projects in order to consider the prospects for such work. The debate on
informal learning acknowledges the complexity of the area and the difficulty of defining
informal learning. One view is to consider the
A Model for Determining the Size of Learning Objects
The Dutch six-part series Leerobjecten in de praktijk (Learning objects in practice) is about six divergent and difficult problems that occur frequently in working with learning objects. Based on research into existing practice, guidelines are offered to policy makers, educational technology consultants, teachers, educational designers and developers of digital learning materials who are struggling with these problems in higher education.
The size of learning objects is a conference paper, whi
A Quick Scan on possibilities for automatic metadata generation
The Dutch six-part series Leerobjecten in de praktijk (Learning objects in practice) is about six divergent and difficult problems that occur frequently in working with learning objects. Based on research into existing practice, guidelines are offered to policy makers, educational technology consultants, teachers, educational designers and developers of digital learning materials who are struggling with these problems in higher education.,research report
Educational models: A case study into transferability of pedagogical structure in a complex learning
The Dutch six-part series Leerobjecten in de praktijk (Learning objects in practice) is about six divergent and difficult problems that occur frequently in working with learning objects. Based on research into existing practice, guidelines are offered to policy makers, educational technology consultants, teachers, educational designers and developers of digital learning materials who are struggling with these problems in higher education.
Educational models describes a case study on a complex
Organizational scenarios for the use of learning objects
The Dutch six-part series Leerobjecten in de praktijk (Learning objects in practice) is about six divergent and difficult problems that occur frequently in working with learning objects. Based on research into existing practice, guidelines are offered to policy makers, educational technology consultants, teachers, educational designers and developers of digital learning materials who are struggling with these problems in higher education.
Organizational scenarios presents the following three s
ODP-RM : Un cadre de réingénierie des systèmes de formation
Les spécifications candidates au statut de standards, proposées récemment dans le domaine
des technologies éducatives, interrogent les communautés de conception d'EIAH sur leurs mises en
pratique. Les travaux récents en ingénierie des modèles montrent qu'il est nécessaire pour la communauté
EIAH de se définir un cadre de travail qui formalise l'utilisation de ces spécifications tout en assurant la
qualité des productions. Cet article est une discussion sur l’opportunité pour la c
Designer integration in training cycles : IEEE LTSA model adaptation
This paper describes an architecture centered on a component model for the course cycle. This
model guides a re-engineering process based on the observed use scenarii. It is applied in an
institutional framework and uses learning devices provided by the open source community. The
architecture integrates the latest works on learning technology standards.
Design patterns for recording and analysing usage of learning systems: State of art of tracking and
This document presents a state of art according to three aspects: use analysis in a wide point of view, tracking and analysing usages
and what's on Design Pattern.
The objective of this state of art is to synthetise actual works about tracking and analysing usages in order to isolate possibilities of
patterns, that's the aim of DPULSE Jeirp.
The work on the state of art has been organised as a collaborative task of the DPLUS members. A lot of papers and projects on this
topic have been studied.
