Many factors come into play in the creation of collaborative groups. These include the assessment of skills and abilities of potential members as well as social cues. In online courses, when groups are to be formed ov...
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Learner autonomy underpins many of the educational outcomes at university such as flexibility, adaptability, self-initiative and self-direction. Indeed, learner autonomy is a key to life-long learning. This paper repo...
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This article presents emerging results from an ongoing phenomenographic study that examines teachers’ conceptions of ICT-enhanced teaching and learning in vocational education. Twenty three teachers from three Techni...
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In this paper, we present a technique that we have developed to transform sequences of technical events into more abstract actions and semantic activities. The sequences of more abstract units are then used for discov...
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This paper investigates three groups of three postgraduate students who completed the same collaborative design task. Each group was given a different scaffold focused on the design process, assigned roles, or tool us...
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This research focuses on analysing the impact of structure in inquiry learning activities in a Multi-User Virtual Environment. Productive failure is a learning strategy that has shown that using a low structure initia...
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The overall goal of this research is to explore the efficacy of learning the physics of electricity with NetLogo agent-based models (ABM) where the degree of learner scaffolding is varied. Learners were given four tas...
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The overall goal of this research is to explore the efficacy of learning the physics of electricity with NetLogo agent-based models (ABM) where the degree of learner scaffolding is varied. Learners were given four tasks for an ABM in each class period. The experimental condition involved Productive Failure (PF), where one group of learners initially used a set of ABMs in an unscaffolded manner whereas the comparison condition (Non-PF or N-PF) used a more conventional physics education laboratory approach in which the learners were provided with steps to follow in their ABM activity. Both groups then used the ABMs for a second activity that was scaffolded, followed by a third unscaffolded ABM problem-based activity that was the same for both conditions. This sequence of activities was followed over four days with four different ABMs. It was hypothesized that whereas the participants in the PF group would initially fail in the first ABM activity in contrast to the initial success of the N-PF group, by the last unscaffolded ABM activity the PF group would perform at a higher level, and that there would be cumulative overall learning gains by the posttest for this group. This paper reports on the preliminary research findings that are largely consistent with the hypothesized results. Issues for future research are also discussed.
This paper presents the findings of a study on the understanding and attitudes of pre-service teachers in the use of scenario-based multi-user virtual environments in science education. The participants in the study u...
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This paper aims to inform readers of suggested directions for researching how mobile technology can enhance active student learning. These directions are informed by an online survey of our students in early 2007 and ...
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