Andreja Istenic Starcic

University of Primorska | UP · Department of Educational Sciences

Blended learning sets solid foundations for the utilization of educational technology in authentic student learning experiences within traditional educational contexts as well as in distance education. The author introduces an integrated and distributed model of blended learning, utilizing educational technology for authentic student learning exper...

The dataset includes data from 1699 higher education students from two Slovenian universities. Among those participants were also 56 students with special educational needs (SEN). Students were enrolled in all study fields and levels. The study aimed to measure the use of online learning resources (OLRs) among higher education students and identify...

Our research aims to examine the effectiveness of introducing social robots as educational technology within authentic classroom activities without modifying them to be designed for a robot. We chose as test subject the fifth‐grade curricular topic “The role of technology and its impact on society”, meeting the critical stage of moral development s...

We are facing the rapid development of educational technology and social robots tested in classrooms. Research has identified teachers’ caution and concerns about these robots’ social skills. Pre-service education is critical for forming beliefs and preparing teachers for the future classroom and innovations in educational technology. In the presen...

The crisis situation, the pandemic, with the closure of the educational space, has stimulated the integration of the virtual environment and digital technology into the educational space and has brought new leadership challenges. We investigated the experience of employees in the educational space (schools with adapted programmes, primary schools a...

This correlational study addressed two issues pertinent to developing mathematical competences for the 21st Century. Firstly, in a post-digital society, technology is recognized in teachers’ pedagogic and subject-specific knowledge domains. Secondly, cross-curricular teaching must be introduced to respond to societal requirements for maths knowledg...

The addition of digital toys to the child’s toy box has resulted in the development of the new ‘digital play’, which differs from analogue play. Research shows that digital toys are available from infancy onwards and are significantly changing the way children engage in play and communicate with parents during play. How this influences the child’s...

Digital technology affordance has been recognized as a social and learning tool, and the requirements for digitalizing the kindergarten curriculum have been present for decades. Digitalization in a child’s early years can present conflict with parents, as the societal and economic demands of digitalized society for a child’s digital technology use...

This article offers a first insight into the digital environment of Slovenian toddlers. We report on the use of digital technology and toys allowed by parents in their children’s home environment. The study is based on the results of an online questionnaire completed by parents of 26 Slovenian children up to 2 years of age (M = 17.8 months; SD = 5....

Research examining teachers' attitudes toward gamification is scarce, although attitudes play a critical role in implementing a new pedagogical approach. The aim of this study was to understand whether Slovenian educators are familiar with the concept of gamification, whether they have experience using it, and what their attitudes are towards its u...

Recent pandemic circumstances facilitated a rapid shift to online learning. The home and school environments are now intertwined, so the connection of formal and informal environments is inevitable. The studies of online learning resources (OLR) use before the pandemic shed light on studies of pandemic school-home learning nexus. This paper examine...

While exploring a pre-service teacher population, which is not willing to accept social robots in their future classroom, we find a low level of robot anxiety, slightly negative general attitudes toward social robots in education and a strong positive correlation between anxiety and negative attitudes in general. Our findings put in evidence also a...

Teachers' readiness for technology integration depends also on their beliefs about the contribution of technology to teaching and learning, which influence their motivation for its adoption. Initial pre‐service teacher education is critical in reducing the attitude‐behaviour divide supporting technology acceptability, acceptance and use. Acceptance...

Social robots are being tested in the educational arena with current thinking in two main directions. One is arguing for the benefits of robots in affective and efficient instruction and is more teachercentered. Within the second, more student-centered oriented, proponents of human uniqueness are raising long-term concerns. Teacher-centeredness and...

This study provided a content analysis of studies aiming to disclose how artificial intelligence (AI) has been applied to the education sector and explore the potential research trends and challenges of AI in education. A total of 100 papers including 63 empirical papers (74 studies) and 37 analytic papers were selected from the education and educa...

Learning and development are the focus of The Journal of Education and Selfdevelopment. In the computation era, the contexts and spaces for learning need to be reconsidered. In early learning, the child acts in an approximate environment interacting with parents and also mediated by artefacts. The child learns by sensing human touch and non-verbal...

While online learning resources are proliferating in all education delivery modes, from traditional classes to distance learning, institutions may have not recognized their potential for addressing diverse student populations, providing them online with learning experiences according to their individual needs. If teachers embrace online learning an...

While online learning resources are proliferating in all education delivery modes, from traditional classes to distance learning, institutions may have not recognized their potential for addressing diverse student populations, providing them online with learning experiences according to their individual needs. If teachers embrace online learning an...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11423-021-09955-w During the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions have been faced with a rapid shift to remote digital learning across courses. The resultant proliferation of online learning in traditional, hybrid, and distance higher education courses has enhanced the possibilities for techn...

The main goal of the present scientific monograph is the importance and role of educational technology in the function of the educational process, while researching the trends and influences of parents in the child's personal development during the educational process. In doing so, he researches and highlights didactic-methodological principles in...

Competitiveness of modern enterprise increasingly depends on its intellectual assets. Knowledge transfer, innovation development and their transfer into industry and university educational processes provide a predominant issue. Partnership of university and industry in knowledge management, innovation development and education and training system d...

ICMLIP-2020 is soliciting original, previously unpublished and high quality research papers addressing research challenges and advances in the tracks mentioned below. The maximum allowable length of the paper is 8 pages (including figures and references) for regular research articles strictly in SPRINGER SINGLE COLUMN FORMAT. Articles will be Doubl...

The main purpose of this research is to develop a visual programming game with a Qualifying Rank strategy (QRVPG), allowing learners to use this system to conduct a STEAM-oriented mathematics course, the content of which is permutation. In the QRVPG system, learners can perform learning tasks with lower cognitive levels in their personal game copie...

Experiential learning was introduced to support a child’s concept development towards evolution scientific literacy. This study examined the effect of an experiential learning model (The Mobile Natural Science Learning - MNSL) on the knowledge of 4th grade primary school students in Slovenia, during natural science school lessons at the seashore th...

Building practices can have a large impact on human health and the environment, so it is crucial to strive towards sustainability and use of renewable materials in all stages of the construction process. As academic research accumulates, detecting trends can illuminate current developments in both research and practice. Our aim was to explore rece...

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The contemporary digital divide is characterised by the uneven distribution of access to information communication technology (ICT), originating in the different motivation, physical access and skills of users. We synthesised existing theories and frameworks to develop and then empirically validate a theoretical model to predict university students...

Higher education graduates need 21st-century skills, both learning skills and competences for working with technology. However, research indicates an insufficient integration of ICTs into teaching and learning. In this paper, we examine students’ perception of various technology-based issues: (a) ICT integration within a Slovenian university’s lear...

The 20th-century was the age of computers and information communication technology; at the beginning of the 21st-century researchers are exploring the use of robots in the classroom. Our review investigates the implementation of copresent social robots with teaching purposes in a classroom setting in areas other than the teaching of subjects that a...

We investigate the state of multilingualism across the social sciences and humanities (SSH) using a comprehensive data set of research outputs from seven European countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Flanders [Belgium], Norway, Poland, and Slovenia). Although English tends to be the dominant language of science, SSH researchers often produc...

Gamification is the application of game design elements in a non-gaming environment to promote outcomes, such as enhanced motivation, engagement, performance, and behaviour alteration. As such, it seems a valuable and innovative tool to implement in education and assist students in their learning process, especially when learning content does not i...

The 21st century is the age of robots, an age in which we are witnessing the development of social robots for education. In the future teachers will be required by the labour market to prepare students for work with robotic technology and co-work and interact with robots. Initial teacher education needs to follow the development of robots and prepa...

In the last few decades, we have faced rapid technological development, unlike anything ever seen before. It seems that with this exponential growth of possibilities, we are facing more questions than answers about civilisation’s future. As education and knowledge are cornerstones of this process, this special section highlights some aspects of thi...

Building information models (BIM) provide a way to represent buildings and communicate about them. In teaching engineering, we also need representations of buildings and are communicating knowledge about them. While teaching engineering we refer to the very same real-world objects that have an explicit conceptualization in BIM. This explicit concep...

Although science has become data-intensive, not much research has been conducted about data publication, and data citation in particular1. This is particularly true in the social sciences and the humanities (SSH). Hence, considering the centrality of journals and scholarly articles in the production, dissemination and assessment of research, a COST...

Delovni mentor povezuje študente z resničnimi delovnimi okolji. Mentorstvo se umešča med procese socialnega mreženja in vzpostavljanja socialnega kapitala za mentoriranca, mentorja in organizacijo. Učinki mentorstva kot pozitivnega socialnega kapitala posredujejo med mentorstvom in splošnimi cilji organizacije. Kakovostne povezave zagotavljajo vire...

The main objective of this paper is to present an in-depth analysis of the conception of the teacher’s role in ICT-supported foreign language (FL) instruction among teachers in basic and secondary education. In Slovenia, to date, no studies have been conducted in this research field. Therefore, our study aims to fill this research gap. An online su...

Data collection of students' learning performance, attendance and behaviour support teacher's classroom management, school administration and governance. Data collection support collaboration of school with parents and collaboration of teachers within the school as between schools in the curriculum at the level of instructional design and lesson de...

In this chapter, we take the stand that cognition and learning are embodied in psychomotor activities and socio-cultural contexts, and they are mediated by technologies on the enactive, iconic, and symbolic representational levels. We discuss motion or body movements as an integral part of cognition and learning. The particular focus is on the role...

Although there is a consensus between stakeholders that higher education has an important role in sustainable development and that research about sustainable development over the last decades has increased, the inclusion of sustainable development in curricula has been slow and insufficient. Related studies indicate that university students’ concep...

Traditional speech and language pathology practice (SLPP) faces challenges delivering effective and timely therapy due to long waiting lists, the need for regular practice outside the clinic and a lack of children’s motivation to engage in persistent practice. Technology has untapped potential to address these issues and improve SLPP. This paper de...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the evolution in terms of shares of scholarly book publications in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in five European countries, i.e. Flanders (Belgium), Finland, Norway, Poland and Slovenia. In addition to aggregate results for the whole of the social sciences and the humanities, the authors f...

The article analyses the possibilities of distance learning as a special, controlled and managed tool to achieve the set of the subject-oriented approach pedagogical objectives. Using of online learning allowed avoiding level conditional limitation of education and providing learning opportunities for students, regardless of their location, age, so...

Expanded version of paper to be presented Friday 14th of September at STI 2018 in Leiden.

Please see the LNCS book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-99737-7 Human cognition and learning are embodied in socio-cultural contexts and psychomotor activities and are mediated by “tools” on enactive, iconic and symbolic representational levels. Learning technology has been predominantly oriented to manipulatives or tangible ob...

Please see the LNCS book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-99737-7 The definitions of online learning resources are discussed within two approaches for classifying existing learning technology, the pedagogical and the functional approach. The findings of a survey about online learning resources use among 1667 students are present...

Please see the LNCS book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-99737-7 The growth of social media over the past five years is staggering with around 1 in 3 people globally on some form of social media. Seventy-five percent of US high school students are on some social media and educators are starting to use the technology in the learn...

Please see the LNCS book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-99737-7 Research indicates a diversity of factors that influence the use of online learning resources. Barriers, related to access and accessibility issues are often considered in the literature as inhibiting factors for people with disabilities. Following the established...

Sustainable development (SD) is a multidimensional issue. However, research findings report a divide between students’ awareness and behavior. It is identified that study programs are designed more for awareness outcomes, and not so much for behavioral outcomes. For higher-order learning outcomes manifested in a sustainable development behavior, th...

Inclusion has brought diversity into 21st-century classrooms and introduced challenges for teachers who must adapt their teaching to diverse groups of children. Related research findings indicate that information and communication technology (ICT) can be used to provide personalized learning and support inclusion. Our research compared the school-...

Modern speech-language pathology practices (SLPPs) have adopted tablet games in recent years. Research is needed to take advantage of the potential benefits tablets can offer and to explore the factors that influence its introduction. This paper discusses a survey that was conducted to investigate the factors that influence speech-language patholog...

This study investigates patterns in the language and type of social sciences and humanities (SSH) publications in non-English speaking European countries to demonstrate that such patterns are related not only to discipline but also to each country’s cultural and historic heritage. We investigate publication patterns that occur across SSH publicatio...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Technologies and Learning, ICITL 2018, held in Portoroz, Slovenia, in August 2018. The 66 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in the following t...

This study examines the potential for higher education internationalization with mobile technology. Many universities around the world have identified “Campus Internationalization” as one of their mission statements. In order for institutions to achieve their internationalization goals; schools expand the number of their study abroad programs, and...

Social network sites (SNSs) have become strategic networking tools for employment-related activities. They shape professional identity and influence professional and career practices, providing new paths for career, employment and recruitment processes. Students' professional identity is influenced by their career management and work experience. Th...

This study examined the impact of tablet-based cross-curricular maths activities on the acquisition of higher-order learning outcomes. In the experimental group included tablet-based cross-curricular maths activities to identify the effect on learning outcomes. An observations were conducted to identify the affordance and ergonomic characteristics...

Students’ preparation for professional career needs to consider practical placements in the industry workplace. Paper reports project based learning where interdisciplinary team of students designed educational tablet games in university-industry environment. Students were involved in full product development life-cycle enhancing their technical an...

The inclusion of children with special needs into the mainstream regular elementary school classes brings a professional challenge to teachers. A review of articles on teachers’ attitudes towards inclusion published during last three decades was conducted. The review of research findings indicates that effective implementation of inclusion depends...

In this paper, we discuss digital literacy and preservice teacher education and reflect on the current state of web-based education and development of digital literacy in teacher education in Slovenia. The literacy context is discussed in the context of the Educational Technology course which is delivered in teacher education. The aim of this cours...

Traditional computer assisted learning is influenced by novel user interfaces, such as tangible user interfaces, support cognitive processes and concept modelling, assisted by multiple representation. The manipulative properties of the tangible user interface’s physical manipulatives, for example, enhance passage between physical and virtual repres...

Learning resources that are used in the education of university students are often available online. The nature of new technologies causes an interweaving of formal and informal learning, with the result that a more active role is expected from students with regard to the use of ICT for their learning. The variety of online learning resources (lear...

Sustainable development is not only a great challenge for society as a whole, but also for higher education institutions, which have been rapidly including sustainable development in their educational process in the last two decades. Directly or indirectly, education for sustainable spatial development includes all aspects of sustainable developmen...

Trajnostni razvoj ni le velik izziv za celotno družbo, temveč tudi za visokošolske organizacije, ki v zadnjih dveh desetletjih pospešeno vključujejo paradigmo trajnostnega razvoja v svoj izobraževalni proces. Izobraževanje za trajnostni prostorski razvoj vključuje neposredno ali posredno vse vidike trajnostnega razvoja: okoljskega, gospodarskega, d...

A significant criticism made of preservice teacher education is that it fails to prepare teachers in such a way that they would feel confident in the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching, despite the assumed digital literacy of student‐teachers and the children they will eventually teach. New technologies have enabled m...

This paper deals with a university degree in Environmental Engineering as a part of university studies in Engineering and shows engineering fields in which environmental engineering studies have been established as stand-alone studies globally. Furthermore, the paper gives a short overview of environmental engineering education in Slovenia, and the...

Uvod: Obseg znanja, ki ga medicinske sestre potrebujejo pri svojem delu, se stalno povečuje in s tem se spreminjajo tudi njihove kompetence. Naloga izobraževalnih ustanov je usposobiti diplomante za učinkovito soočanje z vse kompleksnejšimi zahtevami delovnega okolja in družbe. Osnovni namen pregleda literature je bil preučiti kompetence zdravstven...

Our behaviour towards the environment depends on our beliefs about the environment. Beliefs, however, are a subject of change, particularly during important life transitions such as the transition to adolescence, because this is a period when an individual develops the ability of complex and abstract reasoning. Understanding this transition is ther...

Leta 1998 smo na Fakulteti za gradbeništvo in geodezijo Univerze v Ljubljani uvedli prvi univerzitetni program tehniškega varstva okolja v Sloveniji, in sicer je to bil štiriletni univerzitetni študijski program Vodarstvo in komunalno inženirstvo (VKI). Program se je leta 2009 preoblikoval v nov bolonjski dvostopenjski študijski program Vodarstvo i...

This paper is discussing Universal Curriculum Design in Higher Education for curriculum delivered on and using the facilities of Smart Devices. The case study in Australia (2012-2013) was focused on universal design and pedagogical approach involving a literature review and an analysis of the university context with a placement orientation module d...

The development of society and science, especially medical science, gives rise to new moral and ethical challenges in healthcare. In order to respond to the contemporary challenges that require autonomous decision-making in different work contexts, a pedagogical experiment was conducted to identify the readiness and responsiveness of current organi...

Soavtorji: Andreja Istenič-Starčič, Matevž Juvančič, Tomaž Novljan, Maruška Šubic-Kovač, Špela Verovšek, Tadeja Zupančič, Bibliografija

Soavtorji: Andreja Istenič-Starčič, Matevž Juvančič, Tomaž Novljan, Maruška Šubic-Kovač, Špela Verovšek, Tadeja Zupančič, Bibliografija

The Delphi technique is researched and presented as a participatory methodology in expert design, development, testing and evaluation of t-learning. It is formed from the evaluation perspective of social relations when defining educational evaluations in e-learning, illustrating it on t-learning as a constitutive part of e-learning. Television (TV)...

The model developed for evaluating the optimal division of Slovenia into provinces is based on regional centres equipped with activities of appropriate levels, including universities. Connections between universities and the industry of a province are important factors in ensuring equal opportunities to access university education. Information on t...

Purpose of this paper is to give the theoretical and empirical insight into competences development for eParticipation through the web 2.0 facilitated societal forms. Findings are presented of a survey among students, who are facing in professional life the participatory spatial and environmental planning, based on web 2.0. Implementing the web 2.0...

The paper describes the development of virtual simulation-game-based learning environment. The key objective is to offer students and lifelong learners simulation-game environment that preserves real life authenticity. Presented is a simulation-game tailored for diversified student groups in graduate courses and employees in the tourism sector, aim...

The e-portfolio in education and professional development assists the work that a learner has designed, documented and presented individually or in collaboration. Reflection process in the portfolio-assisted learning fosters the development of generic and transferable knowledge and skills that a learner needs in knowledge economy. This article focu...

Game-based virtual learning environments are fostering new teaching and learning approaches, ensuring the worldwide collaboration of students and teachers. The paper presents a model of simulation-game-based virtual learning environment in four countries, in Finland, Slovenia, Germany and Estonia. Paper presents the classroom management model, outl...

This study provides an interdisciplinary account determining how children and adolescents understand urban and architectural aspects of sustainable development. The concept of sustainability implies complex relations between ethical, economical, social, technical and other qualities of our environment. The concept is difficult to understand for chi...

Background: Although previously the Job-Demand-Control-Support model has been successfully applied in many studies in the field of health care and education, the model was never used for the evaluation of the nursing students' well-being. Objectives: The aim of this study was to promote nursing students' well-being. The objective was to verify w...

Educational technology and Information Communication Technology (ICT) play an important role in creating an effective and adaptable learning environment, especially when teaching students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). This includes students with a range of physical, sensory, communication or cognitive disabilities in learning. This research...

The model developed for evaluating the optimal division of Slovenia into provinces is based on regional centres equipped with activities of appropriate levels, including universities. Connections between universities and the industry of a province are important factors in ensuring equal opportunities to access university education. Information on t...