Anna Mavroudi

University of Oslo

The adoption of learning analytics (LA) in higher education institutions in a large scale with the aim of enhancing teaching and learning has many potential benefits but it has one main prerequisite, that is, the ethical uses of LA. Yet, there are many associated ethical issues and challenges identified in the recent research literature. The chapte...

Higher education recently found itself in the unprecedented situation of being forced to rapidly switch to online education as a demand of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this article is to compare and contrast the experiences of university tutors who teach in two distance education universities with those who teach in a traditional university co...

There is currently limited work on synchronous forms of hybrid education although it has become the norm in university education. In addition, there is a gab on empirical studies that are focusing on quantitative measures (such as student performance data) in this particular setting. To compensate for this gab in the literature, the paper presents...

The importance of providing mechanisms and tools that effectively support the transition from implicit to explicit representations of Learning Design has been emphasised by previous research in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL). In addition, the benefits of Game-based learning approaches have been long documented in the educational re...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the use of mobile learning are two learning/teaching forms that have received much attention in recent years. Despite the popularity of both approaches and the efforts to integrate or combination them, there is still a lack of papers that are focusing on the aspect of learning design for mobile MOOCs. To comp...

The paper presents an empirical study conducted in the context of an advanced power electronics design course in a technical university. In selected points of the lectures formative assessments were introduced and supported by the use of clickers. The purpose of the article is to examine students’ perceptions of the effectiveness of clickers use. I...

Hybrid learning is the main learning mode in university education nowadays. This paper is a review of completed hybrid learning projects. It discusses ten recent empirical research cases on the topic at stake in the context of university education with a focus on cross-campus teaching and learning. All ten projects correspond to previously publishe...

The article is available online at https://rdcu.be/cdtqc . The article is focusing on aspects related to technology acceptance of LA in the context of school education. A survey that was based on the Technology Acceptance Model was distributed to 98 participants who work as schoolteachers and/or local educational policymakers and are geographical...

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020): Læring om læring vol 5 https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/lol/article/view/3831

This paper is a case study which discusses the development and the use of rubrics as means of assessing students in STEM project-based learning activities. The context of the case study involves the pilot phase of the STEMFREAK program, an out-of-school educational program which engaged students in such projects. The aim of the paper is twofold: 1)...

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is associated with students' academic performance, but it is difficult for learners. It can be learnt and taught. This study investigates how we can support second language learners in fostering affective learning skills needed for the successful acquisition of the targeted language. In the research literature, the aff...

Big Data Analytics can help teachers to make better and informed decisions. Several recent articles in the field of technology enhanced learning concern this potential, yet little is known about how teachers actually make use of Big Data Analytics in their school to support themselves and their students. To compensate for this gap, this paper focus...

In order to effectively integrate digital technology into education it is necessary to examine and understand teachers’ preparedness to use digital technology in education. The objective of this pilot study is to validate a self-reported instrument to measure teachers’ preparedness to use Information and Communication Technologies for learning and...

In today’s era of digitalization of education, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning is becoming increasingly important in higher education. This type of learning has been frequently associated in the recent research literature with student regulation, feedback from peers and a student assessment schema which can incorporate both formative and...

In the original version of the book, the following belated corrections in the chapters have been incorporated: 1. In chapter 8, the author names Berardi Anna, Galeoto Giovanni, Tofani Marco, Mangone Massimiliano, Ratti Serena, Danti Arianna, Sansoni Julita, Marquez Maria Auxiliadora have been changed to Anna Berardi, Giovanni Galeoto, Marco Tofani,...

Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing and the Internet of Things (collectively referred to as UMI herein) involve recent advances in technology areas such as low-cost and miniaturized processing and sensing technologies, high-bandwidth wireless networking and so on. UMI technologies can also support the recent attempts to reform computing educatio...

Ubiquitous computing, mobile computing and the Internet of Things (UMI) have been widely used in several application areas. To date, methods and techniques for the application of these technologies in real life situations have continued to emerge; however, their use in education settings focusing on existing practices remain largely underexplored....

This book is based on the 9th International Conference in Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, which was hosted by the University of Salamanca and held in Ávila (Spain) from 26th to 28th June 2019. Expanding on the topics of the evidence-based TEL workshops series, it provides an open forum for discussing intellig...

The benefits of game-based learning (GBL) are well documented in the literature (see for example: Marlow, Salas, Landon & Presnell, 2016). This study involves GBL as an active learning method that could be used as an entry point to help faculty members design a blended learning experience for their students. Also, the purpose was to make it easier...

As the integration of digital technologies in higher education continues to increase,there is a need to understand how to best support university teachers as designers of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) in order to support students to achieve academic success. In this study, we have examined the Faculty Pedagogical Developer Initiative at KTH Ro...

The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of profiling English Language Teachers' preferences and experiences of ICT in order to inform the design of an online teacher training programme (in Language Testing and Assessment) as part of a major EU project and the relevant teacher training research. http//taleproject.eu The stu...

This report begins with a summary of ways in which technology has been used to attempt to increase learning opportunities and support for self-directed learners at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) with limited success. A collaboration between KUIS and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden has highlighted the need for a m...

The main objective of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of profiling English Language Teachers’ preferences and experiences of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in order to inform the design of an online teacher training programme in Language Testing and Assessment and the relevant teacher training research. The findings re...

Learning analytics can improve learning practice by transforming the ways we support learning processes. This study is based on the analysis of 252 papers on learning analytics in higher education published between 2012 and 2018. The main research question is: What is the current scientific knowledge about the application of learning analytics in h...

This paper presents a Game-Based Learning Design Pattern for designing Internet of Things (IoT) applications, as well as an instance of this particular pattern, namely the ‘Tiles inventor game’. This educational game has been validated in various educational contexts aiming to understand IoT fundamentals. Due to lack of topics on IoT in the STEM cu...

This explorative study aims to understand the role of ubiquitous com- puting and the IoT for developing and practicing learners’ 21st century skills. Data was collected from ten expert interviews. Based on the conventional content analysis, our results suggest that the integration and use of such technologies in learning settings can enable the dev...

Teacher self-efficacy can have an impact both on teaching practices and to student learning. The purpose of this case study was to gain a better understanding of the difficulties that computer science teachers face, focusing on resources allocation and other stakeholders' involvement in their activities. Thirty-two persons participated in this prel...

Career consultancy is an important but often downplayed aspect in technology-enhanced learning systems designed for youths although there is much learning in the career decision-making process. This case study focuses on identifying career consultancy services for STEM that can be useful and relevant to them. It involves participatory design for th...

Abstract and full paper available online at: https://zenodo.org/record/908965#.WgGdRWiCw2w

Learning Analytics (LA) and adaptive learning are inextricably linked since they both foster technology-supported learner-centred education. This study identifies developments focusing on their interplay and emphasises insufficiently investigated directions which display a higher innovation potential. Twenty-one peer-reviewed studies are identified...

Adaptive learning and learning analytics are powerful learning tools on their own. Scholars have reported outcomes on combining them, but the lack of a summary from these studies prevents stakeholders from having a clear view of this combination. In this paper, we consider the key dimensions of learning analytics applications in adaptive learning,...

In this paper we propose a strategy of adaptive e-learning that aims to help students overcoming the inherent difficulties of STEM-related subject matters for which they have known misconceptions. The paper reports on empirical findings derived from classroom interventions which were undertaken to investigate the impact of the proposed strategy. Fo...

The focus of this case study is the exploitation of visual learning analytics coupled with the provision of feedback and support provided to the students and their impact in provoking change at student programming habits. To this end, we discuss mechanisms of capturing and analysing the debugging habits and the quality of the design solutions provi...

We present the design of an online environment providing mechanisms for the exploitation of school ICT infrastructure by empowering teachers to discover and comment on educational activities (patterns, scenarios, experience reports) that can be implemented in their schools. To this end, our design approach will make explicit the linking between the...

This paper attempts a historical overview of adaptive e-learning approaches through the lens of a well-known categorization, which distinguishes among the macro-adaptive approach, the aptitude–treatment interaction approach, the micro-adaptive approach, and the constructivist–collaborative approach. Early and more recent examples in each category a...

This paper discusses a requirements engineering process that exemplifies teacher-led design in the case of an envisioned system for adaptive learning. Such a design poses various challenges and still remains an open research issue in the field of adaptive learning. Starting from a scenario-based elicitation method, the whole process was highly part...

Teachers adapt their lessons with or without the use of technology - but in a traditional class setting they target the imaginary “average student”. This paper discusses how the teacher’s “wisdom of practice” can intervene and inform the Technology Enhanced Learning process. Our methodology is developed and enacted upon two theories: a domain-speci...

This paper presents a case study where twelve graduate students undertook the demanding role of the adaptive e-course developer and worked collaboratively on an authentic and complex design task in the context of open and distance tertiary education. The students had to work in groups in order to conceptualise and design a learning scenario for ada...

The purpose of this technical report is to present a methodological approach for evaluating the REVIT (http://revit.cti.gr) educational venture as a whole and assessing the learning effectiveness of the resulting collaborative e-courses.

role of open and flexible education in European higher education systems for 2020: new models, new markets, new media, Pafos, Cyprus, 27-28 September 2012, pp. 327-337 Abstract This paper presents the process of developing an institutional repository online service in the context of open and distance tertiary education. It describes lessons learned...

This paper presents two specific educational applications that make use of the IMS-Learning Design specification as the basis for adaptive web-based learning. Specifically, learner profiling and personalization is achieved in adaptive courseware compliant with the specification and including a diagnostic learning style test and an educational recom...

Metadata for learning objects, activities and sequences can be significant for learning design as they facilitate search, evaluation, acquisition and reuse. A Metadata Application Profile (MAP) consisting of 17 fields for Learning Objects (LO) and Sequences of Learning Activities (LAs), crafted specifically for the needs of the LAMS Community of Pr...