Laia Albó

University Pompeu Fabra | UPF · Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC)

This report informs about the state of doctoral education in the area of Technology-Enhanced Learning in Europe. The report aims to inform policy decisions in doctoral education and in the implementation of these policies.

In recent years, universities have intensified their use of technologies and implemented various modes of flexible teaching. This study sought to demonstrate that students prefer flipped learning with combined forms of synchronous and asynchronous learning that foster constructivist learning practices. To this aim, two case studies (N = 221) for on...

Voice inclusive pedagogy urges teachers to consider how they will act to incorporate children’s voices within their teaching practice. In blended learning environments, students’ views in technology-enhanced classrooms are a useful source of information that is often not utilised to its full potential. This demon-stration paper presents an authorin...

To identify factors that can contribute toward supporting educator adoption of digital technologies beyond the emergency remote teaching response to COVID‐19, we investigated how teachers’ motivation and abilities related to the use of digital technologies for teaching changed since the onset of the pandemic. Two surveys and interviews were conduct...

Over the last 10 years, learning analytics have provided educators with both dashboards and tools to understand student behaviors within specific technological environments. However, there is a lack of work to support educators in making data-informed design decisions when designing a blended course and planning appropriate learning activities. In...

This paper presents an evaluation of edCrumble, a blended learning authoring tool for teachers. The tool visually represents learning designs and integrates data analytics to scaffold teacher design decisions. In addition to assessing the usability of edCrumble using UMUX questionnaire, analyses of participant views on the advantages and disadvanta...

COVID-19 thrust teachers into emergency online pedagogy. Teachers had to rapidly digitize their practices. A week into compulsory online teaching, we captured a snapshot of teacher experiences to identify their impressions of support received and the challenges they faced in relation to teaching remotely. We conducted a survey study with primary an...

This article reports on a study about how massive open online course (MOOC)-based blended learning designs can be visually represented to facilitate their comprehension and sharing. We carried out an iterative co-creation process with different stakeholders to conceptualise a visual learning design representation model within the context of blendin...

This paper reports the co-creation process carried out during the development of a web-based visual representation model for authoring blended learning designs. The results of several participatory design workshops with high school teachers of two school communities have allowed to advance the development process through iterative cycles of refinem...

Although many efforts are being made to provide educators with dashboards and tools to understand student behaviors within specific technological environments (learning analytics), there is a lack of work in supporting educators in making data-informed design decisions when designing a blended course and planning learning activities. In this paper,...

This paper presents a work-in-progress solution for planning hybrid Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The use of MOOCs in brick and mortar courses presents several design challenges. One of them is to find the most suitable online course regarding the alignment with the face-to-face course structure, timeline and syllabus. Despite there are diffe...

This paper explores how the use of smartphones vs. laptops influences students’ engagement, behaviour and experience watching academic videos in a collaborative classroom. Experiments were run in authentic teaching sessions with a total of 483 first-year higher education students. The methodology applied is a quasi-experimental design with post-tes...

Learning design is a research field which studies how to best support teachers as designers of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) situations. Although substantial work has been done in the articulation of the learning design process, little is known about how learning designs are experienced by students and teachers, especially in the context of sc...

Despite the existing variety of learning design tools, there is a gap in their understanding and adoption by the educators in their everyday practices. Sharing is one of the main pillars of learning design but sometimes it is not a sufficient reason to convince teachers to adopt the habit of documenting their practices so they can be shared. This s...

This demonstration introduces ILDE2/edCrumble, an online learning design platform that allows teachers the creation of learning designs (LDs) with the support of data analytics. ILDE2/edCrumble is built on top of the LdShake platform, which provides social features enabling the sharing and co-edition of LDs. The tool provides an innovative visual r...