Linda Daniela

Linda Daniela
University of Latvia | LU · Faculty of Education Psychology and Art

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The professor and senior researcher; Dean of the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art, Chair of the Council for Promotion in Pedagogy of the University of Latvia; Research interests include virtual education, smart education, educational technologies for learning, educational robotics, educational processes and solutions for reducing social exclusion from the educational processes. Professor is an author and co-author of publications about processes in all dimensions of education.

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The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024, published by the United Nations, highlights quality education as a priority goal, emphasising its essential role in facilitating the achievement of other goals. Although there has been modest progress since 2019, several areas require further advancement, including the development of reading skills. Ex...
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This study investigates the key components of teachers’ self-assessed artificial intelligence (AI) literacy competencies and how they align with existing digital literacy frameworks. The rapid development of AI technologies has highlighted the need for educators to develop AI-related skills and competencies in order to meaningfully integrate these...
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This study investigates the impact of a video library containing learning scenarios for mathematics classes on the perceptions of prospective teachers and primary school teachers, with the primary objective of reducing math anxiety. Participants from five different countries provided 541 responses to a questionnaire, evaluating various aspects of t...
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Transversal skills play an important role in the educational process worldwide and have been paid particular attention in the system of education in Latvia with the introduction of the new competence-based curriculum. Self-regulated learning (SRL), critical thinking and problem solving (PS) skills remain among the most crucial skills at all levels...
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This research examines student teachers’ perceptions of a game-based exam conducted in the Genial.ly app in the study course ”Legal Aspects of the Pedagogical Process”. This study aims to find out the pros and cons of game-based exams and understand which digital solutions can enable the development and analysis of digital game data. At the beginni...
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As the need for people to constantly upgrade their knowledge and skills grows with the changes in the labor market, adult and continuing education is gaining significance. Equally growing is the offer of online and blended courses as education providers try to accommodate the needs of adult learners. However, students and employers need to know tha...
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With the rapid development of virtual reality (hereafter VR), the possibilities for students with all kinds of disabilities bring new opportunities as well as have become an attractive research topic. VR and the possibilities of creating a learning environment in it raise inclusive education to a new, hitherto unprecedented level. Numerous studies...
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Traditionally, metaphors have been used as a pedagogical tool to facilitate the processes of educational mediation. From a medial perspective, there are various ways to implement educational mediation, and currently, we are witnessing an increase in the use of videos. Given the historical pedagogical role of metaphor and the widespread use of video...
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In the 21st century, characterized by the continual evolution of education and new educational needs being raised and demanded, teachers’ professional competence encounters a series of challenges. In the context of Latvian education, it is highly significant to enhance the professional competence of future teachers and adapt it according to real-wo...
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Learning foreign languages is more and more necessary both in formal and informal education because of co-operation between countries and trying to understand foreign cultures. It helps to know better the culture of language speakers. Cultural approach teaching foreign language is important getting acquainted the country as a whole. Remote teaching...
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To ensure that all preschool children have access to a continuous learning process in different circumstances (e.g., pandemics, prolonged illness or other situations), teachers and parents benefit from being prepared for these different circumstances. The materials developed and offered in the Higher Education Course Curriculum for Distance Learnin...
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. The project Distance Learning Model Reinforced with Robotics for 3-7 Years Old Children – 2021-1-TR01-KA220-HED-000027617 is co-financed by the Erasmus+ programme for education, training, youth and sport. The European Commission's sup...
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The research focused on digital learning environments has identified various challenges for learners, such as technical problems, lack of community, motivation, self-regulation, self-efficacy, and social anxiety. Social anxiety is conceptualized as an emotional disorder that may impede achievement in higher education. The project reported here inve...
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Alongside reading, writing, and numeracy digital literacy has become an increasingly crucial component of functional competences in the modern era. Digital competences are essential for educators who wish to stay updated with the changing needs of their students and the education sector. These competences can help them engage their students better,...
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The ongoing process of digitalisation requires teachers not only to use technologies in their lessons to provide high quality opportunities for learning, but also to learn through this format themselves. In recent years, a new competence-based curriculum has been implemented in Latvia, introducing new content and paying attention to self-regulated...
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This study is about an investigation of Turkish high school English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners’ use of online dictionaries during asynchronous web-based collaborative writing (CW) activity. 26 groups of three EFL learners (N = 78, 16 years) were involved in a-two-hour CW task in English outside the classroom setting in a Facebook group. d...
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Research focused on digital learning environments identified various challenges for learners, such as technical problems, lack of community, motivation, selfregulation, self-efficacy, or social anxiety. This international survey study investigates students’ social anxiety at four different higher education institutions. Findings indicate that socia...
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One of the obvious consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in education is the continuous use of remote learning. Remote, especially, online learning offers the obvious advantage of flexibility and convenience. That is particularly important in the field of adult education since adults cite work-related lack of time as one of the main reasons prevent...
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Knowledge building (KB) is an educatioanl theory framework that shows interest in the benefits that the technology offers to teaching and evaluation. In this study, a dashboard that facilitates the reflective assessment of KB communities supported by the knowlege forum platform was evaluated. The design-based research study was conducted with 126 u...
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The relevance of the present research is justified by the wide range of educational robotics applications and the rapid development of educational technologies in general. Technologies are produced faster than it is possible to develop methodical teaching materials or curricula, especially in the Latvian language. Educational robotics develops vari...
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This article analyzes the results of a study on the situation concerning the educational achievements of girls and boys in the STEM field in Latvia. The study was conducted at the compulsory education level to understand the conditions in the learning environment that can predictably affect the academic achievements of girls. For the purposes of th...
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With the development of digital solutions, a variety of hardware, software, digital learning materials, and digital learning content is now available on the market. All of these technological solutions can serve as support materials for an inclusive learning environment but, at the same time, can involve hidden risks that can create even greater ga...
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This paper implements a novel approach to analyzing the degree of Collective Cognitive Responsibility (CCR) in a Knowledge Building community, based on socioeconomic and scientometric measures. After engaging in Knowledge Forum (KF) discussions for one semester, 36 students identified impactful ideas in their portfolios, which were then used to dev...
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The journal consists of nine theoretical and experience-based articles on online Latvian-language-teaching materials, methods, and challenges during Covid-19 and two students' reflexive essays about learning Latvian as a foreign language abroad.
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National reports indicate access to HE for students with disabilities is limited in India and Bangladesh. These reports highlight the issue of exclusion of people with disabilities, women and economically disadvantaged students. The Supreme Court of India directed all higher education institutions to reserve 5% of places for people with disabilitie...
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With the rapid development of digital technologies they are also more widely used in education. It is possible that in future most learning will involve digital solutions. Nevertheless, it is clear that the use of technology in education poses various risks. For the educators to be able to work with technologies, support students' knowledge develop...
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In spring of 2020, when the first Covid-19 related restrictions were introduced, educators were forced to rapidly look for new solutions. Most of those involved moving classes online. However, although quality was a concern for all institutions, ensuring a balance between safety and quality of education presented an additional challenge to provider...
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The European project POWERHEAD (Empowering Higher Education in Adopting Digital Learning), involving the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science (project partner) and the Flemish Department of Education and Training (project lead partner), aims to analyse the possibilities of digitising higher education. In order to identify the way forward, digi...
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The rapid spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak compelled many university administrators worldwide to take immediate measures to prevent spreading the disease on their campuses. One key measure was to switch from the face-to-face teaching mode to emergency remote teaching through online learning. Even though the swift and unplanned shift to m...
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This study was conducted as part of the DIVERSASIA project “Embracing Diversity in ASIA Through the Adoption of Inclusive Open Practices”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union. DIVERSASIA’s overall aim is to ensure that students with disabilities (sensorial and cognitive) can enjoy the same access to higher education (HE) as thei...
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The term “self-regulated learning” (SRL) has been introduced in the system of education in Latvia comparatively recently with the introduction of the new competency-based curriculum in 2016, therefore, the aim of the study is to explore teachers’ understanding and beliefs of the concept of self-regulated learning. Consequently, three research quest...
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Technology-enhanced learning is a term often used in discussions about the place and role of technology in education. Yet many gaps still need to be addressed from a pedagogical perspective to remove the veil of fascination from technology-enhanced learning and to ensure that its use is planned purposefully. Planning should take account of the inte...
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The modernization of the education system, the digitalization of the educational environment and learning management systems (LMS), where one of the solutions is learning platforms, are the most urgent directions today’s pedagogical work is taking to reap the benefits of the digital environment. Education quality can be improved in different ways:...
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The use of different technologies and technological solutions for learning purposes is no longer a novelty in the educational environment. Digital teaching materials are being developed that can be used both in classroom activities and for providing students with opportunities for independent learning. However, alongside these materials, there are...
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Social networking sites (SNS) have brought not only an endless flow of information into people’s lives, but also a significant problem that has already been given an official name – FoMO, or “fear of missing out” syndrome, which is a real phenomenon that is becoming more common and can cause serious stress. “Fear of missing out” syndrome is an obse...
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Year 2020 has introduced massive changes in the teaching and learning in traditional classroom settings all around the world as due to the abrupt outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, schools had to introduce remote learning systems and the amount of students’ independent workload increased exponentially. Self-regulated learning plays a crucial role in th...
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2020 brought the world huge challenges in almost every field when the new COVID-19 virus began to spread rapidly. Digitalization made it possible to use innovative solutions to ensure access to various services, to continue working, and to learn from a distance, but it made the situation different from the one we all were familiar with and raised q...
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The international conference of the University of Latvia (UL) was organized for 79th time in 2021 to provide a platform where it is possible to discuss the latest discoveries in science, discuss new research ideas, share the results of various research projects and show the achievements of creative innovations. The program consisted of invited sess...
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The project “Life with COVID-19: Evaluation of overcoming the coronavirus crisis in Latvia and recommendations for societal resilience in the future” (CoLife) was launched in Latvia in the summer of 2020. In this project, researchers representing different fields of social sciences were involved; researchers of education sciences were aiming to fin...
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Educational robotics has been used for a relatively long time to promote the development of students’ computational thinking, but in most cases, such activities are offered as extracurricular activities to students who are interested in robotics and programming or in specific study programmes in higher education. Despite the fact that Seymour Paper...
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Until now, distance learning has been considered to be an opportunity to study either certain courses or the entire study programme from a distance. Initially, mail options were used when students were sent materials by mail, and then they had to be sent back after being completed. Later, the possibilities created by TV and radio were used, but wit...
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In this chapter, online escape rooms are assessed as part of game-based learning (GBL) that can be used as a free educational tool for teachers to enrich their remote classes. This study was created to test the possibilities that an escape room can provide in a remote learning environment. The benefits and the downsides are explored to understand t...
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People have long talked about the use of technology in education and are looking for ways to incorporate diferent scientifc advances into the learning environment, both to help students learn and make learning more interesting for them as well as to ensure that future generations can innovate based on previously accumulated knowledge. Today, when w...
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This paper aims to explore the potential role of Master’s of Education dissertation/thesis work in developing twenty-first century skills. A total of 600 education professionals studying Master’s of Education programmes in five countries – Poland, Portugal, England, Latvia, and Romania – were surveyed. The findings have revealed that participants r...
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This study is unique in its attempt to combine the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) with external variables and the Information System Continuance Theory, in the context of mobile learning. It extends TAM with the external variables perceived mobility and perceived enjoyment. Mainly, students’ perception of cell phones effect on their academic per...
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In the spring of 2020, when the entire education system worldwide switched to distance learning, parents became key learning agents, helping students to understand how to continue learning, how to use digital solutions and how to support students in this process. This article summarizes parents’ views on the distance learning process and the challe...
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This book addresses the role of appropriate, specialized, structured pedagogy for game-based learning. It is an important reference for researchers who have carried out studies in the field of game-based learning with a focus on the digital learning environment. The educational landscape has dramatically changed in times of global pandemic urging u...
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Along with digitalization, Internet of Things (IoT) solutions have been developed in various fields, but so far the role of these IoT solutions in education has not been specifically analyzed, nor has the role of education in supporting knowledge about IoT and ensuring that this becomes commonsense knowledge. Educational researchers need to structu...
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This book is about the Internet of Things in the field of education. Specifically, it focuses on two major topics: IoT (Internet of Things) solutions to support distance education and new pedagogical approaches to support development of computational thinking with educational devices possessing the characteristics of IoT. As the educational landsca...
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In this chapter, online escape rooms are assessed as part of game-based learning (GBL) that can be used as a free educational tool for teachers to enrich their remote classes. This study was created to test the possibilities that an escape room can provide in a remote learning environment. The benefits and the downsides are explored to understand t...
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This book focuses on approaches to teaching and learning that integrate emerging technologies to enhance the quality of education. It brings together conceptual and empirical insights to elaborate on the design of effective programs, educational policies and educational administration requirements. The chapters cover topics such as social media’s u...
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Epistemological Approaches to Digital Learning in Educational Contexts is dedicated to topical issues in school education and pedagogical science related to the learning process in a technology and media enriched environment. It opens up discussions on the development of the educational science sector and strategies for smart pedagogy to promote sy...
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Virtual solutions for exhibiting museum collections are no longer a novelty, as such experiences already exist in the world, but the remote use of museum collections for learning purposes has so far not been widely used in the educational environment. This article analyzes virtual museum applications by evaluating them from a learning perspective,...
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tehnoloģijas izglītībā (angļu educational technologies (EdTech), vācu Technologien in der Bildung, franču technologies dans l'éducation, krievu технологии в образовании) Šis jēdziens attiecas uz jebkuru mācīšanas un mācīšanās formu, kur tiek izmantotas tehnoloģijas un tehnoloģiskie risinājumi. Sākotnēji ar izglītības tehnoloģijām saprata visu, kas...
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VR and AR can bring changes not only to the everyday life of society, but also in humans’ cognitive capacity to perceive and imagine, giving them the opportunity to experience what is not possible in the real world, and equipping them with the possibility to see objects, places and situations that cannot be seen in reality. Technologies change the...
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Latvia and France’s Hubert Curien partnership programme ‘Osmoze’ is currently carrying out the cooperative research project “The gap between political development documents and practice of digitalisation of higher education” and the results of the project will be presented in this paper. The results reveal the competence of academics to carry out a...
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The relationship between master’s thesis work and teachers’ professional development has rarely been explored empirically, yet. Drawing upon a larger study, this paper investigates how teachers who were studying for or who have recently graduated from Master of Education programmes offered in five countries – Poland, Portugal, England, Latvia, Roma...
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The inroads of sophisticated technologies and related applications in the field of education trigger several developments related not only to the processes of managing education institutions across levels and domains but also pertaining to approaches to teaching and learning. As advances in technology impact all aspects of life, when adopting and a...
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Left-handers have always been surrounded by stigma and controversy, and attitudes toward this group have always been rooted in the ideas and traditions of power relations existing in a given society. Thus, the goal of this study is to describe the retraining of left-handers as it was conducted in Soviet education. The impact of political power on a...
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Progress in technology development creates new opportunities as well as new challenges for the educational environment, as it has to be able to transform the learning process so as to prepare the future generations for life and work with technology, both by using the opportunities created by technology and by creating new technological solutions. D...
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The use of robots in the learning process has been popular since S. Papert developed his LOGO Turtle idea and argued that students can construct their own knowledge, test their constructive solutions and be motivated to learn if they use robotics in the learning process. Today, the idea of using elements of robotics in the learning process is no lo...
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Early School Leaving (ESL) is a problem for many countries and some have pledged to reduce the number of children leaving school early to below 10% by 2020. Between October 2015 and September 2017, Italy, Greece and Latvia implemented an Erasmus+ project that used robotics to reduce the risk of ESL. The effectiveness of the teaching and learning ma...
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Various technologies and applications such as cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and learning analytics have received increased attention in recent years. The growing demand behind their adoption and exploitation in different application contexts has captured the attention of learning technology specialists, computer engineers, and busin...
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The conference will be held in University of Latvia on 7-8th of June, 2019. The proceedings of previous conferences are included in Web of Science and proceeding of ATEE Spring Conference 2019 also will be sent to WoS
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The progress of technology has raised challenges to the educational environment, so it is necessary to search for answers to the questions: How can one teach better? How can one scaffold the student in the learning process? What kind of competencies should be developed? What competencies do teachers need? What kind of technology should be used or n...
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Learning through online platform opportunities is one way of organizing a technology-enhanced learning process. This chapter provides an overview of the place and role of learning platforms in the pedagogical process, defines the differences between learning platforms and learning management systems and offers a toolkit for evaluating learning plat...
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Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR & AR) with its various computer-based virtual simulations and teaching aids have already begun to transform the medical education and training. The use of virtual labs and anatomy lessons including the use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) as in the delivery of lectures and surgery operations are explored. Th...
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It has been quite a long time since S. Papert introduced the idea that children should be involved in the use of computers in the learning process to support the development of computational thinking. Nowadays, educational robotics is introduced in different dimensions of education, but mostly it is used as part of a compulsory educational process...
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This study is conducted within the framework of the Joint Research Centre’s Project (JRC) ECIT, Empowering Citizens’ Rights in emerging ICT (Project no. 572). ECIT deals with 0-8 Young Children & Digital Technology. This qualitative study aims at exploring young children and their families` experiences with new technologies. It focuses on their (on...
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The learning process aims to improve student knowledge and competencies to prepare them for independent living, but learning is a step-by-step process, which facilitates the development of metacognitive processes when students independently are able to seek information, analyse it and construct new knowledge. Along with changes in the educational p...
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The first fundamental principle of the Magna Charta Universitatum (1988) states that universities are autonomous institutions that produce, examine, appraise and hand down culture through research and teaching. This principle defines universities as autonomous in creating and organizing study programmes and scientific research, among other things,...
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The field of education is not immune to advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT). Going beyond the ICT-hype, the objective of this paper is to examine to what extent and how technology-enhanced teaching and learning (TEL) can enhance teaching and learning and, hence, turn them into levers of sustainable socioeconomic...
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The modern world is developing at a pace where few can thoroughly keep track of its progress. More advancements in technology, evolving standards of education, and ongoing cultural and societal developments are leading to a need for improved pathways of knowledge discovery and dissemination. Knowledge-Intensive Economies and Opportunities for Soci...
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Personnel working in institutional care have the important role of providing for the development of children who have experienced the trauma of being separated from their families. Personnel need to be emotionally responsive, able to form consistent, trusting, and long-term relationships with children, believe in them, support them in continuing ed...
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The progress of technology has raised challenges to the educational environment, so that it is necessary to search for answers to the questions: How can one teach better? How can one scaffold the student in the learning process? What kind of competencies should be developed? What competencies do teachers need? What kind of technology should be used...
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Why Smart Pedagogy? With technological progress, technologies and digital solutions increasingly entering the educational environment, the attitude to technology can be characterised as fear and fascination, where there are a number of people who believe that technologies create chaos in education, where students are not fully engaged in the learn...
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Learning through online platform opportunities is one way of organizing a technology-enhanced learning process. This chapter provides an overview of the place and role of learning platforms in the pedagogical process, defines the differences between learning platforms and learning management systems and offers a toolkit for evaluating learning plat...
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The digitization of the various fields of the society is developing more and more rapidly, which affects both the way people receive services, their acquaintance with innovations, new innovations and new challenges for the educational environment, in order to prepare future people for the creation of new innovative solutions, as well as to support...
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As technologies become more exciting, interactive, and reachable, various technological solutions are used in higher education. On the one hand, there is the conviction that technology and technological solutions are indispensable, both for improving learning and for making learning process more effective, both in terms of learning outcomes and in...

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