Michele Notari

Bern University of Teacher Education · University of Teacher Education

Sixty-two office workers in a Swiss federal department were randomly assigned to a training and a control group. While the training group was instructed to complete 3 stochastic resonance whole-body vibration (SR-WBV) exercises every week for 4 weeks, the control group received no treatment. During this time all participants answered a daily questi...

Computer-mediated reality (CMR) is a cutting-edge technology that gives numerous opportunities for language teaching and learning. Learners can enhance their language skills through immersion into contextualized environments where they enjoy rich and diverse sensational experiences. Through exposure to specific realistic computer-mediated content,...

Technology is radically transforming teaching and learning, as inquiry-based digital information resources and creative tools are made available to learners, schools and educators. This book explores ways in which traditional models of education are evolving, and discusses a range of inquiry-based pedagogical approaches that more fully leverage lea...

A range of international, national and more localized technology and information literacy frameworks have emerged to provide outcome benchmarks for the needed curricular reforms.In this chapter we review a number of these frameworks for the 21st century and digital skills that have been adopted in different education policy environments around the...

It has been established in previous chapters that learning and teaching has significantly evolved over the past few decades, toward a greater emphasis on twenty-first century skills in the school curriculum. Twenty-first century skills are incorporated into national educational standards in many countries; assessments, however, have been less empha...

In this chapter we will discuss the process of conducting inquiry group PjBL and discuss themerits of this approach as a collaborative teaching and learning approach for 21st centuryskills education. This chapter will begin with a review of approaches to 21st century skillseducation proposed and piloted by researchers worldwide. We will then presen...

his chapter first presents anoverview of the various approaches that could be used to scaffold learners’ development ofscientific literacy, followed by an introduction to the methodological approach ABAHCOCOSUCOL (Notari, 2006) which was initiated in Switzerland to improve scienceinstruction in high schools. Guided by the progressive inquiry-based...

In today?s society, being a citizen and engaging in a participatory democracy largely require sustained technology access, use and skills to take part productively and effectively in economic and political activities.

This chapter offers pragmatic and pedagogical design recommendations for carrying out inquiry-based learning interventions to inculcate twenty-first century skills in young people. Suggestions made in this chapter center on the inquiry project-based learning (inquiry PjBL) protocol described by Chu et al. (Developing upper primary students? twenty-...

This book presents innovative instructional interventions designed to support inquiry project-based learning as an approach to equip students with 21st century skills. Instructional techniques include collaborative team-based teaching, social constructivist game design and game play, and productive uses of social media such as wikis and other onlin...

This chapter provides an overview of educational mobile apps as well as different models of classification. It also sheds light on the complex mobile app ecosystem from four perspectives: the learner, the teacher, the developer and the distributor. It highlights the contradictions that arise from the different goals and expectations from each persp...

The Wiki Way of Learning focuses on creating and managing learning processes using collaborative technologies. The book provides a theoretical approach along with hands-on examples about how to set up, run, and evaluate collaborative technology-enhanced learning lessons and curricula from the primary school level to adult education. The introductor...

In the previous chapters, we have identified the sets of twenty-first century skills that are essential to learners’ education, and discussed how their development of such skills can be scaffolded by applying various strategies, using examples from Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United States. Chapter 6 marks the beginning of the third section of t...

This book has taken the reader through a journey of initiation into the practice of inquiry project-based learning approaches derived from the theories of social constructivism, while also conferring an understanding of the link between such approaches and the emerging new national and association standards frameworks for twenty-first century learn...

Der Wiki-Weg des Lernens ist ein Projekt bestehend aus einem Buch, das es sowohl gedruckt zu kaufen als auch digital online und offline kostenlos zum lesen gibt und einer Website, die das Buch ergänzen soll. Zugang zum gesamten Buchmanuskript inklusive Kommentierfunktion: http://buch.wikiway.ch

In this article we describe how we developed and how we use a tool for teachers enhancing inter-group collaboration of learners using wikis in project-based learning settings with over 100 participants, where different groups of students develop similar projects and each project has an own wiki page. To achieve our goal we extended typical wiki fun...

This study investigates the use of wiki to support project-based learning (PBL) in 3 undergraduate courses of different disciplines: English Language Studies, Information Management, and Mechanical Engineering. This study takes a methodological triangulation approach that employs the use of questionnaires, interviews, and wiki activity logs. The le...

The assumption that social skills are necessary ingredients of collaborative learning is well established but rarely empirically tested. In addition, most theories on collaborative learning focus on social skills only at the personal level, while the social skill configurations within a learning group might be of equal importance. Using the integra...

Pedagogy has undergone a paradigm shift since the focus changed from uni-directional transmission to collaborative construction of knowledge. The social constructivist approach calls for pedagogy to facilitate interaction between learners involved in collaborative problem solving of real life tasks. This paper describes a wikibased implementation o...

This study aims to investigate the role of sense of relatedness in students' engagement in using wikis in collaborative writing. Hong Kong secondary school students (N = 422) participated in the study and answered questionnaires about their sense of relatedness and their level of engagement when using wikis for open collaborative project work. Resu...

A wiki is regarded as a flexible tool for collaboratively creating, linking, revising and regrouping content enabling the focus on content and on the content creation process. Not the tool wiki itself but the inherent properties like openness, easiness to use philosophy of equal multi-users and cloud computing make it an archetypical tool ameliorat...

The Medical Faculty of the University of Bern uses voice-over in picture driven e-learning modules to avoid split attention induced by the modality effect. To lower production costs, professional narrators have been replaced by computer-generated voices. The e-learning modules are produced with a content management system (CMS) offering text-to-spe...

The web-based discussion forums used in the Bemese medical curriculum serve as a means of communication between faculty and students and are well frequented for questions and answers relating to mass events. Using this example, our article takes a look at the critical success factors in implementing e-learning in university curricula and discusses...

In this article the visualization tool "Didactic Process Map" (DPM) is presented to discuss learning processes and visualize the solution part of pedagogical patterns. Such an instrument has to be easy to learn, easy to use and must be able to visualize the essential aspects of learning settings. Completeness and formal validity are not required be...

The study looks for empirical answers to the following question: To what degree are self-rated individual social skills and the distribution of social skills within learning groups predictive for group member's satisfaction with performance and quality of collaboration? Data collection took place in a project-based learning curriculum of pre-servic...

The pilot study looks for empirical answers to the following question: What distribution of perceived social skills within learning groups is predictive for group member's degree of satisfaction with group performance and quality of collaboration? Data collection took place with two questionnaires at the beginning and the end of semester. The analy...

In my thesis we analyze the Computer Supported Written Communication (CSWC) behaviour of sixty pre-service teachers engaged in a collaborative long term project based learning unit. With a process-oriented user-centred design approach [Bannon, 1991] we compare the interchanged Text messages of project groups (twenty groups of three people) with the...

In this paper we show how teachers can improve collaborative learning by designing and implementing macro scripts and by regulating script sessions using enhanced wikis, called WikiPlus. To achieve optimal collaborative learning it is important to have a well designed script (preparation phase). It is also very important to being able to regulate l...

Based on the implications of technological progress and socioconstructivist learning theory, trends are being developed for tools to promote learning in the information society of the 21st century. The future promises a massive increase in information and its ubiquitous availability, along with an increase in computer-mediated communication. It is...

Learning effectiveness depends on a large range of parameters. Learners" activity has an important impact on long-term learning and comprehension of difficult concepts [1]. Collaboration is also an important parameter for learning efficiency. Collaboration does not work per se [2]; an appropriate Script is a capital factor for succeeding. We will d...