Omid Noroozi

• Professor (Associate) at Wageningen University & Research

The increased interest in multimodal data collection in the learning sciences demands for new and powerful methodological and analytical techniques and technologies. It is especially challenging for learning scientists to handle, analyse, and interpret complex and often invisible multimodal data when investigating regulation of learning in collabor...

p>This study explores whether and how higher education students with various epistemic beliefs engage in argumentative discourse and shift their attitude within a digital dialogue game. Students were assigned to groups of four or five and asked to argue and explore various perspectives of four controversial issues of environmental education in four...

Argumentation is fundamental for many learning assignments, ranging from primary school to university and beyond. Computer-supported argument scaffolds can facilitate argumentative discourse along with concomitant interactive discussions among learners in a group (i.e., first-order argument scaffolding). However, there is no evidence, and hence no...

This study explores whether and how higher education students with various epistemic beliefs engage in argumentative discourse and shift their attitude within a digital dialogue game. Students were assigned to groups of four or five and asked to argue and explore various perspectives of four controversial issues of environmental education in four c...

Teachers often complain about the quality of students' written essaysin higher education. This study explores the relations between scripted online peer feedback processes and quality of written argumentative essay as they occur in an authentic learning situation with direct practical relevance. Furthermore, the effects of the online argumentative...

Background While formative assessment is widely regarded as essential for improving teaching and learning, it remains difficult to operationalize due to systemic misalignment with other instructional practices, limited teacher capacity, low feedback quality, inferential uncertainty, domain‐general approaches, and validity concerns. Objectives This...

Generative AI (GenAI) has gained attention as a new feedback source in education because it can generate human-like text. However, its use in feedback lacks a strong pedagogical framework, which is necessary for effective implementation. This paper addresses this gap. It outlines human-centered feedback challenges , and then explores human and arti...

Digital game-based learning (DGBL) is perceived as a promising approach for motivating students' interest in science. However, most previous studies have focused on comparing the effectiveness of DGBL with traditional teaching methods, rather than looking at how specific design mechanisms of value-added DGBL applications can influence learning in K...

Fostering university students’ Opportunity Identification (OI) capability has received much attention from entrepreneurship scholars. There is, however, a lack of comprehensive understanding of “ why” some students can better identify business opportunities and “ how” their OI capability can be improved. This systematic review aims to synthesize th...

Despite the growing research interest in the use of large language models for feedback provision, it still remains unknown how students perceive and use AI‐generated feedback compared to instructor feedback in authentic settings. To address this gap, this study compared instructor and AI‐generated feedback in a Java programming course through an ex...

This study explores the outcomes of using Google Docs for collaborative scientific writing and the associated student perceptions. The study included a total of 35 undergraduate students from the educational sciences programme. All students participated in a pre- and post-test design experiment and 10 were randomly selected to attend interviews. Th...

This systematic review, utilizing the PRISMA framework, analyzes 248 international and 143 Iranian articles to provide an overview of studies on games in education, focusing on five key themes: common terminology, methodology, type of study, variables studied, and technologies used. The findings are presented in the same order of priority. Internat...

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly been integrated into self-regulated learning (SRL), presenting novel pathways to support SRL. While AI-SRL research has experienced rapid growth, there remains a significant gap in understanding the intersection between AI and SRL, resulting in oversight when identifying critical areas necessi...

This study explored the dynamics of students' knowledge co-construction in an asynchronous gamified environment in higher education, focusing on peer discussions in college business courses. Utilizing epistemic network analysis, sequence pattern mining, and automated coding, we analyzed the interactions of 1,319 business students. Our findings reve...

Lay Description What is currently known about this topic? Learning analytics has emerged as a powerful tool that aligns with the purpose of formative assessment, enabling educators to monitor and understand students' learning. The primary focus of traditional learning analytics research has been on online learning environments, relying mostly on u...

Recently, ChatGPT, a cutting-edge large language model, has emerged as a powerful Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tool with the capacity to influence education. ChatGPT provides ample opportunities for learners, researchers, educators, and practitioners to achieve the intended learning outcomes in various disciplines. This special issue...

Many peer feedback studies examined students’ perceptions. Yet, little is known about how perceived and actual learning are related, and how they are influenced by individual and contextual characteristics including success level, educational level, gender, and academic major. This exploratory study addressed this research gap. Students from a Dutc...

Peer feedback is introduced as an effective learning strategy, especially in large-size classes where teachers face high workloads. However, for complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay, without support peers may not provide high-quality feedback since it requires a high level of cognitive processing, critical thinking skills, and a dee...

Assessment of digital competence for citizens could support the Education Action plan at a national level, a regional level, or even at a global level to enhance the digital skills and competence gap for work and life for digital transformation. This study applies the DigComp framework through a self-administered online survey to 723 citizens in Vi...

There is a growing body of literature acknowledging peer feedback as a crucial learning practice in online settings. However, the literature is sparse and lacks an overall picture of the variety of key components for the successful implementation of peer feedback practices in online settings. To address this gap, we built our systematic literature...

Online peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy to enhance students' learning processes and outcomes. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of the influential factors that play a key role in the effective implementation of online peer feedback. This systematic review provides an overview of the current state of onl...

Although previous research on Virtual Reality (VR) demonstrated the effects of particular learning environment characteristics on learning, none of these studies constructed their virtual learning environment from a constructive alignment perspective. Therefore, this experimental study aims to investigate the impact of a constructively aligned virt...

The aim of this study was to explore how students perceive their learning outcomes and satisfaction during an online peer feedback activity in the context of argumentative essays. In this study, 135 undergraduate students participated. A module called "Argumentative Essay Writing" was developed and embedded into the course on the Brightspace platfo...

The pandemic underscores the need for a blended approach, combining in-person and online education post-crisis. The lessons gleaned from the experience of pandemic-era education highlight the importance of emphasizing blended education in the post-pandemic context, which combines both in-person and online educational approaches. Effective use of bl...

Successfully engaging in collaborative problem solving is an essential constituent of professional and general life skills. Collaborative problem solving is also used to engage learners in collaborative processes relevant to the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Here, learners co-construct knowledge by transactively building on each other’s cont...

Game-based learning researchers have been investigating various means to maximise learning in educational games. One promising venue in recent years has been the use of learning analytics in online game-based learning environments. However, little is known about how different elements of learning analytics (e.g. data types, techniques methods, and...

This study compared the effects of support for peer feedback, peer feedforward, and their combination on students' peer learning processes and argumentative essay quality. Participants were 86 BSc students who were randomly divided over 43 dyads and assigned to peer feedback, peer feedforward, mixed, and control conditions. In an online environment...

Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, online education has demonstrated significant potential in providing flexible and easily accessible learning opportunities on a global scale. As a result of its numerous advantages, the landscape of education in the post-Covid era is anticipated to be a combination of online and face-to-face (F2F) instruction, with F2F...

Performing complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay and providing high-quality argumentative peer feedback are challenging for higher education students. This study aims to explore whether and how students’ argumentation performance during peer feedback activities and essay writing is related to their culture and gender. In this explora...

Performing complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay and providing high-quality argumentative peer feedback are challenging for higher education students. This study aims to explore whether and how students’ argumentation performance during peer feedback activities and essay writing is related to their culture and gender. In this explora...

This study aimed to explore the relationship between students’ perceptions of transactional distance and self-efficacy within an online peer learning environment. The research involved 240 higher education students who completed three tasks over three weeks. The first task required students to write an argumentative essay. In the second week, stude...

In this study, the relationship among students’ attitude towards peer feedback, peer feedback performance, and uptake in an online learning environment was investigated. This study was conducted at Wageningen University and Research and 135 undergraduate students participated. A module called “ Argumentative Essay Writing ” was designed and student...

This exploratory study aims to identify student profiles based on their attitudes and beliefs towards online education during the COVID-19 pandemic, and then relate these profiles to students’ online education experiences and background characteristics. To do this, in 2020, 676 students from a Dutch university were asked to complete a survey about...

We are delighted to announce a special issue of the International Journal of Technology in Education (IJTE) dedicated to exploring the implications of ChatGPT, a powerful generative AI tool, in the field of education. The introduction of ChatGPT in education has sparked debates about its potential implications for education. While advocates of Chat...

This study explored the effects of directed and undirected online peer feedback types on students’ peer feedback performance, argumentative essay writing skills, and acquisition of domain-specific knowledge. The study used a pre-test and post-test design with four conditions (feedback, feedforward, a combination of feedback and feedforward, and und...

The primary purpose of this empirical study is to explore the effect of using the SCAMPER technique in entrepreneurship courses on brainstorming session outcomes, in particular, on the comprehensibility, concreteness, flexibility, persistence, and originality of generated business ideas. This study's research design is an experimental, posttest-onl...

Using gamification to support learning in K‐12 education has received much attention from scholars in recent years. However, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of how gamification should be used to effectively enhance the learning experiences of K‐12 students. The purpose of this review was to synthesize research findings on the u...

This study explores the intersection role of students' epistemic beliefs and gender in argumentative essay writing. In total, 148 undergraduate students from a Dutch university followed an argumentation module, filled out the epistemic beliefs survey, and wrote an argumentative essay. Results showed that students' beliefs about the Internet-specifi...

ChatGPT is an AI tool that has sparked debates about its potential implications for education. We used the SWOT analysis framework to outline ChatGPT's strengths and weaknesses and to discuss its opportunities for and threats to education. The strengths include using a sophisticated natural language model to generate plausible answers, self-improvi...

Literature on post-pandemic education suggests blended learning as a new balanced education approach. However, little is known about teachers' and students' attitudes, emotions, and perceptions of blended education. This study aims to first explore teachers' and students' attitudes and emotions (workload, stress, well-being, and motivation) related...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers were forced to move their teaching completely online. While some seized the opportunity to learn and innovate, others experienced difficulties. This study provides insights into the differences between university teachers during the COVID-19 crisis. A survey among university teachers (N = 283) was conducted to...

We know little to what extent peer feedback strategies can be applied on a large scale in higher education for complex tasks. This study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate an online-supported peer feedback module for large-scale use to enhance higher education students' argumentative essay writing performance. To do this, 330 students from fi...

This study explores the role of students’ epistemic beliefs and gender in argumentation performance in essay writing. Data were collected from 148 undergraduate students. The results showed that students’ beliefs about the Internet-specific justification of knowledge did not influence argumentation performance, while beliefs about the nature of sci...

This study investigates the effects of three Collaborative Reasoning (CR) strategies including pre-trained CR, scripted CR, and pre-trained + scripted (mixed) CR on the argumentative decision-making skills of primary school students. Forty-six school students were requested to write a reflective essay on a social-moral issue, and after participatin...

Recent studies have shown that peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy to improve students’ argumentative essay writing. However, it is not known to what extent a peer feedback strategy for argumentative essay writing can be generally used in different course domains. This study aims to apply an online supported peer feedback tool in d...

Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences - 2022 © 2022 Published by the ISTES Organization ISBN: 978-1-952092-33-6 Editors: Omid Noroozi & Ismail Sahin Conference: International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (iHSES) Dates: April 21-24, 2022 Location: Los Angeles, USA Web:...

In this article, we aim to explore the differences in the received peer feedback among successful, less successful, and unsuccessful students in higher education. This exploratory study was conducted in online settings and in the context of argumentative essay writing. In total, 135 undergraduate students participated in an online module and they c...

Learning analytics (LA) offers new opportunities to enrich feedback practices in higher education, but little is understood about the ways different LA can enhance feedback practices for educators and students. This systematic literature review maps the current state of implementation of LA to improve feedback practices in technology-mediated learn...

Education, science, and technology disciplines are closely and extensively connected in all formats and levels. The outbreak of COVID-19 has further squeezed this interconnection where the delivery of education in different scientific fields of studies at all education levels is almost impossible without the presence of technology. Today, there is...

Over the last decades, using e-learning systems as an alternative format of education for traditional classroom has been growing in higher education and due to COVID-19 pandemic, this transition has been unprecedently accelerated. Although there is a large body of research on e-learning, little is known about the extent to which innovative and cont...

The book is divided into three sections related to studies on education, science, and technology. While each of the first two sections includes five chapters, the last section involves four chapters. The chapters’ contributors are from the following countries: Albania, Australia, Azad Kashmir, Ghana, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Philippine...

In peer feedback literature, little is known about the patterns of success for peer feedback activities in online learning environments. This study aims to explore the peer feedback patterns of successful, less successful, and unsuccessful higher education students for argumentative essay writing. In this exploratory study, 330 higher education stu...

p>Students’ argumentation performance can be influenced by their epistemic beliefs, however, in the context of argumentative essay writing and argumentative peer feedback in online setting this has not been clearly investigated. This study explores relationship between students’ epistemic beliefs and argumentation performance regarding essay writin...

In this study, students' perceived usefulness and trustworthiness of peer feedback on learning satisfaction in the online learning environment were investigated using a pre-test and post-test research design at Wageningen University and Research. In total, 135 undergraduate students participated in this study. Students’ peer feedback performance wa...

The COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 disrupted students' and teachers' learning and teaching activities worldwide as it led to a quick transition from education, including face-to-face interaction to emergency remote teaching (ERT). During this ERT period monitoring research on the experiences and innovation needs was done at Wageningen U...

In this study, a pre-test and post-test research design was employed to explore the role of online peer feedback features in uptake of peer feedback in the context of argumentative essay writing. To do this, 101 students were asked to individually write an argumentative essay, get involved in online peer feedback activity, and revise the original e...

The primary purpose of this conceptual study is to propose a theoretical framework for developing EE programs that aim to foster individuals’ OI capability. This will be done by exploring the relationship between the two main philosophical perspectives in the entrepreneurship field concerning entrepreneurial opportunities (i.e., opportunity discove...

p>Computer-based virtual learning environments (CBVLEs) have attracted attention as a learning innovation that can foster students’ self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation. Research on the instructional design regarding these aspects of learning in a virtual learning environment is rather piecemeal. This study investigates the instructional design o...

According to the literature, students’ motivation and satisfaction can influence their perceived learning outcomes. However, little is known about what kind of a role do motivation and satisfaction play in the context of online peer feedback. This exploratory study aims to examine the relationship between students’ motivation and satisfaction with...

In the literature, little is known regarding the role of students’ perceived motivation and perceived fairness of peer feedback for their learning satisfaction, particularly in the context of argumentative essay writing in online learning environments. This study explores the effects of students’ perceived motivation and perceived fairness of peer...

The number of entrepreneurship education (EE) programs that aim to foster opportunity identification (OI) as a key entrepreneurial capability has grown considerably in the past few decades. However, these EE programs mostly lack a robust theoretical framework that could help educators and researchers select teaching approaches in line with their ph...

This study adopted a pre-test–post-test design to explore genderdifferences in argumentative essay writing and peer reviewperformance and uptake within a higher education context. To do this,as part of a bigger project, 101 students were asked to individuallywrite an argumentative essay, engage in peer review activities andrevise their original ess...

Although MOOCs platforms offer a unique way to provide information for a large cohort of participants, only a small percentage of participants complete MOOCs. The high number of dropouts in MOOCs is a key challenge, and the literature suggests that it can be affected by participants' motivation. However, it is not known how and to what extent motiv...

Computer-based virtual learning environments (CBVLEs) are potentially useful teaching tools for training nursing students in professional duties such as the mathematical tasks associated with medication processes. In this study, a CBVLE was designed with well-structured instructional activities such as interleaved practice and feedback. Mathematica...

Computer-supported collaborative concept mapping (CSCCM) leverages technology and concept mapping to support conceptual understanding, as well as collaborative learning to foster knowledge co-construction. This article investigated the effect of different instructional designs using CSCCM on students' conceptual understanding, and on the type of pr...

This study investigated the impact of an online peer-review script on students’ argumentative peer-review quality and argumentative essay writing. A pre- and post-test experimental design was used with 42 undergraduate students in the field of educational science. Students were randomly divided over 21 dyads and assigned to two conditions (unscript...

Students’ digital competencies are important for their academic performance. Although scholars have highlighted the importance of students’ digital informal learning in developing their digital competence, the mediating role of digital informal learning between digital competence and academic performance have remained unexplored. Thus, this study a...

So far, the synergistic relationship between learning design and learning analytics and its impact on learners' educational practices have been investigated. However, little work has been done to show how integrated learning design based on constructivism learning theory and learning analytics can affect learners' engagement and self-regulation. Th...

This study compared the effects of support for peer feedback, peer feedforward and their combination on students’ peer learning processes, argumentative essay quality and domain‐specific learning. Participants were 86 BSc students who were randomly divided over 43 dyads. These dyads, in a two‐factorial experimental design, were assigned to four con...

This paper investigates the role of instructional supports for argumentation-based computer supported collaborative learning (ABCSCL), a teaching approach that improves the quality of learning processes and outcomes. Relevant literature has been reviewed to identify the instructional supports in ABCSCL environments. A range of instructional support...

Geographical/geometric indicators like azimuth provide a real-time and low-cost method of measuring spatial performance during navigation, especially in view of their accessibility on mobile phones in the form of a compass or GPS. This study aimed to investigate azimuth-based assessment of spatial orientation performance and its potential in diagno...

Peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy for improving students’ argumentative essay writing in higher education. However, little is known how do differently or similarly bachelor’s and master’s students perform in their peer feedback activities for essay writing. This study sought to identify the role of education level in students’ pe...

There is a growing body of research on using learning analytics in an online constructivist learning environment to improve students’ engagement and self-regulation. However, little is known to what extent female and male students differ in their engagement and self-regulation in an online Constructivist Learning Design and Learning Analytics (CLDL...

This systematic review on data modalities synthesises the research findings in terms of how to optimally use and combine such modalities when investigating cognitive, motivational, and emotional learning processes. ERIC, WoS, and ScienceDirect databases were searched with specific keywords and inclusion criteria for research on data modalities, res...

This study investigates the effects of a developed MOOC based on Merrill’s principles of instruction on participants’ learning outcomes and satisfaction. A pre-test-post-test with a control group design was used in this study. In total, 335 participants were assigned into experimental (using Merrill’s principles of instruction) and control group (u...

The COVID19-Pandemic has forced educators to transform their lessons into online versions in a short period of time. This study compares teachers’ perception regarding their online teaching expectations (prior to the transition to remote teaching) and experiences (after a month of online teaching). Two surveys were completed by 200 Dutch teachers....

Purpose This study aims to investigate the role of social capital in Iranian agricultural students' acquisition of generic skills. For this purpose, the effect of various social capital dimensions on students' generic skills development was examined. Design/methodology/approach A survey was conducted among 190 third- and fourth-year undergraduate...

This study compared the effects of worked example and scripting on students' argumentative peer feedback, essay and learning qualities. Participants were 80 BSc students who were randomly divided over 40 dyads and assigned to two experimental conditions (worked example and scripting). An online peer feedback environment named EduTech was designed a...

This study investigated the effects of using a teaching model enriched with presence on learners’ perceived presence and high-level learning outcomes in online learning environments. The study was conducted in an Iranian state university with 52 higher education students majoring in electronic IT management who were randomly divided into experiment...

The purpose of this research was to study the perceived readiness of higher education students for computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Moreover, the role of important demographic variables, such as gender, major of study, and computer ownership, was examined in students’ perceived readiness and its sub-scales. The data was collected f...

Following constructivist paradigms for learning, this article explores the relationships between the components of argumentation competence (knowledge, behavior and attitude), their relationships with domain-specific knowledge acquisition, and the differences in argumentation behavior between successful and less-successful students. An exploratory...

The use of digital environments in nursing education offers new opportunities for nursing students' medical mathematics learning. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of Digital Learning Materials (DLMs) on nursing students' mathematics learning, self-efficacy, and task value. A pre-test/post-test control group design was used. Stud...

This article investigated the effect of different instructional designs using CSCCM on students’ conceptual understanding, and on the quality of students’ knowledge co-construction. Hundredtwenty 10th graders randomly distributed in dyads. They were asked to draw concept maps by using CSCCM with different instructional designs. In the control condi...

This article investigated the effects of different instructional designs using CSCCM on students' conceptual understanding and the quality of their knowledge of co-construction. Hundred-twenty of 10th graders were randomly distributed in dyads. They were asked to draw concept maps by using CSCCM with different instructional designs. In the control...