Piet Kommers

Piet Kommers
www.Helix5.eu · Scientific Consultancy

PhD. Professor of UNESCO Learning Technologies
Building EU project plans on Education, Training and 21st Century Communication Skills

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Introduction
Piet Kommers is Professor of UNESCO Learning Technologies and built his career as researcher in cognitive and social support for communication and education. He instigated European research projects from the early stage of DELTA (1988) until the ongoing EU projects. The citations of his more than 300 publications exceed 9000 and reach the h-index of 37.
Additional affiliations
February 2018 - January 2019
University of Amsterdam
Position
  • Consultant
Description
  • Machine Learning for Big Data in Social Domains: Education, Logistics and Calamity Management.
August 2017 - present
Sudan University of Science and Technology
Position
  • Professor
Description
  • Lecturing and Supervising PhD Projects
February 1982 - present
UNESCO Institute for Learning Technologies
Position
  • Professor
Education
August 1975 - September 1979
Utrecht State University
Field of study
  • Pedagogy and Learning Technologies

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Publications (583)
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Publications Piet Kommers as registered via Springer Verlag
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now one of the most important and contemporary directions of development of science in an interdisciplinary context. The EU's approach to artificial intelligence centres on excellence and trust, aiming to boost research and industrial capacity while ensuring safety and fundamental rights (A European approach to artif...
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De digitalisering van de samenleving en de automatisering van veel processen brengen nieuwe kansen en nieuwe soorten banen met zich mee. Het aantal mensen dat werkzaam is in de IT groeit voortdurend. Werkgevers in alle EU-landen kondigen echter een groeiend tekort aan IT-specialisten in softwareontwikkeling aan waar onderwijsinstellingen niet aan k...
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As Artificial Intelligence enters each aspect of society, education faces the job to inform the new generation in the checks and balances that A.I. poses to youngsters awareness, knowledge, skills and job training. Besides the cognitive aspects, it is the basis of moral ethics that needs to be redefined once machines take over the rational stages i...
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INTEGRAL TEACHING OF CREATIVITY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN IN NON-FORMAL EDUCATION Methodology for youth trainers
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INTEGRAAL ONDERWIJS VAN CREATIVITEIT EN GRAFISCH ONTWERP IN INFORMEEL ONDERWIJS Methodiek voor jeugdtrainers
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Multiplier Event for the NEWork Project by DtH, The Netherlands The chosen event in Eindhoven (major industrial metropole in The Netherlands) has been embedded in a larger context of entrepreneurs, social/cultural workers and educational leaders from East and South Netherlands. Location of meeting was ParkTheater. The networks of participants are...
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The FitPed Project focuses on students’ efforts to acquire programming skills in order to become up-to-date professionals and become better life-long learners as well. The current chapter sketches the larger spectrum of learning/teaching paradigms in order to enable more flexible and effective didactic planning in diverse academic curricula. ‘Activ...
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be especially useful in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) field to provide a large number of teachers with appropriate content for their professional development. On the other hand, we still have to think, how to use STEAM in virtual platforms for robotical learning (r-learnin...
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The continuous evolution of media for education has become challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic. For teachers who were mainly used to teach in the face-to-face mode, it was a hectic time to convert to video lectures and web-based learning support systems like Moodle, Sakai and Blackboard. The question to be addressed is in how far this inconveni...
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As jobs develop more and more towards autonomous roles in the knowledge economies, certificates no longer assure the needed competences. This is especially necessary in the case that candidate labour forces suffer from ASD (Autistic Deficiency Spectrum). The two companies ‘Drawing to Health’, ‘Both Social’ and the UNESCO professor assignment for Ed...
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19th International Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media 2022 Lisbon, Portugal, 19 - 21 July 2022 (http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/) Part of the 16th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2022) Lisbon, Portugal, 20 - 22 July 2022 (http://www.mccsis.org) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): Professor Piet...
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- CALL FOR PAPERS WBC 2022 - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 22 April 2022 - 19th International Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media 2022 Lisbon, Portugal, 19 - 21 July 2022 (http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/) Part of the 16th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2022) Lisbon, Portug...
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In the vision of Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution is a revolution of cyber–physical systems, of which the Internet of Things forms a key foundation that has a great impact on the way people live and the way businesses are organized. This special issue assembles a set of 18 papers, which provide in-depth research results to report the adv...
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The articles in this issue of 'The European Educational Researcher' all concern the various facets of education to become vitalized in the coming decade. Its perspective is not so much to overcome flaws and deficits; its perspective is to become ready for the further 21st century. What is so different from the 20th century is that at that time Euro...
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Cognitive learning tools target to increase the learning skills and metacognitive awareness at the student. Its main premisse is that through the various learning stages in various domains, students find benefit in the awareness that so far they developed a certain level of routines on how to approach new topics and needed skills. This awareness is...
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Editorial for a special issue on “Overcoming Transgression on the Internet: Considering Multimedia Forensic and Linguistic Techniques”. The shock that ‘the Internet’ that started so politely and ‘distinguished’ as method to make the world on earth more resilient and safer from ‘becoming lost’; this system quite early after being rolled out, became...
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Educational, instructional and curricular design has become sophisticated in order to control the process at the student. From the perspective of the teacher, there are ‘strings attached’ to the optimum of determination density.
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At the arrival of digital information technology, we tend to forget that another revolution tortured schooling few centuries before: The printing press. Just like already now (less than 20 years ago) we cannot understand how we organized life and survived during travelling before the smart phone appeared in our pockets.
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Professional training has been recognized by most of the countries as vital for industry, military and mining.
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Cognitive learning tools target to increase the learning skills and metacognitive awareness at the student. Its main premisse is that through the various learning stages in various domains, students find benefit in the awareness that so far they developed a certain level of routines on how to approach new topics and needed skills. This awareness is...
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Information becomes more and more shared and accessible to anybody. At the same time, it shows that information is just a tiny element in meaningful communication, learning and teaching. MOOCs are Web-based courses that pretend to be complete enough to promote learning. However, the high dropout rate shows the opposite: Even when the courses are so...
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The differential effects of readers in hypertext conditions opened the question in how far education should target additional study and thinking skills instead of the desire to cover the entire topic domain in secondary school curricula?
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Seen from ideological innovators, the integration of new media in education is a pernicious affair; first of all, as it seduces learners to escape from the traditional regime. Even more dominant is the fear that fancy multimodality prevents learners from mental imagination.
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Web applications in education gave a substantial impulse to teacher training and finally the stimuli to parents as they might feel threatened by seeing their children to ‘escape’ from curricular prescriptions.
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Vocational learning was an early adopter of ‘communities,’ ‘networks’ and ‘joint collaborative problem solving’ as learning methods. ‘Community’ resonates the collective nature once individuals cannot fix the job solely.
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Whereas text reflects the conversational and expository format of language, conceptual representations like concept maps reflect the top-down mental landscape for the sake of reflection and metacognitive awareness. Cognitive research in the second half of the twentieth century considered human knowledge to have a schematic nature anyway.
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This chapter bridges former didactic theories with current paradigm switches due to the worldwide web integration.
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As the socioeconomic impact of school success increased during the last two centuries, education became politically polarized.
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Computer and data technologies offer more and more commodities, to support learning and teaching practices.
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Curricular contents in a schooling context tend to fossilize even before the lesson starts. For instance, the learning of polity, geography and history constitutes the outcome of long negotiations between domain experts, curriculum designers and teacher representatives.
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For many of the parents, teachers and policymakers, the question burns: Will ICT-driven education essentially change the way we learn and teach?
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It is not surprising that the growing cybernetic complexity and sophistication in society will soon penetrate education as well.
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The targeted added value was defined as: Computing in the twenty-first century is ubiquitous—computer systems are used daily by the citizens of the EU and USA in mobile devices, GPS systems linked to digital cameras, e-learning platforms, media delivery (e.g., podcasts), workflow management systems, e-government, e-commerce, e-banking as well as mo...
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While in the early sixties, the hope was still concentrated on literally acquiring information like through endless rehearsing and mutual associations. The seventies made a Copernican turn an entirely understood cognition as a meta-process; human learning and understanding can only evolve when self-reflection establishes recursive processes that le...
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Learning can best be seen as a cultural/societal solution for including the new generation in all aspects of life.
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The attempt to establish thematic education started in the 1960s. Its goal was to let learners learn across subject domains. Obviously, it did not reach a critical level of acceptance and faded away. STEAM is the label for the unified subjects that might otherwise stay compartmentalized. If COVID-19 was not such a plague for society and economy, it...
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Though the new ‘twenty-first-century skills’ still trigger our imagination, its consequence for the next two decades of schooling can be predicted.
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Learning psychology has speculated for many years on the assumption that the modality of information (visual, auditive, haptic, etc.) would have substantial effect on how learners remembers best. The main lesson from early philosophies is that visual impressions and visual imagination go hand in hand. They need each other and learning builds upon t...
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Learners will easily report about decisive stages in their learning. ‘Having made something’ by themselves is a common term. Reasoning about what learning really is, we know that learning is at least a two-sided process: (1) Meeting additional goals, domains and criteria that need to be met. (2) The internal process of integration the new demands a...
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Any media innovation brings fundamental questions like: What essentially is learning? How do we monitor learning? What is the proper criterion for mastery? etc. The 3D spatial environments for practicing surgical skills triggered considerations like: At what stage in skill progress should students resume the interaction with the full human body?
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The reader’s flexibility in hypertext is just the beginning of a much wider option to stimulate elaborations, the reader’s freedom to invest in thinking about the text implications. As could be expected, students show a different tendency to stay close at the text expression, versus those who digress upon the (latent) meaning of the text.
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Why do conflicts arise in educational organizations? How can we lower the chance of burnout? What to do if we know so many theories on learning and teaching, but feel all the time as improvising when it comes to the actual interaction with students, parents and colleagues who have a diametric different approach? The answers will be derived from the...
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The freedom given by hypertext offers a wide spectrum of instructional articulations. Already typographies and for instance highlighting textual passages have an impact on how readers spread their attention and start jumping from one paragraph to another. Even more exciting is when due to readers’ interest a strictly individual reading sequence is...
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Computer applications origin from computational devices and needed an extra user interface in order to interact with humans. More recently, the design of apps start from the ‘dashboard’ that allows the user to control and ‘feel at home.’Learning application still suffers the vacuum of natural interaction. Instead of adding an extra metaphor for the...
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The FitPed project targets a methodology for integrating technologies in national education and training systems. The main aim of the project is to design, develop and evaluate a new educational model of learning programming languages and later advanced IT topics, which will be based on the suitably balanced combination of several contemporary educ...
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While cognitive reflections tend to see concepts as mental objects, more and more evidence gathers momentum to turn the paradigm to see concepts as transitions from one mental perspective to another. If your CEO claims that from next week, a new ‘concept’ will be followed, it is not the replacement of an idea with another one; it is the transformat...
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As text became trusted to screens rather than to paper, very soon the temptation emerged to escape from the chronology of the spoken words. Syntax is hard to abandon, but the macrostructure of text (the semantically linked keywords) became a favorite playground to experiment with. Reading a text was recognized as a saccadic movement where the jumpi...
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Having started from the assertion that human learning is the most agile process, it may sound fair to say that teaching needs a subsequent supple quality in order not to frustrate teachers’ ambitions. For this reason, this chapter brings forward adjacent genres, play and entrepreneurship methods that help to stay focused on actual socio/economic pr...
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‘How to teach’ is not clear after knowing how learning works; good salesmen need much more than the experience of being a customer.
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Creative thinking on how education can best be innovated, soon lands at a dispute on values and fixed ideologies. The conceptual representations for stimulating learners to become aware of the larger constellations of prior knowledge are good candidates for educational designers. Trialectics offers a method to dynamize thinking in terms of lateral...
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International student exchange has become a default commodity for higher education the last four decades.
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Searching sources of knowledge on the Web has developed quickly in the first part of the twenty-first century. Still more pervasive is the background searching, even when you have no idea that it is going on. Cognitive serendipity is the phenomenon that allows a certain degree of distraction by the search outcomes and build upon a more meaningful t...
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The motivation for this chapter is to show the evolutionary nature from earlier student tracking and 'intelligent tutoring systems' until the current stages of advanced learning analytics. This chapter's added value is its illustration of how learning analytics contributes to learners’ meta-cognitive awareness and how indirectly a teachers’ 'dashbo...
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The human-side of project management is a topic that has been explored in project management, but not to the extent that it should be. Health and safety is of paramount importance in project management, particularly construction project management. What is often overlooked is the mental health side of health and safety and how anomalistic psycholog...
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Advances educational innovation through teachers and teaching Provides in the urgent need to make students more resilient towards fake news Promotes critical thinking skills for the 21st century
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Piet Kommers 'Sources for a Better Education; Lessons from Research and Best Practices' evolves from the intersection between 'Research', 'Educational Information Technologies' and recent 'Best Practices'. It offers diplomacy and erudite rhetoric in order to harvest from innovation projects and see how new professional needs for teachers are emergi...
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Fostering STEAM Education in Schools (EDUSIMSTEAM) Project aims to promote an effective STEAM approach in education and to enhance the related teachers’ skills and curriculum. This report introduces the needs analysis performed in order to meet the general aim of the EDUSIMSTEAM project, whilst valuing the general input given by STEAM educators on...
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IJWBC offers research outcomes and state-of-the-art recommendations to practitioners - communication managers, public information service officers, webmasters and those responsible for online communities and social media policies. It publishes integrated scientific results so that further research may be targeted quicker and easier. Web-based commu...
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The term "community" suggests full commitment and trust among its members. This special issue illustrates that a community is not that communal as the term suggests. Private relations will always be stronger than the sense of collective membership. This special issue targets the junction between the social and the individual. However it is clear to...
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In this special issue research from different parts of the world comes together: The USA, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, New Zealand, India and UK and give input to new progress on the developments around Web Based Communities and Social Media. Its main focus is how the subtler layers of community awareness may transform into manifest loyalty and web...
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editorial Social media in political revolt; mix of rational and sentiment. Large-scale political movements depend on avalanches of communication that resemble best the shouting on a crowded square when tensions reach a level of massive revolt. Media like Twitter are notorious igniters in the start of demonstrations; they provide individuals the tru...
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IJWBC offers research outcomes and state-of-the-art recommendations to practitioners - communication managers, public information service officers, webmasters and those responsible for online communities and social media policies. It publishes integrated scientific results so that further research may be targeted quicker and easier. Web-based commu...
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IJWBC offers research outcomes and state-of-the-art recommendations to practitioners - communication managers, public information service officers, webmasters and those responsible for online communities and social media policies. It publishes integrated scientific results so that further research may be targeted quicker and easier. Web-based commu...
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In this issue we present articles that discuss communities from different perspectives and try to understand the mechanisms that lay behind. Useful information for researchers, marketers, communication specialist and all those interested in knowing more about the design, influence and use of social media and web based communities. Research from dif...
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In this special issue, research from Australia, UK, USA, Russia, Slovakia, Poland and Lebanon comes together and provides input to new progress on the developments around Web Based Communities and Social Media. The addressed topics are timely and essential for researchers, managers and communication advisors in their business environments. In this...
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Biographical notes: Piet Kommers is a Professor of UNESCO Learning Technologies and affiliated with the Universities of Twente and Utrecht, The Netherlands. His specialty is social media for communication and organisation. As a conference co-chair of the IADIS multi-conference, he initiated the conferences of web-based communities and social media,...
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Biographical notes: Piet Kommers is a Professor of UNESCO Learning Technologies and affiliated with the Universities of Twente and Utrecht, The Netherlands. His specialty is social media for communication and organisation. As a conference co-chair of the IADIS multi-conference, he initiated the conferences of web-based communities and social media,...
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This is the 10th volume of this journal's life. At its 10th Anniversary we look back how the "Community" scope has developed and how it might work out the coming decade. The term WBC (Web-Based Community) was coined after the term "Online Community" had settled in the early nineties when "Usenet", "Muds", "MOOs" and "Online Community College" evolv...
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As online communities emerge in different settings all over the web, they continue to develop different ways to communicate online and to encourage participation in their activities. Scholars have proposed that one of the ways in which these communities do so is through the use of narratives. A case study was done on an open online community to est...
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This article, prepared by an international team of researchers from different scientific areas connected with ICT, e-learning, pedagogy, and other related disciplines, focuses on the objectives and some results of the international project IRNet (www.irnet.us.edu.pl). In particular, the article describes research tools, methods, and a procedure of...
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ICT, SOCIETY, AND HUMAN BEINGS TECHNOLOGY EXPOSURE IN LARGE PORTUGUESE CATHOLIC FAMILIES Adriana José de Oliveira and Luciana Oliveira 3 FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUSTAINED USE OF CHATBOTS: AN ORGANIZATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Karine Aoun Barakat and Amal Dabbous 11 FROM NICHE TO MAINSTREAM TRANSITIONS: DIGITAL SECOND-HAND MARKETS FOR MILLENNIALS Swati Srivas...
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD (EHR) ADOPTION IN SOUTH AFRICAN HEALTHCARE CENTRES: A CASE OF NW PROVINCE Thatoyaone Modise, Nehemiah Mavetera and Mmaki Jantjies 3 SECONDARY USE OF CLINICAL DATA FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PURPOSES IN THE DITAS PROJECT Paola Aurucci, Ilio Catallo, Mariet NouriJanian, Andrea Micheletti and Alberto Sanna 11 DATA PROCESSING APPR...
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL COLLABORATIVE VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS TO ENHANCE LEARNING MATHEMATICS Rosa Maria Reis 3 DO STUDENT RESPONSES DECREASE IF TEACHERS KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS THROUGH STUDENT RESPONSE SYSTEMS: A QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH Paul Lam, Carmen K. M. Lau, Kevin Wong and Chi Him Chan 11 A SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS OF TEACHING BEHAVIORS TOWARD THE USE OF BLAC...
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INTERFACES AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON GUI-II INTERVIEW METHODS IN PARTICIPATORY DESIGN Arsineh Boodaghian Asl and Michel Gokan Khan 3 THE DESIGNER’S ROLE IN REVITALIZED PARTICIPATORY DESIGN AGENDAS Bernardo Alves Villarinho Lima and Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida 11 ‘THINKING THROUGH THINGS’ TO SUPPORT COOPERATIVE DESIGN IN TH...
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These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the 4th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, Data Mining and Computational Intelligence 2019 and the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2019, which were organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and co-orga...
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Innovation in VET for Jobs and Employment (IV4J) on eurooppalainen yhteistyöprojekti, joka käynnistyi marraskuussa 2016. Projektia rahoittaa Euroopan komissio. Lisätietoa projektista: www.iv4j.eu Monikansallinen projektikonsortio koostuu partnereista, jotka ovat erityyppisiä ja joilla on toisiaan täydentävää toimintaa ja osaamista: ne edustavat mm....
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