Slavi Stoyanov

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• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Open University of the Netherlands

Objectives Overweight and obesity among school-aged children pose a threat to both their academic performance and public health. The Healthy Primary School of the Future (HPSF) initiative was established to address this issue. Our objective was to explore the conditions that make HPSF sustainable based on the perspectives of relevant stakeholders....

Objectives: Overweight and obesity among school-aged children pose a threat to both their academic performance and public health. The Healthy Primary School of the Future (HPSF) initiative was established to address this issue. Our objective was to explore the conditions that make HPSF sustainable based on the perspectives of relevant stakeholders....

Although there has been an increasing amount of literature on learning experience design in the past five years, it is not clear yet how to operationally integrate the process and methods of instructional design, learning design, user-experience design, design-based research and design thinking in a multi-step participative design process involving...

Virtual reality technologies in educational settings have demonstrated their potential to improve understanding, engagement, motivation and learning outcomes. However, there are multiple technical, pedagogical, and institutional challenges on the way of technology adoption in the education sector. In this group-concept-mapping study within the Clou...

Background Learning analytics (LA) collects, analyses, and reports data from the learning environment, to provide evidence of the effects of a particular learning design. Learning design (LD) outlines the conceptual framework for a meaningful interpretation of Learning analytics data. Objectives The study aims to identify the most relevant concept...

Women with pelvic floor complaints experience restrictions and distress in their daily, social, and sexual functioning, and their intimate relationships. We interviewed forty-eight women to unravel differences between women receiving and not receiving pelvic physical therapy and between pregnant, parous, and nulliparous women in preparation for the...

Objectives: To identify and structure potential informal antidepressant strategies that can be used in daily practice for nursing home residents alongside formal treatments. Methods: In a first Group Concept Mapping study, residents, relatives, and professional caregivers (N = 124) brainstormed on strategies residents could use to prevent or all...

Introduction: Despite the fact that the literature reports various restrictions and types of distress in women with pelvic floor complaints, a comprehensive overview of women's sexual and psychological burden emerging from these complaints is lacking, which compromises our ability to assess and grasp the impact to women. Aim: This study was perf...

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Curriculum Guide defines learning objectives for patient safety. Current implementation in healthcare education is insufficient. Possible explanations may be obsolescence and/or a shift in needs. We investigated whether overarching topics and specific learning objectives of the WHO Pat...

Background Although formal treatments like antidepressants and psychotherapy may effectively reduce depression in nursing home residents, side effects and poor treatment adherence are common. To improve depression care, it is important to also learn from informal strategies already used successfully in daily practice, alongside or in absence of for...

Openness in education is not a consistent term or value since "open" is used to describe various things and often means different things to different individuals. In a research context, it is important to identify the many interpretation(s) and perspectives of openness being investigated, especially since the underlying ideas behind these different...

Poster gepresenteerd op de ORD 2021, Utrecht. Zuyd Hogeschool, OU, Heerlen.

Concept mapping facilitates the externalisation and internalisation of knowledge by individuals during collaborative knowledge construction. However, not much is known about the individual and collaborative learning processes during collaborative concept mapping (CCM) in interdisciplinary knowledge construction. Premised on literature on collaborat...

Background There exists a significant divide between what is learnt in medical school and subsequently what is required to practice medicine effectively. Despite multiple strategies to remedy this discordance, the problem persists. Here, we describe the identification of a comprehensive set of learning outcomes for a preparation for practice course...

Internationalisation has been a key theme in higher education (HE) for decades. Multiple initiatives across the world have contributed to creating offerings of high-quality online education, with collaborations across national borders. Two of the concepts that have proved to be influential are Virtual Mobility (VM) and Open Education (OE). Virtual...

Objective Research has consistently shown that medical students have greater rates of stress and mental-ill health in comparison with non-medical students. The objective of this study was to investigate the resilience strategies employed by medical students in an Irish medical school to inoculate themselves against the deleterious effects of stress...

In today’s and tomorrow’s world, people will be required to work longer. At the same time, their employment future will become increasingly insecure due to technological advances and obsolescence of acquired knowledge and skills. This means that something needs to happen in the education and training of our youth. Using a group concept mapping (GCM...

p> E‑Learning has become a common way to teach and learn. The number of technologies for a variety of educational purposes is already quite high and constantly rising. Scientific experiments and studies increasingly confirm the usefulness of various technologies for teaching purposes. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of formal training and suppo...

This is the full report of the first study in our HRB funded study on Clinical Learning Environments for Postgraduate Medical Education and Training. We report the consensus of a national (Irish) stakeholder group on the principal challenges to doctors' learning in clinical environments and the relative ease with which these might be addressed. The...

Background High quality clinical learning environments (CLE) are critical to postgraduate medical education (PGME). The understaffed and overcrowded environments in which many residents work present a significant challenge to learning. The purpose of this study was to develop a national expert group consensus amongst stakeholders in PGME to; (i) id...

Introduction: High quality clinical learning environments (CLE) are critical to the mission of graduate medical education (GME). This study aimed to use novel methodology to develop a national expert group consensus amongst stakeholders in GME, allowing us to; (i) identify important barriers and facilitators of learning in CLEs, and (ii) indicate p...

Research has argued that the way learning activities are sequenced over different social levels has an effect on learning effectiveness. This study investigates the effect of embedding an individual preparation phase prior to collaborative concept mapping (CCM) on the epistemic and social dimension of the CCM process. Using a quasi-experimental des...

The global attention for open online education (OOE) caused a situation in which higher education institutions (HEIs) reconsider the way they deliver education to the population. With a funding policy, the Dutch Government aims to stimulate OOE in HEIs. The goal is to create more expedient, accessible and personalized learning experiences, that con...

Symposium: De uitdagingen van open online onderwijs / MOOCs

In 2016 zijn bij de Iselinge Hogeschool projecten gestart binnen de Academische Werkplaats (Iselinge Hogeschool, 2016). In deze projecten werken basisschoolleerkrachten, lerarenopleiders, pabostudenten en onderzoekers samen aan praktijkproblemen, waarbij zij een ontwerpgerichte onderzoeksaanpak volgen (McKenney & Reeves, 2012). In deze bijdrage sta...

The paper explores different issues and trends in regard to MOOCs pedagogical and didactical approaches applying the Group Concept Mapping methodology (GCM). Group Concept Mapping is a participative research methodology that identifies in an objective way the shared vision of a group of experts on a particular issue (e.g. MOOC pedagogical and didac...

The report describes outcomes of the activities carried out for the project “New Learning Opportunities in a Networked World: Developing a Research Agenda on Innovative uses of ICTs for Learning and Teaching”. The research consists of three main activities, namely desk research, written expert consultation and group concept mapping study involving...

Group Concept Mapping (GCM) was used to explore common understandings among the expert group, to identify learning outcomes for handover training for medical students. GCM is a structured consensus building methodology with five phases: idea generation and pruning, sorting ideas into groups, rating on two values (importance and difficulty to achiev...

Patient handoff has been defined as " the transfer of professional responsibility and accountability for some or all aspects of care for a patient, or group of patients, to another person or professional group on a temporary or permanent basis. " 1 Improperly conducted handoffs can lead to wrong treatment, delays in medical diagnosis, life-threaten...

The HANDSON MOOC is a continuous professional development course for educators of all sectors. Based on the First Principles of Instruction and the Learning Design approach, the course premises are that teachers are designers and the key drivers to promote innovation via the inclusion of ICT in education. Key figures from the last edition of the HA...

This article proposes a framework of quality indicators for learning analytics that aims to standardise the evaluation of learning analytics tools and to provide a mean to capture evidence for the impact of learning analytics on educational practices in a standardised manner. The criteria of the framework and its quality indicators are based on the...

This paper presents a study describing the development of an Evaluation Framework (EF) for data competitions in TEL. The study applies the Group Concept Method (GCM) to empirically depict criteria and their indicators for evaluating software applications in TEL. A statistical analysis including multidimensional scaling and hierarchical clustering o...

Purpose: To develop, by consultation with an expert group, agreed learning outcomes for the teaching of handoff to medical students using group concept mapping. Method: In 2013, the authors used group concept mapping, a structured mixed-methods approach, applying both quantitative and qualitative measures to identify an expert group's common und...

Innovation networks and learning networks share the same cooperative intention, but they too often fail as members of the network do not know which partnerships are valuable. If one plans to build a support service that provides insight into the value of future cooperation, one first needs to know what contributes to effective and efficient coopera...

As part of the Handson ICTi project we need to design a teacher-training MOOC course on applying Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with support of creativity techniques. The course should utilize learning-by-doing learning approach and run within a MOODLE LMS. This paper, applying design-based research methodology, describes our expe...

The article reports the findings of a Group Concept Mapping study that was conducted within the framework of the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI) in the Netherlands. Learning Analytics are expected to be beneficial for students and teacher empowerment, personalization, research on learning design, and feedback for performance. The study d...

Healthcare worldwide needs translation of basic ideas from engineering into the clinic. Consequently, there is increasing demand for graduates equipped with the knowledge and skills to apply interdisciplinary medicine/engineering approaches to the development of novel solutions for healthcare. The literature provides little guidance regarding barri...

Learning outcomes are typically developed using standard group-based consensus methods. Two main constraints with standard techniques such as the Delphi method or expert working group processes are: (1) the ability to generate a comprehensive set of outcomes and (2) the capacity to reach agreement on them. We describe the first application of Group...

This study presents an expert view on musical improvisational expertise. A group concept mapping procedure was used to identify key characteristics of such expertise among a group of 26 renowned musical experts. Multivariate analyses, including 2-dimensional multidimensional scaling (MDS) of unstructured sort data, hierarchical cluster analysis of...

Following earlier studies aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of digital competence through a review of literature and current digital competence frameworks, this paper focuses on experts’ views on digital competence. It describes the results of a Delphi study investigating experts’ ideas on what it means to be digitally competent today. The st...

Safe and effective patient handovers remain a global organisational and training challenge. Limited evidence supports available handover training programmes. Customisable training is a promising approach to improve the quality and sustainability of handover training and outcomes. We present a Handover Toolbox designed in the context of the European...

Background: The literature reveals a patchwork of knowledge about the effectiveness of handover and transfer of care-training interventions, their influence on handover practices and on patient outcomes. We identified a range of training interventions, defined their content, and then proposed practical measures for improving the training effective...

This paper presents an ongoing research towards the use of Language Technologies to provide lifelong learners with formative feedback. To this end, the paper briefly elaborates the theoretical background of conceptual development and existing Language Technology applications that can be used to identify and approximate learner’s conceptual developm...

Professional Development is ill served by traditional ways of learning. It can profit from a Learning Networks approach, which emphasizes logistic, content and didactic flexibility. Learning Networks are online, social networks that have been de-signed and tooled to foster informal learning. Three European projects are discussed – idSpace, LTfLL, H...

Rusman, E., & Stoyanov, S. (2011, 18 May). Online Assessment of Oral Proficiency for Intercultural Professional Communication. Presentation about the CEFcult project (www.cefcult.eu) at the workshop ‘Crossing borders’ organised by the Talenacademie, Heerlen, The Netherlands: Open University in the Netherlands.

Visions of the future of education: changing of skills, important for future life, changing roles of teachers and of educational institutes, changing functions of ict infrastructure.

This report aims to identify, understand and visualise major changes to learning in the future. It developed a descriptive vision of the future, based on existing trends and drivers, and a normative vision outlining how future learning opportunities should be developed to contribute to social cohesion, socio-economic inclusion and economic growth....

Training contributes to improving handover practices. Deliverable 9 describes the design of a Handover toolbox to support trainers and others involved in improving handover practices. The deliverable describes the design of the blueprint, the development into a first and second prototype and the final toolbox version. The development process used a...

Formative feedback enables comparison to be made between a learner’s current understanding and a desired learning goal. Obtaining this information is a time consuming task that most tutors cannot afford. We therefore wished to develop a support software tool, which provides tutors and learners with information that identifies a learner’s progress,...

This paper describes the needs analysis of tool for connecting people in a Learning Network using Group Concept Mapping method. We conducted an empirical study to identify the most relevant features of such a tool. There were 11 experts from 7 different countries with technical and non-technical background who participated in the study. Each of the...

Rusman, E., Rajagopal, K., Stoyanov, S., & Van Maele, J. (2011, 20 October). Exploration of Exploitation Approaches of European Projects on ICT and Foreign Language Learning: the CEFcult project case. Presentation at the 4th International Conference ICT for Language Learning, Florence, Italy.

Drachsler, H., Kicken, W., Van der Klink, M., Stoyanov, S., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (2011). A Training Toolbox for Assessing and Improving Patient Handovers. Poster presentation at the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. April, 5-8, 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Drachsler, H., Kicken, W., Van der Klink, M., Stoyanov, S., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (2011, 21 March). The Handover project: Improving the continuity of patient care through identification and implementation of novel patient handoff processes in Europe. Presentation at Learning Networks meeting, Heerlen, The Netherlands.

Van der Klink, M., Drachsler, H., Kicken, W., Stoyanov, S., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (2011, September). The Handover toolbox - Final expert meeting. Final project expert and stakeholder meeting, Florence, Italy.

In hoofdstuk 1 en 2 zijn de belangrijkste kenmerken van een leernetwerk, zoals het hebben van gemeenschappelijke leerdoelen, en de voordelen van heterogeniteit van deelnemers beschreven. In hoofdstuk 2 is beschreven dat een leernetwerk een krachtige en efficiënte manier kan zijn om te leren, maar dat het leren in een leernetwerk niet vanzelf gaat....

This report synthesizes the findings of a series of four online consultations which were conducted as part of the study “The Future of Learning: New Ways to Learn New Skills for Future Jobs”. The findings suggest that, while the existing physical and formal structures of education and training will remain intact, schools and universities will chang...

As part of a subordinated small‐scale study on location‐based and contextual mobile learning, the present study was conducted in cooperation with the Learning Sciences Research Institute (University of Nottingham) within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence. STELLAR is a 7th Framework Programme project funded by the European Commissio...

The paper proposes a conceptual model for designing a people-finding system in a Learning Network. The system is intended to help a learner in getting recommendation about suitable people who are interested on a similar topic and share common learning goal with the current learner. We propose that by using the user-generated (text) content, social-...

IPLECS is a virtual campus platform for the development of performance-centered reusable learning materials, and its application in mLearning for educational and training purposes. The combination of performance support systems and mobile devices present both opportunities and challenges for work-based learning design.

Van der Klink, M., Kicken, W., Drachsler, H., Stoyanov, S., & Boshuizen, H. P. A. (2010, 13-15 October). The HandOver Toolbox. Presentation given at Handover expert meeting, Brussels, Belgium.

Drachsler, H., Boshuizen, H. P. A., Kicken, W., Stoyanov, S., & Van der Klink, M. (2010, 28 June). The HandOver toolbox. Presentation given at Handover project meeting at Patient Safety Center of the University Medical Center (UMC), Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Kicken, W., & Stoyanov, S. (2010, September). Effects of a Mobile Performance Support System on Students’ Learning Outcomes. Paper presented at the EARLI SIG 7 meeting (Learning and Instruction with computers), Ulm, Germany.

Learning networks are favourable model for supporting self-directed learning for lifelong learners. Learners can decide about their learning plans to learn at their own pace irrespective of place and time. However, such learners remain hidden from others in the learning network, which makes their learning detrimental and less effective. Bringing le...

The reported study compares three adaptive learning style scenarios, namely: matching, compensating and monitoring. The matching and compensating scenarios operate in a design-time mode, while monitoring applies in a run-time adaptation mode. In addition, the study investigates the role of pre-assessment and embedded adaptation controls. In order t...

Formative feedback can provide information about how learners develop their competences in a knowledge domain. This information can determine learners' progress and is essential in suggesting remedial actions which overcome gaps in knowledge. Finding this information, however, is a time consuming task. This paper elaborates the theoretical backgrou...

Kalz, M., Berlanga, A., Van Rosmalen, P., Stoyanov, S., Van Bruggen, J., & Koper, R. (2009). Semantic Networks as Means for Goal Directed Formative Feedback. In V. Hornung-Prähauser & M. Luckmann (Eds.), Kreativität und Innovationskompetenz im digitalen Netz - Creativity and Innovation Competencies in the Web, Sammlung von ausgewählten Fach- und Pr...

The paper defines and empirically validates the concept of performance support system in higher engineering education. The validation of the concept is based upon two studies: a pilot and an experiment, on the effect of performance support system on achievements and attitudes of students. The experimental study confirmed the expectation that the pe...

The study compares the effectiveness of two performance support systems, adaptive and non-adaptive, on learning achievements of engineering students. The research design, in addition, controls for a possible effect of learning style. The analysis reveals that students working with an adaptive performance support system score significantly higher th...

The main theoretical position of this paper is that it is the explicit problem-solving support in concept mapping software that produces a stronger effect in problem-solving performance than the implicit support afforded by the graphical functionality of concept mapping software. Explicit problem-solving support activates cognitive functions such a...

Both learners and teachers find themselves in a learning landscape that is rapidly changing, along with fast societal and technological developments. This paper discusses the new learning landscape from an instructional design perspective. First, with regard to what is learned, people more than ever need flexible problem-solving and reasoning skill...

This study investigated the effect of two problem-solving techniques: (a) free-association with a direct reference to the problem, called shortly direct, and (b) free-association with a remote and postponed reference to the problem, called remote, on fluency and originality of ideas in solving ill-structured problems. The research design controlled...

The paper defines and empirically validates the concept of performance support system in higher engineering education. The validation of the concept is based upon an experimental study investigating the effect of performance support system on achievements and attitudes of students. The study confirmed the expectation that the performance support sy...

Concept mapping is one of the most intimate and most dynamic learning support activities that needs still a drastic further evolution of methods and tools. WWW-based concept mapping gains momentum quite fast now and needs a solid reviewing of the various approaches and the empirical effects. This article bridges the technological advance of WWW-bas...

The 'paradox of knowledge structure' states that knowledge structure both enables and restricts successful problem solving in ill-structured problem situations. Knowledge structures are indispensable for ill-structured problem solving, but they also could be detrimental. Knowledge structures allow to look at the information in a meaningful way, but...

Many Western countries are investing heavily in simulating better and more creative use of information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education. Most of the cluster deals with people-issue such as participation, information and communication, and stake holders involvement. Simulation technique of the failure and success factor consist...

The article presents empirical evidence for the effectiveness and efficiency of a modified version of Trochim's (1989a, b) concept mapping approach to define the characteristics of an adaptive learning environment. The effectiveness and the efficiency of the method are attributed to the support that it provides in terms of elicitation, sharing, ref...

This paper presents experimental design and some results from the pilot test of a project aimed at implementation of innovative approaches for task-performance independent eLearning and development of new instruments in instructional design of Internet-based courses for engineering education-Internet-based Performance Support Systems with Education...

HRD is exposed as a vital discipline not only for the embedding of employees in a labour organisation; the main thesis of this article is that new information technology is needed to optimise employee's assets in order to make them sensitive to and productive in the central entrepreneurial goals. The adopted theoretical framework here is Simon's th...

The paper presents some experimentally validated design solutions on the groupware module `Partner' of SMILE Maker for mobile and personal support facilities. Three types of scenarios for collaborative problem solving have been tested. Pin-cards, Delphi and BrainMapping modes proved to have a differential effect on learning and collaborative proble...

This paper provides results from research work done in respect to the application of agent technology within educational settings. It focuses on problem solving, information handling issues and idea generation. It is based on two research system examples: Solution, Mapping, Intelligent, Learning, Environment (SMILE) Creator and Agent based Informat...

This paper intends to explore the more fundamental theoretical notions underlying the design and configuration of educational multimedia systems. Though it starts its initial inventory with the more traditional theories, it also looks at the more alternative approaches based upon constructivism, adult learning and theories related to creativity and...

Concept mapping aims at visually expressing conceptual knowledge. Presumably, the use and success of concept mapping tools depend partly on the cognitive style of the user and, in case of collaborative design, on the dominant cognitive style within the group. In this chapter, we provide an overview of our research agenda and workshop templates aime...

Abstract Both learners and teachers find themselves in a learning landscape that is rapidly changing, along with fast societal and technological developments. This paper discusses the new learning landscape from an instructionaldesign perspective. First, with regard to what is learned, people more than ever need flexible problem-solving and reasoni...

Presentations made at OTEC, as a part of the ThinkLab held in September 12th, 2006

Presentation given at a LTfLL validation session (formative feedback) with OUNL tutors.

Sloep, P. B., Berlanga, A. J., Greller, W., Stoyanov, S., Retalis, S., Van der Klink, M. et al. (2011). Educational Innovation with Learning Networks: some pertinent tools and developments. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, Quality of Teaching and Reforming Education: Learning Technologies, Quality...