Valere Awouters

UC Leuven-Limburg · [ed+ict]

Este artículo presenta una revisión del desarrollo de “Green Acres High” [la colina de los verdes acres], una intervención primaria de verdad utilizando un juego con la finalidad de despertar la conciencia adolescente acerca de la violencia en las relaciones sentimentales y cambiar sus actitudes, así como un análisis de la descripción de los adoles...

A focus group methodology was used to examine attitudes toward dating violence among 86 adolescents (aged 12-17) from four northern European countries (England, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium). Four superordinate themes were identified from thematic analyses: gender identities, television as the educator, perceived acceptability of dating violence, a...

Video games are considered to be promising tools with a considerable learning potential. They are supposed to motivate students, promote discovery-based learning and empower students to deal with ill-structured problems. Since future generations will be “digital natives”, they will likely benefit the most from the learning potential of educational...

Teaching and learning with ICT requires specific competencies for teachers and lectures. Too much attention was given to the technological aspects. Teachers learned to work with hard- and software. A typical example is the European Computer Driving License (ECDL). A lot of people attend courses on text processing, spreadsheets,… but using a Virtual...

Het internet wordt door grote maatschappelijke geledingen in de meest uiteenlopende toepassingen gebruikt. Online bankieren, aankopen, reizen boeken en belastingaangiftes invullen zijn nog maar enkele voorbeelden. Ook in het onderwijs zijn elektronische leeromgevingen, zoals Blackboard, Dokeos, Moodle, Smartschool , … alom tegenwoordig. Daar waar g...

Wireless Web Kids (WW-kids) is an approved project with financial support of the Flemish government, Economics Department. The project started in December 2007 and runs till December 2010. Main purpose is to motivate children for studying sciences and technology. In Belgium there is a lack of students studying engineering, physics, chemistry, biolo...

The student is changing at universities and university colleges. Also adult-learners find their way to the universities. Formations for adult-learners have to be more efficient. The biggest cost for formations for adult learners is their absence at the workfloor. Question is how to open knowledge in a traditional university (college), taking into a...

Teachers have to work with e-portfolio with theirstudents. This is a very demanding task because they neverwere educated with e-portfolio themselves. Therefore aEuropean Comenius project was submitted in 2005. In thisapproved project a whole week formation (april 2007) wasoffered to nineteen teachers from all over Europe. A yearlater they will meet...

The use of the digital portfolio as an instrument for life-long learning is generally accepted also in regular higher education. The use of a Personal and Professional Development Plan (PPDP) increases the quality of e-portfolios significantly. However since 2006 the internet was personalized by the increased use of collaborative writing tools as w...

Society and education are changing. Lifelong learning becomes a reality. Students at universities are no longer only young people between 18 and 22 years. Also adults combining work and study are finding their way to the university. That diversity and mix of students asks for a new teaching strategy. At the same time, ICT in general and Virtual Lea...