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Tracking Students’ Mental Engagement Using EEG Signals during an Interaction with a Virtual Learning Environment

Monitoring students’ level of engagement during learning activities is an important challenge in the development of tutoring interventions. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using electroencephalographic signals (EEG) as a tool to monitor the mental engagement index of novice medicine students during a reasoning process. More precisely, the objectives were first, to track […]

Using Personal Mobile Devices to increase flexibility and equity in learning in resource constrained contexts.

This paper examines how in a resource constrained context, access to personal mobile devices for first year university students increases their flexibility of learning and creates a environment of greater inclusivity at University. In 2016, at the start of their first year 201 students in an extended degree program in the Humanities at the University […]

The Pursuit of Patterns in Educational Data Mining as a Threat to Student Privacy

Recent technological advances have led to tremendous capacities for collecting, storing and analyzing data being created at an ever-increasing speed from diverse sources. Academic institutions which offer open and distance learning programs, such as the Hellenic Open University, can benefit from big data relating to its students’ information and communication systems and the use of […]

Manu Tukutuku, ma te huruhuru ka rere te manu – empowering learners to soar. Phase One; Opening the doorway for Māori to succeed in a digital community where cultural capacity and knowledge is valued and respected

This paper discusses Māori student achievement and how the first step to enable this is engaging the whānau and the student in situations where their mana and tuakiri remains intact. The paper identifies steps for culturally critical and sustaining practice when engaging whānau and students. It highlights some positive examples as well as reflecting on […]

Blending Crowdvoting in Modern e-Learning Environments

Given that the most students spend considerable time on social networks, many educational institutions use this habit as a basis for educational purposes. Increasing students’ active participation in learning activities is one of the main goals of education. The purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent crowdvoting techniques can increase students’ participation […]

An investigation into the attraction and completion rates of MOOCs

Many studies are dedicated to MOOCs, however there was no clear answer to what makes a particular MOOC popular. This study was an attempt to answer this question. Data about MOOC distribution was collected for this research, including category data, university types and MOOC platforms, data regarding MOOC popularity in different time periods, and regarding […]

Alternative Embodied Cognitions at Play Evaluation of Audio-Based Navigation in Virtual Settings Via Interactive Sounds

The current study addresses the concept of mediated embodied cognition (EC) by focusing on audio inputs/outputs rather than sight and visual cues. N=10 subjects were involved with the navigation of five virtual mazes with different design and sensorial affordances. A virtual audiocane was developed (within a middleware – NEED – aimed to improve learning environments’ […]

Does collaborative use of the Internet affect Reading Comprehension in Children?

This paper examines the effect of the Internet on the reading comprehension of children reading together in groups. First, we describe an experiment to determine if children reading together off the Internet from big screens, can read at a higher comprehension level than children reading the same text alone. The results from this small-sample study […]

(Re)Tracing the Everyday ‘Sitings’: A Conceptual Review of Internet Research 15 Years Later

In 2003, Kevin Leander and Kelly McKim made the argument for connecting scholarship on physical spaces with that of online spaces. They named this fusion of scholarly areas connective ethnography, termed by Christine Hine (2000, as cited in Leander & McKim, 2003). At that time, they asked: “How might we develop research practices and frameworks […]

Impact of a Portfolio Program on Self-Assessment Skills Involving General Longitudinal Outcomes

Self-assessment is important in student and professional development. This study evaluated the impact of a structured electronic portfolio program that provided primarily global feedback on pharmacy students’ self-assessment skills related to five general outcomes over a two-year period. The self-assessed outcomes, common to many academic programs, were communication/cultural competence, critical thinking/problem solving, evidence-based practice, professionalism/leadership, […]

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