How a Virtual Campus for Digital Students (ViCaDiS) should be?

Diana Andone; Radu Vasiu

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 827–832

The main purpose of the Virtual Campus for Digital Students - ViCaDiS Project (2007 – 2009) is to assist international cooperation in learning by using social media and open source applications. ViCaDiS facilitates a shift from Institutional...

Digital Students and Social Software

Diana Andone; Jon Dron

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1718–1724

Recent years have seen a new generation of 'digital students' emerging in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. Digital students use...

Topics: Social Studies, Students

Creating Virtual Reality Artefacts to Enhance and Transform Digital Learning

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1543–1552

Virtual reality provides users with an immersive environment in which to experience new or imaginary worlds. This paper shares research results of the TalkTech project, an ongoing investigation of how students learn about and with new technologies...

Topics: Mobile teaching and learning technologies, Virtual reality learning environments, Global learning communities

Becoming Creative Creators: Simulating a Global Workplace using Computational Thinking Practices

Diana Andone; Mark Frydenberg

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 564–571

Since the early days of computer technology expectations for technology-enhanced learning have been high. However, this improved the design, the methodology and the delivery of learning but also has produced methods for modelling active and...

Topics: cooperative/collaborative learning, interactive learning environments, Virtual Universities

Social Media, Online Collaboration, and Mobile Devices: Tools for Demonstrating Digital Literacy

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 6–15

The authors' previous work in studying of how digital students use technology for collaboration as members of international teams is updated with the strong use of social media. The authors describe a project pairing students from their two...

Topics: Collaboration, cooperative/collaborative learning, Literacy, Exemplary Projects, Groupware & WWW-based Tools

Are Digital Students Learning the Same on Both Sides of the Ocean?

Diana Andone; Mark Frydenberg

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 819–826

Digital students use online tools as part of their day to day experience. This paper describes the implementation and results of a cross-cultural pairing between college students in the United States and Romania who worked together over the period...

Enhancing and Transforming Global Learning Communities with Augmented Reality

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

Journal of Information Systems Education Vol. 29, No. 1 (2018) pp. 37–44

Augmented and virtual reality applications bring new insights to real world objects and scenarios. This paper shares research results of the TalkTech project, an ongoing study investigating the impact of learning about new technologies as members of ...

Creating Micro-Videos to Demonstrate Technology Learning and Digital Literacy

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 13, No. 4 (2016) pp. 261–273

Purpose: Short videos, also known as micro-videos, have emerged as a platform for sharing ideas, experiences and life events via online social networks. This paper aims to share preliminary results of a study, involving students from two...

The Usability of DIMPLE – Digital Internet and Mobile Phone e-learning Environment

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Lyn Pemberton

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 245–251

Recent years have seen a new generation of ‘digital students’ emerging in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies integrated as an everyday feature of their lives. Digital students use...

The experiences of e-Learning in Romania

Radu Vasiu; Diana Andone; Nicolae Robu

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 1329–1330

The recent changes in Central and Eastern Europe countries, especially in economical and technological areas, supported by recent research, lead to defining new perspectives of eLearning development in Romania and the role of the traditional...

Using MOOCs within traditional courses: students’ perspective

Diana Andone; Vlad Mihaescu; Radu Vasiu

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2015 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 256–262

This paper presents the findings of a pilot to implement a blended learning model by merging content from MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) into a traditional higher education Masters Course. The main objective of the pilot was to examine how a...

Topics: Evaluation, Behavior, Implementation Examples & Issues, Tools & Systems, Students

Digital Students Across Europe

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Chris Boyne; Lyn Pemberton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 1741–1748

This paper presents the results of a study performed in four European universities designed to identify the unique features of 'digital students', as a move towards building a customized model of an eLearning environment. What does it mean to be a...

Topics: eLearning, Students

E-Learning Environments for Digitally-Minded Students

Diana Andone; Jon Dron; Lyn Pemberton; Chris Boyne

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2007) pp. 41–53

While most existing online learning environments cater for needs identified during the 1990s, a new generation of digital students has emerged in the developed world. Digital students are young adults who have grown up with digital technologies...

Topics: Computers, Communication, eLearning, Information Communication Technologies, Networking Technologies

Interactions in CSID Online Learning Environment

Radu Vasiu; Diana Andone; Nicolae Robu; Iasmina Ermalai

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 3734–3739

The CSID Online Learning Environment have been enhanced with some ICT developments at the border of blended, mobile and online learning. These new developments bring the environment into the e-learning 2.0 era: podcasting, mobile implementations and ...

Integration of eLearning in Romanian Technical Universities

Radu Vasiu; Nicolae Robu; Diana Andone; Marian Bucos; Mihai Onita

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 121–126

The higher education system in Romania has seen a series of transformations which reflect European tendencies but also the growth of the Romanian economy. These changes affect also Distance Education, a growing method for delivering several...

Topics: Distance Education, Change, eLearning