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Torsten Reiners
University of Hamburg
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Torsten Reiners
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Connecting Worlds
Torsten Reiners
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 2207–2208
The poster is about the idea to visualize tags being associated with connecting the four worlds Virtuality, Edutainment, Reality, and Practice. The tags are visualized by a tag cloud, whereas the association of size, order and color is based on...
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University of Hamburg in Second Life: Résumé after 4 Years
Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 549–551
The poster is about the University of Hamburg being in Second Life for the last four years establishing several projects. It summarizes the achievements and closes a chapter in an ongoing story. But new roadmaps have to consider the past and the...
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Building a Container Terminal and Bottling Plant in Second Life
Torsten Reiners
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) p. 1197
Second Life is used by many American universities to improve the (virtual) learning. Besides having virtual counterparts of their campus – being either an exact reproduction or an imaginary design – they use the technology to implement various...
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Supporting the Authoring Process of Hierarchical Structured Learning Material
Dirk Reiss; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 917–924
The quality of virtual learning environments is mainly depending on the quality of the presented learning material. This encompasses the scientific quality of the content as well as the surplus the learner experiences when using the virtual learning ...
Topics: Learning Objects, Virtual Environments
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Requirements for Effective Professional IT-Training: A Case Study
Torsten Reiners; Vitali Fuchs
Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 891–900
In companies, it is common practice to provide continues education and skill enhancement. Unfortunately, this is often done without comprehensive pre-evaluations of requirements for coming tasks and suitability for the participant. Moreover,...
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Culturally-based Adaptive Learning and Concept Analytics to Guide Educational Website Content Integration
Torsten Reiners; Heinz Dreher
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2009) pp. 125–139
In modern learning environments, the lecturer or educational designer is often confronted with multi-national student cohorts, requiring special consideration regarding language, cultural norms and taboos, religion, and ethics. Through a somewhat...
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How to Improve Visualization of Information within Web-Sites?
Oliver Quast; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 4459–4465
The complexity in terms of visualizing added information in web-sites is influencing the reading quality for the learner and, thereby, affects the whole learning process. In the contribution, we are showing examples how the visualization and storage ...
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Tools to Present Structured Learning Material and to Manage Large Classes
Oliver Quast; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 995–998
The amount and complexity of learning material is increasing every year, so that learners ask for (innovative) tools to support the learning process with respect of handling the material and increasing the overall experience; i.e. navigation and...
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Culturally-based Adaptive Learning and Concept Analytics to Guide Educational Website Content Integration
Torsten Reiners; Heinz Dreher
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 8 (2009) pp. 125–139
In modern learning environments, the lecturer or educational designer is often confronted with multi-national student cohorts, requiring special consideration regarding language, cultural norms and taboos, religion, and ethics. Through a somewhat...
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Manifestations of hard and soft technologies in immersive spaces
Jon Dron; Torsten Reiners; Sue Gregory
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1895–1904
Immersive spaces are innately flexible. However, for learners, some constraints and scaffolding may often be valuable. This paper looks at immersive spaces as soft and hard technologies. Soft technologies are technologies enabling creative and...
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Classrooms of the Future, Incorporating Virtual Worlds: A Round Table to Explore New Ways of Teaching
Torsten Reiners; Carl Dreher; Heinz Dreher
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 2272–2274
Virtual worlds are an emerging technology with rich social, commercial, and pedagogical applications. They are particularly popular with youth and young adults. This presents today’s educators with the challenge of keeping pace with the learners of...
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Virtual Environment for Immersive Learning of Container Logistics
Amöne Burmester; Frank Burmester; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5843–5852
Second Life is used by many American universities to improve the (virtual) learning. Besides having virtual counterparts of their campus – being either an exact reproduction or an imaginary design – they use the technology to implement various...
Topics: Educational Technology, Internet, Networking Technologies, Students, Virtual Environments
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Google Wave: Unnecessary Hype or Promising Tool for Teachers
Torsten Reiners; Karyn Holt; Dirk Reiß
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 4061–4070
There is not one day without a new interesting service popping up on the Web 2.0 sphere, which could not be integrated into the virtual classroom. Obviously, some applications will get more attention than others because of branding, and Google is no ...
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Six Key Topics for Automated Assessment Utilisation and Acceptance
Torsten Reiners; Carl Dreher; Heinz Dreher
Informatics in Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (2011) pp. 47–64
Automated assessment technologies have been used in education for decades (e.g., computerised multiple choice tests). In contrast, Automated Essay Grading (AEG) technologies: have existed for decades; are "good in theory" (e.g., as...
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Investigating Factors Affecting the Uptake of Automated Assessment Technology
Carl Dreher; Torsten Reiners; Heinz Dreher
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2011) pp. 161–181
Automated assessment is an emerging innovation in educational praxis, however its pedagogical potential is not fully utilised in Australia, particularly regarding automated essay grading. The rationale for this research is that the usage of...
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Simulation of Workplace Harassment in 3D Worlds
Jette Sponholz; Eike Born; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2010 (Jun 29, 2010) pp. 3862–3865
Role play with avatars is a rather common application for virtual worlds. Using avatars allows an immersive experience for the user and a better identification with the anticipated role; i.e. in comparison to reality where acting in front of the...
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Effects of Social Network Profiles on (E-)Recruitment: An International Study
Torsten Reiners; Baktas Dost; Nuno Monteiro
Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 263–267
The exponential growth of Social Networks offers us manifold opportunities by being part of a large network. We are able to have immediate updates of (international) events and share information. The advantage is paired with risks about potential...
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Design and Integration of an Automated Assessment Laboratory: Experiences and Guide
Heinz Dreher; Naomi Dreher; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2858–2863
The aim of the Automated Assessment Laboratory (AAL) being established at the Curtin Business School (CBS) is to provide lecturers with the opportunity to have essays automatically assessed using MarkIT. This automated essay grading tool is most...
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Ontology-based Retrieval, Authoring, and Networking
Torsten Reiners; Imke Sassen; Dirk Reiß
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 2349–2354
As a result of the e-learning hype over the last years, academic and private institutions invested man power, time, and money to change the way of education by re-designing learning material and the organization of lectures. We claim that the...
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How to Teach and Demonstrate Topics of Supply Chain Management in Virtual Worlds
Sascha Wriedt; Malte Ebeling; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 5501–5508
Over the last years, virtual worlds were in the focus of many universities as the platform for e-learning in the (near) future. Even though the most popular worlds already contain many university representations, most of the e-learning scenarios do...
Topics: Integration
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Investigating Factors Affecting the Uptake of Automated Assessment Technology
Carl Dreher; Torsten Reiners; Heinz Dreher
Journal of Information Technology Education: Research Vol. 10 (2011) pp. 161–181
Automated assessment is an emerging innovation in educational praxis, however its pedagogical potential is not fully utilised in Australia, particularly regarding automated essay grading. The rationale for this research is that the usage of...
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Giving virtual world learning a pedagogical boost with a gamified authentic learning design
Hanna Teräs; Marko Teräs; Torsten Reiners
EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1688–1693
Gamification is one of today’s hot topics in education. However, the concept is new and sometimes gets mixed up with others, such as virtual worlds or game-based learning. Understanding of what gamification actually is and what the educational...
Topics: pedagogical issues, Implementation Experiences, Design Principles
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Action-based Learning Assessment Method (ALAM) in Virtual Training Environments
Ali Fardinpour; Torsten Reiners; Heina Dreher
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 267–277
Specialised and high priced simulators for surgical training, chemical labs, and flight training can provide real-world simulation in a safe and risk-free environment, but they are not accessible for the broader community due to costs for technology ...
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Connecting Students by Integrating the 3D Virtual and Real Worlds:We Need 3D Open Source Spaces to Keep Socialization, Communication and Collaboration alive
Torsten Reiners; Carl Dreher; Simon Büttner; Marius Naumann; Lone Visser
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 3125–3126
Picture a world where imagination is the only limit; a world that stimulates students to learn, communicate, play and grow. The emergence of 3D virtual worlds has made this a virtual reality. Until recently this virtual experience has been separated ...
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Synchronized Blended Learning in Virtual Learning Environments
Christine Frank; Torsten Reiners; Imke Sassen; Leena Suhl; Stefan Voß
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2005 (October 2005) pp. 1296–1308
The main focus of this paper is to show state of the art technologies and existing components of didactical concepts which can be composed in certain ways to enable collaborative learning via the web. We introduce pedagogical paradigms, upon which...
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Australis 4 Learning: Benefits and Outcomes of a Second Life Simulation for the Automated Assessment Laboratory
Torsten Reiners; Heinz Dreher; Naomi Dreher; Carl Dreher; Christian Kulenkampff
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 2463–2466
The aim of the Automated Assessment Laboratory (AAL) being established at the School of Information Systems (Curtin Business School) is to provide lecturers with the opportunity to have essays automatically assessed using MarkIT. So far, the process ...
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Virtual Worlds as a Context Suited for Information Systems Education: Discussion of Pedagogical Experience and Curriculum Design with Reference to Second Life
Carl Dreher; Torsten Reiners; Naomi Dreher; Heinz Dreher
Journal of Information Systems Education Vol. 20, No. 2 (2009) pp. 211–224
The context of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is changing dramatically. Today, Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook and MySpace are used ubiquitously in the general population, and Virtual Worlds are becoming increasingly popular in...
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Instructional Design and Implementation of Interactive
Imke Sassen; Björn Paschilk; Stefan Voß; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1918–1921
The usage of interactive learning methods can improve higher education by building modelling and problem solving skills. In this paper we focus on our experience in developing and implementing complex learning tools for teaching and learning in the...
Topics: Instructional Design, Teaching Methods
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3D Spaces in Software Engineering: From K-12 to Life Long Learning
Heinz Dreher; Torsten Reiners; Carl Dreher; Naomi Dreher
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2009 (Jun 22, 2009) pp. 4103–4112
Despite continuing debate regarding the utility of virtual worlds, their use has continued to pervade the worldwide marketplace. An important consideration is that the current K-12 student cohort comprises digital natives who are clearly the major...
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nDiVE: The Story of How Logistics and Supply Chain Management Could be Taught
Torsten Reiners; Lincoln Wood; Sue Gregory; Natasha Petter; Hanna Teras; Vanessa Chang; Christian Gutl; Jan Herrington
ASCILITE - Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Annual Conference 2013 (2013) pp. 734–744
Abstract: One major element of supply chain management education is helping learners to grasp the complexity, the challenges, and the efficient management of the multiple dimensions in supply chains. Each decision made can ‘ripple’ through supply...
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Enhancing the Class Curriculum with Virtual World Use Cases for Production and Logistics
Annekatrin Erlenkötter; Claas-Michael Kühnle; Huey-Ru Miu; Franziska Sommer; Torsten Reiners
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 789–798
In this contribution, we describe the usage of virtual worlds to spice up classes in the field of productions and logistics at the University of Hamburg. In general, the lectures are presented using slides and some (inter)active media like movies,...
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Campus Hamburg and Students@Work present Immersive E-Learning in Second Life
Torsten Reiners; Amöne Burmester; Frank Burmester; Malte Ebeling; Hanno Tietgens; Sascha Wriedt; Kirsten Isken
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 933–935
Second Life is used by many American universities to improve the (virtual) learning. Besides having virtual counterparts of their campus – being either an exact reproduction or an imaginary design – they use the technology to implement various...
Topics: Students, Educational Technology