Edutech Wiki - an all-in-one solution to support whole scholarship?

Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2128–2133

One of the greatest challenges to educational technologists is to apply our research to ourselves, e.g. use technology to enhance our own intellectual development, as well as the way we teach and interact with others. There are many explanations why ...

Topics: Educational Technology

Conceptual Change through Computer-Supported Argumentative Writing

Kalliopi Benetos; Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 1289–1298

This paper will present work done and currently being further explored in the development of computer-supported tools, pedagogical methods and instructional designs to scaffold and enable conceptual change through written argumentation. The results...

Mediating the Mechanisms Which Make Collaborative Learning Sometimes Effective

Pierre Dillenbourg; Daniel Schneider

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 1, No. 2 (1995) pp. 131–146

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) renewed the interest for collaborative learning. Empirical findings show that collaborative learning is efficient, but only under some conditions. These conditions are not guaranteed by the use of CMC tools. It...

Topics: Computers, Collaboration

Opportunities and requirements for socio-constructivist learning in Web 2.0

Christian Depover; Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1861–1869

This contribution focuses on emerging practices in the educational use of ICT and in particular of the so-called Web 2.0. After reviewing the main features of Web 2.0 and its educational uses, we will try to analyze in what respect Web 2.0 offers...

EVA_pm: Towards Project-Based e-Learning

Daniel Schneider; Paraskevi Synteta

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2755–2756

EVA_pm, is a method and at the same time a constructivist web-based environment that has as it's main goal to scaffold Project-Based e-Learning in higher education. More precise, it focuses on improving the effectiveness of pedagogical models that...

Topics: Research Methods

Exploring the use of a non-linear learning module with interactive video

Aviva Sugar Chmiel; Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1239–1247

Abstract: Using a design-based research approach, a learning module with interactive video introducing learners to the specific structure and particularities of the sexology interview has been developed in three iterative cycles. Text captions...

Design issues for technology-enhanced formal professional development

Barbara Class; Daniel K. Schneider

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 25, No. 2 (April 2014) pp. 161–186

** Invited as a paper from ED-MEDIA 2011 ** This research concerns the design, implementation and evaluation of a blended training course for interpreter trainers. Some of the complex issues pertaining to professional development in a rich web...

A community portal for professional development

Barbara Class Abboud; Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2163–2172

This research concerns the design, implementation and evaluation of a blended training course for interpreter trainers. Findings confirmed a socio-constructivist design within which learners developed the expected skills and knowledge specified in...

Introducing Blended Learning into a Master Program in Nursing Sciences: A first Exploration of a Holistic Evaluation Framework.

Aviva Sugar Chmiel; Diane Morin; Daniel Schneider

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 384–389

This contribution presents the first stage of a project to assist the transition of a traditional to a blended program in higher nursing education. We shall describe the goals and context of this project, present the evaluation framework, discuss...

Topics: Exemplary Projects, WWW-based Course-Support Systems, Design Principles

Mining Learning and Crafting Scientific Experiments: A Literature Review on the Use of Minecraft in Education and Research

Steve Nebel; Sascha Schneider; Günter Daniel Rey

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 19, No. 2 (2016) pp. 355–366

Since the field of educational videogames or serious games is not limited to games that are specifically designed for educational purposes, videogames such as Minecraft have aroused the attention of teachers and researchers alike. To gain insights...

Community, Content and Collaboration Management Systems: socio-constructivist scenarios for the masses ?

Vivian Synteta; Cathérine Frété; Daniel Schneider

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1756–1757

While there are dozens of "e-learning" platforms, not many systems support the "orchestration" of rich socio-constructivistic learning scenarios. We suggest to explore the pedagogical potential of the increasingly popular kind of portals that we...

Topics: Educational Technology, Community, Learning Management Systems, Collaboration, System Configurations

Decorative pictures and emotional design in multimedia learning

Sascha Schneider; Steve Nebel; Günter Daniel Rey

Learning and Instruction Vol. 44, No. 1 (August 2016) pp. 65–73

Recent studies have shown that the positive emotional design of learning environments might foster learning performance. In contrast, the seductive detail effect postulates that additional, learning irrelevant details inhibit learning. This research ...

Language: English

Mediawikis for research, teaching and learning

Daniel K. Schneider; Kalliopi Benetos; Martine Ruchat

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 2084–2093

This paper describes the design of various scenarios implemented with Mediawiki software. After discussing four case studies, we present and discuss pedagogical and technical design guidelines. This contribution is part of a long-term research and...

Social Software in the Context of Vocational Training

Urs Richle; Daniel Schneider; Mireille Betrancourt; Monica Gavota

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 1329–1340

The Dual-T project investigates ICT-supported learning scenarios in vocational training to improve integration between school and workplace. We shall report deployment and usability issues from our initial experience using the ELGG social software...

Anthropomorphism in Decorative Pictures: Benefit or Harm for Learning?

Sascha Schneider; Steve Nebel; Maik Beege; Günter Daniel Rey

Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 110, No. 2 (2018) pp. 218–232

When people attribute human characteristics to nonhuman objects they are amenable to anthropomorphism. For example, human faces or the insertion of personalized labels are found to trigger anthropomorphism. Two studies examine the effects of these...

Look into my eyes! Exploring the effect of addressing in educational videos

Maik Beege; Sascha Schneider; Steve Nebel; Günter Daniel Rey

Learning and Instruction Vol. 49, No. 1 (June 2017) pp. 113–120

Numerous studies were conducted to investigate how recipients are affected by the miscellaneous characters in multimedia. However, there is a lack of research concerning the connection between parasocial processes and learning performances. This...

Language: English

A technology-enhanced learning environment to support learning by sharing professional experience in writing

Monica Gavota; Daniel Schneider; Mireille Betrancourt; Urs Richle

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2883–2892

In Switzerland, over 75% of higher secondary education is vocational. Apprentices spend 70% of their time as an employee in a company and the remaining time at school. Learning in school and workplace is little articulated. We aim at developing...

Topics: Schools, Collaboration, Secondary Education, Computers

Requirements for learning scenario and learning process analytics

Daniel Schneider; Barbara Class; Kalliopi Benetos; Marielle Lange

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2012 (Jun 26, 2012) pp. 1632–1641

This contribution attempts to define what kind of learning analytics both learners and teachers should have in various forms of project-oriented learning designs in order to enhance the learning and teaching process within learning scenarios.

Leaderboards within educational videogames: The impact of difficulty, effort and gameplay

Steve Nebel; Sascha Schneider; Maik Beege; Günter Daniel Rey

Computers & Education Vol. 113, No. 1 (October 2017) pp. 28–41

Although many of the existing educational videogames rely on leaderboard mechanisms, dedicated research on their effectiveness or how they should be implemented is missing. In this study, competitive effort, perceived difficulty and connected...

Language: English

A meta-analysis of how signaling affects learning with media

Sascha Schneider; Maik Beege; Steve Nebel; Günter Daniel Rey

Educational Research Review Vol. 23, No. 1 (February 2018) pp. 1–24

The signaling effect states that learners profit from cues that highlight the organization of specific relevant information within materials. This meta-analysis includes 103 studies and N = 12,201 participants. 139 retention and 70 transfer...

Language: English

A project for transitional education of doctoral applicants in educational technology

Barbara Class; Daniel K. Schneider; Richard Canal; Mona Laroussi

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 2574–2582

This article concerns a new project among French speaking countries in the EMEA region. Its goal is to set up transitional education for doctoral applicants in the domain of educational technology, to help them write a robust PhD proposal and to...

Topics: Research Perspectives, Design Principles, International Challenges

The autonomy-enhancing effects of choice on cognitive load, motivation and learning with digital media

Sascha Schneider; Steve Nebel; Maik Beege; Günter Daniel Rey

Learning and Instruction Vol. 58, No. 1 (December 2018) pp. 161–172

According to the Self-Determination Theory, the autonomy-supporting feature of choice leads to an increase in intrinsically motivated behavior. Although this effect was replicated multiple times, instructional designers often dread to include choice ...

Language: English

Learning mobile repairing by doing and with others

Valérie Payen Jean Baptiste; Nicolas Nova; Daniel K. Schneider

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1320–1324

This article presents the results of a field study on mobile ICT learning processes of repairers and vendors operating in the informal economy sector in Haiti. The main objective of this research was to study the emerging process of learning in an...

Topics: Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning, Education for sustainable development, Communities of practice

The Future of Data-Enriched Assessment

Candace Thille; Emily Schneider; René F. Kizilcec; Christopher Piech; Sherif A. Halawa; Daniel K. Greene

Research & Practice in Assessment Vol. 9 (2014) pp. 5–16

The article addresses the question of how the assessment process with large-scale data derived from online learning environments will be different from the assessment process without it. Following an explanation of big data and how it is different...

Towards a circular economy of learning environments

Daniel K. Schneider; Nicolas Szilas; Julien Da Costa; Barbara Class; Jue Wang Szilas

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1526–1536

In this article, we discuss the status of student productions in learning environments and the ways in which they can be valued as contributions, i.e., reusable resources. Through a review of the literature and case experiences, we characterize the...

Topics: Collaborative technologies, Open courses, open learning, and open educational resources, Innovative online learning and educational programming

How Affective Charge and Text-Picture Connectedness Moderate the Impact of Decorative Pictures on Multimedia Learning

Sascha Schneider; Jonathan Dyrna; Luis Meier; Maik Beege; Günter Daniel Rey

Journal of Educational Psychology Vol. 110, No. 2 (2018) pp. 233–249

Decorative pictures, which make a learning text aesthetically appealing rather than provide information, have been predominantly found to impair learning by an increase of learning-irrelevant cognitive processes. Recent research, however, indicates...

Mood-affect congruency. Exploring the relation between learners’ mood and the affective charge of educational videos

Maik Beege; Sascha Schneider; Steve Nebel; Alexandra Häßler; Günter Daniel Rey

Computers & Education Vol. 123, No. 1 (August 2018) pp. 85–96

In the educational context, the influences of the emotional charge of audiovisual media are rarely investigated. Additionally, the mood of the learner influences learning with multimedia. This study aims to investigate the influence of both...

Language: English

Cognitive neuroscience meets mathematics education: It takes two to Tango

Bert De Smedt; Daniel Ansari; Roland H. Grabner; Minna Hannula-Sormunen; Michael Schneider; Lieven Verschaffel

Educational Research Review Vol. 6, No. 3 pp. 232–237

Language: English

Cognitive neuroscience meets mathematics education

Bert De Smedt; Daniel Ansari; Roland H. Grabner; Minna M. Hannula; Michael Schneider; Lieven Verschaffel

Educational Research Review Vol. 5, No. 1 pp. 97–105

Language: English

One for all?! Simultaneous examination of load-inducing factors for advancing media-related instructional research

Maria Wirzberger; Maik Beege; Sascha Schneider; Steve Nebel; Günter Daniel Rey

Computers & Education Vol. 100, No. 1 (September 2016) pp. 18–31

In multimedia learning settings, limitations in learners' mental resource capacities need to be considered to avoid impairing effects on learning performance. Based on the prominent and often quoted Cognitive Load Theory, this study investigates the ...

Language: English