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Development and use of a computerized system to track the competency development of family medicine residents: analysis of the convergence between system proposals and assessor decisions

In recent decades, a number of training environments have moved toward program approaches targeting the development of competencies. Because of their complexity, monitoring the development of those competencie...

Authors: Isabelle Savard, Luc Côté, Abdelhamid Kadhi, Caroline Simard, Christian Rheault and Miriam Lacasse

Online student support: a framework for embedding support interventions into the online learning cycle

Support is one of the crucial elements of online students’ success. Although many support strategies have been documented in the past, less is known at what stages of the learning cycle suggested interventions...

Authors: O. Rotar

Robot lecture for enhancing presentation in lecture

In lectures with presentation slides such as an e-learning lecture on video, it is important for lecturers to control their non-verbal behavior involving gaze, gesture, and paralanguage. However, it is not so ...

Authors: Tatsuya Ishino, Mitsuhiro Goto and Akihiro Kashihara

The relational, co-temporal, contemporaneous, and longitudinal dynamics of self-regulation for academic writing

Writing in an academic context often requires students in higher education to acquire a new set of skills while familiarising themselves with the goals, objectives and requirements of the new learning environm...

Authors: Mohammed Saqr, Ward Peeters and Olga Viberg

Delivery and evaluation of an e-Learning framework through computer-aided analysis of learners’ reflection text in a teacher development course

This study aimed at proposing an e-Learning framework in school education. The proposed framework consisted of technology and pedagogy dimensions. The method of computer-aided analysis of learners’ reflection ...

Authors: Siu-Cheung Kong

Correction to: Preservice science teachers’ emerging pedagogy of mobile game integration: a tale of two cohorts improvement study

Authors: Phattaraporn Pondee, Patcharin Panjaburee and Niwat Srisawasdi

Correction to: Contract cheating: an increasing challenge for global academic community arising from COVID-19

Authors: Guzyal Hill, Jon Mason and Alex Dunn

Learning analytics of humanities course: reader profiles in critical reading activity

This study investigates learner’s reading behaviors in a critical reading task in humanities course using learning analytics techniques. A Critical Analysis of Literature and Cinema course was selected as a conte...

Authors: Rwitajit Majumdar, Geetha Bakilapadavu, Reek Majumder, Mei-Rong Alice Chen, Brendan Flanagan and Hiroaki Ogata

Contract cheating: an increasing challenge for global academic community arising from COVID-19

Due to COVID-19, universities with limited expertise with the digital environment had to rapidly transition to online teaching and assessment. This transition did not create a new problem but has offered more ...

Authors: Guzyal Hill, Jon Mason and Alex Dunn

Dr. Mosaik: a holistic framework for understanding the English tense–aspect system based on ontology engineering

Authors: Danièle Allard and Riichiro Mizoguchi

A framework to foster analysis skill for self-directed activities in data-rich environment

Self-direction skill is considered a vital skill for twenty-first-century learners in both the learning context and physical activity context. Analysis skill for self-directed activities requires the students ...

Authors: Yuanyuan Yang, Rwitajit Majumdar, Huiyong Li, Gökhan Akçapinar, Brendan Flanagan and Hiroaki Ogata

A novel framework for integrating social media as cooperative learning tool in higher education’s classrooms

Despite the considerable body of literature on social media (SM)’s use as formal educational tools within universities, little has been done to provide a comprehensive adoption framework for SM as cooperative ...

Authors: Mostafa Hamadi, Jamal El-Den, Sami Azam and Narumon Cherry Sriratanaviriyakul

Giving away some of their powers! Towards learner agency in digital assessment and feedback

Digital assessment and feedback have been a growing area of research and practice in the past decade in higher education. Within this theme, research has been published highlighting the importance of learner a...

Authors: Diogo Casanova, Graham Alsop and Isabel Huet

The incubation effect among students playing an educational game for physics

The incubation effect (IE) is a problem-solving phenomenon composed of three phases: pre-incubation where one fails to solve a problem; incubation, a momentary break where time is spent away from the unsolved ...

Authors: May Marie P. Talandron-Felipe and Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo

CourseQ: the impact of visual and interactive course recommendation in university environments

The abundance of courses available in a university often overwhelms students as they must select courses that are relevant to their academic interests and satisfy their requirements. A large number of existing...

Authors: Boxuan Ma, Min Lu, Yuta Taniguchi and Shin’ichi Konomi

The impact of mediated learning on the academic writing performance of medical students in flipped and traditional classrooms: scaffolding techniques

Writing as a multiple-step process is one of the most complex and demanding skills for graduate students to master. Foreign or second language learners who are required to write for academic purposes at the un...

Authors: Laleh Khojasteh, Seyyed Ali Hosseini and Elham Nasiri

Preservice science teachers’ emerging pedagogy of mobile game integration: a tale of two cohorts improvement study

In the context of the current teacher education program in Thailand, Technology Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework is formally recognized as essential qualities of knowledge for a highly quali...

Authors: Phattaraporn Pondee, Patcharin Panjaburee and Niwat Srisawasdi

A structural equation modeling analysis of relationships among university students’ readiness for e-learning, self-regulation skills, satisfaction, and academic achievement

The aim of this study is to examine the relationships of readiness for e-learning with self-regulation skills, satisfaction, and academic achievement in university students taking campus-based courses via dist...

Authors: Nuh Yavuzalp and Eralp Bahcivan

Learning log-based automatic group formation: system design and classroom implementation study

Collaborative learning in the form of group work is becoming increasingly significant in education since interpersonal skills count in modern society. However, teachers often get overwhelmed by the logistics i...

Authors: Changhao Liang, Rwitajit Majumdar and Hiroaki Ogata

E-book of metacognitive learning strategies: design and implementation to activate student’s self-regulation

ICT-based learning provides opportunities for teachers and students to learn digitally, as well as letting the students become autonomous learners. One of the efforts to actualize such typical learning mode is...

Authors: Endang Susantini, Rinie Pratiwi Puspitawati, Raharjo and Husfina Lailiyatus Suaidah

Exploring EFL learners’ inferential reading comprehension skills through a flipped classroom

This study presents the results of a mixed-methods approach in finding the effects of the WebQuest-based flipped classroom on the EFL learners’ inferential reading comprehension skills. A group of EFL learners...

Authors: Fatemeh Samiei and Saman Ebadi

Joint attention behaviour in remote collaborative problem solving: exploring different attentional levels in dyadic interaction

The current article describes an exploratory study that focussed on joint attention behaviour—the basis of interaction predicting productive collaboration—to better understand collaborative problem solving, pa...

Authors: Johanna Pöysä-Tarhonen, Nafisa Awwal, Päivi Häkkinen and Suzanne Otieno

The performance of some machine learning approaches and a rich context model in student answer prediction

Web-based learning systems with adaptive capabilities to personalize content are becoming nowadays a trend in order to offer interactive learning materials to cope with a wide diversity of students attending o...

Authors: Alisa Lincke, Marc Jansen, Marcelo Milrad and Elias Berge

The educational power of humor on student engagement in online learning environments

The primary goal of the study is to investigate the effect of the usage of humor on behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement in online learning. Humorous elements were integrated into the online learnin...

Authors: Fatih Erdoğdu and Ünal Çakıroğlu

Design and development of semi-automatic concept map authoring support tool

This research, to design and develop a concept map authoring support tool, adopts a semi-automatic concept mapping approach to help teachers create concept maps from English readings. A concept map is widely r...

Authors: Aryo Pinandito, Didik D. Prasetya, Yusuke Hayashi and Tsukasa Hirashima

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Enriching context descriptions for enhanced LA scalability: a case study

Learning analytics (LA) is a field that examines data about learners and their context, for understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. Integration of multiple data sources, ...

Authors: Jeanette Samuelsen, Weiqin Chen and Barbara Wasson

Automatic question generation and answer assessment: a survey

Learning through the internet becomes popular that facilitates learners to learn anything, anytime, anywhere from the web resources. Assessment is most important in any learning system. An assessment system ca...

Authors: Bidyut Das, Mukta Majumder, Santanu Phadikar and Arif Ahmed Sekh

The effects of computer-based virtual learning environments on nursing students’ mathematical learning in medication processes

Computer-based virtual learning environments (CBVLEs) are potentially useful teaching tools for training nursing students in professional duties such as the mathematical tasks associated with medication proces...

Authors: Diana P. Zwart, Sui Lin Goei, Omid Noroozi and Johannes E. H. Van Luit

Do self-created metacognitive prompts promote short- and long-term effects in computer-based learning environments?

Students must engage in self-regulated learning in computer-based learning environments; however, many students experience difficulties in doing so. Therefore, this study aims to investigate self-created metac...

Authors: Katharina Engelmann, Maria Bannert and Nadine Melzner

Correction to: Mediation criteria for interactive serious games aimed at improving learning in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: Teresa Coma-Roselló, Ana Cristina Blasco-Serrano, María Ángeles Garrido Laparte and Antonio Aguelo Arguis

Automated doubt identification from informal reflections through hybrid sentic patterns and machine learning approach

Do my students understand? The question that lingers in every instructor’s mind after each lesson. With the focus on learner-centered pedagogy, is it feasible to provide timely and relevant guidance to individ...

Authors: Siaw Ling Lo, Kar Way Tan and Eng Lieh Ouh

Mediation criteria for interactive serious games aimed at improving learning in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

The PASS intelligence theory (Planning, Attention-Arousal, Simultaneous and Successive) was used together with Feuerstein’s mediation model to develop a system of categories for mediation in educational games....

Authors: Teresa Coma-Roselló, Ana Cristina Blasco-Serrano, María Ángeles Garrido Laparte and Antonio Aguelo Arguis

Geneticus Investigatio: a technology-enhanced learning environment for scaffolding complex learning in genetics

Bioscientists such as geneticists and molecular biologists regularly demonstrate the integration of domain concepts and science inquiry practices/skills while explaining a natural phenomenon. The complexity of...

Authors: Anurag Deep, Sahana Murthy and Jayadeva Bhat

Empirical study on the effects of social network–supported group concept mapping

Social networks provide traditional concept mapping of new opportunities for concept construction with grouping, social interaction, and collaborative functions. However, little effort has been made to explore...

Authors: Yen-An Shih and Ben Chang

Generalization support environment for understanding ways to use English words

When we translate Japanese sentence into English, sometimes several English words become the candidates. However, the usage situation of these candidate words is not the same. In order to choose appropriate wo...

Authors: Tomoko Kojiri and Takushi Yamada

Making context the central concept in privacy engineering

There is a gap between people’s online sharing of personal data and their concerns about privacy. Till now, this gap is addressed by attempting to match individual privacy preferences with service providers’ o...

Authors: Tore Hoel, Weiqin Chen and Jan M. Pawlowski

Web-based adaptive presentation techniques to enhance learning outcomes in higher education

The purpose of this study is to develop and compare two different techniques of adaptive presentation techniques (adaptive multimedia/ frames). Moreover, this study aimed at investigating the effect of both tr...

Authors: Ahmed Elmabaredy, Ebada Elkholy and Abdul-Aziz Tolba

Collaborative concept mapping with reciprocal kit-build: a practical use in linear algebra course

The design of interactions among peers plays a key role in collaborative learning. Various strategies have been applied to assist learners in collaborating and creating a continuous effort to construct and mai...

Authors: Lia Sadita, Tsukasa Hirashima, Yusuke Hayashi, Warunya Wunnasri, Jaruwat Pailai, Kasiyah Junus and Harry Budi Santoso

Flipped classroom in a therapeutic modality course: students’ perspective

The use of flipped classrooms has gained momentum and involves the instructor replacing the passive reception of material found in common lectures, so class time may be used for hands-on practical application,...

Authors: Dana Bates and Genevieve Ludwig

Supporting knowledge monitoring ability: open learner modeling vs. open social learner modeling

Research has demonstrated that people generally think both their knowledge and performance levels are greater than they are. Although several studies have suggested that knowledge and progress visualization of...

Authors: Sibel Somyürek, Peter Brusilovsky and Julio Guerra

Understanding fully online teaching in vocational education

Literature has previously reported that student-centred practices are the mark of good pedagogy in online education. In contrast, the competency-based nature of vocational education in Australia has been under...

Authors: Deniese Cox and Sarah Prestridge

Scripting as a pedagogical method to guide collaborative writing: university students’ reflections

A collaboration script is a set of instructions used to improve collaborative learning among students in technology-enhanced environments. Previously, university students’ perspective has been under-represente...

Authors: Kirsi Heinonen, Nore De Grez, Raija Hämäläinen, Bram De Wever and Sophie van der Meijs

The use of learning dashboards to support complex in-class pedagogical scenarios in medical training: how do they influence students’ cognitive engagement?

This study aims to contribute to empirical and interdisciplinary knowledge on how visual learning analytics tools can support students’ cognitive engagement in complex in-class scenarios. Taking a holistic app...

Authors: Bas de Leng and Friedrich Pawelka

The effect of differences in group composition on knowledge transfer, group achievement, and learners’ affective responses during reciprocal concept mapping with the Kit-Build Approach

Collaborative learning requires a structured and open environment where individuals can actively exchange and elaborate their ideas to achieve a high-quality problem-solving solution. The use of concept map ha...

Authors: Lia Sadita, Tsukasa Hirashima, Yusuke Hayashi, Pedro G. F. Furtado, Kasiyah Junus and Harry Budi Santoso

Can automated item generation be used to develop high quality MCQs that assess application of knowledge?

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of multiple choice questions (MCQs) developed using automated item generation (AIG) versus traditional methods, as judged by a panel of experts. The quality...

Authors: Debra Pugh, André De Champlain, Mark Gierl, Hollis Lai and Claire Touchie

Learning principles of accounting in ICT-supported learning environments of Malaysian secondary schools: future-oriented approach

This research was undertaken to identify the learning approaches used by Malaysian secondary school students of Principles of Accounting in the context of ICT-supported learning environments. The revised Two-F...

Authors: Boon See Tan and Su Luan Wong

IDC theory: habit and the habit loop

Interest-driven creator (IDC) theory is a design theory that intends to inform the design of future education in Asia. It consists of three anchored concepts, namely, interest, creation, and habit. This paper ...

Authors: Wenli Chen, Tak Wai Chan, Lung Hsiang Wong, Chee Kit Looi, Calvin C. Y. Liao, Hercy N. H. Cheng, Su Luan Wong, Jon Mason, Hyo-Jeong So, Sahana Murthy, Xiaoqing Gu and Zhongling Pi

Integrating automatic question generation with computerised adaptive test

The present study focuses on the integration of an automatic question generation (AQG) system and a computerised adaptive test (CAT). We conducted two experiments. In the first experiment, we administered sets...

Authors: Yuni Susanti, Takenobu Tokunaga and Hitoshi Nishikawa

A review on process-oriented approaches for analyzing novice solutions to programming problems

High attrition and dropout rates are common in introductory programming courses. One of the reasons students drop out is loss of motivation due to the lack of feedback and proper assessment of their progress. ...

Authors: Maureen M. Villamor