Combining Research with Active Educational Practice

Basic Research and Implications for Educational Practice

A powerful way of improving one’s memory for material is to be tested on that material. Tests enhance later retention more than additional study of the material, even when tests are given without feedback. This surprising phenomenon is called the testing effect, and although it has been studied by cognitive psychologists sporadically over the years, today there is a renewed effort to learn why ...

Integrating Educational Research and Practice: Reconceptualizing Goals

Combining Creative Practice and Digital Technology Research

Creativity research is a large and varied field in which the subject is characterised on many different levels. The arrival of digital media and computational tools has opened up new possibilities for creative practice. The cutting edge in the digital arts is a highly fertile ground for the investigation of creativity and the role of new technologies. The demands of such work often reveal the l...

Combining Oberon with Active Objects

Multitasking is a topic on which many discussions have been held. There are different opinions about its need. Our own operating system, Oberon, was originally designed as a single user and single process system. While developing server systems and simulation kits we came to the conclusion that we need some notion of slim and easy to use process. We then decided to start a new project comprisin...

The Educational Research-practice Interface Revisited: a Scripting Perspective

The question of how the realms of research and practice might successfully relate to one another is a persisting one, and especially so in education. The article takes a fresh look at this issue by using the terminology of collaboration scripts to reflect upon various forms of this relationship. Under this perspective, several approaches towards bridging the research/ practice gap are being des...