Technology-based education

Cognitive Styles and Technology-Based Education

This article discusses the elements and implications of cognitive style and a study of students in postsecondary industrial technology and vocational education programs that relates several areas where cognitive styles may influence instructional design. Technology education, industrial technology, industrial arts, and vocational education programs are some of the mechanisms by which secondary ...

Prototyping hand-based wearable music education technology

This paper discusses perspectives for conceptualizing and developing hand-based wearable musical interfaces. Previous implementations of such interfaces have not been targeted for music pedagogical use. We propose principles for pedagogically oriented ‘musical hand’ and outline its development through the process of prototyping, which involves a variety of methods. The current functional protot...

Advances in Technology-based Education: towards a Knowledge Based Society

Socio-Constructivist learning theories are emphasizing the role of collaboration in learning process. Social-interaction and collaboration is seen to be a significant part of learning process. This is the reason why discussion areas or other tools that enable virtual collaboration are used in digital learning applications. Does these discussion areas itself enhance the collaboration? Does the f...

Advances in Technology-based Education: towards a Knowledge Based Society

The present paper offers a possibility to combine a complex multimedia learning environment with the requirements of cooperative working processes in virtual groups. Providing learning units in complex and pre-structured courses usually prevents its integration into a flexible learning environment with exchangeable, transferable and reusable components. Our approach seeks to remedy this shortco...

Advances in Technology-based Education: towards a Knowledge Based Society