Repositories provide mechanisms to encourage the discovery, exchange and re-use of learning objects. This paper describes Portals for On-line Objects in Learning (POOL), a consortium project of the TeleLearning NCE to build a learning object repository scalable to the national level. Funded in part by the Canarie Learning Program, POOL contributes to the development of two focal technologies: “...

Due to increasing numbers of students at German universities large-scale learning services are still a common default. These learning services lack interaction as well as feedback to assess learners’ knowledge on the cognitive levels of educational objectives. This situation is alarming, since interaction and feedback in order to assess the own learning progress are important factors for indivi...

One way of making learning English language interesting is through its gamified instruction, especially nowadays that most teachings are done virtually. Doing so, however, requires a valid framework. To construct such a framework a set of 22 peer reviewed papers on language learning and gamified teaching, from among 94 of such papers, was content analyzed and key concepts, and frequently used e...

At the beginning The need for a paradigm shift The global context: Learning individuals in a world of praxis The national contex: Deficiencies in researh methodology teaching The subject context: New ideas about knowledge The effect: A different kind of scientist trained in a different way The meaning of a paradigm shift The traditionalist, hermeneutic and critical perspectives Instructional an...

It is often a case that technologically-oriented research on e-learning stresses the tools and individual features used in e-learning platforms rather than the pedagogical model and the underlying course structures. This study compares the outcomes from a similar course in a similar setting using very different learning platforms designed by the same research group. The tool used in the first c...

Students must be able to interpret, relate, and incorporate new information with existing knowledge and apply the new information to solve novel problems. Peer instruction is a cooperative learning technique that promotes critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills. Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that peer instruction enhances meaningful learning or transfer, defined as ...

In this paper, we describe the heterogeneous peer-to-peer infrastructure for sharing learning object. The POOL project builds on the three types of nodes: SPLASH is a freely downloadable application which allows individuals to create metadata and maintain their collection of learning objects, PONDs are bigger repositories of learning objects connected to the peerto-peer network and POOL Central...