INTRODUCTION The evidence is clear that Learner drivers need as much on-road supervised driving experience as possible to help them to become safer drivers. Many community groups around Australia are now helping their Learner drivers to achieve this much needed experience by offering Learner Driver Mentor Programs (LDMPs). In addition to seeking road safety benefits, many communities introduce ...

The study explores whether the use of Twitter in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) promotes the interaction among learners. The social network analysis shows that instructors still play a very central role in the social media communication and the communication network between students shrinking over time. The mere use of social media fails to promote learner-learner interaction. More researc...

The scope and the philosophy of the use of New Technologies in education have still to be defined and important pedagogical issues arise. Based on experience of secondary technical vocational education, a general schema for Network-Based Learning with strong learner participation is proposed. The main concept of this approach is that learner participation in the learning process can produce or ...

It is commonly argued that a key challenge for e-learning is to encourage learner participation. Even though this challenge has received increased attention by researchers, little effort has been put into developing a sound theoretical understanding of what online participation actually is and how it may be studied empirically. This paper examines the conceptions and research approaches that un...

‘Integrative CALL’ (Warschauer, 1996) refers to developments in language learning in this phase. The learner is placed in authentic situations where learning simultaneously involves listening, seeing, doing, participating and reflecting. This paper shares some insights into this new paradigm in language learning where the online delivery of a course gives learners more control over their own le...

The prevailing pattern of classroom interaction is a tripartite exchange structure known as IRF (teacher initiation, student response, teacher follow-up/feedback; Sinclair & Coulthard, 1975). Although it has its own contributions to classroom discourse, it has been criticized on several grounds, particularly for affording minimum learner participation opportunities (Kasper, 2001). An alternativ...

In the field of personalized systems big role is granted to the adaptive elearning environments. The task of these systems is very important and complicated. With their participation the learner gains exactly the knowledge he needs most, and the system adapts to user needs, expectations and his individual features. In this kind of systems information about learner is saved in the learner model ...

the subject of the research is to understand and study the social and cotextual backgrounds of participation in a developmental experience, that is, the process of supplying pipedwater from 6 klms away to zilan village in javanrood township. this study is run using qualitative methods, deep interview teqniques and observations and it is analyzed through ground theory. if a plannable action and ...

MOOCs attract a large number of learners with largely unknown diversity in terms of motivation, ability, and goals. To understand more about learners in highly technical engineering MOOCs, this study investigates patterns of learners’ (n = 337) behaviour and performance in the Nanophotonic Modelling MOOC, offered through nanoHUB-U. The authors explored clusters of learner clickstream patterns u...

It is believed that, with the help of suitable technology, learners and systems can cooperate in building a sufficiently accurate learner model they can use to promote learner reflection through discussion of their knowledge, preferences and motivational dispositions (among other learner characteristics). Open learner modelling is a technology that can help set up this discussion by giving the ...