The unique character of medical education in the outpatient setting has created challenges in teaching and learning that cannot be solved by the adaptation of traditional inpatient approaches. Previous work and the authors' own observational study describe a relatively passive learner focused on reporting history and physical examination data to the preceptor. Based on the work of Bordage in co...

Introduction Traditionally software scaffolding has been employed within interactive learning environments (ILE) to offer a means of enabling the learner, or group of learners, to achieve success beyond their own independent ability. A vital feature of successfully scaffolded interactions is that the learner can recognise but not produce the goal. In order for this to be realised the system mus...

This article isolates and observes the impact of peer readership on low-stakes reflective writing assignments in two large Introduction to Sociology classes. Through a comparative content analysis of over 2,000 private reflective journal entries and semipublic reflective blog posts, I find that both practices produce distinct forms of reflection. I argue that these differences can be understood...

Reflective thinking, which constitutes an important goal in language teacher education, can be fostered by participating online communities of practice. This study explored types reflective discourse generated novice Spanish teachers, and associated themes categories, as they participated a weekly blog video-conferencing session. Types focused on descriptive versus critical reflections, while c...

Direct investigations of student opinions about the use of ICT and learning are generally missing from the literature. This paper reports on a study that captured the reflective voice of students to investigate what is truly happening in Victorian schools. The focus of this study was the student learner and how students think about their own learning. The study identified key contextual factors...

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) in professional and organizational settings is increasingly gaining importance. The high availability of mobile end devices and their ability to support learning across contexts open up new perspectives for effective professional learning and knowledge management. The BMBF project Professional Reflective Mobile Personal Learning Environments (PRiME) addresses ...

This Note from the Field presents a teacher training program that seeks to support changes by trained teachers in their own practice. Change practice is made possible teachers’ assuming four successive roles program: Learner, Engineer, Teacher / Observer, Reflective Analyst (LETRA). LETRA has been tested and tried shown promising results. The design of presented this text, step step. views part...

This paper describes a method for learner modelling for use within simulation-based learning environments. The goal of the learner modelling system is to provide the learner with advice on discovery learning. The system analyzes the evidence that a learner has generated for a specific hypothesis, assesses whether the learner needs support on the discovery process, and the nature of that support...

Learner preferences of students have been analysed within two modules that have been given in the department of media using Röll’s learner preference model. A qualitative analysis of the results of an online learner preference test based on this model has been conducted. This analysis showed that for the majority of the students the revealed results were valid. Starting from current methods use...

A crucial issue in building adaptive systems is maintaining models of users, which allows computers to tailor their behaviour to the needs of particular individuals. When a computer system has educational goals, modelling a learner’s cognitive capacity is essential for the system to provide individualised instruction and adaptive interaction (Self, 1999). Allowing the user to have some control ...