Today’s youth thrive in informal participatory communities where they not only consume but also act as contributors or producers. In a participatory culture of learning, students’ active contributions to their learning are stressed and peer assessment is considered as an important component. In this paper we investigate which user experiences should be supported in a playful peer feedback tool ...

In today’s network society policy analysis is more and more implemented by means of participatory approaches and methods. This is induced by the fact that power and knowledge are widely distributed among various groups of network actors (stakeholders). The network characteristics of our (western) societies (Castells, 1996) more or less force us to look at policy analysis from a more relativist ...

This paper introduces a new approach to adjust a class of neurofuzzy networks based on the idea of participatory learning. Participatory learning is a mean to learn and revise beliefs based on what is already known or believed. The performance of the approach is verified with the Box and Jenkins gas furnace modeling problem, and with a shortterm load forecasting problem using actual data. Compa...

The online participatory exam transforms the traditional exam into a constructivist, cooperative and engaging learning experience. Students learn from designing and answering exam questions, from evaluating their peers’ performance, and from reading questions, answers and evaluations. This paper, aimed at faculty who teach online and at researchers interested in online learning, describes the p...

Outdoor learning seeks to engage and enthuse students through authentic practical inquiry lessons. This article explores how participatory design and development can enable outdoor learning organisations to introduce sustainable technological innovations within their teaching practices. A case study describing a collaborative project between university researchers and an environmental education...

Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Abstract Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the impact participatory technologies have had on education and the information environment in which students operate. It seeks to define a pedagogical approach that will capitalize on the benefits of participatory technologies in the classroom and applies this " pedagogy 2.0 " to information li...

Photovoice is a participatory action research method which aims to enable students to create compelling visual representations and identify the local social issues.  This paper attempted to investigate the impact of photovoice as an innovative method on the levels of reflection manifested in EFL learners' narratives. To this end, a convenience sample of 48 Iranian intermediate EFL learn...

Introduction: In India, medical undergraduates think that statistics is difficultto understand. Often, it is taught just before final assessment examinationusing didactic lectures, with little use of medical examples and less focus onapplication. Hence, we prepared interactive, participatory sessions for teachingbiostatistics to medical undergraduate.Methods: The sessions were delivered by a fa...

This paper suggests that participatory system design methodologies may be used as a learning tool in academic environments. It reports from a successful experiment in this direction, and discusses how participatory design characteristics and techniques are particularly well suited for interdisciplinary learning experiences.