Formal courses in adult education are most often housed within schools or faculties that include other disciplines such as teacher education, psychology, or training and development. Adult educators teaching these courses may feel obligated to follow the procedures and practices of the institution as well as of the programs with which they are associated. This creates a set of paradoxes and con...

Action Design Research (ADR) is a Design Research (DR) method that enriches the Design Science Research (DSR) paradigm, by providing stages and principles for designing ITartifacts and allowing for their emergence in an organizational context. The method has been used and elaborated by scholars, extending the mode of the method and its stages, incorporating and adopting knowledge from related a...

This research examines asynchronous participatory examinations, a new technology-mediated assessment strategy especially suitable for online courses. The participatory exam innovation utilizes information technology to support engaging students in the entire examination lifecycle, including creating and solving problems, and grading solutions. These learning processes enable students to not onl...

The primary aim of this research was to study how mobile technology shapes, changes, and develops informal learning outside the classroom and school environment. In this study we provided each of the 30 Kenyan elite runners with a simple Android smartphone and free Internet for one year. This research project was a developmental intervention with a participatory action research approach, and ai...

A key change in the move to Smart Grids (SGs) is the use of dynamic pricing; this together with less reliable energy from renewable resources makes optimising electricity use highly complex. For smart-devices to function in this environment, they must adapt to this complexity, while maintaining the flexibility to handle changing user behaviour patterns. Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been used...

BACKGROUND Few large and rigorous evaluations of participatory interventions systematically describe their context and implementation, or attempt to explain the mechanisms behind their impact. This study reports process evaluation data from the Ekjut cluster-randomised controlled trial of a participatory learning and action cycle with women's groups to improve maternal and newborn health outcom...

To achieve ergonomics awareness in 3 subsidiary companies, an intervention team was formed. The aims of this study were to implement basic ergonomics through a participatory ergonomics intervention process that can support a continuous learning process and lead to an improvement in health and safety as well as in the work systems in the organization. The findings of this study (i.e., method, co...

Competing land uses such as plantation forestry in rural landscapes often stimulates controversy, but there are few documented mechanisms for community engagement that effectively address community concerns. This paper reports an experiment with social learning and participatory modelling in a rural community in the Upper Clarence catchment in subtropical NSW, Australia. Action research was use...

The paper describes a large European R&D-project on Multimedia And Network In Co-operative Research And Learning (MANICORAL) from point of view of the participating HCI-researchers. The project developed the methodology of Dialogue Design, drawing on two sources: Participatory Design and Dialogue Research. Action Research is understood as the historical basis for the two strands, , where Partic...

Student motivation is a key aspect in achieving successful collaborative learning. In the past, some techniques which help to engage the students in a motivating learning activity have been proposed. Among them, Participatory Simulation is one of the newest. In Participatory Simulations, social interaction and motivational effects are the main facilitators. In this work, we present an easy-to-u...