Planning for regional security and crisis management could be supported by well performed exercises. These exercises should be evaluated from different views in order to investigate the participants learning from the exercise. Since the evaluation seldom rest upon established learning theories it will be difficult to evaluate if the exercise will lead to the stated goals. Authorities in the cou...

While various recommender approaches are increasingly considered in e-learning, lack of studies of actual use is hindering the development. For several years, we have used non-algorithmic recommender features on an undergraduate course website to help students find pertinent study materials. As students earn credit from adding and evaluating materials, some have chosen to evaluate materials dis...

This study investigates engineering student preferences for blended learning adoption in higher education. No major study to date, however, has taken into consideration the influence of interaction, digital technology, social presence, and internet self-efficacy on student preferences for blended learning approach. This study is based on a sample of 126 students who can use Moodle platform at U...

Increasingly digital games are being played multiplayer online, not just massively multiplayer games but normal PC and console games. An important constituent of the gaming experience is the social relationships between players as mediated by games. Social presence is the foundation of this experience, being the extent to which players feel present to each other within the virtual environment. ...

It is useful to discuss the origins of this text as they highlight the underlying problem it aims to discuss. When I was director of the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University, I received a phone call from a colleague at the University of Ottawa. One of his students wanted to take a course, taught in English, dealing with the broad question of French and English relations Canada. The...

Purpose: This paper outlines a social epistemological and ethical warrant for engaging in knowledge exchange on the social web, and emphasises socio-cognitive and emotional factors behind motivation and credibility in communities supported by social software. An attempt is made to identify positive and negative patterns of interaction from this perspective and to argue for more positive interve...

12 Abstract The authors work as online tutors for a BSc (Hons) physiotherapy programme at 13 Coventry University in the United Kingdom. This paper represents a stage in our 14 developing understanding, over a 3 year period, of the impact of group dynamics on online 15 interaction among physiotherapy students engaged in sharing with their peers their first 16 experiences of clinical practice. Th...

Playing digital games comprises a diverse, but holistic experience. Yet it is still unclear how and to what extend certain design elements of a game contribute to specific aspects of player experience. We developed a game as test bed to investigate this question. The casual game Loadstone allows for different social interaction modes while retaining all other game elements. By isolating one sin...

“Social presence,” the degree to which participants in computer-mediated communication feel affectively connected one to another, has been shown to be an important factor in student satisfaction and success in online courses. This mixed methods study built on previous research to explore in greater depth the nature of social presence and how it develops in online course discussions. The study c...

Touch is our primary non-verbal communication channel for conveying intimate emotions and as such essential for our physical and emotional wellbeing. In our digital age, human social interaction is often mediated. However, even though there is increasing evidence that mediated touch affords affective communication, current communication systems (such as videoconferencing) still do not support c...