CSCL in Teacher Training: What Learning Tasks Lead to Collaboration?

Ditte Lockhorst; Wilfried Admiraal; Albert Pilot

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 19, No. 1 (March 2010) pp. 63–78

Professional teacher communities appear to be positively related to student learning, teacher learning, teacher practice and school culture. Teacher collaboration is a significant element of these communities. In initial teacher training as well as...

Instructional Design by Novice Designers: Two Empirical Studies

Daniëlle Verstegen; Yvonne Barnard; Albert Pilot

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2008) pp. 351–383

In many cases advanced instructional products, such as computer-based training, e-learning programs, simulations, and simulators are not designed by experienced instructional designers, but by novices: subject matter experts, teachers, instructors,...

Topics: Collaboration, Information Communication Technologies, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Training

The Effect of a Pretest in an Interactive, Multimodal Pretraining System for Learning Science Concepts

Floris A. B. H. Bos; Cees Terlouw; Albert Pilot

Educational Research and Evaluation Vol. 15, No. 6 (December 2009) pp. 571–590

In line with the cognitive theory of multimedia learning by Moreno and Mayer (2007), an interactive, multimodal learning environment was designed for the pretraining of science concepts in the joint area of physics, chemistry, biology, applied...

Pre-University Chemistry Students in a Mimicked Scholarly Peer Review

Lisette van Rens; Philip Hermarij; Albert Pilot; Jos Beishuizen; Herman Hofman; Marjolein Wal

International Journal of Science Education Vol. 36, No. 15 (2014) pp. 2514–2533

Peer review is a significant component in scientific research. Introducing peer review into inquiry processes may be regarded as an aim to develop student understanding regarding quality in inquiries. This study examines student understanding in...

Virtual Project Rooms for Education in Engineering

Rudolf G. van Vliet; Monika M. Roeling; Rick de Graaff; Albert Pilot

European Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 29, No. 1 (2004) pp. 73–85

Virtual project rooms (VPRs) may support collaborative project-based learning groups by facilitating project management, documentation and communication. In this study a set of experiments was carried out at Eindhoven University of Technology using...

Attitude of Teachers and Students towards formal Learning through Online Social Networks

Elham Akbari; Ahmad Naderi; Mahdi Hosseinzadeh Yazdi; Robert-Jan Simons; Albert Pilot

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 27, No. 2 (April 2016) pp. 101–123

Despite the potential of social networks in formal learning, there should be more knowledge on the students and teachers attitudes toward such technology and more recent information in the context of the actual educational situation. The Technology...