Community of Inquiry: Social Presence Revisited

Karel Kreijns; Frederick Van Acker; Marjan Vermeulen; Hans Van Buuren

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 11, No. 1 (2014) pp. 5–18

Social presence is a construct that has attracted the attention of many educational scholars involved in online collaborative learning settings wherein all the dialogue is happening through text-based asynchronous and synchronous communication...

The role of transformative leadership, ICT-infrastructure and learning climate in teachers' use of digital learning materials during their classes

Marjan Vermeulen; Karel Kreijns; Hans van Buuren; Frederik Van Acker

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 48, No. 6 (November 2017) pp. 1427–1440

This study investigated whether school organizational variables (ie, transformative leadership (TL), ICT-infrastructure (technical and social) and organizational learning climate were related to teachers' dispositional variables (ie, attitude,...

Predicting Teachers' Use of Digital Learning Materials: Combining Self-Determination Theory and the Integrative Model of Behaviour Prediction

Karel Kreijns; Marjan Vermeulen; Frederik Van Acker; Hans van Buuren

European Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 37, No. 4 (2014) pp. 465–478

In this article, we report on a study that investigated the motivational (e.g. intrinsic motivation) and dispositional variables (e.g. attitudes) that determine teachers' intention to use or not to use digital learning materials (DLMs). To...

Measuring perceived sociability of computer-supported collaborative learning environments

Karel Kreijns; Paul A. Kirschner; Wim Jochems; Hans van Buuren

Computers & Education Vol. 49, No. 2 (September 2007) pp. 176–192

Most asynchronous computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments can be characterized as functional environments because they focus on functional, task-specific support, often disregarding explicit support for the social (emotional)...

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Adopting the Integrative Model of Behaviour Prediction to Explain Teachers' Willingness to Use ICT: A Perspective for Research on Teachers' ICT Usage in Pedagogical Practices

Karel Kreijns; Marjan Vermeulen; Paul A. Kirschner; Hans van Buuren; Frederik Van Acker

Technology, Pedagogy and Education Vol. 22, No. 1 (2013) pp. 55–71

Information and communication technology (ICT) can enable, support, and reinforce the introduction of new pedagogical practices that comply with the educational demands of the twenty-first-century knowledge society. However, despite this potential...