Students and Recorded Lectures: Survey on Current Use and Demands for Higher Education

Pierre Gorissen; Jan van Bruggen; Wim Jochems

Research in Learning Technology Vol. 20, No. 3 (2012) pp. 297–311

Online recordings of lectures provide students with anytime-anyplace access to lectures. Research shows that students prefer courses accompanied by online recordings and an increasing number of universities provide recorded lectures. This paper...

Does tagging improve the navigation of online recorded lectures by students?

Pierre Gorissen; Jan Bruggen van; Wim Jochems

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan 30, 2015) pp. 45–57

Students more and more have access to online recordings of the lectures they attend at universities. The volume and length of these recorded lectures however make them difficult to navigate. Research shows that students primarily watch the recorded...

Recommending peers for learning: Matching on dissimilarity in interpretations to provoke breakdown

Kamakshi Rajagopal; Jan M. Bruggen van; Peter B. Sloep

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 48, No. 2 (March 2017) pp. 385–406

People recommenders are a widespread feature of social networking sites and educational social learning platforms alike. However, when these systems are used to extend learners' Personal Learning Networks, they often fall short of providing...

Using the Personal Competence Manager as a Complementary Approach to IMS Learning Design Authoring

Hubert Vogten; Rob Koper; Harrie Martens; Jan van Bruggen

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 16, No. 1 (April 2008) pp. 83–100

In this article TENCompetence will be presented as a framework for lifelong competence development. More specifically, the relationship between the TENCompetence framework and the IMS Learning Design (LD) specification is explored. LD authoring has...

The use of recorded lectures in education and the impact on lecture attendance and exam performance

Nynke Bos; Caspar Groeneveld; Jan Bruggen van; Saskia Brand‐Gruwel

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 47, No. 5 (September 2016) pp. 906–917

Universities increasingly record lectures and make them available online for students. Though the technology to record these lectures is now solidly implemented and embedded in many institutions, the impact of the usage of recorded lectures on exam...

First steps into understanding teachers' visual perception of classroom events

Niek van den Bogert; Jan van Bruggen; Danny Kostons; Wim Jochems

Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2014) pp. 208–216

Student-teachers struggle to become competent at classroom management. To do so, Berliner (2001) and Feldon (2007) argue for the significance of speedy and accurate recognition of relevant cues for teacher action in the classroom. However, studies...

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How to Create Flexible Runtime Delivery of Distance Learning Courses

Colin Tattersall; Hubert Vogten; Francis Brouns; Rob Koper; Peter van Rosmalen; Peter Sloep; Jan van Bruggen

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 8, No. 3 (2005) pp. 226–236

Distance Learning Providers serve large populations of learners, frequently offering the same course to different groups of learners over lengthy periods of time. This article argues that (re-) running e-learning courses with different combinations...

Effects of Peer-Tutor Competences on Learner Cognitive Load and Learning Performance during Knowledge Sharing

Ya-Ping Hsiao; Francis Brouns; Jan van Bruggen; Peter B. Sloep

International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA) 2012 (October 2012)

In Learning Networks, learners need to share knowledge with others to build knowledge. In particular, when working on complex tasks, they often need to acquire extra cognitive resources from others to process a high task load. However, without...

Positioning of Learners in Learning Networks with Content, Metadata and Ontologies

Marco Kalz; Jan van Bruggen; Ellen Rusman; Bas Giesbers; Rob Koper

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 15, No. 2 (August 2007) pp. 191–200

Positioning in learning networks is a process that assists learners in finding a starting point and an efficient route through the network that will foster competence building. In the past we have explored computational approaches to positioning...

Effective Self-Regulated Science Learning through Multimedia-Enriched Skeleton Concept Maps

Ton J. Maree; Jan M. van Bruggen; Wim M. G. Jochems

Research in Science & Technological Education Vol. 31, No. 1 (2013) pp. 16–30

Background: This study combines work on concept mapping with scripted collaborative learning. Purpose: The objective was to examine the effects of self-regulated science learning through scripting students' argumentative interactions during...

A Model for New Linkages for Prior Learning Assessment

Marco Kalz; Jan van Bruggen; Bas Giesbers; Wim Waterink; Jannes Eshuis; Rob Koper

Campus-Wide Information Systems Vol. 25, No. 4 (2008) pp. 233–243

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first the paper aims to sketch the theoretical basis for the use of electronic portfolios for prior learning assessment; second it endeavours to introduce latent semantic analysis (LSA) as a powerful...

Wayfinding Services for Open Educational Practices

Marco Kalz; Hendrik Drachsler; Jan van Bruggen; Hans Hummel; Rob Koper

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 3, No. 2 (Jun 03, 2008) pp. 24–28

To choose suitable resources for personal competence development in the vast amount of open educational resources is a challenging task for a learner. Starting with a needs analysis of lifelong learners and learning designers we introduce two...

A Study about Placement Support Using Semantic Similarity

Marco Katz; Jan van Bruggen; Bas Giesbers; Wim Waterink; Jannes Eshuis; Rob Koper

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 17, No. 3 pp. 54–64

This paper discusses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) as a method for the assessment of prior learning. The Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL) is a procedure to offer learners an individualized curriculum based on their prior experiences and...

Innovating Education with an Educational Modeling Language: Two Case Studies

Peter B. Sloep; Jan van Bruggen; Colin Tattersall; Hubert Vogten; Rob Koper; Francis Brouns; Peter van Rosmalen

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 43, No. 3 (August 2006) pp. 291–301

The intent of this study was to investigate how to maximize the chances of success of an educational innovation--specifically one based on the implementation of the educational modeling language called EML. This language is both technically and...

Towards a Methodology for Educational Modelling: A Case in Educational Assessment

Bas Giesbers; Jan van Bruggen; Henry Hermans; Desiree Joosten-ten Brinke; Jan Burgers; Rob Koper; Ignace Latour

Educational Technology & Society Vol. 10, No. 1 (2007) pp. 237–247

Educational modelling is the modelling of educational [sub-] systems. Such a model is a framework containing important concepts, processes and relations. Several models have been published but their development, which we call educational modelling,...

Designing a Learning Design Engine as a Collection of Finite State Machines

Hubert Vogten; Colin Tattersall; Rob Koper; Peter van Rosmalen; Francis Brouns; Peter Sloep; Jan van Bruggen; Harrie Martens

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 5, No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 641–661

Specifications and standards for e-learning are becoming increasingly sophisticated and complex as they deal with the core of the learning process. Simple transformations are no longer adequate to successfully implement these latest specifications...

Topics: Technology integration, online learning, web-based learning, Instructional Design, Integration, design, information technology, Educational Technology, eLearning, Programming, Inclusive Education, Information Sciences

A Design Model for Lifelong Learning Networks

Rob Koper; Bas Giesbers; Peter van Rosmalen; Peter Sloep; Jan van Bruggen; Colin Tattersall; Hubert Vogten; Francis Brouns

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 13, No. 1 (2005) pp. 71–92

The provision of lifelong learning facilities is considered to be a major new direction for higher and distance teaching educational institutes catering for the demands of industry and society. ICT networks will in future support seamless,...