Creating a Collaborative Learning Community in the CIS Sandbox

Mark Frydenberg

Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 10, No. 1 (2013) pp. 49–62

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of transforming a traditional university computer lab to create a collaborative learning community known as the CIS Sandbox, by remodeling a physical space and supporting it with a...

Achieving Digital Literacy through Game Development: An Authentic Learning Experience

Mark Frydenberg

Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 12, No. 4 (2015) pp. 256–269

Purpose: This paper aims to argue that the process of making an original game develops digital literacy skills and provides an authentic learning experience as students create, publish and deploy interactive games. Teaching students to create...

Student Learning in the CIS Studio

Mark Frydenberg

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1282–1288

As personal computers and the Internet became popular in the mid-1990s and early 2000s, colleges and universities constructed computer labs and classrooms for students to connect to the Internet. Now a decade later, as ultraportable computers,...

Topics: cooperative/collaborative learning, Teaching/Learning Strategies, Implementation Experiences

Creating Micro-Videos to Demonstrate Technology Learning and Digital Literacy

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

Interactive Technology and Smart Education Vol. 13, No. 4 (2016) pp. 261–273

Purpose: Short videos, also known as micro-videos, have emerged as a platform for sharing ideas, experiences and life events via online social networks. This paper aims to share preliminary results of a study, involving students from two...

Becoming Creative Creators: Simulating a Global Workplace using Computational Thinking Practices

Diana Andone; Mark Frydenberg

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 564–571

Since the early days of computer technology expectations for technology-enhanced learning have been high. However, this improved the design, the methodology and the delivery of learning but also has produced methods for modelling active and...

Topics: cooperative/collaborative learning, interactive learning environments, Virtual Universities

Social Media, Online Collaboration, and Mobile Devices: Tools for Demonstrating Digital Literacy

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2015 (Jun 22, 2015) pp. 6–15

The authors' previous work in studying of how digital students use technology for collaboration as members of international teams is updated with the strong use of social media. The authors describe a project pairing students from their two...

Topics: Collaboration, cooperative/collaborative learning, Literacy, Exemplary Projects, Groupware & WWW-based Tools

Are Digital Students Learning the Same on Both Sides of the Ocean?

Diana Andone; Mark Frydenberg

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 819–826

Digital students use online tools as part of their day to day experience. This paper describes the implementation and results of a cross-cultural pairing between college students in the United States and Romania who worked together over the period...

Enhancing and Transforming Global Learning Communities with Augmented Reality

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

Journal of Information Systems Education Vol. 29, No. 1 (2018) pp. 37–44

Augmented and virtual reality applications bring new insights to real world objects and scenarios. This paper shares research results of the TalkTech project, an ongoing study investigating the impact of learning about new technologies as members of ...

Creating Virtual Reality Artefacts to Enhance and Transform Digital Learning

Mark Frydenberg; Diana Andone

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 1543–1552

Virtual reality provides users with an immersive environment in which to experience new or imaginary worlds. This paper shares research results of the TalkTech project, an ongoing investigation of how students learn about and with new technologies...

Topics: Mobile teaching and learning technologies, Virtual reality learning environments, Global learning communities

Interactive and Engaging Social Learning Spaces for Collaboration

Antti Syvänen; Mark Frydenberg; Jenni Poutanen; Markku Turunen; Graham Walton

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1435–1440

Social Learning Space (SLS) is a strategy to improve student and staff commitment by means of supporting active learning, social interaction and sense of belonging. When established within University campuses SLS extends informal learning forms in...

Topics: cooperative/collaborative learning, Infrastructure, Technology & Techniques, Emerging Technologies & Accessibility

Interactive and Engaging Social Learning Spaces for Collaboration

Antti Syvänen; Mark Frydenberg; Jenni Poutanen; Markku Turunen; Graham Walton

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1429–1434

Social Learning Space (SLS) is a strategy to improve student and staff commitment by means of supporting active learning, social interaction and sense of belonging. When established within University campuses SLS extends informal learning forms in...

Topics: cooperative/collaborative learning, Infrastructure, Technology & Techniques, Emerging Technologies & Accessibility