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Beyond ePortfolios: Creating, Exploiting, and Archiving Activity Traces, Learning Outcomes, and Learning Analytics as Personal Shareable Online Spaces

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Juan Carlos Farah, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

The concept of an ePortfolio was introduced in 1999 as an electronic learning record and further developed to overcome the limitation of learning management systems lacking persistent storage for learning artifacts. Nowadays, educational platforms have evo ...

IEEE2017

Child-Robot Spatial Arrangement in a Learning by Teaching Activity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Alexis David Jacq, Ana Paiva

In this paper, we present an experiment in the context of a child-robot interaction where we study the influence of the child-robot spatial arrangement on the child’s focus of attention and the perception of the robot’s performance. In the “Co-Writer learn ...

Ieee2016

The orchestrated collaborative classroom: Designing and making sense of heterogeneous ecologies of teaching and learning resources

Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

The physical face-to-face classroom still represents the core educational setting in which everyday CSCL practice takes place. However, current classrooms are not limited anymore to books, blackboards and other physical artifacts: laptops, tablets, digital ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences2015

Thymio

Fanny Riedo

Technology is now an important part of our lives. We often see robots cited as the future of education, and reports of their imminent entrance in schools. New projects create buzz in the media and online, but when we look at the actual situation, very few ...

EPFL2015

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

EPFL2015

Special issue on: Learning Analytics (Editorial)

Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

With the general technological advances of the recent years, current learning environments amass an abundance of data. Albeit such data offer the chance of better understand the learning process, stakeholders – learners, teachers and institutions – often n ...

2013

Interactive tabletops in education

Pierre Dillenbourg

Interactive tabletops are gaining increased attention from CSCL researchers. This paper analyses the relation between this technology and teaching and learning processes. At a global level, one could argue that tabletops convey a socio-constructivist flavo ...

2011

Low-Resolution Ambient Awareness Tools for Educational Support

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Hamed Seiied Alavi, Khaled Bachour

We examine an approach in technology-enhanced learning that avoids deviation from existing pedagogical practices as these are often reluctant to change. This is accomplished by designing technology to augment learning activities that are already in common ...

2010

Imitative Learning Based Emotional Controller for Unknown Systems with Unstable Equilibrium

Arash Arami

Purpose – Intelligent control for unidentified systems with unstable equilibriums is not always a proper control strategy, which results in inferior performance in many cases. Because of the existing trial and error manner of the procedure in former durati ...

2010

An Experiment Using Document Annotations in Education

Gil Regev

This paper describes an on-going experiment at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne regarding the use of Web based document annotations for educational purposes. An annotation tool called Medium was built, merging database and Web technolo ...

1998

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