Publications by Beat Adrian Schwendimann

What makes an online learning journal powerful for VET? Distinguishing productive usage patterns and effective learning strategies

Background: The current and future workforce is challenged to adapt to changing environments and become lifelong, self-regulated learners. Learning journals can regulate learning processes through scaffolding reflection on rich experiences. However, learni ...

2018

Monitoring, Awareness and Reflection in Blended Technology Enhanced Learning: a Systematic Review

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Beat Adrian Schwendimann, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

Education is experiencing a paradigm shift towards blended learning models in technology-enhanced learning (TEL). Despite the potential benefits of blended learning, it also entails additional complexity in terms of monitoring, awareness and reflection, as ...

2017

Perceiving learning at a glance: A systematic literature review of learning dashboard research

Pierre Dillenbourg, Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Beat Adrian Schwendimann, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

This paper presents a systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art of research on learning dashboards in the fields of Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining. Research on learning dashboards aims to identify what data is meaningful to diffe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Comparing two forms of concept map critique activities to facilitate knowledge integration processes in evolution education

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Concept map activities often lack a subsequent revision step that facilitates knowledge integration. This study compares two collaborative critique activities using a Knowledge Integration Map (KIM), a form of concept map. Four classes of high school biolo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Distinguishing knowledge integration gains in evolution education through concept map network analysis

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Understanding how evolutionary changes happen requires connecting genotype and phenotype level concepts. This study uses a form of concept map, called Knowledge Integration Map (KIM), as a learning and assessment tool to support and assess connecting conce ...

2016

Understanding learning at a glance: An overview of learning dashboard studies

Pierre Dillenbourg, Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Beat Adrian Schwendimann, Adrian Christian Holzer, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Andrii Vozniuk, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni

Research on learning dashboards aims to identify what data is meaningful to different stakeholders in education, and how data can be presented to support sense-making processes. This paper summarizes the main outcomes of a systematic literature review on l ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

The ‘Erfahrraum’: a pedagogical model for designing educational technologies in dual vocational systems

Pierre Dillenbourg, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Vocational education taking place in the dual contexts of workplace and school often lacks integration of concrete experiences with theoretical knowledge. The interplay between workplace and school contexts and their often antagonistic priorities call for ...

2015

Screen or Tabletop: An Eye-Tracking Study of the Effect of Representation Location in a Tangible User Interface System

Pierre Dillenbourg, Beat Adrian Schwendimann, Sébastien Cuendet, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Lorenzo Lucignano

This article presents a comparison of the effects of input-output location (co-located versus discrete) on user performance in a tangible user interface (TUI) system. We conducted a mobile eye-tracking study with two different versions of a TUI system and, ...

2015

Concept maps as versatile tools to integrate complex ideas: From Kindergarten to higher and professional education

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Knowledge is getting increasingly more complex. Learners, from Kindergarten to higher education, require powerful tools to connect complex ideas. This paper explores the range of studies that investigated concept maps as learning, metacognitive, collaborat ...

2015

The impact of study load on the dynamics of longitudinal email communications among students

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

With the advent of information technology, emails have gained wide acceptability among students as an asynchronous communication tool. According to the current pedagogy literature the overall trend of the use of email communication by university students h ...

Elsevier2014