Publications by Christian Giang

Editorial: Educational robotics as a tool to foster 21st century skills

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Identifying and Comparing Multi-dimensional Student Profiles Across Flipped Classrooms

Paola Mejia Domenzain, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Mirko Marras

Flipped classroom (FC) courses, where students complete pre-class activities before attending interactive face-to-face sessions, are becoming increasingly popular. However, many students lack the skills, resources, or motivation to effectively engage in pr ...

Springer2022

Generalisable Methods for Early Prediction in Interactive Simulations for Education

Jade Maï L Cock, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang

Interactive simulations allow students to discover the underlying principles of a scientific phenomenon through their own exploration. Unfortunately, students often struggle to learn effectively in these environments. Classifying students’ interaction data ...

2022

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Paola Mejia Domenzain, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Mirko Marras

Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...

2022

Maschinelles Lernen zur Förderung von höheren Kompetenzen

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Thiemo Wambsganss

Hintergrund: Die einschneidenden Veränderungen, welche moderne Gesellschaften durch die Digitalisierung erfahren haben, haben es unerlässlich gemacht, heutigen und künftigen Generationen höhere Kompetenzen als Rüstzeug für die neue Lern- und Arbeitswelt mi ...

2022

The role of feedback and guidance as intervention methods to foster computational thinking in educational robotics learning activities for primary school

Francesco Mondada, Jean-Philippe Pellet, Evgeniia Bonnet, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Morgane Solène Denise Chevalier, Bernard Baumberger

Computational thinking (CT) is considered an emerging competence domain linked to 21st-century competences, and educational robotics (ER) is increasingly recognised as a tool to develop CT competences. This is why researchers recommend developing intervent ...

2022

Aligning the Design of Educational Robotics Tools With Classroom Activities

Francesco Mondada, Alberto Piatti, Christian Giang

This chapter addresses the alignment of educational robotics (ER) tools with classroom activities. To this end, it first introduces a conceptualization of ER activities describing the relevant cognitive artifacts and the learning theories underlying such a ...

IGI Global2021

Accessible Maker-based Approaches to Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Francesco Mondada, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Amaury Robert Dame, Aditya Mehrotra, Anthony Guinchard

Educational Robotics holds the potential to promote the development of important 21st century skills, such as creativity and problem-solving skills in addition to digital literacy. However, the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has posed particular obstac ...

2021

Designing Tools and Activities for Educational Robotics in Online Learning

Evgeniia Bonnet, Christian Giang

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent school closures created several challenges for teachers and students. From one day to the next, teachers had to rethink their educational activities and move to remote learning. Especially with regard to educational ...

IGI Global2021

Exploring a Handwriting Programming Language for Educational Robots

Francesco Mondada, Taavet Kangur, Barbara Bruno, Laila Abdelsalam El-Hamamsy, Christian Giang, Vaios Papaspyros, Laura Mathex

Recently, introducing computer science and educational robots in compulsory education has received increasing attention. However, the use of screens in classrooms is often met with resistance, especially in primary school. To address this issue, this study ...

Springer, Cham2021