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This article presents a review of existent literature that provides insight in the effectiveness of computer learning games. Based on this research, the effectiveness of games is illustrated in detail with regard to three current perspectives on...

During the past two decades, volition, defined as the ability to stay task-focused and ward off distractions, has become of special relevance for educational research and practice. It describes how decreased motivation or negative emotions can be...

This book includes 31 award winning papers from AACE’s conferences. This year's selection includes papers from the annual conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE) in Nashville (TN), the Global Learn Asia...

This paper examines ICT applications in competence-based training. It describes a number of crucial aspects. First of all an attempt is made to outline the state of affairs in competence-based training and the use of ICT in it. A comparison is made...

Universities are facing a great deal of change and quite some pressure to review and adapt their services to meet the needs of a changing world. Without a doubt, the internet, open-source software, the OER movement and – on the other hand – the...

Many recent studies have stressed the importance of students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) skills for successful learning. Consequently, teacher educators are stimulated to increase student teachers’ SRL opportunities in educational pre-service...

This study explores advantages of situated multimedia learning environments with age-specific modifications for older adults. With the strong increase of the ageing population in Western societies the number of active older adults willing to learn...

Embedding support devices in educational computer games has been asserted to positively affect learning outcomes. However, there is only limited direct empirical evidence on which design variations of support provision influence learning. In order...

The paper describes the concepts of Virtual Campus and Virtual Mobility and refers to several past and present projects and initiatives in the field. Through these previous experiences, a shift of concepts is noticed: from the fully online Virtual...

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Video Intervision Peer coaching (VIP) aims at the improvement of teacher classroom behavior and the development of an appropriate coaching attitude. Teachers have to videotape their behavior that they wish to improve and discuss the video excerpt in ...

A Professional Development Plan (PDP) is used to structure teachers’ professional development path in terms of learning goals and plans of action. In order to study the effects of guidance on the quality of PDPs, the experimental group was offered a ...

Although teacher educators support the importance of the SRL concept, they often find it difficult to foster student teachers’ SRL in the educational pre-service program. So, the professional development of teacher educators deserves more attention...

Despite that benefits of feedback in student learning are reported in much research, little has been reported regarding the use of feedback from teachers to other teachers--a key tool in professional development. In this study, we triangulated data...

A research project evaluated the effectiveness of an Electronic Performance Support System (EPSS). The population consisted of 100 telephone operators in the sales and service department of a Dutch bank. The research ascertained that the EPSS was...

Students with high intrinsic motivation often out-perform students with low intrinsic motivation. However, little is known about the processes that lead to these differences. In education based on simulations or authentic electronic learning...

Many forms of e-learning (such as online courses with authentic tasks and computer-supported collaborative learning) have become important in distance education. Very often, such e-learning courses or tasks are set up following constructivist design ...