Open educational resources (OERs)

Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects [full title]. Reflec…

Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects [full title]. Reflections by Barry J. Zimmerman, a pioneer in the research on this subject, on the results of his work and more recent approaches relying also on the availability of the ICT tools.

We will present the preliminary results of an investigation on the use of a variety of learning tools loosely integrated by the Next Genera…

We will present the preliminary results of an investigation on the use of a variety of learning tools loosely integrated by the Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) of the Up2U EU-funded project. Students perform individual and group activities, both formal and informal ones, within a project of fixed duration, to accomplish a common task established by a teacher or chosen by the learners on their own initiative. Learning-related data are fed to a central store by a popular LMS, by a collaborative platform supporting project-oriented and artifact-oriented learning and by simpler tools able to track a set of less structured activities. Data are then processed with different tools to analyze meaningful correlations between activities mediated by different tools and are finally compared to information acquired in more traditional ways about some skill levels, before and after the project execution. The investigation puts a special focus on actions related to the set-up and the coordination of a project group and on the activity aimed at finding educational resources on the web. The tools in the NGDLE use the xAPI protocol to send statements of user actions. A commons Learning Record Store (LRS) is provided by the NGDLE itself. Processing of analytics data is performed both with native functions of the LRS and with external tools being fed with exported data.

Comparing Experiences at Different Italian School Levels. Emotions are becoming increasingly central in education research. The research s…

Comparing Experiences at Different Italian School Levels. Emotions are becoming increasingly central in education research. The research shows a deep gap concerning emotions triggered by socio-constructivist approaches where learn- ing occurs through social interaction, peer-work, group work, and learning activities based on building ideas or concrete objects. The specific emotions emerging in such contexts are still under-researched. To address this gap, this study first reviews how emotions are cur- rently conceptualized and studied. We then present excerpts from several of our studies to analyze the specific emotional processes that emerge in relation to socio-constructivist educational activities. The main objective is to understand what emotions are elicited in students when participating in educational socio-constructivist activities. (from the Abstract of the paper)

From the paper abstract: "Due to the lack of guidelines and standards for subject fields, their application in termbases risks being ad-hoc…

From the paper abstract: "Due to the lack of guidelines and standards for subject fields, their application in termbases risks being ad-hoc, which reduces their effectiveness in achieving their intended goals. Proceedings of MDTT 2022 (Multilingual Digital Terminology Today 2022) by Kara Warburton.

Very interesting paper, developed around a conceptual model, but taking into account empirical data and making continuous reference to its …

Very interesting paper, developed around a conceptual model, but taking into account empirical data and making continuous reference to its application.

Tutorial on the TBX standard and the online Glossary Viewer and Editor of the WE-COLLAB Project. Possibly, the only free tool for editing m…

Tutorial on the TBX standard and the online Glossary Viewer and Editor of the WE-COLLAB Project. Possibly, the only free tool for editing multilingual glossaries online.

A quick but comprehensive review of contributions on the student's intrinsic and extrinsic motivations to learn, and on the teacher's role …

A quick but comprehensive review of contributions on the student's intrinsic and extrinsic motivations to learn, and on the teacher's role in strengthening them.

"We will review the primary principles of cognitive disequilibrium and contrast these principles with work on desirable difficulties, produ…

"We will review the primary principles of cognitive disequilibrium and contrast these principles with work on desirable difficulties, productive failure, impasse driven learning, and pure discovery-based learning."