Inquiry Learning: Instructor Perspectives

Instructor Perspectives of Mobile Learning Platform: An Empirical Study

Mobile learning (m-Learning) is the cutting-edge learning platform to really gain traction, driven mostly by the huge uptake in smartphones and their ever-increasing uses within the educational society. Education has long benefitted from the proliferation of technology; however, m-Learning adoption has not proceeded at the pace one might expect. There is a disconnect between the rate of adoptio...

Three perspectives on technology support in inquiry learning: personal inquiry, mobile collaboratories and emerging learning objects

Our hands-on workshop convenes educational designers and learning technology architects to author inquiry learning activities and user experiences. Participants will use a scenario editor to design classroom and field activities based on pedagogical approaches such as personal inquiry. Designs will be implemented using modeling tools, mobile devices and inquiry management tools provided by the ...

Orchestrating Inquiry Learning

Instructor Influences on Student Learning at NOLS

Historically, adventure-based research and models have inadequately described the role of the instructor in the process of student learning of transferable outcomes. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the influence of instructors from the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) on learning perceived to be transferable. Qualitative data indicated students perceive instructors to...

The digital instructor for literacy learning

The DigLIn project aims at providing concrete solutions for adult literacy students by developing and testing L2 literacy acquisition material in four different languages and by employing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to analyse the learner’s read speech output and provide feedback. We develop the technology, design sample exercises for different languages (Dutch, English, German and Finni...