Category: English

  • Rethinking learning paths: test our ideas against the traditional LMS

    I’m working a on project where we want to offer our students online learning paths which are adapted to their needs and thus take into account the very diverse student inflow we encounter. In order to construct an answer on this challenge, I will write a few blog posts. Note: Please consider also reading the previous post where…

  • Rethinking learning paths: conceptual design

    I’m working a on project where we want to offer our students online learning paths which are adapted to their needs and thus take into account the very diverse student inflow we encounter. Although I wrote this text with the previous objective in mind, it can be applied to other learning situations as well. How…

  • What are the biggest design challenges you faced? #OutstandingMOOC

    I’m enrolled in a MOOC where we are encouraged to reflect upon questions such as: “What’s the biggest design challenge that you have ever faced? Did you overcome it? How? “ I have experience with design projects on two educational levels: secondary education and higher education. My experience with both levels is more or less the same:…

  • Are blogs the best reflecting tool within a MOOC? #OutstandingMOOC

    Last week I enrolled as a participant in the following MOOC (Massive Online Open Course): How to create an outstanding MOOC (more information). I didn’t plan to get involved in another MOOC, basically cause I’m short on time (well, who isn’t?). However, I changed my mind because the organiser isn’t Coursera this time, but HT2,…

  • Download my dissertation

    Don’t know what to read this summer? How about reading a dissertation? If this sounds like heaven to you, you are welcome to journey yourself through this incredibly exciting work 🙂 “Using a learning management system in secondary education: Design and implementation characteristics of learning paths”

  • Doctor of Educational Sciences

        It has been a great adventure. But now, 7 years later, I’m happy I finally arrived at my destination and became doctor of educational sciences! I’ve got lots of ideas for the future, but first things first. I will take some days off to rest and to celebrate after all those years of…

  • The design and implementation of learning paths in a learning management system

    This article, ‘The design and implementation of learning paths in a learning management system’, investigates whether a particular design and implementation of learning paths has a beneficial impact on learning outcomes, and gender as a co-variables. It reports on the results of empirical research about using learning paths in a secondary education setting. The quasi-experimental study…

  • Researching instructional use and the technology acceptation of learning management systems

    This paper researches the technology acceptation of LMS by secondary school teachers, based on a conceptual acceptance model including: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use and subjective norm (traditional TAM2 components), personal innovativeness towards IT (Agarwal & Prasad, 1998), internal ICT support (Tondeur, Van Keer, van Braak, & Valcke, 2008), and experience (Sun & Zhang,…