Games and creativity researcher
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Ouders en de elektronische leeromgeving
This article describes tips and tricks on how parents can benefit from the LMS (learning management platform) being used in their children’s school. Unfortunately, this article describes a Flemish LMS-product (Smartschool) and is only available in Dutch. Een aangepaste versie van dit artikel werd eerder gepubliceerd op de AHA! website van Radio 2. De meeste…
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Ontwerp- en implementatiekenmerken van leerpaden binnen een Elektronische Leeromgeving
Deze paper, gepresenteerd tijdens de Onderwijs Research dagen, beschrijft de vier studies die werden uitgevoerd in het kader van mijn doctoraatsonderzoek naar de ontwerp- en implementatiekenmerken van leerpaden binnen een ELO (Elektronische Leeromgeving). Please cite as: Cindy De Smet, Martin Valcke, Tammy Schellens & Bram De Wever. Design and implementation characteristics of learning paths in…
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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”
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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…
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Blended learning, LMS, learning paths. (Short) overview of my dissertation.
Presented on 25/03/2015 in Kortrijk, AUGent seminaries onderwijskunde This presentation gives a short overview of my dissertation. Some slides have been removed, due to copyright regulations. Slides are mainly in English, but some are written in Dutch.
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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…
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MOOCs zetten e-leren in de schijnwerper
This article describes what Moocs are and how they impact education. Unfortunately, this article is only available in Dutch. Het artikel over Moocs, verschenen in de trendrubriek van het bibliotheektijdschrift Meta, beschrijft kort wat Moocs inhouden, de stand van zaken in het onderwijs en hun relatie tot bibliotheken. Het artikel is auteursrechtelijk beschermd, gelieve dit…
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ELO’s in het Vlaams secundair onderwijs (Dutch)
This post describes a paper on how LMS are used in Flemish secondary education. Unfortunately, this article was written in Dutch. But, the good news is, the original paper is available in English on this blog. So please continue reading. In 2011 schreef ik samen met mijn co-promoter een artikel over hoe ELO’s in de…
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Wiki’s in het onderwijs (Dutch papers)
This post describes three papers/teacher guides on the use of wikis in education. Unfortunately, they are only available in Dutch. In het verleden schreef ik 3 artikels in het Nederlands over wiki’s. Zijn wiki’s nieuw voor u? Dan zijn ‘Het-gebruik-van-wikis-in-het-onderwijs‘ en ‘Een wiki gebruiken voor gezamenlijke kennisopbouw‘ een goed startpunt. Zoekt u concrete praktijkervaringen met betrekking tot…
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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,…