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Bridging the Gap Between Instructional Design and Double Loop Learning
No full textSpoelstra, H., Rusman, E., Van Bruggen, J., Koper, R., & Matera, M. (2008). Bridging the Gap Between Instructional Design and Double-Loop Learning. International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 3(1), 79-89.The implementation of double loop learning based educational scenarios in instructional designs in workflow-like e-learning systems appears to be showing a gap; whereas the former assumes that processes can be reflected upon and can be modified or amended by the learners, the latter only predefines a limited set of rigid instructional processes.. However, an important advantage of instructional designs implemented in workflow-like e-learning systems using modelling standards is the ease with which they can be exchanged with other (educational) institutions. The workflow environment described here aims to make learner reflection and change to instructional processes feasible while maintaining portability. We present a description of the implementation of the pedagogical scenario of the “Virtual Company” in our workflow environment that makes use of dynamic workflow processes. Learners are provided with process building blocks, called “atomic actions” which they can use to create and revise processes “on the fly”, thus supporting double-loop learning.: This article is sponsored by the COOPER Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority 2 IST. Contract no.: 027073 (www.cooper-project.org
Bridging the gap between instructional design and double loop learning
No full textSpoelstra, H., Matera, M., Rusman, E., Van Bruggen, J., & Koper, R. (2006). Bridging the gap between instructional design and double loop learning. Proceedings of IV International Conference on Multimedia and Information and Communication Technologies in Education (m-ICTE2006). November, 22-25, 2006, Seville, Spain.There seems to be a gap between instructional design, as implemented in workflow-like e-learning sys-tems, and double loop learning, because the former predefines educational processes and the latter as-sumes these processes can be reflected upon and can be modified by the learners. Instructional designs implemented in workflow-like e-learning systems that use modelling standards enable portability of the designs. While maintaining this advantage of portability, the COOPER environment aims to make room for learning reflection and influence as well. We will present a pedagogical scenario called “Virtual Com-pany”, which uses double loop learning extensively, to demonstrate the feasibility of our proposed solu-tion. We provide learners with “atomic actions”, that can be used to create and revise processes “on the fly”, thus enabling double-loop learning.This article is sponsored by the COOPER Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority 2 IST. Contract no.: 027073 (www.cooper-project.org
Effects of In-Store Decorative Elements on Children Shopping Behaviour
No full textChildren play a significant role in determining the family's shopping expenses, which is as important as an adult's. However, the research found that having a child companion can reduce positive shopping values due to the child's behaviour. The focus of this research is to understand the effects of in-store decorative elements on children aged between three to seven years of shopping experience. The qualitative methodology using ethnography studies is employed to identify key factors affecting children's emotional and behavioural responses. It also discusses research insight that could help to improve business strategy for children customers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An Investigation on the effects of Shopping Atmospheric Variables on children aged between three to seven years during shopping activity within shopping environment
No full textShopping centres are no doubt one of the many modern-day necessities, providing everything one might need all under one roof. To encourage customer visits, prolong time spent, and potential purchases, the environment of a shopping centre is often designed in a specific way to affect customer’s shopping values, enticing both their emotional and physiological sensations. A well designed shopping centre is a combination of modern architecture, as well as the integration of the right shopping atmospheric variables such as wall decoration, lighting, sound effects, music as well as retail layout. In today’s society, parents and children visit shopping centres for multiple purposes including retail therapy, entertainment, socialising and many others. Most of the time, parents intend to complete a purchase and at the same time to enjoy the hedonic aspects of the shopping environment with their children.In the shopping journey between a parent and their accompanying child, children play a significant role in determining the family’s shopping expenses, one that is as important as an adult. However, research within this area also found that having a child companion can reduce positive shopping values due to the child’s behaviour. As a result, this will lead parents into making hastefuldecisions such as shortening their shopping visit or even making a turning back home. Although numerous efforts have been made by scholars to understand the effects of shopping atmospheric variables on the customer, only a few research is conducted to understand how these variables affect small children’s emotional response and shopping behaviour during their shopping journey. Therefore, this research focuses on ‘how to improve children aged between three to seven years shopping experience through the shopping atmospheric variables when accompanying parents during shopping activities?’.The qualitative methodology using ethnography studies is employed in this research to develop an in-depth understanding of children customer shopping experience. Research data is collected using ethnography cultural probes (children shopping experience diary), digital ethnography observations and face-to-face semi-structured interviews. Results from this study are used to help the researcher develop a theoretical framework to identify atmospheric variables that are salient to young children customers, which may later provide vital insights in improving their shopping journey. Based from the findings, this research found that children emotional response, shopping behaviour and experience are influenced by four key factors. Each key factor explained how children react towards shopping atmospherics variables they engaged with, including their self-role and characteristics as a young customer, in-store decorative elements and electronic devices, categories for merchandise and snacks and other human variables while shopping with parents. The findings help to clarify children’s attitude towards each shopping atmospherics variable, and factors that might potentially influence their response towards them. To continue, the findings also highlighted important insights that will be useful for the shopping centre’s managerial team, designer and retailer who aim to improve children’s shopping experience. The improvement made based on these insights may also potentially help businesses create a more pleasant shopping environment for children as well as increase store and brand loyalty. Moreover, the findings may also benefit parents, since a positive children’s shopping behaviour may contribute towards a more positive family’s shopping vibes
Het vormen van een eerste indruk en vertrouwen in virtuele project teams (1+2)
No full textRusman, E. (2008). Het vormen van een eerste indruk en vertrouwen in virtuele project teams (1+2). Presentaties gegeven als een gastcollege Praxis, bij de faculteit Pedagogische wetenschappen te Gent, m.m.v. Prof. Dr. M. Valcke. Februari 18, 2008, Gent, België: Universiteit Gent
Overview mobile pilot ‘ELENA goes shopping’ and ideas CRS pilot
No full textRusman, E., & Ternier, S. (2013, 21 March). Overview mobile pilot ‘ELENA goes shopping’ and ideas CRS pilot. Presentation at the ELENA projectmeeting, Saarbrücken, Germany.Presentation about mobile and CRS pilots within the project ELENA (Early e-learning of neighbouring countries). More info about ELENA at: http://www.elena-learning.eu/European Union, LifeLong Learning Programm
Online Assessment of Oral Proficiency for Intercultural Professional Communication
No full textRusman, E., & Stoyanov, S. (2011, 18 May). Online Assessment of Oral Proficiency for Intercultural Professional Communication. Presentation about the CEFcult project (www.cefcult.eu) at the workshop ‘Crossing borders’ organised by the Talenacademie, Heerlen, The Netherlands: Open University in the Netherlands.Presentation about the CEFcult project (www.cefcult.eu ) at the workshop ‘Crossing borders’ organised by the Talenacademie, Heerlen, Netherlands.Partly funded by the European project CEFcult(www.cefcult.eu
Networked professional learning
No full textSloep, P. B., & Rusman, E. (2013, 27-31 August). Networked Professional Learning. Symposium contribution to N. Pataraia & A. Margayan, Learning Through Networks, Symposium at the EARLI Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, Responsible Teaching and Sustainable Learning, Munich, Germany.The article argues for the role that networked learning can play in professional development and illustrates this role through processes of trust building
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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