Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE)
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John Dewey
(Chapter, 2021)The American philosopher John Dewey and the tradition of pragmatism is often connected to the concept of experience. This entry explores John Dewey’s pragmatism with a particular emphasis on experience as transformative ... -
Meta-intelligence: understanding, control, and interactivity between creative, analytical, practical, and wisdom-based approaches in problem solving
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A deeper understanding of the processes leading to problem framing and behind finding solutions to problems should help explain variability in the quality of the solutions to those problems. Using Sternberg’s WICS model ... -
Game Transfer Phenomena and Problematic Interactive Media Use: Dispositional and Media Habit Factors
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The study of the effects of interactive media has mainly focused on dysregulated behaviors, the conceptualization of which is supported by the paradigms of addiction. Research into Game Transfer Phenomena (GTP) examines ... -
Social Media Responses to the Pandemic: What Makes a Coronavirus Meme Creative
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The current pandemic and the measures taken to address it, on a global scale, are unprecedented. Times of crisis call for creative solutions, and these are not reduced to the work of scientists or politicians. In everyday ... -
New Frontiers in Creativity, Learning, and Technology Research
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This article offers a brief introduction to the special issue ‘New frontiers in creativity, learning, and technology research’ by situating the topic and explaining the events and previous publications that led to this new ... -
Learning Analytics in a Time of Pandemics: Mapping the Field
(Chapter, 2021)The coronavirus pandemic has impacted global society in many ways, not least education, with schools and universities moving many teaching and learning practices online. This paper examines the response of educational ... -
Who Are the Students of MOOCs? Experience from Learning Analytics Clustering Techniques
(Chapter, 2021)Clustering in education is important in identifying groups of objects in order to find linked patterns of correlations in educational datasets. As such, MOOCs provide a rich source of educational datasets which enable a ... -
A Postphenomenological Framework for Studying User Experience of Immersive Virtual Reality
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Virtual Reality (VR) is a remarkably flexible technology for interventions as it allows the construction of virtual worlds with ontologies radically different from the real world. By embodying users in avatars situated in ... -
Enriching context descriptions for enhanced LA scalability: a case study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Learning analytics (LA) is a field that examines data about learners and their context, for understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs. Integration of multiple data sources, an important ... -
Capacity Building for a Stronger Workforce in the Public Healthcare Sector
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)In a more and more demanding sector, healthcare leaders are in need of relevant and up-to-date competencies. The paper describes the iComPAss-project that aimed to increase the quality of a Master’s programme for healthcare ... -
Validating an Instrument to Measure Teachers’ Preparedness to Use Digital Technology in their Teaching
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In order to effectively integrate digital technology into education, it is necessary to examine and understand teachers’ preparedness to use digital technology in education. The objective of this pilot study is to validate ... -
Scoping the Emerging Field of Quantitative Ethnography: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Directions
(Chapter, 2021)Quantitative Ethnography (QE) is an emerging methodological approach that combines ethnographic and statistical tools to analyze both Big Data and smaller data to study human behavior and interactions. This paper presents ... -
DigiTrans kortrapport: Studentenes opplevelse av studiesituasjonen under nedstengingene av UiB høsten 2020
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Universitetsforelesningen og responsteknologi
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Artikkelen gir en historisk presentasjon av hvordan universitetsforelesningen har forandret seg over tid, og dens nåværende status i det 21. århundre. Den diskuterer hvordan responsteknologi kan bidra til å endre og bevare ... -
Digitrans kortrapport: Undervisernes opplevelse av studiesituasjonen etter nedstengingen av UiB grunnet COVID-19
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Educational Theories and Learning Analytics : From Data to Knowledge
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Digitrans kortrapport: Studentenes opplevelse av studiesituasjonen etter nedstengingen av UiB grunnet COVID-19
(SLATE Research Report 2020-1, Research report, 2020-09-21) -
Integrating multiple data sources for learning analytics—review of literature
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-08-28)Learning analytics (LA) promises understanding and optimization of learning and learning environments. To enable richer insights regarding questions related to learning and education, LA solutions should be able to integrate ... -
Never Mind the Gap: Formative Assessment Confronted with Dewey’s and Gadamer’s Concept of Experience
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The notion of “closing the learning gap” is widely used in the conceptualisation of formative assessment. It builds on an unarticulated assumption that students' learning can and should be controlled towards predefined ... -
Polyphonic Imagination: Understanding Idea Generation in Multidisciplinary Groups as a Multivoiced Stimulation of Fantasy
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)The primary objective of this paper is to offer a new way of understanding the creative processes of multidisciplinary groups, whose work is to generate innovative ideas. The paper reports from a project focused on ...