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Blending Digital and Face-to-Face Interaction Using a Co -Located Social MediaApp in Class

Benoît Garbinato, Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

Improving face-to-face (f2f) interaction in large classrooms is a challenging task as student participation can be hard to initiate. Thanks to the wide adoption of personal mobile devices, it is possible to blend digital and face-to-face interaction and in ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2018

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sten Govaerts

Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in learning tools (learning management systems, content man- agement systems, or perso ...

2015

The Smart Device Specification for Remote Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents the Smart Device specification to interface with remote labs. To encourage the broader sharing of remote labs, the Smart Device paradigm decouples the client from the server and provides well-defined interfaces between client and server ...

2015

Uncomfortable yet Fun Messaging with Chachachat

Denis Gillet, Angelo Benedetto, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

In order to improve user experience and to foster novel ideas, some voices in the HCI community have argued to break fundamental design rules, an approach well known in the art community. In this paper, we use this radical approach to design a playful mobi ...

2015

Towards Mobile Blended Interaction Fostering Critical Thinking

Denis Gillet, Samuel Bendahan, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

Critical thinking is a fundamental skill that all citizens should have. Unfortunately, while beliefs in unfounded claims are pervasive, teaching critical skill is a strenuous task. Digital mobile interaction could potentially support face-to-face teaching ...

2015

Graspeo: a Social Media Platform for Knowledge Management in NGOs

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

Timely access to critical information is crucial for any organization operating in situations of emergency. Deploying an adequate information system tailored to specific organizational needs and matched to the organizational structure is essential. To unde ...

2015

The Smart Device Specification for Remote Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents the Smart Device specification to interface with remote labs. To encourage the broader sharing of remote labs, the Smart Device paradigm decouples the client from the server and provides well-defined interfaces between client and server ...

IEEE2015

Contextual Learning Analytics Apps to Create Awareness in Blended Inquiry Learning

Denis Gillet, David Sandoz, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Blended inquiry learning, where students for example use online labs to perform experiments, is considered a promising approach to increase the skills and interest of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. For teachers to pr ...

2015

Learning dashboards: an overview and future research opportunities

Sten Govaerts

In this paper, we present work on learning analytics that aims to support learners and teachers through dashboard applications, ranging from small mobile applications to learnscapes on large public displays. Dashboards typically capture and visualize trace ...

Springer London Ltd2014

AngeLA: Putting the Teacher in Control of Student Privacy in the Online Classroom

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Learning analytics (LA) is often considered as a means to improve learning and learning environments by measuring student behaviour, analysing the tracked data and acting upon the results. The use of LA tools implies recording and processing of student act ...

2014

Rich Open Educational Resources for Personal and Inquiry Learning. Agile Creation, Sharing and Reuse in Educational Social Media Platforms

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Andrii Vozniuk, Wissam Halimi, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely accessible, openly licensed multimedia documents or interactive tools that can be typically integrated in Learning Management Systems to support courses. With social media platforms becoming the central piece of ...

2014

Enforcing Privacy for Teenagers in Online Inquiry Learning Spaces

Denis Gillet, Na Li, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

In the Go-Lab European project, we are investigating an online lab portal that enables students to perform personalized scientific experiments with online labs. To protect sensitive student data, such as user activity data and learning preferences, this pa ...

2014

SpeakUp in the Classroom: Anonymous Temporary Social Media for Better Interactions

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

Student participation in class is an important aspect of the learning experience, and can provide valuable feedback for teachers. However, getting students to interact in large classrooms is challenging. This paper presents SpeakUp, a mobile temporary soci ...

2014

Helping each other teach: design and realisation of a social tutoring platform

Denis Gillet, Sten Govaerts

Today a wide range of technologies exist that support learning and teaching, ranging from learning management systems (LMS) to general social media platforms, such as Facebook and blogs. However, teaching with such tools and platforms can create various ob ...

2014

Learning Analytics Dashboard Applications

Sten Govaerts

This article introduces learning analytics dashboards that visualize learning traces for learners and teachers. We present a conceptual framework that helps to analyze learning analytics applications for these kinds of users. We then present our own work i ...

Sage Publications Inc2013

Towards portable learning analytics dashboards

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

This paper proposes a novel approach to build and deploy learning analytics dashboards in multiple learning environments. Existing learning dashboards are barely portable: once deployed on a learning platform, it requires considerable effort to deploy the ...

2013

Towards an Online Lab Portal for Inquiry-based STEM Learning at School

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

Nowadays, the knowledge economy is growing rapidly. To sustain future growth, more well educated people in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) are needed. In the Go-Lab project we aim to motivate and orient students from an early age on ...

Springer2013

SpeakUp – A Mobile App Facilitating Audience Interaction

Benoît Garbinato, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Adrian Christian Holzer

A dynamic student-teacher interaction during class is an important part of the learning experience. However, in regular class settings and especially in large classrooms, it is a challenging task to encourage students to participate as they tend to be inti ...

2013

May I suggest? Three PLE recommender strategies in comparison

Denis Gillet, Sten Govaerts

Personal learning environment (PLE) solutions aim at empowering learners to design (ICT and web-based) environments for their activities in different learning contexts and even for transitions between these contexts. Hereby, recommender systems which are h ...

2011

A Federated Search and Social Recommendation Widget

Denis Gillet, Sandy Ingram, Sten Govaerts

This paper presents a federated search and social recommen- dation widget. It describes the widget’s interface and the un- derlying social recommendation engine. A preliminary eval- uation of the widget’s usability and usefulness involving 15 subjects is a ...

2011