On Monday, 30 August 2010, Prof. dr. Paul Kirschner, chair of the Learning & Cognition Programme at CELSTEC, a research institute of the Open Universiteit, will give the opening keynote address at the EARLI SIG6/7 conference.
Again a featured article has been published. Els Boshuizen is interviewed on her research topic: Domain specific expertise development. This is one of the three research themes in the Learning & Cognition programme.
At the website www.leraar24.nl a video has been published about the research project of Tim de Jong. He teaches hindi to pupils of secondary schools by means of a mobile phone.
In the video Tim de Jong tells about his PhD research and pupils who take part in the experiment give their view on this way of learning.
The use of Facebook and other social network sites has a negative effect on study results of students. That is one of the conclusions of a study among American students done by Paul Kirschner, professor Educational psychology of (CELSTEC) of the Open Universiteit and Aryn Kaprinksi of van Ohio State University.
