Keynote Paul Kirschner at EARLI SIG6/7 conference
Facebook niet goed voor studieresultatenOn 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.
New Featured Article: Els Boshuizen on Domain specific expertise development
els boshuizen 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.
Leraar 24 publishes video on CELSTEC project Learning Languages by Mobile Phone
taalles op mobielAt 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.

Upcoming: 17 September José Janssen defends PhD thesis
jose janssen

Friday 17 September 2010 José Janssen (CELSTEC) will defend her doctoral thesis titled 'Paving the Way for Lifelong Learning. Facilitating competence development through a learning path specification'.

Her PhD supervisor is prof. dr. E.J.R. Koper en de co-promotor is dr. A.J. Berlanga.

Research: Using Facebook not good for study results
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.

Lower grades

New featured article: Liesbeth Kester on Flexible learning environments
 liesbeth kesterAgain a featured article has been published. Liesbeth Kester is interviewed on the research theme she leads: Flexible Learning environments. This is one of the three research themes in the Learning & Cognition programme.
OU students learn by mobile phone in Florence
Walking through Florence while listening to your smartphone that gives you information, feedback and tasks about what you are looking at. If something draws your attention, you record a commentary or record the sounds. And all this without having to programme or operate the mobile device itself. That is the goal of the project Audio Augmented Spaces for Learning.
New featured article: Saskia Brand on Information based complex problem solving
 This week a new featured article has been published. Saskia Brand-Gruwel is interviewed on the research theme she leads: Information based complex problem solving. This is one of the three research themes in the Learning & Cognition programme.
Agreement on phd research between Open Universiteit and NHL
16 July 2010 an agreement on PhD research has been signed by Open Universiteit (OU) and NHL University of applied sciences (Leeuwarden, NL). This agreement confirms the collaboration between the parties in the field of PhD research of staff members of NHL at the OUNL.

Samenwerking

New on CELSTEC Staff: Halszka Jarodzka
Halszka Jarodzka

Halszka Jarodzka has joint the Learning & Cognition group at CELSTEC as an assistant professor as of 15th of July.

 

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