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Anders Mørch, Jan Dolonen and Jan Eirik Nævdal have developed and integrated software agents with two educational groupware systems (TeamWave Workplace and FLE), using evolutionary prototyping and empirical-based design as development techniques. The resulting prototypes of pedagogical agents (CoPAS, SA-Agent and RuleEditor) provide learners and teachers with increasingly domain-specific support for distributed collaborative learning activities. [...]
Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:33:39 +0000
Our paper exploring how students create understandings of given tasks in relation to both a highly structured and an open-ended learning environment is now available in 'The International Journal of Educational Research'. In this paper Ingvill Rasmussen, Ingeborg Krange and Sten Ludvigsen analyse how students' understanding of tasks evolves through their activities in relation to [...]
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:48:24 +0000
As part of our MULTIMO project we are developing the Docudancing blog with Per Roar Thorsnes from KHiO. Per Roar is investigating the roles of documentary in choreographjy and making three related dance works as well as the Docudancing blog. We're researching and writing this up together. This is very much a process site so [...]
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:34:46 +0000
Over the last summer I followed the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn as it was reported online. I was interested to use this as a trajectory for an article on multimodal discourses entitled 'Inside the Rings of Saturn'. Prof. Gail Hawisher invited me to contribute to a special issue of Computers and Composition on the work [...]
Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:09:35 +0000
Part of the research trip was to explore museums in Japan and Australia. We visited several museums - both in Tokyo and in Melbourne and Sydney and found quit different types and ways of managing museums. Quit a trip - surfing several continents and timee zones!!
I will first tell about the museums we visited [...]
Wed, 12 Jan 2005 17:06:02 +0000