Angel Suarez

Nurturing communities of inquiry: A formative study of the DojoIBL platform

This formative study introduces DojoIBL, a web-based platform to support collaborative inquiry-based learning processes. By supporting communication and collaboration with new technological affordances, DojoIBL aims at nurturing communities of inquiry. The study elaborates on the theoretical underpinning of DojoIBL, describes its added value and presents a detailed explanation about the functionalities supported. Thereafter, an evaluation about how users perceived DojoIBL has been performed. Besides, the positive acceptance of participants, the results also showed that DojoIBL seems to be a suitable tool to support essential components of communities of inquiry. The study concludes anticipating the integration of role support as future developments of DojoIBL.

GPIM: Google Glassware for Inquiry-Based Learning

Over the past few years, the use of mobile personal devices has witnessed a widespread take-up. With wearable technology like head-up-displays a new genre of educational technology is appearing to enhance contextualized learning. This paper reports about a Google Glass prototype for Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL). With the use of Google Glass we aim to bring learning to the next level providing a more seamless experience where Glass supports the learning- and inquiry-process just in time and in an unobtrusive way. This demo paper introduces the design and functionalities of Google Glass for the Personal Inquiry Manager (GPIM). The paper concludes with open issues for future research, especially focused on evaluation and future development.

Eine Analyse von Interaktionsmustern für mobiles forschendes Lernen

In den letzten zehn Jahren wurde mobile Technologie mehr und mehr zu einer Standardkomponente im Methodenkatalog des forschenden Lernens. Nichtsdestotrotz wurden oft der padagogische Mehrwert und der sinnvolle Einsatz hinterfragt. In diesem Beitrag haben die Autoren 62 Systeme zur Unterstutzung von mobilem forschendem Lernen sowie die Nutzung von mobiler Technologie im Lerndesign und deren potenziellen Mehrwert analysiert. Als besondere Alleinstellungsmerkmale, die den Einsatz von mobiler Technologie rechtfertigen, konnen Funktionen der individuellen und kollaborativen Datensammlung, der Einsatz von Echtzeitkommunikation sowie die Verbindung von simulierten oder echten Lernsituationen mittels erweiterter Realitat hervorgehoben werden. Hierzu prasentieren die Autoren ein Klassifikationsschema fur die Entwicklung von dozenteninitiierten, lernerinitiierten und kontextinitiierten Lernszenarien fur mobiles forschendes Lernen.

DojoIBL: Nurturing Communities of Inquiry

This paper presents and outlines the demonstration of DojoIBL, a web-based platform that aims at nurturing communities of inquiry by supporting communication and collaboration with emerging technological affordances. The manuscript briefly elaborates on the theoretical underpinning of DojoIBL and describes the functionalities supported. It concludes anticipating the follow up implementation which will consist on the integration of role support in DojoIBL.