Monday 25 November 2013

Webinar #9: 4.December 2013, 10:00-11:00 (GMT): Mediating Cultural Heritage with Persuasive Learning Designs

Sandra Burri Gram-Hansen from Aalborg University will give a webinar on the Kaj Munk case.

Persuasive learning designs have been argued to be pedagogical designs which motivate the students to engage in and interact with the learning material. This webinar will provide an introduction to some of the learning resources developed within the Kaj Munk case, and exemplify how they may be adjusted to meet the requirements of a variety of learning contexts. The webinar will focus particularly on the motivational potential of the different resources and on ways in which persuasive design may facilitate more complex learning processes.

To join the webinar please follow the link below.

http://leedsmet.adobeconnect.com/r6urblrsboc/

Wednesday 2 October 2013

Webinar #8: Designing the Persuasive Learning Experience

As part of the series of webinars being delivered through the EuroPLOT research project, Erich Herber from Danube University Krems will be running the next Webinar on October 17th. Please see the details below and kindly disseminate to colleagues who may be interested in attending.

Summary: While the persuasive strength of a digital learning object will vary from learner to learner or from learning setting to learning setting, there are persuasive design strategies that are likely to apply to a larger number of educational settings. This presentation discusses some of these design strategies and attempts (from the viewpoint of persuasive learning) as well as design considerations that shall help
designers of digital learning objects to develop high-quality persuasive learning designs for their audiences. We will present key findings of research that has been made in EuroPLOT as well as overall design
recommendations for persuasive learning objects.

When: Thursday 17 October, 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Time Zone: (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London

To join the meeting:
http://leedsmet.adobeconnect.com/europlot-duk/

Wednesday 18 September 2013

IWEPLET is over

From 16.-17.September, the EuroPLOT project organised the International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching (IWEPLET) 2013 in Paphos (Cyprus), in conjunction with the EC-TEL conference.

The workshop was divided into two parts: on the first day the focus was on the EuroPLOT project itself, with individual presentations of the work package leaders. The workshop was opened by Janet Finlay who gave an account about how the EuroPLOT project was established in 2009/2010 and how the team came together in preparing the proposal to the EACEA. It was then followed by presentations given by members of the EuroPLOT team. The talks covered the theoretical foundations, the tool development, the implementation of persuasive design in four case studies, and the evaluation of the results. A discussion with an outlook followed. Unfortunately BJ Fogg was not able to appear online as originally scheduled.

The second day was devoted to papers which showed work with scope beyond EuroPLOT. Presenters came from as far as Canada and Ghana. There were 11 papers presented, covering Persuasive Design, Assessment and Learning Success, Technologies, and Application Domains.

The proceedings are available online: on the website http://www.iweplet2013.eu/program are links to the whole proceedings volume, as well as to individual papers.

Monday 2 September 2013

Join us for the final test of PLOTLearner 3

PLOTLearner is now available online with a learning journey and repurposed Hebrew language learning! 
 
Follow the latest news on PLOTLearner at http://bh.3bmoodle.dk/During September EuroPLOT offers access to an online repurposed version of PLOTLearner for evaluation. To get a login account you will be obliged to complete the post-test online survey for EuroPLOT on Friday noon September 27 at the very latest! 

The new online version is called Bible Online Learner. After login, learners will have access to statistics on their progress in their Learning Journey Online and they will learn in a new reusable course developed in PLOTMaker.  

You can watch this exciting new development in a short video - it takes only 8 minutes and 24 seconds: Watch video on new Hebrew Online Learning from the Hebrew Bible from EuroPLOT. (=http://bh.3bmoodle.dk/pluginfile.php/1115/mod_resource/content/1/Bible%20Oline%20Learner%20Journey%20and%20Course.mp4 )

CURRENT WORK 

As of September 1, we are releasing the all but version on PLOTLearner 3 for deployment and evaluation at the University of Copenhagen and for use by other interested test persons. We now have an online login access which will continue to be available after the end of EuroPLOT in October. 

The German Bible Society in Stuttgart will in collaboration with Nicolai Winther-Nielsen and 3BM offer a license to use the full Hebrew Bible database which is under continued development at the Eep Talstra Centre for Bible and Computer (ETCBC) at the Vrije Universiteit under the direction of Professor Wido T. van Peursen. We expect that access to this new database will be available on terms which promote affordable global learning in Asia and Africa for the PC as well as on the internet.  

EuroPLOT programmer Claus Tøndering has worked without funding for the last year and developed the Bible Online Learner http://bibleol.3bmoodle.dk/  which is accessible online for smart phones and tablets. We offer login access for individuals as well as for classes in collaboration with fellow Hebrew teachers and institutions. We want to assist colleagues in repurposing this system to their own teaching in any way they may wish.

THREE AALOBORG STUDENTS 

Claus Tøndering and Nicolai Winther-Nielsen are collaborating with a team of students who are currently working on projects on persuasive learning in their studies of Information Architecture and Human Computer Interaction at Aalborg University.

The first Aalborg University student: Judith Gottschalk has now under the supervision of Claus Tøndering and Nicolai Winther-Nielsen developed proficiency statistics for the Learning Journey Online. The scores of the learners reflect how many right answers a student has in exercises per minute, but it reduces this score by a calculation of the average of mistakes. 

Nicolai Winther-Nielsen has planned this module through test data from 78 students involved in tests carried out in collaboration with EuroPLOT’s Associate Partner in Madagascar, the Lutheran Graduate School of Theology (SALT), and funded by Danmission

In her next project, Judith Gottschalk will work on adding user levels and graphical display of the learning journeys. We are also now heading towards a more sophisticated recommender system which can guide students individually through automated learning proposals.

The second Aalborg University student: Christian Højgaard Jensen has over the past three months developed a new course which repurposes the 12 sessions developed by Nicolai Winther-Nielsen for EuroPLOT and tested in a class at Fjellhaug International University College Denmark. 

He was the top student in the group testing PLOTLearner 2 in the Autumn of 2012, and is now using EuroPLOTs PLOTMaker to develop a new 12 session course which integrates the repeated testing approach developed by EuroPLOT’s Associate Partner, Nava Bergman, Gothenburg University. 

The second Aalborg University student: Mikael Grønhøj Skovgård is currently researching gamification for his Master thesis and will graduate in the Autumn of 2013. The team wish to research principles from game design to enhance the persuasive force of the learning system

FUTURE PLANS 

At present all future plans depend on the engagement by a team of unfunded collaborators who will continue to work on open source development. 

Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at Fjellhaug International University College Denmark is planning to develop online Learning Objects for the Bible Online Learner in a new project. Researcher Oliver Glanz of the Vrije Universiteit is also exploring collaboration on development for a new kind of exgesis. 

We will present our plans and new ideas at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Baltimore in November 23, 2013. Researchers involved in biblicalhumanities.org will invite fellow researchers to a consultation in Baltimore on November 22.

Through the software company 3BM, the team hopes eventually to be able to generate some funding from sale of licenses and courses. We also continue to seek funding and collaboration in new projects.

Do not hesitate to contact the leader of the team Nicolai Winther-Nielsen for permission to try out the new persuasive learning environment or to seek partnership for reuse and repurposing of the new open source resources developed by EuroPLOT's workpackage 5.

Wednesday 3 July 2013

Registration for IWEPLET now open!

The online registration for our IWEPLET 2013 workshop is now open and works in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013.

Please follow the instructions shown at www.iweplet2013.eu/registration.

Among the workshops at EC-TEL, our IWEPLET has the special situation that if booked solely, it is for free to participants. So the 200 Euro fee for a 2-day workshop does not apply here. If you only want to take part in IWEPLET and not in any other event nor in the EC-TEL conference itself, then skip Step 2 in the online procedure and continue to Step 3, where you can select to register for IWEPLET.


Thursday 20 June 2013

IWEPLET 2013 Program is online

After the review process of the submitted papers for IWEPLET 2013, we have creatd the program for this workshop.

It is available on Google Docs here.

And it is also included on our IWEPLET website.


The rationale of this program is the following:

The first day will be devoted to the EuroPLOT project itself. We will explain the motivation for this research and collaboration project, will show the four case studies, and will demonstrate the tools. At the end of the day BJ Fogg will joint us through Skype for a discussion about "Persuasive Technology".

The second day will then show related work in the field of "Persuasive Technology" for Learning, Teaching, and Education. It will be concluding with a discussion about persuasive learning and the outlook of this technology.

Tuesday 30 April 2013

IWEPLET: Deadline for Submission of Abstracts extended to 19.May 2013

We have extended the deadline for the submission of abstracts for our IWEPLET 2013 workshop to 19.May 2013.

Please follow the instructions given on the IWEPLET website.

Thursday 14 February 2013

Webinar in Danish: 28.Feb.2013

We will host our first webinar in Danish language:

"Anvendelse af persuasive principper i on-line traening af virksomheder I EUs kemikalienreguleering"

It will be based on the previous webinar that was held English: Application of persuasive principles in industry on-line training for EU chemical regulation.





Sunday 10 February 2013

IWEPLET Workshop: 16.-17.September, Paphos (Cyprus), in conjunction with EC-TEL

As part of our obligation to the funding agency EACEA and to the eLearning community, we have committed to organise an event at the end of the EuroPLOT funding period, to bring together the eLearning community which may be interested in Persuasive Design for learning, education, and teaching.

Originally we wanted to hold this event in London, but due to schedule conflicts it was decided to organise it in conjunction with the EC-TEL Conference. We are very grateful to the EC-TEL organisers who allow a set of workshops to be held at their venue before the main EC_TEL conference starts.

Our event is titled:

International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching (IWEPLET) 2013


Please have a look at the call for papers here below and visit the workshop website




IWEPLET 2013 - International Workshop on EuroPLOT Persuasive Technology for Learning, Education and Teaching
http://www.iweplet2013.eu
16.-17.September 2013

Held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2013, Paphos (Cyprus)


Overview
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Research and development of "Persuasive Technology" has in the past decade gained significant attention. One of the goals of this research is to understand the basic principles of persuasion and to harness their power. In the fields of education and teaching, persuasion is an important aspect which human tutors are using for motivation and learning. The development of technology which allows unsupervised learning without direct interaction with a human tutor, will need to implement such principles of persuasion in order to be successful.

This workshop aims to bring together experts and stakeholders in the realm of technology-based teaching and learning, who have developed tools or learning objects based on persuasive principles, or who are simply interested in discussing how to use persuasive principles in the development and application of technology-enhanced learning. This workshop will present latest research results related to teaching and learning technology, specifically addressing and utilising persuasive principles. It will host sessions with technical/scientific peer-reviewed papers, keynote presentations, technology workshops with hands-on demonstrations of persuasive teaching/learning technology, poster sessions, and a panel discussion on the outlook and the future of persuasive technology. Furthermore, it will provide a venue for networking with peers and domain experts.


Topics of interest
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For the scientific/technical sessions, we are seeking high-quality contributions which are addressing one or more of the following topics:
Theory and methodology of persuasive design.
Persuasive technology as basis for new learning.
Persuasive learning objects.
Case studies with persuasive technology.
Context-aware learning designs.
Ethics of persuasion and learning.
Persuasive evaluation and tools.

These contributions can be presented as full papers (8-page) with significant novelty and contribution to knowledge, or as posters for new ideas/concepts that have not yet been fully tested, but that are valuable to the community. Furthermore, technical demonstrations can be shown and will be presented in a special session. Details on the submission process are shown below.

This event is organised by the EuroPLOT project. The goal of EuroPLOT is the development of persuasive learning objects and technologies, and there will be one session in which the results of the four case studies in this project are being presented.

The participation and attendance in this workshop will have no general registration fee. There will be a cost for optional printed proceedings.


Important dates
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Deadline for 1-page abstract submission: 28 Apr 2013 19 May 2013
Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2013
Camera Ready Paper and Registration: 30 June 2013


Submission
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We will accept submissions in the following three categories:
a) full paper (up to 8 pages),
b) poster for new ideas and concepts that have not yet been fully tested, but that are valuable to the community, and
c) technical demonstration of persuasive technology in the context of learning, education,and teaching. This can be persuasive learning objects, tools for creating such persuasive learning objects, or technologies for the delivery of persuasive learning.

Please prepare a 1-page abstract which should provide a clear description of the problem addressed, the methodology, the results, and the novelty and significance. The content of the paper/abstract must relate to the scope of the workshop: persuasive technology for teaching, education, and learning. It should focus on one or more of the topics which have been listed above.

The abstract should be in PDF format, 10pt font, A4 page with 1 inch border margins.

Please submit your abstracts electronically using the easyChair paper submission system by 19.May 2013:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icplet2013
Indicate during the submission, for which category (paper, poster, demo) your abstract would be.

A suitable selection of submitted papers will be published in a special issue of "Persuasive Technology in Teaching" of the journal "International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications".
http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-conceptual-structures-smart/54917.


Workshop Organizers
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Reinhold Behringer, Leeds Metropolitan University
Georgi Sinclair, Leeds Metropolitan University


Program committee
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Janet Finlay, Cardiff University (Chair)
Peter Baumgartner, Danube University Krems
Tom Boyle, London Metropolitan University
Sandra Burri Gram-Hansen, Aalborg University
Pavel Čech, University of Hradec Králové
John Elliott, Leeds Metropolitan University
Christian Grund Sørensen, Aalborg University
Erich Herber, Danube University Krems
Mikulecká Jaroslava, University of Hradec Králové
Peter Øhrstrøm, Aalborg University
Carl Smith, London Metropolitan University
Margrethe Winther-Nielsen, DHI
Nicolai Winther-Nielsen, Aalborg University


Venue and Travel
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This workshop will be held as part of the EC-TEL 2013 Conference in Paphos (www.ec-tel.eu).

The venue is the Coral Beach Hotel in Paphos.
Further details regarding the venue are available on the EC-TEL website www.ec-tel.eu/index.php/places.


Contact
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For further queries please contact us at info@eplot.eu

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Next Webinar: 29.January 2013, 13:00-14:00 GMT

The title of our next webinar is:
Application of persuasive principles in industry on-line training for EU chemical regulation

It will be given online by Dr. Margrethe Winther-Nielsen (Head of Innovation) and Ilaria de Rosa Carstensen, both from DHI in Hørsholm, Denmark.

Date and time of the webinar:
Tuesday 29th January 2013, 13:00-14.00 GMT / 14:00-15.00 CET

Login as "guest" here to the Adobe meeting room with this link:
http://leedsmet.adobeconnect.com/r3kpnpszau3/


This webinar will focus on the following:

  • How to work with persuasion motivating the trainee in a context where a legal obligation is setting the agenda.
  • How to apply the new GLO/PLOTMaker tool for development of on-line training in developing exposure scenarios for chemical mixtures according to the EU regulation REACH.

DHI is running a case study for the EuroPLOT EU funded project, developing resources for training vocational learners to understand regulations for exposure scenarios for chemical handling. The formulating industry has to deliver information on safe use of their products according to the EU regulations, and trainees are highly motivated in learning how to comply. The challenges come with the obligation to gather and deliver information for several chemicals, and learning how to work with the information in an operational manner.
The new version of the GLO/PLOTMaker tool developed within the EuroPLOT project has an increased capability for producing learning objects based on persuasive principles. It allows the teacher to create persuasive learning elements in multiple ways aiming to engage the learner or trainee.