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Crowded House: An Analysis of How the Virtual Learning Environment Moodle Is Built via Bug Tracker Participants
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Costello, Eamon; Johnston, Keith; Wade, Vincent – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
This research investigated how the bug tracker database of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle is developed as an application of crowd work. The bug tracker is used by software developers, who write and maintain Moodle's code, but also by a wider public world of ordinary Moodle users who can report bugs. Despite many studies of the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Computer Software, Cooperation
Using Web-Based Collaborative Forecasting to Enhance Information Literacy and Disciplinary Knowledge
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Buckley, Patrick; Doyle, Elaine – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper outlines how an existing collaborative forecasting tool called a prediction market (PM) can be integrated into an educational context to enhance information literacy skills and cognitive disciplinary knowledge. The paper makes a number of original contributions. First, it describes how this tool can be packaged as a pedagogical…
Descriptors: Prediction, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Decision Support Systems
The Benefits and Barriers of Using Virtual Worlds to Engage Healthcare Professionals on Distance Learning Programmes
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Hack, Catherine Jane – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
Using the delivery of a large postgraduate distance learning module in bioethics to health professionals as an illustrative example, the type of learning activity that could be enhanced through delivery in an immersive virtual world (IVW) was explored. Several activities were repurposed from the "traditional" virtual learning environment…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Graduate Study, Distance Education
Gamification and Student Motivation
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Buckley, Patrick; Doyle, Elaine – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
The literature suggests that gamified learning interventions may increase student engagement and enhance learning. We empirically investigate this by exploring the impact of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on the participation and performance of over 100 undergraduate students in an online gamified learning intervention. The paper makes a…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Intervention, Learner Engagement, Pretests Posttests
Assessing the Application of Three-Dimensional Collaborative Technologies within an E-Learning Environment
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McArdle, Gavin; Bertolotto, Michela – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
Today, the Internet plays a major role in distributing learning material within third level education. Multiple online facilities provide access to educational resources. While early systems relied on webpages, which acted as repositories for learning material, nowadays sophisticated online applications manage and deliver learning resources.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Electronic Learning, Interaction
Intelligent and Adaptive Tutoring for Active Learning and Training Environments
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Kenny, Claire; Pahl, Claus – Interactive Learning Environments, 2009
Active learning facilitated through interactive and adaptive learning environments differs substantially from traditional instructor-oriented, classroom-based teaching. We present a web-based e-learning environment that integrates knowledge learning and skills training. How these tools are used most effectively is still an open question. We…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Active Learning, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods