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Tool-Use in a Content Management System: A Matter of Timing?
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Lust, Griet; Vandewaetere, Mieke; Elen, Jan; Clarebout, Geraldine – Learning Environments Research, 2014
Given the rising popularity of content management systems (CMSs) in higher education, we investigated how students use the available CMS tools, as well as whether the moment of using a CMS tool affects students' learning. This temporal dimension has been neglected in current research on CMS use. More insight into students' tool-use is…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Higher Education, College Students, Academic Achievement
Tool Use of Experienced Learners in Computer-Based Learning Environments: Can Tools Be Beneficial?
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Juarez Collazo, Norma A.; Corradi, David; Elen, Jan; Clarebout, Geraldine – Higher Education Studies, 2014
Research has documented the use of tools in computer-based learning environments as problematic, that is, learners do not use the tools and when they do, they tend to do it suboptimally. This study attempts to disentangle cause and effect of this suboptimal tool use for experienced learners. More specifically, learner variables (metacognitive and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Use Studies
The Relation between Self-Regulation and the Embedding of Support in Learning Environments
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Horz, Holger; Schnotz, Wolfgang; Elen, Jan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2010
The current study investigates whether embedding support may provide a solution to sub optimal use of support and whether this is related to learners' self-regulation skills and goal orientation. Sixty students were divided in a condition where support was embedded and a condition where support was non-embedded. Results reveal that the embedded…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Management, Use Studies, Instructional Design
Adopting Webcasts over Time: The Influence of Perceptions and Attitudes
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Lust, Griet; Elen, Jan; Clarebout, Geraldine – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2012
Given the popularity of webcasts and their educational benefits as stressed in previous research, this paper investigates students' acceptance and continued use of webcasts in an undergraduate course. Furthermore, the study explores the determinants of students' webcast use by employing the well-validated Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) of Davis…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Educational Technology, Attitude Change, Adoption (Ideas)
The Complexity of Tool Use in Computer-Based Learning Environments
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Elen, Jan – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
Starting from Perkins' (1985) framework, this study addresses tool use in a computer-based learning environment. In line with Perkins, first the effects of tool use on performance were investigated to gain insight into the functionality of the tools. Next, the influence of advice was studied to identify whether this advice could make students more…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Goal Orientation
Advice on Tool Use in Open Learning Environments
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Elen, Jan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2008
Research provides ample evidence that students rarely or often inadequately use instructional interventions in learning environments. This lack of use becomes especially problematic in open learning environments, where students have a large amount of control over tool use. In this contribution it is studied whether advice on the use of tools can…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Open Education, Instructional Effectiveness