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ICT Adoption in Executive Training for Development Blending Digital and Physical Communication and Awareness Channels

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

Digital capacity building is a key policy for states to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper(1) presents one of the actions carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in collaboration with the Swiss Federal ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Perceiving learning at a glance: A systematic literature review of learning dashboard research

Pierre Dillenbourg, Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

This paper presents a systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art of research on learning dashboards in the fields of Learning Analytics and Educational Data Mining. Research on learning dashboards aims to identify what data is meaningful to diffe ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Contextual Learning Analytics Apps to Create Awareness in Blended Inquiry Learning

David Sandoz, Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Blended inquiry learning, where students for example use online labs to perform experiments, is considered a promising approach to increase the skills and interest of students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics domains. For teachers to pr ...

2015

Towards a Principled Approach to Humanitarian Information and Communication Technology

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia

The humanitarian sector is entering in the network age. The explosion in access to new information and communication technology (ICT) like mobile phones, the internet, and social media, is changing the way people communicate in emergency situations. Howeve ...

ACM2017

Combining Content Analytics and Activity Tracking to Identify User Interests and Enable Knowledge Discovery

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk

Finding relevant content is one of the core activities of users interacting with a content repository, be it knowledge workers using an organizational knowledge management system at a workplace or self-regulated learners collaborating in a learning environ ...

2016

Harnessing Rule-Based Chatbots to Support Teaching Python Programming Best Practices

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer

In recent years, the use of chatbots in education has been driven by advances in natural language processing and the increasing availability of digital education platforms. Although the added value of educational chatbots appears promising, researchers hav ...

Springer2023

Promoting Computational Thinking Skills in Non-Computer Science Students Gamifying Computational Notebooks to Increase Student Engagement

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Marc Lafuente Martinez

Computational thinking (CT) skills are becoming increasingly relevant for future professionals across all domains, beyond computer science (CS). As such, an increasing number of bachelor and masters programs outside of the computer science discipline integ ...

2022

Rule of Thumb – Effect of Social Button Icons on Interaction

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Samuel Bendahan

Social buttons are now widespread in social media apps. They are used to assign weight to user content and trigger user engagement. They come in different shapes (e.g., thumb in Facebook, arrows in Reddit or StackOverflow, plus one in Google+) but very lit ...

2016

Examining the effects of social media in co-located classrooms: A case study based on SpeakUp

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos

The broad availability of mobile computing devices has prompted the apparition of social media applications that support teaching and learning. However, so far, there is conflicting evidence as to whether the benefits such applications provide in terms of ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Instruction, Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes: A Case Study Using Anonymous Social Media in a Face-to-face Classroom

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer

With the wide availability of mobile devices and the growing interest in social media, numerous applications have emerged to support student engagement in the classroom. There is conflicting evidence, however, on whether the engagement benefits of such app ...

2020

The Digital Ethics Canvas: A Guide For Ethical Risk Assessment And Mitigation In The Digital Domain

Vladimir Macko, Patrick Jermann, Adrian Christian Holzer, Cécile Hardebolle, Vivek Ramachandran

Ethical concerns in the digital domain are growing with the extremely fast evolution of technology and the increasing scale at which software is deployed, potentially affecting our societies globally. It is crucial that engineers evaluate more systematical ...

2023

Agile, Versatile, and Comprehensive Social Media Platform for Creating, Sharing, Exploiting, and Archiving Personal Learning Spaces, Artifacts, and Traces

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk

Nowadays, students bring their full ecosystem of social media platforms and their own devices to school, while teachers benefit from and contribute to local or global repositories of educational resources. As a consequence, educational institutions have to ...

2016

Generative AI-Enabled Conversational Interaction to Support Self-Directed Learning Experiences in Transversal Computational Thinking

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Abdessalam Ouaazki

As computational thinking (CT) becomes increasingly acknowledged as an important skill in education, self-directed learning (SDL) emerges as a key strategy for developing this capability. The advent of generative AI (GenAI) conversational agents has disrup ...

2024

Understanding learning at a glance: An overview of learning dashboard studies

Denis Gillet, Pierre Dillenbourg, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Andrii Vozniuk, Mina Shirvani Boroujeni, Luis Pablo Prieto Santos, Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Research on learning dashboards aims to identify what data is meaningful to different stakeholders in education, and how data can be presented to support sense-making processes. This paper summarizes the main outcomes of a systematic literature review on l ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

SpeakUp – A Mobile App Facilitating Audience Interaction

Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

A dynamic student-teacher interaction during class is an important part of the learning experience. However, in regular class settings and especially in large classrooms, it is a challenging task to encourage students to participate as they tend to be inti ...

2013

Bringing Computational Thinking to non-STEM Undergraduates through an Integrated Notebook Application

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah

Computational thinking courses are no longer exclusive to engineering and computer science students in higher education but have become a requirement in other fields, as well as for students in secondary, primary, and even early childhood education. Comput ...

2020

TRACE: A Conceptual Model to Guide the Design of Educational Chatbots

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Juan Carlos Farah, Sandy Ingram, Basile Maurice Pierre Spaenlehauer, Fanny Kim-Lan Lasne

Driven by the rising popularity of chatbots such as ChatGPT, there is a budding line of research proposing guidelines for chatbot design, both in general and specifically for digital education. Nevertheless, few researchers have focused on providing concep ...

Springer2023

A Canvas for the Ethical Design of Learning Experiences with Digital Tools

Denis Gillet, Roland John Tormey, Patrick Jermann, Adrian Christian Holzer, Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey, Cécile Hardebolle

The use of digital tools has drastically increased in engineering education, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. These tools generate important ethical issues, in particular in terms of privacy and fairness. However, very few teacher training programmes ...

2022

Enforcing Privacy for Teenagers in Online Inquiry Learning Spaces

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Na Li, Sten Govaerts

In the Go-Lab European project, we are investigating an online lab portal that enables students to perform personalized scientific experiments with online labs. To protect sensitive student data, such as user activity data and learning preferences, this pa ...

2014

SpeakUp in the Classroom: Anonymous Temporary Social Media for Better Interactions

Denis Gillet, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Student participation in class is an important aspect of the learning experience, and can provide valuable feedback for teachers. However, getting students to interact in large classrooms is challenging. This paper presents SpeakUp, a mobile temporary soci ...

2014