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Design and evaluation of digital tools to expand experience in vocational education

Kevin Gonyop Kim

Vocational education and training (VET) is the most popular form of upper-secondary education in Switzerland, with more than two-thirds of the teenagers enrolling in a VET program after finishing their compulsory education. The vast majority of the Swiss V ...

EPFL2022

Educational Technologies for Vocational Education. Experiences as Digital Clay

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis

This book summarises 15 years of research (2007-2021) on the exploitation of digital technologies for VET. In other words, our activities started the same year as the first iPhone was launched! Four research groups formed the leading house on the topic, na ...

EPFL2022

Evolutionary Clustering of Apprentices' Self- Regulated Learning Behavior in Learning Journals

Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Christian Giang, Paola Mejia Domenzain, Mirko Marras

Learning journals are increasingly used in vocational education to foster self-regulated learning and reflective learning practices. However, for many apprentices, documenting working experiences is a difficult task. In this paper, we profile apprentices' ...

2022

How Florist Apprentices Explore Bouquet Designs: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Vocational Students

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the d ...

2021

Using immersive virtual reality to support designing skills in vocational education

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach, Kevin Gonyop Kim

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) offers possibilities of creating a learner‐centric environment that can provide more presence and engagement for students leading to an enhanced learning experience compared to conventional classroom practices. However, the ...

2020

BloomGraph: Graph-Based Exploration of Bouquet Designs for Florist Apprentices

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Exploring design space is an important process in finding solutions to a design task. In this paper, we present BloomGraph, an online application developed for florist apprentices to explore the space of bouquet designs. BloomGraph provides a graph-based i ...

Springer, Cham2019

BloomGraph: Graph-Based Exploration of Bouquet Designs for Florist Apprentices

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Applying IDC theory to education in the Alps region: A response to Chan et al.’s contribution

Pierre Dillenbourg, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Jauwairia Nasir, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Shuqing Teresa Yeo

In this paper, we present a response to the Interest-Driven Creator (IDC) Theory from a European perspective. Specifically, we raise six questions intended to start a dialogue with respect to IDC Theory’s placement in existing learning theories, its adopti ...

2019

Augmented Reality to Facilitate a Conceptual Understanding of Statics in Vocational Education

Lorenzo Lucignano

At the core of the contribution of this dissertation there is an augmented reality (AR) environment, StaticAR, that supports the process of learning the fundamentals of statics in vocational classrooms, particularly in carpentry ones. Vocational apprentice ...

EPFL2018

What makes an online learning journal powerful for VET? Distinguishing productive usage patterns and effective learning strategies

Beat Adrian Schwendimann

Background: The current and future workforce is challenged to adapt to changing environments and become lifelong, self-regulated learners. Learning journals can regulate learning processes through scaffolding reflection on rich experiences. However, learni ...

2018

Mobile and Online Learning Journal: Effects on Apprentices' Reflection in Vocational Education and Training

Jessica Elke Dehler Zufferey

While learning journals (LJs) have been shown to support self-regulated learning strategies, reflection and learning outcomes in academic contexts, few studies have investigated their relevance in vocational education. A mobile and online learning journal ...

2014

A Tabletop Learning Environment for Logistics Assistants: Activating Teachers

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Guillaume Zufferey

We describe a tabletop environment used in vocational schools to teach theoretical concepts to apprentices in lo gistics through the use of a small-scale model of a ware house. It provides a Tangible User Interface in the form of wooden shelves, metallic p ...

ACTA Press2008