Projects
Technology-enhanced collaborative learning (TECOL). Living lab@Kulak. KU Leuven
In (higher) education educational technology is mainly used as a tool to organise the educational setting, to disseminate information and to facilitate communication between different actors. Taking into account the growing potential of educational technology, it seems that its impact in education remains underutilized. The TECOL (Technology-Enhanced Collaborative Learning) project aims at the design, implementation and evaluation of recent ...
Leadership and leadership development in Flemish secondary education. Collaborative and reflective designs as vehicle for principal professional learning and well-being. KU Leuven
In the introductory first chapter, this doctoral research started from the observation that Flemish secondary school leaders frequently make the newspaper pages because of (too) high workload, stress and a strongly reduced professional well-being. Combined, these factors often translate into burnout and even early drop-out. After all, school principals work in a particularly demanding environment in challenging times and rapidly changing ...
Investigating the role of the teacher in technology-enhanced collaborative learning settings for supporting complex skills KU Leuven
While both industrial companies and researchers in our field are developing increasingly powerful teaching robots and intelligent tutoring systems, there is limited understanding about how this technology can effectively be implemented in education and how this will affect the teacher’s role. My research program will focus on how teachers can effectively use and interact with educational technology to support complex skills in a Computer- ...
Collaborative Learning in Extra-curricular Interpreting Practice: Perception and Effectiveness KU Leuven
In interpreter training, trainers only have a limited amount of time to teach the techniques and skills to students and they can only listen to and give feedback to a small number of students in class. Trainees normally need to spend hundreds of hours of independent practice to fully understand and apply what they have learned in different stages of study after class (Setton & Dawrant, 2016). To meet this end, it is suggested that working ...