CNR-ITD

This project aimed to enhance our current understanding of how learners develop their internal knowledge representations when they:
(a) perceive external multimedia representations of knowledge,
(b) interact with technological artefacts and/or
(c) collaborate to co-construct knowledge.
Common thread in all these cases is the interaction between learners' internal representations of knowledge and the external ones.
In particular, the project participants:

• identified and organizing our current level of knowledge in the above three dimensions, working out a "State-of-the-art" Report and synthesizing a common conceptual framework, in terms of concepts and methods which shape the current level of understanding;
• identified existing gaps concerning these dimensions, in the TEL research;
• got involved into selective case studies or field experimentations to answer specific research questions emerging from the understanding of the identified gaps;
• organized the results in an agenda proposing further research projects that could be eligible for national funding;
• produced relative instructional course material, as input to other Kaleidoscope dissemination and integration activities.

Project participants:

GR: Computer Science Department/AUTH (Stavros Demetriadis, coordinator)
AT: Telecommunications, Information and Media: CEM/DUK (Grégoire Besnier )
DE: Knowledge Media Research Center/KMRC (Frank Fischer)
DK: LEGO Interactive/LEGO (Olga Timcenko)
FR: Laboratoire ICA/INPG (Claude Cadoz)
HU: Faculty of Informatics, TeaM lab/ELTE (Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo)
IT: Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche/CNR (Giuliana Dettori)
LV: Distance Education Study Centre/UTRIGAS (Atis Kapenieks)
NL: Faculty of Behavioral Sciences, UTWENTE (Ton de Jong)