Digital Learning and Collaborative Practices

Eva Brooks is Professor with Special Responsibilities towards IT-Based Design, Learning and Innovation and Director of Xlab in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark. Susanne Dau is Docent (Associate Professor) and research manager at the Professional Development and Educational Research Programme in the Department of Research & Development at the University College of Northern Denmark, Denmark. Staffan Selander is Senior Professor in Education and Didactic Science in the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Foreword

Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander

Preface: Digital learning and collaborative practices

Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander

Contributor Biographies

Part 1 – Designing for collaboration: frameworks of learning

Introduction: Designing for collaboration: frameworks of learning

Eva Brooks & Staffan Selander






Designing as play
Eva Brooks




Designs for learning and knowledge representations in collaborative settings
Ola Knutsson, Robert Ramberg & Staffan Selander




A learning ecology design
Susanne Dau




Collaborative learning in dialogic digital environments
Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen

Part 2 – Inclusive pratices through digital technologies

Introduction: Inclusive practices through digital technologies

Eva Brooks & Susanne Dau




Promises and perils – the affordances of technology for promoting inclusion of learners in educational settings
Hanne Voldborg Andersen, Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Rune Hagel Skaarup Jensen




Designs for learning with adaptive games and Teachable Agents
Susanne Kjällander & Kristen Pilner Blair




Learning music by composing on iPads
Bjørn-Terje Bandlien




The Zone of Optimised Motivation (ZOOM)
Anthony Lewis Brooks

Part 3 – Empowering participation

Introduction: Empowering participation

Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander




Reflective and innovative learning designs inspired by gaming principles
Camilla Gyldendahl Jensen & Susanne Dau




When the game breaks down, the stories begin
Tobias Alexander Bang Tretow-Fish & Thorkild Hanghøj




Virtual Reality learning experiences about dementia
Anders Kalsgaard Møller & Markus Löchtefeld




Children’s programming of robots by designing fairytales
Eva Brooks & Jeanette Sjöberg




The transformative potential of school-based makerspaces: Novel designs in educational practice
Kristiina Kumpulainen & Anu Kajamaa




Whiteboxing "bits n bots": how "flawed" and emerging technologies can facilitate computational play and learning
Lykke Brogaard Bertel & Pauline Fredskilde




Designing virtual cases for learning and assessment

Uno Fors

Epilogue: Lessons from Inclusive and Empowering Participation in Emerging Technologies

Eva Brooks, Susanne Dau & Staffan Selander