Teaching and Learning in a Digital World

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Collaborative Learning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Scratch as Educational Tool to Introduce Robotics

      • Pedro Plaza, Elio Sancristobal, German Carro, Manuel Castro, Manuel Blázquez, Javier Muñoz et al.

      Pages 3-14

   3. Design and Set-up of an Automated Lecture Recording System in Medical Education

      • Herwig Rehatschek

      Pages 15-20

   4. Collaborative Learning Advancing International Students

      • Ana Virtudes, Ilda Inacio Rodrigues, Victor Cavaleiro

      Pages 21-28

   5. Collaborative Learning of DC Transients in Series Circuit with MATLAB as a Learning Aid

      • Gargi Basu, Urmila Kar

      Pages 29-40

   6. The Practical Experiences with Educational Software for Modelling Interactive Collaborative Teaching

      • Stefan Svetsky, Oliver Moravcik, Pavol Tanuska, Iveta Markechova

      Pages 41-47

   7. Exploring Student Interest of Online Peer Assisted Learning Using Mixed-Reality Technology

      • Sasha Nikolic, Benjamin Nicholls

      Pages 48-54

   8. Monitoring the Knowledge Building Process in a CSCL Environment: A Case Study from Turkey

      • Gülgün Afacan Adanır

      Pages 55-62

   9. Improving Online Interaction Among Blended Distance Learners at Makerere University

      • Harriet M. Nabushawo, Paul B. Muyinda, Ghislain M. N. Isabwe, Andreas Prinz, Godfrey Mayende

      Pages 63-69

   10. A Technological Proposal Using Virtual Worlds to Support Entrepreneurship Education for Primary School Children

       • Angela Pereira, Paulo Martins, Leonel Morgado, Benjamim Fonseca, Micaela Esteves

       Pages 70-77

   11. Social Life in Virtual Universities

       • Jozef Hvorecký, Monika Dávideková

       Pages 78-85

   12. Evaluating Collaborative Learning Using Community of Inquiry Framework for a Blended Learning Formal Methods Course

       • Saad Zafar, Naurin Farooq Khan, Seema Hussain

       Pages 86-95

   13. The “Architectural Jewels of Lublin” Game as a Tool for Collaborative Interactive Learning of History

       • Marek Milosz, Jerzy Montusiewicz

       Pages 96-105

   14. Acquiring the History of the City with Collaborative Game Based Learning

       • Dariusz Czerwinski, Marek Milosz, Patryk Karczmarczyk, Mateusz Kutera, Marcin Najda

       Pages 106-115

3. Engineering Pedagogy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Work-in-Progress: Lean Education/Lean Innovation

      • Andrei Neagu, Doru Ursutiu, Cornel Samoila

      Pages 119-123

   3. Using PBL and Rapid Prototyping Resources to Improve Learning Process

      • Jovani Castelan, Rosemere Damasio Bard

      Pages 124-132

   4. Influence of Study Skills on the Dropout Rate of Universities: Results from a Literature Study

      • Nilüfer Deniz Bas, Robert Heininger, Matthias C. Utesch, Helmut Krcmar

      Pages 133-144

   5. Electrical Engineering Students’ Achievement in Measurement Accuracy of Digitized Signals – Work in Progress

      • Nissim Sabag, Elena Trotskovsky

      Pages 145-148

This book gathers the Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2017), held in Budapest, Hungary on 27–29 September 2017. The authors are currently witnessing a significant transformation in the development of education. The impact of globalisation on all areas of human life, the exponential acceleration of technological developments and global markets, and the need for flexibility and agility are essential and challenging elements of this process that have to be tackled in general, but especially in engineering education.


To face these current real-world challenges, higher education has to find innovative ways to quickly respond to them. Since its inception in 1998, this conference has been devoted to new approaches in learning with a focus on collaborative learning. Today the ICL conferences offer a forum for exchange concerning relevant trends and research results, and for sharing practical experience gained while developing and testing elements of new technologies and pedagogies in the learning context.

• Collaborative Learning
• Lifelong Learning
• Ubiquitous Learning
• Mobile Learning
• CALL
• LMS
• Authoring Tools
• Knowledge Management
• Virtual Environments
• Online Laboratories
• Evaluation
• Outcomes Assessment
• Learning Models
• Engineering Pedagogy
• Teacher Training
• Academia-industry Partnership
• K-12
• Flipped Classrooms
• Project Based Learning
• Pilot Projects

• Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Villach, Austria

  Michael E. Auer

• Kaleidoscope Learning, International E-Learning Association, New York, USA

  David Guralnick

• Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary

  Istvan Simonics

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