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Research on Self-Regulated Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments: Two Examples from Europe

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International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies

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Digital technologies have entered almost all spheres of our lives and they are believed to be the motor of innovation in our societies. While these technologies offer an almost unlimited access to information and a wide variety of tools for information processing and communication, it has also become clear that managing these resources requires a new kind of literacy, digital literacy, and that part of this digital literacy is the capacity to regulate one’s own learning.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    “Self-regulated Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments at University Level: a Peer Review” (TELEPEERS)”.The project was being carried out with the support of the European Commission (Grant agreement 2003-4710-/001-001 EDU-ELEARN).

  2. 2.

    See http://www.lmi.ub.es/taconet/ and http://www.taconet.org.

  3. 3.

    As part of a seed project on SRL in TELEs with the financial support from the KALEIDOSCOPE Network of Excellence “Concepts and methods for exploring the future of learning with digital technologies” (2004–2006).

    http://www.noe-kaleidoscope.org/telearc/.

  4. 4.

    As part of a Theme Team project on SRL in TELEs with the financial support from the STELLAR Network of Excellence “Sustaining Technology Enhanced Learning at a LARge scale” (2009–2012). http://www.stellarnet.eu/.

  5. 5.

    The text of this introduction is based on Carneiro (2010).

  6. 6.

    Iniciativa Novas Oportunidades, http://www.en.anq.gov.pt/ and http://www.novasoportunidades.gov.pt/, Accessed December 31, 2010

  7. 7.

    Latest figures available for 30 April 2011.

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  1. Institute for Distance Learning, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Roberto Carneiro

  2. Department of Didactics and Educational Research, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Karl Steffens

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  2. Human-Computer Interaction Inst., Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Inst., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Vincent Aleven

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Carneiro, R., Steffens, K. (2013). Research on Self-Regulated Learning in Technology Enhanced Learning Environments: Two Examples from Europe. In: Azevedo, R., Aleven, V. (eds) International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 28. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5546-3_39

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