Who Profits Most from Blended Learning?

Dirk T. Tempelaar; Bart Rienties; Bas Giesbers

Industry and Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 4 (August 2009) pp. 285–292

The authors investigate the relationship between student learning choices and learning styles in the use of an innovative learning environment for statistics. For teaching introductory statistics to first-year students in economics and business,...

Why Increased Social Presence through Web Videoconferencing Does Not Automatically Lead to Improved Learning

Bas Giesbers; Bart Rienties; Dirk T. Tempelaar; Wim Gijselaers

E-Learning and Digital Media Vol. 11, No. 1 (2014) pp. 31–45

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) model provides a well-researched theoretical framework to understand how learners and teachers interact and learn together in computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). Most CoI research focuses on asynchronous...

How achievement emotions impact students' decisions for online learning, and what precedes those emotions

Dirk T. Tempelaar; Alexandra Niculescu; Bart Rienties; Wim H. Gijselaers; Bas Giesbers

Internet and Higher Education Vol. 15, No. 3 (June 2012) pp. 161–169

This empirical study investigates students' learning choices for mathematics and statistics in a blended learning environment, composed of both online and face-to-face learning components. The students (N

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Social Presence, Web Videoconferencing and Learning in Virtual Teams

Bas Giesbers; Bart Rienties; Wim H. Gijselaers; Mien Segers; Dirk T. Tempelaar

Industry and Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 4 (August 2009) pp. 301–309

The potential of information technology to facilitate collaboration in education has grown considerably in recent years. The use of Web videoconferencing, whereby learners in an online classroom can simultaneously collaborate using audiovisual...