Game Technologies to Assist Learning of Communication Skills in Dialogic Settings for Persons with Aphasia

Ylva Backman; Viktor Gardelli; Peter Parnes

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 16, No. 3 (Feb 12, 2021) pp. 190–205

Persons with aphasia suffer from a loss of communication ability as a consequence of a brain injury. While rare, a small strand of research indicates effectiveness of dialogic interventions for communication development for persons with aphasia, but ...

Language: English

Student 2000: Net-based Learning for the Next Millenium

Peter Parnes; Johnny Widén; Dick Schefström; Kåre Synnes

WebNet World Conference on the WWW and Internet 1999 (1999) pp. 1031–1036

Luleå University of Technology has for the last few years deployed a net-based learning environment, mStar, to distribute courses to students independent of time and geographic distance. The mStar enviroment gives remotely attending students equal ...

Topics: Students

Makerspaces across Settings: Didactic Design for Programming in Formal and Informal Teacher Education in the Nordic Countries

Susanne Kjällander; Anna Åkerfeldt; Linda Mannila; Peter Parnes

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 34, No. 1 (2018) pp. 18–30

For education to provide knowledge reflecting our current and future society, many countries are revising their curricula, including a vivid discussion on digital competence, programming and computational thinking. This article builds an...