Symposium

Symposium

Invitation Symposium “Computerized scaffolding of Self-Regulated Learning: Interdisciplinary Advances”

Date: November 25th 2011
Time: 15:00-17:30
Place: University of Amsterdam
Location: Roetersestraat 11, kamer REC.E0.10

Organizer:
Inge Molenaar, University of Amsterdam

Speakers:
Prof. dr. Roger Azevedo, McGill University, Canada
Prof. dr. Claudia Roda, American University of Paris, France

Discussant:
Dr. Wilfried Admiraal, University of Amsterdam
Dr. Bert Bredeweg, University of Amsterdam

Self-regulated learning is important for learning in complex computerized learning environments. The global knowledge society demands students gain self-regulated learning skills to turn into successful life-long learners. However, practice and research have shown that many students lack the skills to adequately regulate their learning. Recent interdisciplinary developments in technology enhanced learning approach this problem by developing computerized scaffolding to foster self-regulated learning. This symposium aims to discuss these interdisciplinary developments with the Dutch research community.  

Prof. dr. Azevedo is an educational psychologist whose main research topic is scaffolding of self-regulated learning. He has done many studies with students of all ages. His current endeavor is to translate his expertise into a computerized scaffolding program called MetaTutor. Moreover, he is currently co-editing a two volume handbook named “International Handbook of Metacognition and Learning Technologies “.

Prof dr. Roda is a computer scientist specialized in attention aware systems. These systems focus on the registration of students’ attentional focus and the usage of this information in digital environments. She recently edited a book on this topic “Human Attention in Digital Environments”.

In the symposium, prof. dr. Azevedo will discuss his work on MetaTutor. Prof. dr. Roda will elaborate on her work around attention aware systems. The discussion will aimed at the interdisciplinary challenges between these two lines of research. Discussants dr. Admiraal from the educational perspective and dr. Bredeweg from the computer science perspective will open the floor to have an interactive interdisciplinary discussion about computerized scaffolding of self-regulated learning.

This symposium is associated with the public defense of the thesis ‘Its all about Metacognitive Activities: Computerized Scaffolding of Self-Regulated Learning” of Inge Molenaar on the 24th of November 2011.

Bio’s of the speakers:

Bio’s of the speakers:

Roger Azevedo is an expert on scaffolding of self regulated learning both with human tutors and computer-based scaffolding methods. His main research area includes examining the role of cognitive, metacognitive, affective, and motivational self-regulatory processes during learning with computer-based learning environments. He is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Metacognition and Advanced Learning Technologies. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in the areas of educational, learning, and cognitive sciences. He received his doctorate from McGill University and completed his postdoctoral training in Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves of the editorial board of several top-tiered educational psychology and instructional science journals (Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, Metacognition and Learning). His research is funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the recipient of the prestigious Early Faculty Career Award from the National Science Foundation. Prof. Dr. Azevedo has a strong network in the international research community and is the 9th most productive educational psychologist in the world.

Claudia Roda's current research focuses on theoretical and computational models for attention computing. She has edited collections and published her work on attention-aware systems in many journals, books and conferences. She has extensive experience in the design, implementation and validation of multi-agent systems supporting cognitive andsocial processes related to learning and collaboration. This earlier work has also been widely published. She has been a member of the organizing and program committees of numerous international conferences and has organized the workshops on ‘Designing for attention’ at HCI-2004 and on ‘Attention management in ubiquitous computing environments’ at Ubicomp 2007. Claudia has collaborated with many universities, research institutions and industries worldwide; several international institutions, including the European Commission, have funded her research on attention computing. Claudia is a member of the IEEE Computer Society since 1993. During 2000-2002, she was a Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD - Center for Advanced Learning Technology (CALT) - conducting research in multi-agent systems supporting learning processes, knowledge management, change management. Claudia was the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship (2000 and 2001) and the AUP's Board of Trustee Award for Outstanding Research and Publications (2007).

 

 

Bio Discussants

Wilfried Admiraal is a researcher, teacher and administrator at the Graduate School of Teaching and Learning of the University of Amsterdam. Wilfried's academic background is social and organizational psychology (University of Amsterdam, 1988). His PhD has been on teachers' coping with daily hassles (Utrecht University, 1994). His main activities include the project management of projects in the area of ICT, secondary education and teacher education, research in similar projects, and tutoring PhD-students. His publications coverteacher training, workplace learning, educational designs, and the use of ICT. His research interest covers the combination of educational sciences, social psychology and ICT. He is focused on location-based technology for learning and technology for game-based collaborative learning.

Bert Bredeweg is as an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam. His research is driven by fundamental questions about computational intelligence and includes themes such as: knowledge capture, qualitative reasoning, learning by modelling,cognitive diagnose, and human-computer interaction.