Our study Comparing reading processes on e-ink displays and print is now published in the Elsevier journal Displays. In the study we analyze and compare reading behavior on e-reader displays and on printed paper. The results suggest that reading behavior on e-readers is indeed very similar to reading behavior on print. Participants shared similar proportions of [...]

An unseren neuen Webinaren können Sie bequem von Ihrem Arbeitsplatz oder von Zuhause aus teilnehmen – tatsächlich haben die Webinare bei den letztjährigen Teilnehmenden eine positiven Resonanz erhalten. Folglich finden sich auch im neuen Kursprogramm die zwei Webinare zu Tablets im Einsatz Aktuelle Praxis-Erfahrungen mit FFHS-Kursen Zudem werden Präsenz-Workshops angeboten. Ganz neu: Herstellung guter Multiple-Choice-Fragen [...]

Good news from the BBC, in British schools ICT will be replaced by a creative computer science educational programme. To quote the education secretary: «Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animation». Harsh [...]

IFeL is evaluating instructional scaffolding with prompts in collaboration with the PH Wallis (Valais teacher education college). The prompts are thought to enhance transfer of communication competences in teaching from a course to a teaching situation. Future teachers are prompted in a blended learning environment with a series of hints and questions to increase their [...]

We saw interface design coming a long way with profound transitions like washboards to washing machines. Today we take part in an equally revolving transition: from watching-machines to watching-boards. – The first transition is staged by a very emotional Hans Rosling in a TED-video explaining the profound implications of the magic washing machine, that brought [...]