IDSIA, September 29th, 14.30, Per Bergamin, FFHS,

Title: Instruction Design for technology-based adaptive learning: Investigating cognitive and emotional aspects

Since 2016 the IFeL Institute of Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences holds an UNESCO chair for personalised and adaptive Distance Education. In this context, relevant concepts and prototypic learning modules are developed and investigated on research based design concepts. In the focus of that research lie aspects of self-regulation, fostering domain specific knowledge and emotions. The main questions are: How can conceptually relevant concepts be built in tradition environments. What are relevant learning data to foster effective learning? How can this data be analysed to support/recommend learning activities? Some examples will be shortly demonstrated and discussed together.

Per Bergamin is Professor for Didactics in Distance Education and E-Learning at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS). Since 2006 he acts as the Director of the Institute for Research in Open-, Distance- and eLearning (IFeL) and from 2016 on he holds also the UNESCO Chair on personalised and adaptive Distance Education. His research activities focus self-regulated, personalised and adaptive technology-based learning as well as emotions in reading and learning. As a researcher he cooperates with or leads different national and international projects and contributes to different Swiss advisory boards for E-Learning development. As a teacher he covers the topics of Educational Psychology and E-Didactics. Furthermore he was founder and president of the Executive Board of a Company for E-Business and Learning Applications, which he sold in 2016.