Information and Learning Sciences: Volume 122 Issue 5/6

Using the lens of science capital to capture and explore children’s attitudes toward science in an informal making-based space

Dimitra Christidou, Sofia Papavlasopoulou, Michail Giannakos

Governments and organizations worldwide are concerned over the declining number of young people choosing to study Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)…

Characterizing an information environment for supporting learning

Kathleen Campana

This study aims to offer insights into the presence and nature of an information environment provided for young children to support their learning and explore how an information…

Being mobile: a call for collaborative innovation practices?

Laurent Antonczak, Thierry Burger-Helmchen

The purpose of this study is to examine mobile technology as being a key apparatus and interface for collaborative innovation, which allows organisations to develop their…

Enhancing instructional outcomes with a serious gamified system: a qualitative investigation of student perceptions

Hussein Haruna, Asad Abbas, Zamzami Zainuddin, Xiao Hu, Robin R. Mellecker, Samira Hosseini

This paper aims to evaluate the students’ perception of their learning experiences concerning serious gaming and gamification instructions and determines whether they were…

Dialogic spaces in divergent and convergent collaborative learning tasks

Laura Palmgren-Neuvonen, Karen Littleton, Noora Hirvonen

The purpose of this study is to examine how dialogic spaces were co-constituted (opened, broadened and deepened) between students engaged in divergent and convergent collaborative…