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Direct linkWestera, Wim; Prada, Rui; Mascarenhas, Samuel; Santos, Pedro A.; Dias, João; Guimarães, Manuel; Georgiadis, Konstantinos; Nyamsuren, Enkhbold; Bahreini, Kiavash; Yumak, Zerrin; Christyowidiasmoro, Chris; Dascalu, Mihai; Gutu-Robu, Gabriel; Ruseti, Stefan – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This article provides a comprehensive overview of artificial intelligence (AI) for serious games. Reporting about the work of a European flagship project on serious game technologies, it presents a set of advanced game AI components that enable pedagogical affordances and that can be easily reused across a wide diversity of game engines and game…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Games, Educational Technology, Computer Software
Westera, Wim – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2015
Distance universities excel in using digital media technologies for content delivery and collaborative interaction to compensate for limited face-to-face opportunities. Now that an ever-growing variety of media technologies, devices, and services are flooding the market, possession of expertise about the educational opportunities of these…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Media, Distance Education, Open Universities
Westera, Wim – Educational Technology, 2010
Knowledge is like food and drink, a necessity of life, the motor of the economy, and a precondition for any social activities. While considering these facts, one cannot fail to notice that education and agriculture have a lot in common. This article reflects on the parallels between agriculture and education. While agriculture started modernizing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agriculture, Education, Comparative Analysis
Westera, Wim – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
The innovation of education seems to be self-evident. Boosted by a wide range of new technologies, educational institutes all over the world are innovating their educational systems, in order to extend their services, to improve their performances or to reduce costs. The apparent self-evidence of educational innovation hardly prompts the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Innovation, Educational Practices, Educational Improvement
Westera, Wim – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
Innovation of education is highly topical. It is obviously boosted by a range of new technologies, which enable new modes of learning that, are independent of time and place through Web-based delivery and computer-mediated communication. However, innovators in education often encounter intrinsic conservatism or even deliberate obstructions. For…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Computer Mediated Communication, Models, Educational Innovation
Westera, Wim – Educational Technology, 1999
Discusses the lack of substantial changes in education in the past, and describes three factors that could allow for substantial innovations: distance learning, collaborative learning and the use of technology, and changing teacher/student relationships. Also discusses informal learning, individual learning, social behavior, assignment of task,…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Cultural Influences, Distance Education, Educational Change
