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Meeting 25/05/21: Blended learning, Flipped Learning, and Student engagement

Hello PEGasus team! We had our last meeting of 2020/2021 today and what a nice way to wrap up the term. Today we discussed Fisher et al (2018)'s paper on the relationship between blended learning, flipped learning, and student engagement. Fisher et al (2018) present student engagement as a multidimensional and multifaceted construct influenced by the interplay of a complex array of factors, and a cornerstone construct for delivering quality higher education. Continue reading →

Meeting 23/02/21: Is Learning on Zoom the Same as In Person?

Today we discussed Wiederhold's (2020) paper on connecting through videoconferencing technology during the Covid-19 Pandemic and how to avoid the 'Zoom Fatigue'. Zoom fatigue is the tiredness, anxiety, or worry resulting from overusing video conferencing platforms, and according to Wiederhold (2020), one of the main reasons for it is that videoconferencing is more demanding than in-person communication. Continue reading →

Meeting 24/11/20: Language learning in mobile apps

Hello PEGasus team! We had our last first meeting of 2020-2021 today and what a way to start this term. We had Simon Jonsson talking about his Ph.D. research on language learning in mobile apps. Simon earned a BSc Psychology, an MSc Statistics, and an MSc Web Science, and is now at the final stages of his Ph.D. at the University of Southampton. In this session, Simon talked about the Spanish app he created- https://lengua. Continue reading →

Meeting 27/02/2020: m-learning

Hello PEGasus team! We had our first meeting of 2019/2020 Semester 2, and despite the confusion with the dates we managed to have a few people turn up to talk about m-learning. We discussed the paper Gikas, J., & Grant, M. M. (2013). Mobile computing devices in higher education: Student perspectives on learning with cellphones, smartphones & social media. The Internet and Higher Education, 19, 18–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2013.06.002. Continue reading →