Positive Learning in the Age of Information

1. Editorial – About a ‚PLATO‘
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Gabriel Wittum, Andreas Dengel

Part I. Theoretical Fundamentals of Positive Learning

2. Higher Education: A Platonic Ideal
Howard Gardner

3. Why We Should Teach the Humanities
Stephen M. Kosslyn

4. Conceptual Fundamentals for a Theoretical and Empirical Framework of Positive Learning
Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Susanne Schmidt, Dimitri Molerov, Richard J. Shavelson, David Berliner

Part II. Learning as an Interplay between Neuronal, Cognitive and Information Structures

5. Hand Gestures Alert Auditory Cortices
Arne Nagels, Spencer D. Kelly, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube

6. Students’ Visual Attention While Solving Multiple Representation Problems in Upper-Division Physics
Pascal Klein, Andreas Dengel, Jochen Kuhn

7. Supporting and Hindering Effects on Rational Reasoning
Markus Knauff

8. A Concept for Quantitative Comparison of Mathematical and Natural Language and its possible Effect on Learning
Gabriel Wittum, Robert Jabs, Michael Hoffer, Arne Nägel, Walter Bisang, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia

9. Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Skills in Problem Solving
Walter Bisang

10. Integrating Computational Linguistic Analysis of Multilingual Learning Data and Educational Measurement Approaches to Explore Learning in Higher Education
Alexander Mehler, Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Wahed Hemati, Dimitri Molerov, Andy Lücking, Susanne Schmidt

Part III. Learning as Interaction and Communication Processes in Formal and Informal Learning Environments

11. Media Effects on Positive and Negative Learning
Marcus Maurer, Oliver Quiring, Christian Schemer

12. The Norm of Neutrality in Collaborative Knowledge Construction
Aileen Oeberst, Jort Vreeze, Ulrike Cress

13. Why Google Can’t Save Us
Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone, Sarah McGrew, Teresa Ortega

14. Approaches to the Study of Negative Learning
Daniel Koretz

15. Positive Learning and Pluriliteracies
Oliver Meyer, Margarete Imhof, Do Coyle, Mita Banerjee

16. Acquisition of Generic Competencies Through Project Simulation in Translation Studies
Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Sascha Hofmann, Jean Nitzke

17. Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) – Critical Remarks
Richard J. Shavelson

Part IV. Learning with Ethics and Morality

18. Ethics of Beliefs
Wanja Wiese

19. A Model of Positive and Negative Learning
Christian Dormann, Eva Demerouti, Arnold Bakker

20. Reconciling Morality and Rationality
Gerhard Minnameier

21. Positive Learning Through Negative Learning
Fritz Oser

Part V. Learning with Information and Communication Technology: Impact and Risk Evaluation

22. Deeply Sensing Learners for Better Assistance
Koichi Kise

23. Augmented Learning on Anticipating Textbooks with Eye Tracking
Shoya Ishimaru, Syed Saqib Bukhari, Carina Heisel, Nicolas Großmann, Pascal Klein, Jochen Kuhn, Andreas Dengel

24. The Potential of the Internet of Things for Supporting Learning and Training in the Digital Age
Miloš Kravčík, Carsten Ullrich, Christoph Igel

25. The Digital Misinformation Pipeline
Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia

Keywords: Education, Learning & Instruction, Technology and Digital Education, Educational Technology