EU-project DUNES
Projectleader Utrecht: Dr. Jerry Andriessen
Project acronym: DUNES
Project full title:
Dialogic
and argUmentative Negotiation Educational Software
DUNES goal is to design, implement and test – in a large-scale experiment - an environment for collaborative learning (CL) through electronic discussion. More specifically, DUNES will develop (1) innovative "argumentative maps" for modeling and supporting discussion among participants; (2) didactical scenarios for CL, including CL of specific topics, competitive negotiation and debates, collaborative decision-making, etc.; (3) methods of intervention by the instructor/moderator or by intelligent agents; (4) methodologies for evaluating activities with DUNES and their contribution, like (a) Quantitative measures of informal reasoning; (b) Quant. methods for evaluating products of collective work; (c) Methods for describing interactions between participants and the mediating role of the tools; (d) Ethnographic approaches for describing global aspects of argumentative activities with DUNES; and (e) Assessing the required characteristics and new role of the teacher in DUNES environments.
Participant name |
Participant short name |
Country |
The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
HUJI |
Israel |
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. |
FhG/AiS |
Germany |
Silogic |
Silogic |
France |
Tessera
Multimedia SA |
Tessera |
Greece |
Pouliadis
Associates Corporation |
Pouliadis |
Greece |
Utrecht
University |
UU |
Nether-lands |
Universite
de Neuchatel |
UN |
Switzer-land |
Goteborg
University |
UG |
Sweden |
Institute
of Education, University of London |
IoE |
United
Kingdom |