Die Dissertation „Didaktischer Ansatz für das Blended Learning: Konzeption und Anwendung von Educational Patterns“ beschreibt die Gestaltung von Blended Learning mittels Educational Patterns. Blended Learning stellt eine Kombination verschiedener Lehr-/ Lernformen mit und ohne Technikeinsatz...

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

The quality of online education is of interest to universities around the world. Only high quality and cyclical evaluation are the conditions for obtaining students' satisfaction with this form of education. In the pandemic era, digital dissemination and open education have become a special...

We study the impact of COVID-19 school closures on differences in online learning usage by regional academic performance. Using data from Google Trends in Italy, we find that during the first lockdown, regions with a previously lower academic performance increased their searches for e-learning...

In a world crisis generated by the spread of Covid-19, beyond the negative consequences, fast and efficient responses were needed from the authorities across the world, both for the scenario in which the crisis was on a short period and education would have recovered quickly, and especially for...

During the COVID-19 outbreak, when all human activities have moved from physical to virtual society, Western Balkan countries (WB6) had seen tremendous success with online learning platforms. The way forward was to promote remote learning and the use of online learning platforms, to continue...