Positive Learning in the Age of Information: A Blessing or a Curse?

Front Matter ....Pages I-VIII
 Editorial – About a ‚PLATO‘  (Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Gabriel Wittum, Andreas Dengel)....Pages 1-6
Front Matter ....Pages 7-7
 Higher Education: A Platonic Ideal  (Howard Gardner)....Pages 9-21
 Why We Should Teach the Humanities  (Stephen M. Kosslyn)....Pages 23-27
 Conceptual Fundamentals for a Theoretical and Empirical Framework of Positive Learning  (Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia, Susanne Schmidt, Dimitri Molerov, Richard J. Shavelson, David Berliner)....Pages 29-50
Front Matter ....Pages 51-51
 Hand Gestures Alert Auditory Cortices  (Arne Nagels, Spencer D. Kelly, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube)....Pages 53-66
 Students’ Visual Attention While Solving Multiple Representation Problems in Upper-Division Physics  (Pascal Klein, Andreas Dengel, Jochen Kuhn)....Pages 67-87
 Supporting and Hindering Effects on Rational Reasoning  (Markus Knauff)....Pages 89-107
 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)....Pages 109-126
 Knowledge Representation and Cognitive Skills in Problem Solving  (Walter Bisang)....Pages 127-144
 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)....Pages 145-193
Front Matter ....Pages 195-195
 Media Effects on Positive and Negative Learning  (Marcus Maurer, Oliver Quiring, Christian Schemer)....Pages 197-208
 The Norm of Neutrality in Collaborative Knowledge Construction  (Aileen Oeberst, Jort de Vreeze, Ulrike Cress)....Pages 209-219
 Why Google Can’t Save Us  (Sam Wineburg, Joel Breakstone, Sarah McGrew, Teresa Ortega)....Pages 221-228
 Approaches to the Study of Negative Learning  (Daniel Koretz)....Pages 229-234
 Positive Learning and Pluriliteracies  (Oliver Meyer, Margarete Imhof, Do Coyle, Mita Banerjee)....Pages 235-265
 Acquisition of Generic Competencies Through Project Simulation in Translation Studies  (Silvia Hansen-Schirra, Sascha Hofmann, Jean Nitzke)....Pages 267-280
 Positive Learning in the Age of Information (PLATO) – Critical Remarks  (Richard J. Shavelson)....Pages 281-291
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 Ethics of Beliefs  (Wanja Wiese)....Pages 295-314
 A Model of Positive and Negative Learning  (Christian Dormann, Eva Demerouti, Arnold Bakker)....Pages 315-346
 Reconciling Morality and Rationality  (Gerhard Minnameier)....Pages 347-361
 Positive Learning Through Negative Learning  (Fritz Oser)....Pages 363-370
Front Matter ....Pages 371-371
 Deeply Sensing Learners for Better Assistance  (Koichi Kise)....Pages 373-385
 Augmented Learning on Anticipating Textbooks with Eye Tracking  (Shoya Ishimaru, Syed Saqib Bukhari, Carina Heisel, Nicolas Großmann, Pascal Klein, Jochen Kuhn et al.)....Pages 387-398
 The Potential of the Internet of Things for Supporting Learning and Training in the Digital Age  (Miloš Kravčík, Carsten Ullrich, Christoph Igel)....Pages 399-412
 The Digital Misinformation Pipeline  (Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia)....Pages 413-421
Back Matter ....Pages 423-429