Grenzregionen sind nicht selten künstliche Gebilde. Das gilt in besonderem Maße für die Euroregion Neiße. Als Ergebnis des Zweiten Weltkriegs entsteht hier nicht nur ein durch drei staatliche Einflusssphären bestimmtes Gebietsdreieck, das gewachsene regionale Traditionen zerstört. Durch die Zwangsumsiedlung …

What makes an educational game good? This paper describes three research directions that could provide insight in the underlying principles of effective educational games. These aspects are 1) The importance of distinguishing between types of to-be-learned knowledge, 2) the need to understand the relationship …

Hidden careers: older artists and Lifelong Learning. "Before, Beside and After (Beyond) the Biographical Narrative" Annual Conference of the Life History and Biographical Research Network, Magdeburg, Germany, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th March 2014.

The aim of this study was to examine differences in the performance of children with probable Developmental Coordination Disorder (p-DCD) and balance problems (BP) and typical developing children (TD) on a Wii Fit task and to measure the effect on balance skills after a Wii Fit intervention. Twenty-eight …

In this paper we present a system that generates questions from an ontology to determine a crisis situation by ordinary people using their mobile phone: the Situation Awareness Question Generator. To generate questions from an ontology we propose a formalization based on Situation Theory and several …

In J. Bauer, The integrated world of excellence. Symposium op het tweejaarlijks internationaal congres European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI): Responsible teaching and sustainable learning, München, Duitsland, augustus 2013.

Vortrag an der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien, 11. Juni 2013.

This study focuses on the uses and functions of music in the life of individuals in the province of Groningen at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The study is an ethnomusicological study representing the sub-discipline of ethnomusicology-at-home. It uses Andreas Reckwitz’ formulation of practice …