Martine Baars
The aim of this project was to design and develop a mobile application to support student’s self-regulated learning processes. Together with financial support by the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), the Ace your self study app has been designed, developed and tested with potential users. Because of the combined funding, we were able to gather a team of professionals and create a mobile application that is freely available for everyone in the App and Play store since December 2017.
The team consists of Farshida Zafar, Game Architects, DEV66 and the ICT services of the EUR.
Since the launch of the app there has been a pilot study with students in the Erasmus Behavioural Lab to test the use of the app when studying a research article. The results of this pilot have been presented at the European Association of Research into Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Special Interest Group (SIG) Metacognition in Zurich, August 2018. Also, the pilot was presented at the Innovation Room meeting organised by CEL in the summer of 2018.
In September 2018, the Ace your self study app was investigated in an actual course at Social Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam. The data are currently being analysed, written down and will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. This study is also submitted and accepted to be presented at the EARLI 2019 in Aachen. Furthermore, a manuscript describing the mobile application from an educational psychology perspective and a technical application development perspective is currently being prepared and will be submitted to a journal. I also presented the Ace your self study app at the AVANS hogeschool, the Community for Learning and Innovation (CLI) at EUR and the Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies (DPECS) at EUR. Finally, in November 2018 the Ace your self study app was nominated for the national SURF awards for educational innovations.