Frontiers and Advances in Positive Learning in the Age of InformaTiOn (PLATO)

Part I: Positive and Negative Learning in Higher Education.- Towards Quality Higher Education: Barriers and Enablers.- The Role of Modeling for "Seeking Truth" in an Educational Policy Classroom.- Critical Thinking in Social Domains.- Part II: Learning with New Media and Technology.- Positive and Negative Media Effects on University Students' Learning: Preliminary Findings and a Research Program.- Explicating Logic of Biology to Support Critical Thinking.- Picture Bias in Upper-Division Physics Education.- The Role of Media Conversion for Positive Learning.- Part III: Innovative Analytical Approaches for Modeling of Learning.- Towards a Computational Model for Measuring the Complexity of Learning Tasks: A Combined Cognitive and Computational Approach.- Automated Methods for the Comparison of Natural Languages.- Grounding Educational Language: From Situation Modeling to Cognitive Structures.- Successful and Positive Learning through Study Crafting: A Self-Control Perspective.- Literature, Simulation, and the Path towards Deeper Learning.- On the Way of Developing a Holistic Explanatory Model of Positive Learning.- Part IV: Measuring of Intra- and Interindividual Learning - From Neural Correlates to Language Topology.- The Neural Basis of Idea Density During Natural Spoken Language.- What Can the Eyes and the Brain Tell Us About Learning? The Role of Information Density in the Comprehension and Retrieval of Complex Concepts.- IRT Modeling of Decomposed Student Learning Patterns as Positive and Negative Learning in Higher Education Economics.- Performance in Knowledge Assessment Tests from the Perspective of Linguistic Typology.- Challenges in the Modeling and Assessment of Complex Constructs: Some Examples from the PLATO Project.- Part V: Perspectives.- Positive Learning at Risk - Mapping Information Structures of Learning Sources in Economics and Computer Science (PLATO-i).- PLATO in Search of Identity.

Olga Zlatkin-Troitschanskaia has been Chair of Business and Economics Education at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, since 2006. She earned her doctoral degree from Humboldt University of Berlin in 2004 and her postdoctoral qualification in 2006. She has published widely on empirical educational research in vocational and higher education. She has directed numerous externally funded national and international research projects and has been coordinating the national research program 'Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education (KoKoHs)' since 2011. Her research has earned various awards and honors. She is a member of many national and international advisory and editorial boards and serves as an expert consultant to ministries, foundations, and international journals.