Research visit to Switzerland
Last week, I returned from my three-week research visit to the Institute for Research in Open, Distance and eLearning (IFeL) at the Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (FFHS), which also holds the UNESCO Chair on Personalized and Adaptive Learning in Distance Education. This visit was made entirely possible thanks to an expenditure grant from Suomen Kulttuurirahasto (The Finnish Cultural Foundation). I am very grateful to Egon Werlen and the entire IFeL team for their amazing hospitality and engaging in fruitful discussions. The visit began with a presentation of my doctoral project, where I received valuable feedback and a host of questions that will directly shape my work. As a result of my visit, we will continue to collaborate on my second PhD paper. Thanks to the feedback I received, I will now incorporate entropy analysis to capture emotional dynamics more effectively. This analysis will provide a measure of the stability and complexity of emotional patterns over time, ...