Welcome to Leiden University Weblog on the implementation of Cerego – a mobile learing tool that we are introducing at Leiden University to assist students in learning and memorizing. This project is financed by the NRO under a Comenius Leadership Fellow Award. I received it in April 2019 on the basis of a proposal to implement and study mobile learning technology that primarily aims to increase retention of content from introductory courses of BSc programs.

We have chosen to use Cerego – a commercial mobile learning app – as it uses both distributed learning and retrieval practice. These two known effects in learning are combined with push technology and a user-friendly interface for students and teachers. The phone-based application runs on every platform and allows us easy access to metadata that we may use to study the relation between students’ use of Cerego, retention, and preformance on (written) examination. We are still working out some details with Cerego to get our campus-wide license in effect, but have already started implementing the use of Cerego at an introductory Chemistry course.

This blog keeps you up-to-date on the progress of our Comenius Leadership project and will refer you to upcoming publications of our results.