M. Constapel, Dorian Doberstein, H. Hoppe, H. Hellbrück
{"title":"IKARion: Enhancing a Learning Platform with Intelligent Feedback to Improve Team Collaboration and Interaction in Small Groups","authors":"M. Constapel, Dorian Doberstein, H. Hoppe, H. Hellbrück","doi":"10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937348","url":null,"abstract":"Due to a high number of participants and limited human tutoring capacities, close supervision and human guidance is hardly possible in large online courses. Thus, the aim of the IKARion project is to develop methods for intelligent and automated diagnosis and intervention in online learning environments. In this paper, we present our distributed and autonomous feedback system aiming to improve team collaboration and interaction by means of interventions. The feedback system detects and diagnoses existing and emerging problems within the groups based on their interaction patterns. Based on principles of pedagogy and educational psychology, analysis metrics and appropriate measures are provided for different types of feedback including mirroring for exploratory and informative prompts providing appropriate information about progress and actual state for the teamwork, and guiding prompts aiming to modify the interaction and collaboration of a team or an individual student. The distributed feedback system consists of three essential components: Moodle-based learning management system along with various prompts implemented as Moodle plugins, Learning Analytics Backend, and Rule-based Intervention System based on an expert system. We describe, on an architectural level, the distributed feedback system and its components. As a result, we show measurements of two long term experiments carried out in two online courses at university level with a duration of one semester each. We conclude the paper with an outlook on future work.","PeriodicalId":268992,"journal":{"name":"2019 18th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134034542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Braun, Don Bone, Wayne Brookes, F. Trede, R. Hadgraft
{"title":"Studios in DE and EE at UTS: Structure and Rationale","authors":"R. Braun, Don Bone, Wayne Brookes, F. Trede, R. Hadgraft","doi":"10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937370","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937370","url":null,"abstract":"We describe the Studios we have introduced into our Data and Electronic Engineering programs. We explain the purpose of the Studios, and the structure of activities. We describe the rationale for the significant components. We comment on the success of the components, and lessons learned.","PeriodicalId":268992,"journal":{"name":"2019 18th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"253 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134057700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Gericota, A. Fidalgo, Paulo Ferreira, G. Andrieu, C. P. Molina
{"title":"e-Engineering: engineering school at home without compromise","authors":"M. Gericota, A. Fidalgo, Paulo Ferreira, G. Andrieu, C. P. Molina","doi":"10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937352","url":null,"abstract":"For many years, e-learning courses were restricted to nontechnical areas. The main reason was the impossibility for students to have access to laboratories to perform practical works, which are crucial for them to acquire the technical skills associated with any technical area. This reality changed with the widespread of high-speed broadband Internet services, even in the most remote, isolated areas, which made possible the remote control of equipment and laboratory instrumentation in real time. Students have now the possibility of remotely performing practical works and of developing technical skills without leaving their homes. This paper presents the EOLES course, an entirely online third-year English-taught course in Electronics and Optics for Embedded Systems that uses remote laboratories to grant students the technical skills an engineer is expected to have, and the efforts that have been made to generate the conditions for other higher education institutions to develop and offer their own e-Engineering courses.","PeriodicalId":268992,"journal":{"name":"2019 18th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132652556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-assessment as a tool for quality management of an educational institution in a technology-rich environment","authors":"T. Čorejová, M. Rostasova, Roman Chinoracký","doi":"10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937342","url":null,"abstract":"the paper represents one of the tools of the current internal quality assurance system at the University of Žilina which is self-assessment. It is a special approach to the assessment of the quality of education and fulfilment of the goals and strategy of the university, which, however seems to the involved parties to be very bureaucratic and complex. Therefore, the use of advanced technologies which are not in short supply at the university seems to be a means to address these identified problems. The paper represents two examples in the form of using of the so-called internal internet marketing and the design of database creation for evaluation of inputs for assessment of internal quality assurance system of education in a self-assessment tool of internal quality assurance system of education at the university.","PeriodicalId":268992,"journal":{"name":"2019 18th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"4 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120863595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ouiame Filali Marzouki, Mohammed Khalidi, S. Bennani
{"title":"Context-sensitive mobile learning systems using the method for engineering learning systems MISA","authors":"Ouiame Filali Marzouki, Mohammed Khalidi, S. Bennani","doi":"10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ithet46829.2019.8937374","url":null,"abstract":"Two major challenges are faced when designing context-sensitive mobile learning systems: i) considering contextual components in the instructional design and ii) implementing the system response to those changing components in order to enhance the learner's learning experience without altering pedagogical objectives. The complication stems from poor understanding of what constitutes context and how it should be presented but also from its unpredictability and richness making it almost impossible to consider all its elements upstream the design process. We address these issues in the present paper by defining and categorizing the contextual information into semantic models to be included in the mobile learning system design process obtained using the method for Engineering Learning Systems MISA. We then determine the main technical and instructional functionalities to be implemented by such systems","PeriodicalId":268992,"journal":{"name":"2019 18th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123734451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}