{"title":"Students' Approaches to Learning in a Gamified Course in Higher Education","authors":"Mónica Raleiras, F. Costa, Joana Viana","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759662","url":null,"abstract":"Gamification is the use of game elements in nongame contexts to increase user engagement with a system. In education, especially in Higher Education, gamification is considered a promising strategy to motivate students and promote their involvement in learning activities. To be effective, gamification needs to consider students' differences and adapt to their needs and preferences. In this paper, we propose the use of Students' Approaches to Learning to differentiate learners and analyse their preferences for gamification elements. The study was carried out in a gamified postgraduate course in engineering. We present a statistical analysis of the correlation between students approaches to learning, academic success, engagement, and appreciation of gamification elements.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126331704","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":"Ethereum Blockchain and Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS) based Application Model to Record and Share Patient Health Information: An Exemplary Case Study for e-Health Education in Nepal","authors":"Mahesh Kayastha, Shakir Karim, Raj Sandu, E. Gide","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759580","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade patient management systems or eHealth has gained huge attraction with researchers. eHealth spans from the remote access of medical records to actual data exchange of remote patient's data of their body sensors. In this paper we propose a decentralized application model that uses Ethereum private Blockchain, Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS), and associated web technologies that aim to help healthcare providers, policymakers, and research organizations in Nepal. It presents the outcome of a survey conducted among the general public and a focus group discussion with medical doctors in relation to their current practices and limitations in storing and sharing patients' medical histories for examinations or treatments. The paper concludes with why blockchain technologies can be a better option for public and private healthcare institutions as well as medical practitioners to store and share patient records to deliver timely and quality healthcare services in a resource-poor country like Nepal.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127967997","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":"University students' views towards mathematics","authors":"K. Ghimire","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759805","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759805","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematics essentially provides the basic skills for human resources. Additionally, it sets the foundation for further education. In this realization, this research investigates the students' views towards mathematics by gender and academic aspiration. In doing so, seventy-eight M Phil students of the school of social sciences and education at Nepal Open University, Nepal were chosen as the participants. The views score was based on 40 items of views towards mathematics questionnaires which was used in the academic year 2020 along with students' gender and academic field they were attending. As a statistical tool, a descriptive and inferential analysis was employed to examine the relationship between students' views with respect to gender and academic aspiration. The findings revealed that the students' views towards mathematics were slightly positive (mean score 134.01 with std dev 13.60 out of 200). However, male students scored slightly higher than their female counterparts. There were significant differences of views scores by academic groups. Bringing these findings together into account, this study will help other researchers, teachers, students, and administrators to gain a better understanding on students' views on mathematics.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128091565","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":"Towards Security, Data Privacy and Learning Performance","authors":"M. Ivanova, Roumiana Ilieva","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759574","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an exploration and discussion regarding the influence of security level of eLearning educational environment and utilized data privacy mechanisms on the students' learning performance. The students' opinion is also taken into consideration through developed online survey. In our best knowledge such analysis is proposed for the first time in this work. The findings outline the strong connection among learning analytics, security and data privacy and learning performance through created predictive model that is based on Random Forest machine learning algorithm and is characterized with high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127604117","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":"Cost-based Framework for Natural Language Argumentation Analysis","authors":"K. Yamaguchi, Yoshitatsu Matsuda","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759813","url":null,"abstract":"Classroom discussions are important for enriching the student's background knowledge and improving the student's logical thinking ability. Automatic evaluation of argument strengths in a discussion is helpful in such environments. In this paper, we propose a strength evaluation framework for such use. The evaluation framework is cost-based and allows attack and support relations with various semantics, recursiveness, and similarity. Its theoretical properties and application show that the proposed framework is promising.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116107142","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":"Modelling socio-linguistic profiles in multilingual Higher Education Institutions (HEI)","authors":"L. Moccozet, Nicolas Boeckh, Larissa Aronin","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759794","url":null,"abstract":"Globalisation affects all sectors of the society including higher education. Teaching staff and students are getting increasingly mobile, which results in the linguistic diversity in institutions. This, in its turn, invokes the necessity of accommodating populations with diverse and heterogeneous language skills. The issue of multilingualism in education concerns not only learning and acquisition of additional languages. It also entails the challenges of use of several languages in educational institutions both for daily communication and for learning/teaching various disciplines. However, this direction is currently largely neglected. Dealing with multilingualism in education, information technologies have been applied mainly to language learning and on the automated production of translation of educational content and resources. The attempts to represent the multilingual competences of teachers and learners in a digitally compact and manageable way are scarce. This flies in the face of the sufficient practical need to adapt educational services for all the students and to improve the reception of foreign students in an institution. In this article, we propose to fill in this gap by utilizing an approach from the field of multilingualism: the Dominant Language Constellation (DLC). This concept offers many avenues for application in the education sector. We draw inspiration from this sociolinguistic perspective and demonstrate how to produce, analyse, and use students' sociolinguistic profiles with the help of information technology. We then show some further applications of the IT-enhanced DLC approach to improve the services offered to foreign students at an international University of Geneva, as a case study.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127761850","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. Parvez Rashid, E. Gehringer, Mitchell Young, Divyang Doshi, Qinjin Jia, Yunkai Xiao
{"title":"Peer Assessment Rubric Analyzer: An NLP approach to analyzing rubric items for better peer-review","authors":"M. Parvez Rashid, E. Gehringer, Mitchell Young, Divyang Doshi, Qinjin Jia, Yunkai Xiao","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759679","url":null,"abstract":"Rubrics have long been used to provide a grading process that is fair and adherent to standards. Just as rubrics can help instructors assess a piece of work, they can also help students to do a more effective job of peer assessment. In a peer-review environment, reviewers provide formative feedback following the rubric criteria. High-quality feedback can greatly enhance the learning process. Rubric criteria need to be worded carefully to provide clear instruction and effective guidance. Heretofore, little research has been performed on how rubric text affects rubric feedback. This study focuses on analyzing rubric text to identify whether rubric criteria will induce peer-reviewers to write quality reviews. We have analyzed 408,104 formative feedback comments based on 3,164 rubric criteria using natural language processing techniques with advanced neural network methods. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to analyze rubric text to improve review comments for the peer-review environment.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128870614","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}
Gerhard Johann Hagerer, Laura Lahesoo, Miriam Anschütz, Stephan Krusche, Georg Groh
{"title":"An Analysis of Programming Course Evaluations Before and After the Introduction of an Autograder","authors":"Gerhard Johann Hagerer, Laura Lahesoo, Miriam Anschütz, Stephan Krusche, Georg Groh","doi":"10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759809","url":null,"abstract":"Commonly, introductory programming courses in higher education institutions have hundreds of participating students eager to learn to program. The manual effort for reviewing the submitted source code and for providing feedback can no longer be managed. Manually reviewing the submitted homework can be subjective and unfair, particularly if many tutors are responsible for grading. Different autograders can help in this situation; however, there is a lack of knowledge about how autograders can impact students' overall perception of programming classes and teaching. This is relevant for course organizers and institutions to keep their programming courses attractive while coping with increasing students. This paper studies the answers to the standardized university evaluation questionnaires of multiple large-scale foundational computer science courses which recently introduced autograding. The differences before and after this intervention are analyzed. By incorporating additional observations, we hypothesize how the autograder might have contributed to the significant changes in the data, such as, improved interactions between tutors and students, improved overall course quality, improved learning suc-cess, increased time spent, and reduced difficulty. This qualitative study aims to provide hypotheses for future research to define and conduct quantitative surveys and data analysis. The autograder technology can be validated as a teaching method to improve student satisfaction with programming courses.","PeriodicalId":339339,"journal":{"name":"2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130900440","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}