{"title":"THE USAGE OF BLACKBOARD LEARN COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN UAE","authors":"L. Daouk, N. A. Hashlamoun","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108l014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108l014","url":null,"abstract":"UAE Higher education institutions were among the first institutions in the Middle East to adopt Blackboard Learn (BBLearn) as the learning management system for their e-learning activities. Regardless of the large investments spent of BBLearn, the adoption of this system among the faculty is still slow. This qualitative case study research aimed to investigate the need for the creation of a BBLearn community of practice (CoP) in a public higher education institution in the United Arab Emirates, its anticipated benefits and its positive impact on increasing the adoption of BBLearn among the computer department faculty. A qualitative case study research methodology was used, and data was collected from faculty of the public higher education institution. The findings revealed that the faculty support the creation of a BBLearn CoP and they identified its anticipated benefits and listed them. The findings also confirmed that the creation of a BBLearn CoP will have positive impact on the adoption of BBLearn among the computer department faculty. This study confirmed the importance of communities of practice and their roles in sharing and advancing knowledge. It also revealed the need to create a BBLearn CoP to address the slow adoption of BBLearn among faculty.","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131113162","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 A WEB-BASED HIERARCHICAL GOAL SETTING INTERVENTION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION","authors":"Felix Weber, Jana Kernos, Mae Grenz, Jueun Lee","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108c039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108c039","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the current state of a digital goal-setting intervention for higher education, which is based on the concept of hierarchical goal systems (HGS). Findings from organizational psychology, motivational psychology and educational psychology related to goals, self-regulated learning and goal systems are covered as a theoretical background. Subsequently, hierarchical goal systems are introduced conceptually and the concrete implementation and the essential functions of the digital HGS intervention are presented. Next, the current state of the development process and four studies currently in progress are briefly summarized. The studies are designed to answer the following research questions: How can students be supported in the discovery of personally relevant educational goals? How can students be supported in the construction of hierarchical goal systems directed towards such personally relevant educational goals? The paper concludes with an outlook on the benefits between students and researchers in the upcoming field study with the digital goal setting intervention.","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131037077","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":"DESIGN OF AN EASY-TO-USE MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY LEARNING SETTING BY MEANS OF A CONJECTURE MAP","authors":"Luca Moser","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108l002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108l002","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the positive effects of mobile augmented reality (MAR)-tools for learning, MAR-tools are not commonly used in classrooms. The scientific discourse identified a lack of concepts that guide the practical application of mobile augmented reality (MAR)-tools in education. Teachers often feel insecure when designing and applying digital learning settings and therefore need tools and concepts to support them. The present contribution outlines how to develop an easy-to-use mobile augmented reality learning setting (MARLS). Thus, a MARLS to foster artificial intelligence (AI)-literacy is developed and studied to explore what makes MARLS easy-to-use. AI-literacy serves as an exemplary topic. It appears to be suiting because MAR-technology is based on AI-systems and hence allows students to experience a positive form of human-AI-interaction first headedly. The educational design research is conducted by means of a conjecture map to enable the concurrent investigation of learning, teaching and its interdependence. Derived from the high-level conjectures, (I): AI-literacy is a set of competences, (II): a digital learning environment is crucial to foster it, (III): a good MARLS considers usability, user centeredness, conscious application, basic learning theories and cognitive load, the MARLS is developed. The MARLS and its conjecture map lay ground for the yet to follow measure and improvement of the learning design.","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"518 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123110541","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}
Ly Lutter, Sabrina A. L. Frohn, Mishael Gabrielle Pizana Cruz, Tobias Thelen
{"title":"DEVELOPING AN ONLINE CURRICULUM FOR AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTER-DISCIPLINARY MASTER PROGRAMME. A CASE REPORT OF A DAAD FUNDED PROJECT IN GERMANY","authors":"Ly Lutter, Sabrina A. L. Frohn, Mishael Gabrielle Pizana Cruz, Tobias Thelen","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108c038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108c038","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the methodology of the ongoing efforts to design and integrate an online curriculum as an additional track to an existing, well-established interdisciplinary master programme for international students studying remotely and asynchronously with on-site students. We aspire to integrate online teaching and learning into in-person lectures so that both online and on-site students profit from the joint educational experience. During the initial orientation, we conducted a field-based investigation to define the problem, analysed the context, and assessed needs of the involved stakeholders. Prominent outputs of this phase were a literature review, a SWOT analysis of the target setting, a synopsis of stakeholder needs and wishes, and course goals. This enabled us to devise communication strategies with the stakeholders, define learning objectives, and course transformation plans to feed the design of new learning scenarios combining elements of online teaching and learning (OTL) with traditional on-site teaching. These integrate into communication tools that build on mixed student teams of online and on-site students working collaboratively.","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"387 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127328392","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}
Alexander Salgo, G. O'Shea, Kim Hellemans, Jim Davies
{"title":"POSTSYNAPTIC SIMULATOR: AN OPEN-SOURCE VISUAL INTERACTIVE SIMULATION FOR TEACHING ACTION POTENTIALS","authors":"Alexander Salgo, G. O'Shea, Kim Hellemans, Jim Davies","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108l001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108l001","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce an open-source game-like educational software that teaches users about how action potentials work. The Postsynaptic Simulator requires users to demonstrate understanding of neural mechanisms to progress through levels, each of which teaches a different aspect of neuron activity.","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"305 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115525058","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":"EXPLORING NUMBAS FORMATIVE FEEDBACK FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING MATHEMATICS: AN AFFORDANCE THEORY PERSPECTIVE","authors":"Said Hadjerrouit, Celestine Ifeanyi Nnagbo","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108l032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108l032","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to explore students’ and teachers’ perceptions of affordances, and their actualization while interacting with the e-assessment system Numbas and its effect in terms of formative feedback delivery. The article uses affordance theory and a qualitative research design approach to analyze data using semi-structured interviews. Eight interviews were conducted with six students and two teachers. The results reveal the actualization of several affordances such as ease of use and navigation, variation in mathematical contents, congruence to textbook mathematics, support for pen and paper skills, learner autonomy and motivation to engage in mathematical problem-solving. Conclusions and future work based on comparative studies are drawn from the results to promote Numbas formative feedback for teaching and learning mathematics","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131027211","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":"A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF APPROACHES TO DESIGN AND CAPITALIZE DATA INDICATORS","authors":"Albane Gril, M. May, Valérie Renault, S. George","doi":"10.33965/celda2021_202108l010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33965/celda2021_202108l010","url":null,"abstract":"In Technology Enhanced Learning field, learning analytics cover multiple research challenges, among which tracking data analysis and data indicator design and visualization. Part of our research effort is dedicated to changing their design process, in order to capitalize them. This would allow us to meet a need in cost savings of design workflow and to encourage the adoption by users throughout their implications in a simplified design process. A study of the state of the art has been made to explore various solutions which could be exploited in the capitalization of indicators on both levels, design and implementation. It sets a direction toward a user-centered approach, aiming at a better control of users over their observation needs and the use of their data.","PeriodicalId":413698,"journal":{"name":"18th International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age 2021","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131160203","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}