Digitale Lehre an und rund um der Technischen Universität Graz
Veröffentlichungen zu jeweiligen Thema
Sarah hat im Rahmen der GMW 2022 Tagung in Karlsruhe unseren Beitrag zu „Der OER-Canvas für Lehrende: Werkstattbericht zum Einsatz von Learning Experience Design“ vorgestellt. Die Präsentationsfolien dazu sind auf ResearchGate online:
Our article about „Using learning analytics to improve the educational design of MOOCs“ got published now in the International Journal of Education and Learning.
Abstract:
In recent years, the interest in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Learning Analytics research have highly increased in the areas of educational technologies. The emergence of new learning technologies requires new perspectives on Educational Design. When the areas of MOOCs, Learning Analytics and Instructional Design developed, the interest and connection between these three concepts became important for research. Learning Analytics provides progress information and other individualized support in MOOC settings where teachers are not able to provide learners with individual attention, which would be possible in a traditional face-to-face setting. Through collective views over the learning process, the overall progress and performance are indicated. Moreover, results can lead to Educational Design improvements. Every time a learner interacts with the system, data is created and collected. Many Educational Designers do not take advantage of this data and thereby, losing the possibility to impact the course design in a powerful way. This research work strongly focuses on the implication of Learning Analytics for Educational Design in MOOCs. Many methods and algorithms are used in the analytical learning process in MOOCs. Currently, a great variety of learning data exists. First, well-known Instructional Design patterns from different models were collected and listed. In a second step, through the collected data is used to point out which of these patterns can be answered by using Learning Analytics methods. The findings of the study show that it is possible to better understand which environments and experiences are best suited for learning by analyzing students‘ behaviors online. These results have great potential for a rapidly and easier understanding and optimization of the learning process for educators.
[full article @ journal’s homepage]
[full article @ ResearchGate]
Reference: Khalil, H., Ebner, M., & Leitner, P. (2022). Using learning analytics to improve the educational design of MOOCs. International Journal of Education and Learning, 4(2), 100-108. doi:https://doi.org/10.31763/ijele.v4i2.641
Martin is invited to give a keynote talk at 9th International Conference on Computer Technology Applications (ICCTA 2023) in May 2023. He will give an overview and insights about our running projects on MOOCs, Learning Analytics and Open Educational Resources.
Abstract of the talk:
In this talk the different research fields of MOOCs, Learning Analytics and OER are addressed and brought together. Over a couple of years now, different proponents announcing MOOS or OER or Learning Analytics. Nevertheless, the idea is to put all the research results together and provide it as a service for education, especially in Higher Education.
Using the example from Graz University of Technology the talk will provide insights how we can deal with it in the future based on research findings and hands-on experiences with real student data.
We would be happy if you join us in Vienna next year: [conference website]
With this announcement I would like to wish you merry christmas and a happy, healthy year 2023 – I will be back after my holidays in January 2023. Hopefully we got a little bit of snow in our mountains, because I would love to make some tours with my skis 🙂
Feel free to take a look to my tour descriptions to get an idea what I am taking about: [Link to profile @ Alpenverein]
Unsere gemeinsame Publikation im Open Education Austria Advanced Projekt ist nun erschienen mit dem Titel „Attraktive Lösungen für Open Educational Resources aus dem österreichischen Hochschulraum – ein Werkstattbericht von Open Education Austria Advanced“.
Zusammenfassung:
Open Education Austria Advanced ist ein Projekt mehrerer österreichischer Universitäten, das attraktive Lösungen für OER als Gesamtprojektziel verfolgt. Diese äußern sich im Rahmen eines OERhub (zentrale Meta-Suchmaschine für OER aus dem gesamten öst. Hochschulraum), dem Aufbau von lokalen OER-Repositorien und einer nationalen Zertifizierungsstelle mit passenden Qualifizierungsangeboten. Der weitreichende Wissenstransfer des Projekts in die österreichischen Hochschulen an der Schnittstelle von Bibliotheken, Zentralen IT-Services und Teaching & Learning Zentren trägt zur Sichtbarmachung und Nutzung von Synergien aus Open Science und Open Education bei, um einen Beitrag zur freien Nutzung von Bildungsinhalten aus der (Hochschul-)Lehre zu leisten und offene Praktiken analog zur Forschung zu etablieren (Open Access, Open Data).
[Publikation @ Journal Homepage]
[Publikation @ ResearchGate]
Zitation: Hackl, C., Ebner, M., Ganguly, R., Gröblinger, O., Handle-Pfeiffer, D., Kopp, M., Schmölz, A., Schön, S. und Zwiauer, C. (2022) „Attraktive Lösungen für Open Educational Resources aus dem österreichischen Hochschulraum – ein Werkstattbericht von Open Education Austria Advanced“, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, 75(2). doi: 10.31263/voebm.v75i2.7190
Issue 17(23) of our journal on emerging technologies for learning got published. Enjoy the readings as usual for free :-).
Table of Contents:
Nevertheless, if you are interested to become a reviewer for the journal, please just contact me 🙂 .
Our research about „Patterns of quiz attempts in a MOOC. The full-points-pattern and other patterns on the way to a successful MOOC in a lecture setting“ was presented at EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2022:
Abstract:
The analysis of learner data in MOOCs provides numerous opportunities to look for patterns that may indicate participants‘ learning strategies. In this article, we investigated how participants in a MOOC (N=1,200), in which they must successfully complete a quiz in each unit, deal with the fact that they can repeat this quiz up to five times. On the one hand, patterns can be identified regarding the success of the quiz attempts: For example, 32.7% of the course participants always repeat the quizzes up to a full score, while about 16.0% of the participants repeat, but only until they pass all quizzes. Regarding the number of attempts, independent of the success, there is only a uniformity in „single attempt“; 12.6% of the participants only take exactly one attempt at each of the quizzes in the MOOC. An analysis of a subgroup of 80 learners which were students of a course where the MOOC was obligatory, shows that the proportion of learners attributed to patterns making more attempts is generally bigger. It can be shown as well that learners who uses several attempts, even after a full score results, tend to get better exam. The article concludes by discussing how these patterns can be interpreted and how they might influence future MOOC developments.
[full article @ conference homepage]
[draft @ ResearchGate]
Reference: Mair, B., Schön, S., Ebner, M., Edelsbrunner, S., Leitner, P., Schlager, A., Teufel, M. & Thurner, S. (2022). Patterns of quiz attempts in a MOOC. The full-points-pattern and other patterns on the way to a successful MOOC in a lecture setting. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 1169-1179). New York City, NY, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved July 13, 2022 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/221430/
Issue 17(22) of our journal on emerging technologies for learning got published. Enjoy the readings as usual for free :-).
Table of Contents:
Nevertheless, if you are interested to become a reviewer for the journal, please just contact me 🙂 .
Für den digital university hub hab ich einen Artikel zur „Digitalen Transformation der Hochschullehre“ geschrieben, der nun online verfügbar ist. Dabei beziehe ich mich wieder auf das schon vorgestellte 8-Stufen-Modell zur Beurteilung des Fortschrittes der Transformation.
[Link zum Artikel]
[article @ ResearchGate]
Zitation: Ebner, M. (2022) Digitale Transformation der Hochschullehre, digital university hub, October 2022 https://www.digitaluniversityhub.eu/dx-events-news/duh-news/digitale-transformation-in-der-hochschullehre
Im Rahmen des 5. Netzwerktreffen der Plattform Lehrentwicklung an der FH Wien bin ich gebeten worden ein paar Wort zur strategischen Ausrichtug der digitalen Hochschullehre zu verlieren. Hier findet man meine Präsentation dazu:
Our chapter about „Developing a Professional Profile of a Digital Ethics Officer in an Educational Technology Unit in Higher Education“ is published right now.
Abstract:
The digitalisation of learning, teaching, and study processes has a major impact on possible evaluations and uses of data, for example with regard to individual learning recommendations, prognosis, or assessments. This also gives rise to ethical issues centered around digital teaching and possible challenges of data use. One possible approach to this challenge might be to install a Digital Ethics Officer (DEO), whose future profile this paper outlines for a Educational Technology unit of a Higher Education Institution (HEI). Therefore, an introductory overview of the tasks and roles of Ethics Officers (EO) is given based on the literature. The authors then describe the current ethics program of a university of technology and collect current and potential ethical issues from the field of educational technologies. Based on this, a first professional profile for a DEO at an educational technology unit of a university is described. From the authors’ point of view, the article thus prepares important considerations and steps for the future of this position.
[article @ book’s homepage]
[draft @ ResearchGate]
Reference: Andrews, D., Leitner, P., Schön, S., Ebner, M. (2022). Developing a Professional Profile of a Digital Ethics Officer in an Educational Technology Unit in Higher Education. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing the Learner and Teacher Experience. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13328. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05657-4_12