Digitale Lehre an und rund um der Technischen Universität Graz
The fourth presentation at this year ED-Media conference in Denver, USA is about our Personal Learning Environment. I will give a short overview about the latest developments.
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The third presentation at this year ED-Media conference in Denver, USA is about our survey with all beginners. Did we 2007 wondering if the netgeneration arrives at the university, we can state that 2011 we have a very different population.
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The second presentation at this year ED-Media conference in Denver, USA will about a mobile learning game – more details find at our homepage.
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The first presentation at this year ED-Media conference in Denver, USA will be within the Scholar Stream about the use of Web 2.0 technologies in higher education.
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Our publication on “Game Based Learning in Secondary Education: Geographical Knowledge of Austria” at this year ED-Media Conference in Lisbon is now online available. The slides have been already published here.
Abstract:
An educational, interactive flash game, iGeo, was developed at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) with the intent to assist secondary school students with studying Geography. Objective: Our main research question was to find out whether challenging online games can motivate students to learn and achieve reach better results as a non-assisted group. Experimental Setting: The application was tested for the first time in a class with seventeen pupils at lower secondary school level. Methods: Pretest/posttest experimental control group design with questionnaires. Results: The group learning with iGeo reached significantly better results than the control group in the final examination. Additionally, it can be mentioned that learning by playing a game is more “enjoyable” for the participants. Conclusion: According to the results and the general impression of the students, Game Based Learning (GBL) has definitely a positive impact on the field of secondary education, in this case Geography.
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Reference: Ebner, M., Böckle, M., Schön, M. (2011). Game Based Learning in Secondary Education: Geographical Knowledge of Austria. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 (pp. 1510-1515). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Our publication on “The Facebook Generation Boon or Bane for E-Learning at Universities?” at this year ED-Media Conference in Lisbon is now online available. The slides have been already published here.
Abstract:
No other social community has been that booming ever than Facebook. A query among freshmen at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) displays this strongly ongoing trend too. Compared to the freshmen-studies of the last three years we can demonstrate the way Facebook already influences the communication behavior of today ́s students. Does the use of Facebook lead to a more competent understanding and intensive practice of Web2.0 applications in general? Does Facebook pave the way for Web2.0 or absorbs it by implementing and enabling Web2.0 functionalities on the platform? And what does this mean for teaching and learning aspects so far? Using a couple of statistical analysis methods for complex investigations (hierarchical cluster analysis, the principle component analysis and the varimax rotation) we tried to answer these questions and found out that the usage of Facebook already leaves it ́s marks on the communicational behavior of students. An influence on the usage of other Web2.0 applications cannot be stated with significance so far but it seems that Facebook has a repressive factor rather than a promotive one; it serves as a substitute for them.
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Reference: Ebner, M., Nagler, W., Schön, M. (2011). The Facebook Generation – Boon or Bane for E- Learning at Universities?. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 (pp. 3549-3557). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Our publication on “Reading and Learning with Any Device University Content for E-Books and E-Readers” at this year ED-Media Conference in Lisbon is now online available. The slides have been already published here.
Abstract:
Due to the fact that e-readers and e-books in general are booming stronger than ever their applicability for teaching and learning aspects absolutely need to be focused. Besides important didactical aspects there are a number of product related challenges that had to be taken first when integrating e-books to the university ́s workaday life. This paper presents a way to turn teaching content into e-reader readable formats. On base of different raw materials according to their formats a couple of e-book output versions (for HTML, PDF, iPad, EPUB and Mobi usage) are compiled automatically. This development of adequate learning content by the meaning of e- book generation for multiple devices is described detailed as well as its user-friendly implementation into the Learning Management System of Graz University of Technology. Current technological limitations of that process and future aspects are discussed too.
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Reference: Nagler, W., Ebner, M., Scerbakov, N. (2011). Reading and Learning with Any Device – University Content for E-Books and E-Readers. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2011 (pp. 1775-1782). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Last week this year ED-Media Conference took place in Lisbon, Portugal. I as member of the Steering Committee was elected beforehand to coordinate the Social Media Team. Our task was to handle the Twitter stream (#edmedia11) as well as engage people to interact online.
The result is quite amazing – 4 days of Twitter use leads to more than 3700 tweets (see here a statistic) and a lot of further online material.
Paulo colleted also all URLs of the stream in our own ED-Media Scoop.it Page – take a look on this, I think we did a good work.
Finally thanks a lot to my team for working with you for just 4 days (and it’s worth to follow them on Twitter): @pgsimoes, @_joanasilva_, @etutoria, @AMargaridaMaia, @GCruzMatos, @jjmpleal
My last presentation at this year ED-Media Conference was about “Web 2.0 in Higher Education” – it is a rather “traditional” one, which I did every year for the graduate student stream (ok, some slides were changed a little bit):
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My second talk at this year ED-Media Conference is about eBooks and what we have already developed. There is a big future on these devices and for sure it will influence learning and teaching: