[publication] Digital Transformation of Teaching and Perception at TU Graz from the Students’ Perspective: Developments from the Last 17 Years #tugraz #education

Our chapter on “Digital Transformation of Teaching and Perception at TU Graz from the Students’ Perspective: Developments from the Last 17 Years” we presented last year at ICL-conference is now online available:

The use of digital technologies in teaching to make it more varied, better, more diverse, or even more accessible is being pursued systematically at many universities. This article shows the developments in the digital transformation of teaching at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) over the last 17 years. In the process, the various activities of Graz University of Technology and of the central department of teaching and learning technologies about the digital transformation of teaching and its focus and change during this period are described in the form of a workshop report. The consequences and developments of the Covid-19 pandemic on digital transformation efforts are also addressed. This is contrasted with results of two students’ surveys from 2014 (N = 1,502 complete questionnaires) and 2021 (N = 1,386 complete questionnaires). Within this contribution, the authors use the survey’s data to assess how students’ attitudes towards technology-enhanced teaching were changing at TU Graz. Mean indices were created to be able to compare the two surveys. This shows that despite the less good experience with teaching at TU Graz during the pandemic the attitude towards digital teaching is relatively satisfying. Nevertheless, the authors point out that the students clearly indicate that digital (distance) learning has a negative impact on communication between students and teachers as well as between students themselves, and that measures would be desirable here.

[full chapter @ book homepage]
[draft @ ResearchGate]

Reference: Martin Ebner; Bettina Mair; Christoph De Marinis; Hannes Müller; Walther Nagler; Sandra Schön; Stefan Thurner (2023). Digital Transformation of Teaching and Perception at TU Graz from the Students’ Perspective: Developments from the Last 17 Years. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 633. Springer, Cham, pp 366–377. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26876-2_34

[presentation] Digital Transformation of Teaching and Perception at TU Graz from the Students’ Perspective: Developments from the last 17 Years #icl22 #tugraz

Yesterday, I presented our research about “Digital Transformation of Teaching and Perception at TU Graz from the Students’ Perspective: Developments from the last 17 Years” at the 25th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning in Vienna. Here you can find my slides:

[publication] PDM field study and evaluation in collaborative engineering education #research

At this year ICL 2017 conference in Budapest, Hungary we did a publication on “PDM field study and evaluation in collaborative engineering education“. Andreas did the presentation and the introduction to his PhD-work.

Abstract:

Collaboration in general but especially between students of Austrian Federal Secondary Colleges of Engineering (HTL) is becoming more and more important. Therefore, the joint diploma thesis has been introduced into the cur- riculum. Furthermore, joint student projects have become a crucial topic within the subject of mechanical engineering design. Because of the worldwide activi- ties of most companies, being able to collaborate within a huge team is seen as an essential for future jobs. To support the collaboration process in engineering education, a product data management (PDM) system was introduced to several Austrian HTLs within projects carried out in the Sparkling Science program of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. In the academic year 2016/17 a field study was started to figure out how to enhance collaboration be- tween students by using this kind of software and methods. The outcome of this study will be to find out about the level of collaboration within students’ design projects.

[Full article @ ResearchGate]

Reference: Probst, A., Gerhard, D., Ebner, M. (2017) PDM field study and evaluation in collaborative engineering education. In: Conference Proceeding of ICL2017 – 20th International Confer-ence on Interactive Collaborative Learning. Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1-9

[publication] Maker-MOOC – How to Foster STEM Education with an Open Online Course on Creative Digital Development and Construction with Children #making #imoox

Our publication on “Maker-MOOC – How to Foster STEM Education with an Open Online Course on Creative Digital Development and Construction with Children” at this year ICL conference in publication got published.

Abstract:

The Maker Movement or do-it-yourself culture is a concept uses novel, mostly via digital applications and tools to emphasize the learning- through-doing in the social environment. This culture inspires teachers through learning by construction and is seen as an important driver for education. In this chapter, we introduce the Maker Movement and describe how it contributes to the STEM education. The authors recite their experience through the project “Maker Days for Kids” which after that, was served as a fundamental base for a following Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). This online course brought some of the emerging technologies together with an appropriate didactical pro- ject about “Making activities for classrooms” to the public. It can be concluded that the MOOC assists in fostering the STEM education by rapidly transferring knowledge to the involved teachers.

[Draft version @ ResearchGate]

Reference: Ebner, M., Schön, S., Khalil, M. (2016) Maker-MOOC – How to Foster STEM Education with an Open Online Course on Creative Digital Development and Construction with Children. Conference Proceeding 19th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2016), Belfast, pp. 1233-1244

[presentation] Maker-MOOC – How to Foster STEM Education with an Open Online Course on Creative Digital Development and Construction with Children #tugraz #imoox #research #maker

Our presentation about “Maker-MOOC – How to Foster STEM Education with an Open Online Course on Creative Digital Development and Construction with Children” at this year ICL conference in Belfast is online available – enjoy it:

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[publication] A STEM MOOC for School Children – What Does Learning Analytics Tell us? #imoox

Our contribution at this year ICL Conference in Florence, Italy about “A STEM MOOC for School Children – What Does Learning Analytics Tell us?” is now online available. The slides have already been published here.
Abstract:

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been tremendously spreading among Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) academic disciplines. These MOOCs have served an agglomeration of various learner groups across the world. The leading MOOCs platform in Austria, the iMooX, offers such courses. This paper highlights authors’ experience of applying Learning Analytics to examine the participation of secondary school pupils in one of its courses called “Mechanics in everyday life”. We sighted different patterns and observations and on the contrary of the expected jubilant results of any educational MOOC, we will show, that pupils seemingly decided to consider it not as a real motivating learning route, but rather as an optional homework.

[Link to full text at ResearchGate]

Reference: Khalil, M., Ebner, M. (2015) A STEM MOOC for School Children – What Does Learning Analytics Tell us? In: Proceedings of 2015 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), Florence, Italy, pp. 1217-1221

[presentation] A STEM MOOC for School Children – What Does Learning Analytics Tell us? #imoox

Our presentation about “A STEM MOOC for School Children – What Does Learning Analytics Tell us?” at this year ICL 2015 conference is online available. We did this work to contribute to the workshop on “Learning and Assessment Analytics in STEM Education“:

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[publication] Automated Podcasting System for Universities

Our publication about “Automated Podcasting System for Universities” at this year ICL 2012 conference is now online available.
Abstract:

This paper presents the results achieved at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in the field of automating the process of recording and publishing university lectures in a very new way. It outlines cornerstones of the development and integration of an automated recording system such as the lecture hall setup, the recording hardware and software architecture as well as the development of a text-based search for the final product by method of indexing video podcasts. Furthermore, the paper takes a look at didactical aspects, evaluations done in this context and future outlook.

Automated Podcasting System for Universities

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Reference: Grigoriadis, Y., Stickel, C., Nagler, W., Ebner, M., Schön, M. (2012) Automated Podcasting System for Universities. 15th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2012, Villach, Austria

[presentation] Automated Podcasting System for Universities

Our presentation about “Automated Podcasting System for Universities” for this year ICL conference in Villach is online available.

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[CfP] Young Academics E-Learning Research (YAER2012)

Im Rahmen der ICL-Conference 2012 in Villach, Österreich lädt das Forum neue Medien Austria (fnma) zu einem Call ein. Das Besondere ist dabei der Fokus auf unsere Nachwuchswissenschaftler denen wir hier eine Bühne geben wollen, ihre Arbeiten einem internationalen Publikum vorzustellen.
Deadline ist der 14.5.2012 (!):

Call for Papers: ICL 2012 Special Track YAER12

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