[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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[CfP] Young Academics E-Learning Research (YAER12)

FNM-Austria likes to assist young researchers to present the community their studies, works, implementations and engage them to contribute at the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (2012).
Therefore a Call for Papers called „Young Acedemics E-Learning Research“ is announced and the deadline to sumbit an extended abstract is 23th April 2012:

Call for Papers: ICL 2012 Special Track YAER12

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[publication] Playing a Game in Civil Engineering

Our this year publication on „Playing a Game in Civil Engineering“ at ICL 2011 conference is now online available as Draft version. The slides were already published here.
Abstract:

The goal of our research work was to find out whether in-depth learning of complex theoretical engineering knowledge at higher education level could be improved by the use of online games. In this context we addressed the research question to what extent online games contribute to the students learnin goutcome. The corresponding online game was used for the first time during a lecture on Structural Analysis at bachelor’s level with 159 students of the third semester. We used a pre-/post-testdesign with questionnaires and an independent online tracking. As a result we can point out that playing the game did not increase the learning outcome per se and the didactical scenario should be reconsidered. Nevertheless, the usage of the game for learning purposes was underlined by the oral feedback given which says that students enjoyed playing the game more than learning in a traditional way.

Playing a Game in Civil Engineering The Internal Force Master for Structural Analysis

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Reference: Zechner, J.; Ebner, M. (2011), Playing a Game in Civil Engineering. – in: 14th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2011) ̶ 11th International Conference Virtual University (vu’11). (2011), S. 417 – 422

[publication] A Qualitative Approach towards Discovering Microblogging Practices of Scientists

Our this year publication on „A Qualitative Approach towards Discovering Microblogging Practices of Scientists“ for ICL 2011 conference is now online avaible as Draft version. The slides were already published here.
Abstract:

Although Microblogging (for instance Twitter) is still rather young compared to other traditional weblogging services there already exists quite a number of studies on itsusage. The majority of scholars dealing with this topic have chosen a quantitative approach focusing on different aspects such as publishing patterns, follower patterns, publishing practices, etc. However, there are less qualitative evidence and case studies on how Twitter is used by adults in their personal working practices. This paper presents a qualitative approach of discovering microblogging practices and obtaining rich descriptions of few cases that give a deeper insight into how Twitter isused by scientists and how this practice shapes their social networks. The methodological approach is based on online ethnographic studies. ThereforeGrabeeter, a tool for collecting all public tweets of a person in various formats, hasbeen adapted in order to obtain the data appropriate for a qualitative analysis following a grounded theory approach. After an analysis of the current state-of-the-art we will outline an approach for a more qualitative analysis that focuses on discovering tacit aspects of microblogging practices such as value or purpose. Finally some initial results from four individual cases will be discussed. This work presentsthe initial phase of a detailed qualitative approach towards exploring microblogging practices of scientists.

A Qualitative Approach towards Discovering Microblogging Practices of Scientists

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Reference: Ebner, M.; Kieslinger, B. (2011), A Qualitative Approach towards Discovering Microblogging Practices of Scientists, – in: 14th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL2011) ̶ 11th International Conference Virtual University (vu’11). (2011), p. 51 – 57