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[publication] Das Schulbuch – überhaupt noch zeitgemäß?

Im neuen OCG-Journal (3/2013) ist ein kurzer Artikel von Sandra und mir zu der Problematik der Schulbücher von morgen. Wie immer versuchen wir es von vielen Seiten zu sehen und vielleicht ein komplexes Thema neu und anders zu denken. Was in der Zukunft passiert haben wir zwar nicht in der Hand, aber vielleicht gelingt es so Impulse zu geben.
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Wer heute an ein Schulbuch denkt, hat ein farbig gedrucktes Buch mit zahlreichen Abbildungen vor Augen. Schon Schulanfänger haben manchmal so viele davon in der Schultasche, dass diese oft sehr schwer ist. Die Inhalte, ihre Reihenfolge und die Aufgabenstellungen der Schulbücher sind dabei in aller Regel maßgeblich für die alltägliche Unterrichtsgestaltung: Schulbücher sind damit auch der „geheime Lehrplan“ im Schulalltag.

Zitation: Ebner, M; Schön, S. (2013) Das Schulbuch – überhaupt noch zeitgemäß? OCG Journal, 3/2013, 38. Jahrgang, S. 18-19

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[publication] Using electronic Communication tools in Online Group Activities to Develop Collaborative Learning skills

It’s a great pleasure for us, that we were able to attend the 1st International Conference on Open Learning: Role, Challenges, and Aspirations in Kuwait. Hanan did the presentation – here you will find our contribution.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of using synchronous and asynchronous communication tools in online group activities to develop collaborative learning skills . An experimental study was implemented on a sample of faculty of education students in Mansoura University. The sample was divided into two groups, a group studied using synchronous communication tools, and the other group studied using asynchronous communication tools. The findings highlighted the fact that electronic communication tools have an effect to develop collaborative skills. However, the researchers concluded that the synchronous communication tools are more useful than asynchronous communication tools for developing collaborative learning skills in online group activities. The implications of the findings offer support for using synchronous communication tools in online group activities to develop collaborative skill.

Using electronic Communication tools in Online Group Activities to Develop Collaborative Learning skills by Martin

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Reference: Khalil, H. & Ebner, M. (2013). Using electronic Communication tools in Online Group Activities to Develop Collaborative Learning skills. In: Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Open Learning: Role, Challenges, and Aspirations, p. 1-10

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[CfP] Call for Papers for a Special Issue on „Learning Analytics“

[CfP] Learning Analytics
Together with my colleagues from the University of Athabasca and the Private University of Teacher Education Graz I like to call for submissions on the topic “Learning Analaytics“. The contributions will appear as Special Issue of the journal J.UCS (Journal of Universal Computer Science) which is an open access journal and holds an Impact Factor. Please consider to send us a scientific contribution on 29th April 2014 at latest.
The detailed call can be found here or at the Journal’s homepage.

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[publication] Near Field Communication – Which Potentials Does NFC Bring for Teaching and Learning Materials?

Our publication about „Near Field Communication – Which Potentials Does NFC Bring for Teaching and Learning Materials?“ is part of the new issue of the International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM).
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Near Field Communication (NFC) is deemed to be a future technology with a lot of potential in many areas. One of those areas, learning and teaching, will be covered in this article, showing possible usages of NFC with teaching and learning materials. With a lot of new NFC capable devices presented recently, this technology can be utilized in many areas, including the arbitrarily growing field of mobile learning.
Mobile devices, especially smartphones, can help to close the gap between printed media and online media. Several methods, e.g. two-dimensional barcodes, have already been used to connect the digital world with printed media but almost all of them caused inconveniences or difficulties. NFC presents an easy to use way to share and communicate directly between capable devices or tags that can be applied almost anywhere.
In this publication a first insight to the potential of NFC for teaching and learning content is given. A prototype is programmed to allow data transformation between the print media and the smartphone. It can be summarized that NFC will be the logical successor of QR-Codes.

Reference: Maierhuber, M., Ebner, M. (2013) Near Field Communication – Which Potentials Does NFC Bring for Teaching and Learning Materials?. In: International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies, Vol. 7, Nr. 4, p. 9-14

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[publication] How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs

We are feeling very honored that our contribution „How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs“ is part of the book Twitter & Society.
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In this chapter we concentrate on an analysis of Twitter usage surrounding a German-language MOOC that could indicate future trends in technology-enhanced learning. Our research focuses on the Twitter stream accompanying the course and ask how Twitter is used and for what purposes by the heavy twitter users, by the educators / organisers / guestspeakers in the course and if tweets from “outside” get into to the stream.

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Reference: van Treeck, T., Ebner, M. (2013) How Useful Is Twitter for Learning in Massive Communities? An Analysis of Two MOOCs. In: Twitter & Society, Weller, K., Bruns, A., Burgess, J., Mahrt, M., Puschmann, C. (eds.), Peter Lang, p. 411-424

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[publication] @twitter analysis of #edmediaXX– is the #informationstream usable for the #mass

Our book chapter about „@twitter analysis of #edmediaXX– is the #informationstream usable for the #mass“ is now online available. Enjoy the reading.
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In this paper we report the use of an application that enables an automatic analyses of social media content. In this early stage of development our work focuses on data from Twitter1 as currently to be the most popular and fastest growing microblogging platform. After an introduction about a general concept the conference tweets of a big e-learning conference are examined twice. It is aimed to show whether there is a possibility to get significant information from a pool of postings or not. The publication concludes that a keyword extraction can be taken as basis for further investigations and treatment of data.

@twitter analysis of #edmediaXX– is the #informationstream usable for the #mass by Martin

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Reference: Ebner, M.; Altmann, T.; Softic. (2013) @twitter analysis of #edmediaXX – is the informationstream usable for the #mass. In: Microbloggin in Educational Settings. Holotescu, C.; Grosseck, G.; Calvani, A. & Bruni, F. (Eds.), AVM – Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft, Munich 2013, pp. 55-70

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[publication] Web analytics of user path tracing and a novel algorithm for generating recommendations in Open Journal Systems

Our publication on „Web analytics of user path tracing and a novel algorithm for generating recommendations in Open Journal Systems“ in the International Journal on Open Information Review got published.
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Purpose: The use of articles from scientific journals is an important part of research-based teaching at universities. The selection of relevant work from among the increasing amount of scientific literature can be problematic; the challenge is to find relevant recommendations, especially when the related articles are not obviously linked together. Design/methodology/approach – This paper focuses on the analysis of user activity traces in journals using the open source software “Open Journal Systems” (OJS). The research question is to what extent end users follow a certain link structure given within OJS or immediately select the articles according to their interests. In the latter case, the recorded data sets are used for creating further recommendations. The analysis is based on an article matrix, displaying the usage frequency of articles and their user selected successive articles within the OJS. Furthermore, the navigation paths are analyzed.
Findings: According to the analysis results, it was found that the users tend to follow a set navigation structure. Moreover, a hybrid recommendation system for OJS is described, which uses content based filtering as the basic system extended by the results of a collaborative filtering approach.
Originality/value: We present two original contributions: The analysis of userpath tracing and a novel algorithm that allows a smooth integration of new articles into the existing recommendations, due to the fact that scientific journals are published in a frequent and regular time sequence.
Keywords: Web Analytics, Scientific literature, Open Journal System, Recommender System, Path analysis, Research-Based Teaching, recommendation algorithm

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Reference: Behnam Taraghi, Martin Grossegger, Martin Ebner, Andreas Holzinger, (2013) „Web analytics of user path tracing and a novel algorithm for generating recommendations in Open Journal Systems“, Online Information Review, Vol. 37 Iss: 5, pp.672 – 691 [Link]

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[publication] Discussing Public Voting in the Web as a Measure to Democratize Award Decisions

Our publication for this year Social Media Conference in HongKong about „Discussing Public Voting in the Web as a Measure to Democratize Award Decisions“ is now online available. The slides were already published here.
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As active and innovative e-learning researchers, we had been part of the voting crowd but also were applicants to public voting contents on the Web. L3T, a project delivering an open textbook about learning and teaching with technologies, was applicant at three public voting contests on the Web: at the ‘Neue Deutsche Buchpreis” (2011), at the podcast competition of the MMKH (2011) as well as at the MOOC Production Fellowship (2013). According to our experiences made, we got the impression, that there is a need to re-name ‘public voting” to ‘social voting”, as it is not ‘the public” (i.e. the crowd) that decides who wins. In fact, we found out social aspects, i.e. strong and weak ties in so- cial communities to dictate the voting results. Therefore the publication ad- dresses the research question, whether public voting on the Web is a democratic process at all.

Discussing Public Voting in the Web as a Measure to Democratize Award Decisions by Martin

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Reference: Ebner, M., Schön, S., Stocker, A., Rothe, H., Tsang, P. (2013) Discussing Public Voting in the Web as a Measure to Democratize Award Decisions. In: Tsang,P., Eustace K. Tsoi, R, & Tse, S.(eds) Proceedings of Social Media 2013, pp. 51-59, City University press, ISBN 978 988-19712-1-0

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[publication] Teachers Little Helper: Multi-Math-Coach

Our publication at this year IADIS Conference about our Multi-Math-Trainer ist now online available. And we like to invite everyone to use it 🙂 .
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Individual learning is out of sync with the elements of a curricula and the daily program of a teacher. At a time when multidigit multiplication methods are taught, many children are not perfectly performing the basic multiplication table. Teachers organize settings for learning and they usually have no time to give an individual feedback to every single student. Furthermore they have no physiological capacity to produce statistics and to investigate the probable causes of errors. Our goal is to give teachers a tool to help them to review and train some typical requirements for written multiplying. We use the ubiquity of the Internet and provide on different devices free applications with written multiplication problems. All data are collected centrally and are used to determine typical errors. These data could also be used to answer further new questions and test new hypothesis. This is one aspect of Learning Analytics. The given tasks are automatically adapted to the skill level of a student. Teachers can see every detail of the solution process of every task. But really useful is that teachers can see the typical problems of each student as well as of the whole class every time at a glance. They need just a connection to the database with a web browser – anywhere, anytime.

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Reference: Ebner, M., Schön, M., Taraghi, B., Steyrer, M. (2013) Teachers Little Helper: Multi-Math- Coach, Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference e-Learning 2013, Nunes, M. B. & McPherson, M. (Ed.), Prague, IADIS Press, p. 183-190

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[publication] Introducing an Information System for successful support of selective attention in online courses

Our publication about „Introducing an Information System for successful support of selective attention in online courses“ at this year HCII conference is now available online as a draft.
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Human learning processes are strongly depending on attention of each single learner. Due to this fact any measurement helping to increase students’ attention is from high importance. Till now there are some developments called Audience-Response-Systems only available for face-to-face education even for masses. In this publication we introduce a web-based information system which is also usable for online-systems. Students’ attention will be conserved based on different interaction forms during the live stream of a lecture. The evaluation pointed out that the system helps to enlarge the attention of each single participant

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Reference: Ebner, M., Wachtler, J. & Holzinger, A. 2013. Introducing an Information System for Successful Support of Selective Attention in Online Courses. In: Stephanidis, C. & Antona, M. (eds.) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services for Quality of Life, Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 8011. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 153-162.