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[publication] Making of an Open Makerspace in a Secondary Vocational School in Austria: Development, Activities, User Behaviour and Gender Balance #makereducation #making #edil21

Our contribuation to this year ED-Media 2021 conference about „Making of an Open Makerspace in a Secondary Vocational School in Austria: Development, Activities, User Behaviour and Gender Balance“ got published. The slides are already here online.

Abstract:
This research shows the development process of an open makerspace on the premises of a higher secondary vocational school (HTL) in Austria from 2017 till today. It illustrates the need for this space, the acquisition of initial funding and the legal framework. User policy and machinery are presented, as well as safety and security systems. An insight on the organizational structure is given. We present regular dedicated maker classes and curricular integration of the makerspace for K-12 students. Makerspace activities like maker challenges and holiday camps for divergent participants like primary school children and girls are discussed and the role of females in engineering education and makerspaces is reviewed. Qualitative observations of different stakeholders are reproduced and supplemented by statistical data. We also show setbacks and difficulties due to the Corona crisis and give an overview of future maker initiatives.

[draft @ ResearchGate]
[final publication @ lerntechlib]

Reference: Sagbauer, N.N., Stocker, K., Pollak, M. & Ebner, M. (2021). Making of an Open Makerspace in a Secondary Vocational School in Austria: Development, Activities, User Behaviour and Gender Balance. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 467-479). United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 1, 2021 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/219695/.

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[publication] Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate OER Policies in Higher Education – Tracing Developments in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland #OpenEducationalResources #OER #OEAA

Togehter with my colleagues we did a research about OER policies in Higher Education with a strong focus on Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the Asian Journal of Distance Education:

Abstract:
The 2019 UNESCO recommendation on Open Educational Resources (OER) encourages member states to monitor policies and mechanisms in OER across the world. In higher education, there are many initiatives and policies around OER. This contribution gives insights into the current situation concerning OER policy documents that are of national or institutional relevance for public higher education institutions in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. For each country, a different approach for identifying OER policy documents was chosen, dependent on the availability of documents and different dominant forms of documentation. Whereas digital documents available on the web were found as helpful sources for Germany, and performance agreements between the national ministry and individual universities were used for analysis in Austria, a survey amongst all universities was the chosen research approach in Switzerland to give an overview about potentially OER related policy documents. All these documents are now made available via the OER World Map. With this contribution, the authors also highlight the possibility of using the OER World Map as a powerful tool to collect and evaluate OER policy documents.

[full paper @ journal’s Homepage]
[full paper @ ResearchGate]

Reference: Neumann, J., Schön, S., Bedenlier, S., Ebner, M., Edelsbrunner, S., Krüger, N., Lüthi-Esposito, G., Marin, V. I., Orr, D., Peters, L. N., Reimer, R. T., & Zawacki-Richter, O. (2022). Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate OER Policies in Higher Education – Tracing Developments in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Asian Journal of Distance Education.

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[publication] MOOCs and their Role for Future Education #imoox #moochub

I just wrote a short essay about „MOOCs and their Role for Future Education“ for the Education Technology Insight Magazin (website). The original article has been published on their website.

[Link to article]
[article @ ResearchGate]

Reference: Ebner, M. (2021) MOOCs and their Role for Future Education. Education Technology Insights. https://distance-and-remote-learning-europe.educationtechnologyinsights.com/cxoinsights/moocs-and-their-role-for-future-education-nid-1525.html

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[publication] Rechtliche Parameter zur „virtuellen Lehre“ im österreichischen Hochschul-Bereich #law #austria

Im Rahmen der AG „Quantifizierung der Hochschullehre“ haben wir uns in einer Untergruppe mit den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen der unterschiedlichen Hochschulen beschäftigt. Dieser Text ist nun auch in der Neue@Hochschulzeitung erschienen:

Zusammenfassung:
Das „Forum Neue Medien in der Lehre Austria“ untersucht aktuell das Thema „Quantifizierung von virtueller Lehre an österreichischen Hochschulen“. Im Folgenden werden die wesentlichen Ergebnisse der „Unterarbeitsgruppe Recht“ des genannten Forums dargestellt. Dabei wird geklärt, ob bzw. in welchem Umfang das Thema „virtuelle Lehre“ in den einschlägigen Hochschulgesetzen abgebildet ist.

[draft @ ResearchGate]

Zitation: Ebner, M., Grün, E., Hauser, W., Karpf, K., Mantler, H., Niederl, F. (2022) Rechtliche Parameter zur „virtuellen Lehre“ im österreichischen Hochschul-Bereich. In: Neue@Hochschulzeitung, 2022 (1), S. 10-14 ISSN 2306-6059

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[publication] Promoting Digital Skills for Austrian Employees through a MOOC: Results and Lessons Learned from Design and Implementation #mooc #imoox

Our publication about „Promoting Digital Skills for Austrian Employees through a MOOC: Results and Lessons Learned from Design and Implementation“ got published in the journal Education Sciences:

Abstract:
Digital skills are now essential, not only in information and communications technology (ICT) jobs, but for employees across all sectors. The aim of this article is to detail how employees’ digital skills can be fostered through a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), how such an offer is used and what the effects of such a measure are. Using an approach oriented at action research and design-based research activities, the authors describe the basics of their finding on existing European competence frameworks for digital skills and European projects that used MOOCs, the development and design of the MOOC, the evaluation on the basis of learning analytics insights and a questionnaire, as well as a reflection. The MOOC was offered as Open Educational Resources (OER) on the Austrian MOOC platform iMOOX.at from March to April 2021, with 2083 participants, of whom 381 fully completed the course (at end of June 2021) and 489 filled out the final questionnaire

[full article @ ResearchGate]
[full article @ journal’s homepage]

Reference: Edelsbrunner S, Steiner K, Schön S, Ebner M, Leitner P. Promoting Digital Skills for Austrian Employees through a MOOC: Results and Lessons Learned from Design and Implementation. Education Sciences. 2022; 12(2):89. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci12020089

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[publication] Strategien zu offenen Bildungsressourcen an österreichischen öffentlichen Universitäten – Eine Beschreibung von nationalen Strategien, Whitepapers und Projekten sowie eine Analyse der aktuellen Leistungsvereinbarungen #OER #strategie #OpenEducation

Wir haben für die GMW 2021 Konferenz einen Beitrag gemacht zu „Strategien zu offenen Bildungsressourcen an österreichischen öffentlichen UniversitätenEine Beschreibung von nationalen Strategien, Whitepapers und Projekten sowie eine Analyse der aktuellen Leistungsvereinbarungen“. Die Idee war einmal darzustellen wie bei unseren Hochschulen das Thema OER strategisch abgebildet sind und welche Maßnahmen auf dem Weg dorthin geholfen haben.

Zusammenfassung:
Im Beitrag werden zunächst die österreichischen Strategien mit Bezug zu OER und den öffentlichen Universitäten sowie wichtige Initiativen beschrieben. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird die Auswertung der aktuellen Leistungsvereinbarungen der 22 öffentlichen Universitäten im Hinblick auf die Nennung von OER-Aktivitäten beschrieben. Damit wird aufgezeigt, dass 9 der 22 Universitäten konkrete OER-Vorhaben planen, drei weitere OER zumindest thematisieren. Zwei Universitäten haben bereits 2020 eine OER-Policy vorgelegt, weitere sind zeitnah zu erwarten. Die vorgelegte Beschreibung und Auswertung kann dabei als ein Beitrag zur in der UNESCO-Empfehlung zu OER (2019) gewünschten Entwicklung von Monitoring-Verfahren zu OER gesehen werden.

[full article @ ResearchGate]

Referenz: Edelsbrunner, S., Ebner, M., Schön, S. (2021) Strategien zu offenen Bildungsressourcen an österreichischen öffentlichen UniversitätenEine Beschreibung von nationalen Strategien, Whitepapers und Projekten sowie eine Analyse der aktuellen Leistungsvereinbarungen. In:Heinz-Werner Wollersheim, Marios Karapanos, Norbert Pengel (Hrsg.), Bildung in der digitalen Transformation, Tagungsband der GMW 2021, Waxmann, S. 31-36.

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[publication] Evaluation Design for Learning with Mixed Reality in Mining Education Based on a Literature Review #research #tugraz

We are happy that our contribution about „Evaluation Design for Learning with Mixed Reality in Mining Education Based on a Literature Review“ got published now.

Abstract:
Mixed Reality technologies are on the rise in the educational sector. However, research shows that there is still a lack in knowledge concerning the evaluation of these technologies. In this paper we present a research on current practices in evaluation for Mixed Reality. For this purpose, we selected 94 publications from between 2015 and 2021 and reduced them to 45 which included formal evaluation processes. We then adapted a classification scheme by Duenser et al. [5] and categorized these papers according to their evaluation methods. We present our overall findings and explain some examples more detailed. The results are then compared to previous work outside and within the MiReBooks project and applied on the didactical framework. This allows us to illustrate the development of this sector over the last years and it helps us to enhance our own evaluation approaches. First results also show that there is a rise in evaluation approaches recently and that the overall goals for these processes did not change much from 2008.

[draft @ ResearchGate]
[full article @ book’s homepage]

Reference: Thurner S., Daling L., Ebner M., Ebner M., Schön S. (2021) Evaluation Design for Learning with Mixed Reality in Mining Education Based on a Literature Review. In: Zaphiris P., Ioannou A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies: Games and Virtual Environments for Learning. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12785. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77943-6_21

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[publication] iMooX – eine MOOC-Plattform für alle (Hochschulen) #imoox #mooc #tugraz

Ich durfte in den Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare einen kurzen Beitrag rund um iMooX schreiben, der nun erschienen ist.

Zusammenfassung:
iMooX.at ist die österreichische MOOC-Plattform, also eine Plattform die kostenlose Online-Kurse für viele offen lizenziert anbietet. Damit folgt sie internationalen Trends und hilft Hochschullehre auf höchstem Niveau auf digitalem Wege anzubieten. In diesem Beitrag soll kurz die Entstehungsgeschichte und wesentliche Milestones beleuchtet werden. Abschließend werden ein paar mögliche Entwicklungsschritte genannt.

[Originalbeitrag @ ResearchGate]
[Originalbeitrag @ Journal’s Homepage]

Zitation: Ebner, M. (2021) „iMooX – eine MOOC-Plattform für alle (Hochschulen)“, Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare, 74(2). doi: 10.31263/voebm.v74i2.6271.

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[publication] OER Certification of Individuals and Organisations in Higher Education: Implementations Worldwide #OER #OEAA

Our publication about „OER Certification of Individuals and Organisations in Higher Education: Implementations Worldwide“ got published in the Open Praxis Journal:

Abstract:
The initiative „Open Education Austria Advanced“ develops infrastructures for open educational resources (OER) in higher education. One part is the development of certification procedures to point out OER competencies of teachers in higher education and OER activities at Austrian universities. We present the results of our research on existing OER certification procedures from the German and English-speaking world. We started by searching in the OER World Map and there listed OER policies of universities worldwide and then tried to find examples for existing OER certification for people and organisations. There are several examples for certifications of persons such as in MOOCs on OER, university training on OER or the Creative Commons certification itself. We found only a few references of (partly) OER certificates for organisations. The publication then describes ambitions towards openness of the OER movement regarding possible certification procedures, namely open development, open content, open assessment and open certificates.

[article @ ResearchGate]
[article @ Journal’s homepage]

Reference: Schön, S., Ebner, M., Berger, E., Brandhofer, G., Gröblinger, O., Jadin, T., Kopp, M., Steinbacher, H.-P. and Zwiauer, C., 2021. OER Certification of Individuals and Organisations in Higher Education: Implementations Worldwide. Open Praxis, 13(3), pp.264–278. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.13.3.265

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[ijet, journal] Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning Vol. 17 / No. 8 #ijet #research

Issue 17(8) of our journal on emerging technologies for learning got published. Enjoy the readings as usual for free :-).

Table of Contents:

  • Investigating Learners‘ Experience of Autonomous Learning in E-learning Context
  • An Evaluation Model of Online Autonomous English Learning Efficiency Using an Artificial Neural Network
  • Factors Influencing the Implementation of Gamification for Learning in Information Systems Education
  • Use and Knowledge of ICTs in Inclusive Education at Educational Levels
  • MOOCs in Smart Education: Comparative Study by Applying AHP and COPRAS Method
  • A Predictive Model for Students Admission Uncertainty Using Naïve Bayes Classifier and Kernel Density Estimation (KDE)
  • Improving Reading Comprehension Skills Using Multimedia Storytelling with Mind Maps for Students with Learning Disabilities in Thailand
  • Prediction and Management of the Quality of Classified Student Training Based on an Improved Neural Network
  • Influences of Learning Emotion on Learning Outcome in Online Teaching Mode
  • Situational Teaching Based Evaluation of College Students’ English Reading, Listening, and Speaking Ability
  • College Students‘ Learning Decision-Making Based on Group Learning Behavior
  • Artificial Intelligence in Education Research During The Last Ten Years: A Review and Bibliometric Study
  • Identifying Students‘ Learning Patterns in Online Learning Environments: A Literature Review
  • Design and Realization of Experiential Teaching Based on Knowledge Feature Transformation of Course Teaching
  • Digital Textbook and Flipped Classroom: Experimentation of the Self-Learning Method Based on the Development of Soft Skills and Disciplinary Knowledge
  • Perspectives and Challenges of Online Language Learning: Slovak University Students‘ Viewpoints

[Link to Issue 17/8]

Nevertheless, if you are interested to become a reviewer for the journal, please just contact me 🙂 .