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In recent years, engineering education teachers have needed to incorporate technology-supported collaboration to enhance learning. Implementing these activities requires course redesign, which must be meticulous for their full potential to be reached. This can require a lot of work for first time users, which can be a barrier to implementation. Educational design patterns alleviate this burden by...
The importance of formative feedback in higher education institutions is out of doubt, however, reports on poor feedback from students and a high cost in producing quality feedback from teachers demand a different line of action. This article proposes the use of Open Education Resources as suggested content for markers in order to enhance their provided feedback. An evaluation was performed using...
Educational Data Mining can help predict dropout prone students and the factors institutions should observe in trying to avoid an important social problem in modern societies. However, most current predicting models use academic credit worth information from the curricula, ignoring extracurricular activities, while there is evidence from other research fields that some activities like sports can be...
Communities of learning face two major problems for his development, low quality and quantity of participation and information overload due to high amount of participation. These two problem can be solved by giving instant feedback and ordering the data available in the online environment. This work presents an automatic method to evaluate and quantificate participation in order to score messages...
In this paper we evaluate the impact that a Computer Supported Collaborative Marking (CSCM) system has on the marking process of a highly subjective judging task. To do so, we evaluated the inter-rater reliability of reviewers in charge of marking written essays and the time required to perform such task. We analyzed the results of two groups of markers: the experimental group first marked 5 essays...
Despite the well-known value of collaboration in highly subjective tasks and the support that technology can be provide in such tasks, there has been little discussion on the possibilities of Computer Supported Collaborative Marking as part of the broader Technology Enhanced Assessment. We argue that the marking process can be thought as a collaborative task, one in which markers collaborate towards...
With an always growing number of student enrolment in higher education, providing quality feedback in both digital and paper based assessment becomes a heavy burden for teachers and tutors. The use of assessment rubrics can help overcome this burden, defining several criteria including formative feedback within it. However, current computer-assisted rubric systems present some drawbacks that hinder...
The importance of formative assessment in higher education is agreed among researchers, but marking this type of assessment is a heavy burden. Computer-based assessment and on-screen marking tools are attempts to overcome this burden, but while the former is not suitable for handwritten answers, the latter requires commercial OCR software. This paper describes the design and development of an eMarking...
Teachers in fully online courses face the challenge of achieving students' satisfaction â" usually measured using students' surveys â" as it is known to affect engagement and motivation, which in turn improves learning outcomes. This challenge grows in complexity with the number of students enrolled in the course. In this paper we report an attempt to improve students' perception on their...
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