EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology
Jun 25, 2018
Editors
Theo Bastiaens; Johan Van Braak; Mark Brown; Lorenzo Cantoni; Manuel Castro; Rhonda Christensen; Gayle V. Davidson-Shivers; Koen DePryck; Martin Ebner; Mikhail Fominykh; Catherine Fulford; Stylianos Hatzipanagos; Gerald Knezek; Karel Kreijns; Gary Marks; Erkko Sointu; Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen; Jarmo Viteli; Joke Voogt; Peter Weber; Edgar Weippl; Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Table of Contents
Number of papers: 308
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Best of Austria: OER-Certification for Higher Education
Martin Ebner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Open Education Resources (OER) will play an important role in the future of higher education institutions at least in German-speaking countries. Due to the very strict copyright law OER seems to be... More
pp. 1-6
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Best of Germany: A Cooperative Approach to the Challenges of Implementing e-Assessments
Dorothe Meister, Gudrun Oevel & Marcel Graf-Schlattmann, Paderborn University, Germany
The paper and the corresponding talk present a project conducted by five universities to implement e-assesments in the state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW, Germany) and its corresponding findings. We... More
pp. 7-15
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A Teacher Professional Development Platform in the Big Data Trend: The Development and Application of “TEAM Model Smarter Discussion Room”
I-Hua Chang, Department of Education, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; Cheng-Mei Hsu, Department of Visual Communication and Design, China University of Technology, Taiwan; Chuan-Wei Wu, HABOOK Information Technology Incorporate, Taiwan
The TEAM Model smarter classroom is a teaching and learning (TAL) expert system with integrated software, hardware, and cloud services. The “TEAM Model Smarter Discussion Room” is a TEAM Model... More
pp. 16-28
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An exploratory study of student online collaborative writing with teacher metacognitive prompts
Marie-Claude Gauthier & Thierry Karsenti, University of Montreal, Canada
Technology has provided increasingly popular ways for teenagers to communicate. However, there are worries that this trend is having a detrimental effect on their writing skills. In fact, many... More
pp. 29-36
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Collaborative OpenCourseWare Authoring: The SlideWiki Platform
Alexander Mikroyannidis, The Open University, United Kingdom
The open-source and open-access SlideWiki platform employs crowdsourcing methods in order to support the authoring, sharing, reusing and remixing of open courseware. The SlideWiki project is... More
pp. 37-39
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Quiet! I’m Reading: Texting in eBooks
Glenn Smith, University of South Florida, United States; Robert Haworth, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Beth Jordan & Diane Austin, University of South Florida, United States
We investigated how ten to eleven year-old children texted in small groups within web-based eBooks with embedded games. We investigated both “open texting,” (children texting about what they chose)... More
pp. 40-44
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Using Technology to Support Common Core Based Close Reading Strategy: Preservice Teachers’ Experiences with the Use of New Online Platform
Aslihan Unal, Georgia Southern University, United States; Zafer Unal, USF St. Petersburg, United States; Yasar Bodur, Georgia Southern University, United States
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a coordinated effort to prepare every child in the U.S. public school system for college or the workforce by ensuring that they reach certain... More
pp. 45-52
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Online Publications: The Success and Saga
Lindy Alan Valdez, California State University, Sacramento, United States
Online publications offer students the ability to have learning tools always at their fingertips. They also allow students to see dynamic video of movement rather than static pictures. Video can be... More
pp. 53-57
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A graph-based recommender system for training groups in the professional context
Laurie Acensio, Université Lille 1UMR CNRS 9189 CRISTAL, France; Frédéric Hoogstoel, Polytech'Lille-Université de Lille, Lille, France, France; Luigi Lancieri, Université de Lille-Equipe NOCE, Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale de Lille (LIFL), France
In the context of vocational training, the composition of the optimal training group must take into account the socio-professional aspects of the learners' profiles. Indeed, the training group is... More
pp. 58-62
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Predicting and Assessing Student Motivation and Autonomy in a Distance Learning Context
Dikagma Bassagou, Frédéric Hoogstoel & Luigi Lancieri, CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, France
In addition to seeking a concrete solution to the problem of student overpopulation, the objective of the experiment described in this article is to better understand the determinants and... More
pp. 63-68
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Using Self-Regulated Learning Strategies in a Flipped Learning to Improve Students’ Metacognition
Amani Bin jwair, SIU, United States
This paper shows the importance of investigating self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies in the flipped learning (FL) approach to improve higher education students’ metacognitive skills. The goal ... More
pp. 69-75
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LearningCircle.io: Lessons Learned from Organising Courses with and without a Dedicated Platform.
Hanna Celina, Clement Lee, Patrick Olivier & Ahmed Kharrufa, Newcastle University, Open Lab, United Kingdom
Learning Circle is a learning platform designed for communities of civic-minded learners. We present Learning Circle and its evaluation. The platform-based course is compared to a course organised ... More
pp. 76-81
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Integrative analog-to-digital feedback system
Hyeon Woo Lee & Yoon Mi Cha, Sangmyung University, Korea (South); Hye Yeon Lee, Pennsylvania State University, United States; Eun Jin Kim & Kibeom Kim, Sangmyung University, Korea (South)
One of the biggest complaint among undergraduate students is the lack of feedback with regard to their task performance. This study introduces integrative analog-to-digital feedback system, and... More
pp. 82-86
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Development and evaluation of the food education support system for the purpose of improving the awareness of eating habits in Japan and China.
Hiroshi Nakayama & Yuuki Shimizu, Tokyo Denki University, Japan; Abdusalam Dawut, Xinjiang University, China
In Japan, children's food education has been emphasized by the Basic Act on Food Education (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2005); thereby educators are now actively ... More
pp. 87-93
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Implementation and evaluation of an information moral education system through the experience of a perpetrator and a victim by VR and feedback method
Hiroshi Nakayama & Daichi Takishima, Tokyo Denki University, Japan; Toshiki Matsuda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
There is a teaching method by the "three kinds of knowledge" in the guidance of Information moral education. The previous research explained the method to the morally lower person to think he/she ... More
pp. 94-100
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Collaborative Document Authoring as an E-Learning Component
Nikolai Scerbakov & Frank Kappe, Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria; Vadim Pak, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
An effective learning management system (LMS) is a vital component of an overall E-Learning infrastructure in universities nowadays. In the simplest case, Learning Management System can be seen as ... More
pp. 101-107
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Social Bookmarking as a Component of E-Learning
Nikolai Scerbakov & Frank Kappe, Institute of Interactive Systems and Data Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria; Alexander Schukin, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russian Federation
Social Bookmarking Service (SBS) allows users to store links to web resources in a structured way. The links can be created, modified, accessed and annotated by different students. Thus, the link ... More
pp. 108-115
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An Open Learning Analytics Systems Ensuring Students’ Privacy
David Sichau, ETH Zurich, Switzerland; Lukas Fässler, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
With the rise of learning analytics the collection, storage and analyses of educational data became important. Often the data is generated and collected in different learning management systems the... More
pp. 116-121
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How Engaged are Our Students? Using Analytics to Identify Students At-risk
Tony Williams, Jason Morton, Peter Kilgour & Maria Northcote, Avondale College of Higher Education, Australia
Learning Management System (LMS) analytics have become an area of increasing interest and development. The potential to better understand our students’ levels of engagement provided by the systems ... More
pp. 122-128
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Investigating the Effect of Using E-portfolio On Preservice Teachers’ Self-efficacy, Proficiency and Intention to Use Technology in their Future Classroom
Mohamed Ibrahim & Rebecca Callaway, Arkansas Tech University, United States
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using e-portfolio on preservice teachers’ self-efficacy, proficiency and intention to use technology in their future classroom. By... More
pp. 129-140
