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Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: an Analysis of Teacher Needs

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

The European Go-Lab project offers Inquiry Learning Spaces (ILSs) as open educational resources to support Inquiry-based Learning (IBL). To successfully exploit ILSs and implement IBL, proper support for orchestration is needed. Researchers have highlighte ...

2015

How Do In-video Interactions Reflect Perceived Video Difficulty?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Lukasz Kidzinski, Nan Li

Lecture videos are the major components in MOOCs. It is common for MOOC analytics researchers to model video behaviors in order to identify at-risk students. Much of the work emphasized prediction. However, we have little empirical understanding about thes ...

P.A.U. Education2015

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

Patrick Jermann, Roland John Tormey

Since 2011 the growth in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has been so enormous that, according to the Economist magazine, “the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations” (2013). One proposed benefit of MOOCs is that they allow consi ...

2015

Looking AT versus Looking THROUGH: A Dual Eye-tracking study in MOOC Context

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Kshitij Sharma, Himanshu Verma, Daniela Caballero Díaz

We report the results from an eye-tracking study to show the differences in gaze patterns across the MOOC learners, while they watch a lecture individually as well as when they collaborate on an add-on activity. 98 university students took part in a study ...

ISLS2015

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Lukasz Kidzinski, Nan Li

For MOOC learners, lecture video viewing is the central learning activity. This paper reports a large-scale analysis of in-video interactions. We categorize the video behaviors into patterns by employ- ing a clustering methodology, based on the available t ...

2015

Rich Open Educational Resources for Personal and Inquiry Learning. Agile Creation, Sharing and Reuse in Educational Social Media Platforms

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Wissam Halimi, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are freely accessible, openly licensed multimedia documents or interactive tools that can be typically integrated in Learning Management Systems to support courses. With social media platforms becoming the central piece of ...

2014

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

Frédéric Kaplan, Cyril Antoine Michel Bornet

Over the last two years, Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs) have been unexpectedly successful in convincing large number of students to pursue online courses in a variety of domains. Contrary to the "learn anytime anywhere" moto, this new generation of co ...

2014

Personalised Learning Spaces and Federated Online Labs for STEM Education at School: Supporting Teacher Communities and Inquiry Learning

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

The European Commission is funding a large-scale research project on federated online laboratories (Labs) for education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at School. The main educational focus is on inquiry learning and the main te ...

IEEE2013

A Federated Recommender System for Online Learning Environments

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Lei Zhou, Laurent Moccozet

From e-commerce to social networking sites, recommender systems are gaining more and more interest. They provide connections, news, resources, or products of interest. This paper presents a federated recommender system, which exploits data from different o ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2012

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Open education

Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: an Analysis of Teacher Needs

How Do In-video Interactions Reflect Perceived Video Difficulty?

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

Looking AT versus Looking THROUGH: A Dual Eye-tracking study in MOOC Context

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

Rich Open Educational Resources for Personal and Inquiry Learning. Agile Creation, Sharing and Reuse in Educational Social Media Platforms

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs

Personalised Learning Spaces and Federated Online Labs for STEM Education at School: Supporting Teacher Communities and Inquiry Learning

A Federated Recommender System for Online Learning Environments

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Orchestrating Inquiry-Based Learning Spaces: an Analysis of Teacher Needs

Conscientious Behaviour, Flexibility and Learning in Massive Open On-Line Courses

How Do In-video Interactions Reflect Perceived Video Difficulty?

Personalised Learning Spaces and Federated Online Labs for STEM Education at School: Supporting Teacher Communities and Inquiry Learning

A Federated Recommender System for Online Learning Environments

Looking AT versus Looking THROUGH: A Dual Eye-tracking study in MOOC Context

A Preparatory Analysis of Peer-Grading for a Digital Humanities MOOC

MOOC Video Interaction Patterns: What Do They Tell Us?

Rich Open Educational Resources for Personal and Inquiry Learning. Agile Creation, Sharing and Reuse in Educational Social Media Platforms

Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs