Artificial Intelligence Systems for Feedback Generation at JTEL’23

Artificial Intelligence Systems for Feedback Generation at JTEL’23

Summer School, Workshop
How Can AI Help To Learn Better? A Recap of the Workshop on Feedback Generation At jTEL Summer School 2023 in La Manga, Spain, we hosted the "Artificial Intelligence Systems for Feedback Generation" workshop. The workshop was attended by a diverse group of participants who are young researchers in Technology Enhanced learning and interested in how artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance their learning experience. The workshop was led by Daniele Di Mitri, Jan Schneider, Roland Klemke and Bibeg Limbu, all experts in AI in education who shared their insights and experiences with us. What is AI in education? AI in education (AIED) is a research field that explores how to use AI techniques and technologies to support learners with individualized feedback, guidance, and processes. AIED can help learners achieve learning…
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Workshop @ JTELSS – Visualizing Real-World Learning Analytics

Workshop @ JTELSS – Visualizing Real-World Learning Analytics

Learning Analytics, Self-Regulation, Workshop
In this workshop, Atezaz Ahmad, Kamran Mir, Jan Schneider and Daniele Di Mitri presented two datasets (IWWB and Presentation Trainer) to the participants. There were three main tasks: Investigate the datasets and how it could be used to design analytics dashboards. - Participants were asked to use HyperChalk and OpenLAIR to design their solutions. What are some limitations of the current datasets. - List the problems/issues with the datasets and how to improve them. What indicators will we get from this datasets. - List/Name the indicators. At the end of the workshop, we asked the participants to fill out a survey. The survey was about evaluating the IWWB+ analytics dashboard. Here are some pictures of the results:
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Building an Application to Track Psychomotor Skills with Wearable Sensors @ #JTELSS23

Building an Application to Track Psychomotor Skills with Wearable Sensors @ #JTELSS23

Summer School, Workshop
At the 17th EATEL Summer School on Technology-Enhanced Learning (JTELSS 2023) in La Manga, Spain, Gianluca Romano, Jan Schneider, and Daniele Di Mitri conducted the workshop "Building an Application to Track Psychomotor Skills with Wearable Sensors”. The workshop delved into the world of scalable mobile applications and wearable sensors, providing insights into psychomotor skill development. Let's take a moment to reflect on the key highlights from this enriching session. Participants embarked on an exploration of mobile application architecture, gaining a comprehensive understanding of how tasks are effectively distributed between the frontend and backend. Further, participants learned about software building principles to build more reliable and maintainable software such as Separation of Concerns, Single Source of Truth, and Dependency Injection. Through interactive exercises and insightful group work, attendees discovered what it…
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Advancing Education with “AI in the Loop” Interfaces @ #JTELSS23

Advancing Education with “AI in the Loop” Interfaces @ #JTELSS23

Artificial Intelligence, Summer School, Workshop
From June 3rd to 10th, the city of La Manga in Spain hosted an exciting event, the Seventeenth EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning (JTELSS 2023). Among the talented researchers organizing this renowned summer school for young TEL researchers in Europe, Sebastian Wollny contributed with a workshop focused on the speed design challenge. The challenge this year was to design an "AI in the Loop" interface specifically aimed at helping teachers analyze Exit Slips. These short reflection tasks, given at the end of a lesson, offer valuable insights into student comprehension and learning. However, teachers often struggle with limited time to thoroughly analyze these Exit Slips. Sebastian encouraged participants to place the human at the center of their design while incorporating artificial intelligence, embracing the concept of "AI in…
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A Vibrant Week of Exchange Between Brazilian and German LA Researchers

A Vibrant Week of Exchange Between Brazilian and German LA Researchers

Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Multimodal Learning Analytics, Research Methods, Research topic, Workshop
From May 22 to 25, 2023 five esteemed guest researchers from Brazil visited the EduTec team in Frankfurt in the context of the Humboldt Foundation's Connect Program. This productive exchange not only shed light on the current state of Learning Analytics (LA) research in Brazil and Germany but also paved the way for potential collaborative research activities. Status of LA research in Brazil The week began with a discussion of the role of LA in the global South. Rafael Ferreira Mello from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) emphasized the importance of adapting LA methodologies to the specific context and needs of Brazil, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility in educational initiatives. Diego Dermeval from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL) highlighted the potential of AI and LA in supporting teachers…
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Highly Informative LA Workshop at LAK23

Highly Informative LA Workshop at LAK23

Conference, Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Learning Design, Workshop
On the 13th of March 2023, as part of the LAK23 conference, five EduTec team members (Daniele Di Mitri, Ioana Jivet, Sebastian Gombert, Atezaz Ahmad and Hendrik Drachsler) organised a full-day workshop on Highly Informative Learning Analytics with Marcel Schmitz from Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. In this workshop, we investigated the concept of highly informative learning analytics and proposed a methodology for designing an environment that delivers highly informative learning analytics. The workshop is intended as a hands-on, interactive session that allows participants to test the methodology’s potential in a realistic use case. The proposed approach is based on the four-stage process of the Design Cycle for Education (DC4E). We exemplify practical tools that were designed in-house for each stage, including a tool to support teachers while…
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New CfP: CROSSMMLA @ LAK 2023 Workshop

New CfP: CROSSMMLA @ LAK 2023 Workshop

Multimodal Learning Analytics, Workshop
Call for Papers: CROSSMMLA @ LAK 2023 Workshop: Leveraging Multimodal Data for Generating Meaningful Feedback To be held face-to-face on March 13, 2023, in Arlington, Texas, United States, in conjunction with the LAK 2023 conference. The CROSSMMLA workshop series has focused on collecting and analysing multimodal data across the physical and virtual spaces for understanding and optimising learning processes.  (more…)
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Third edition of the Culturally Aware Learning Analytics (CARLA) Workshop at ECTEL22

Third edition of the Culturally Aware Learning Analytics (CARLA) Workshop at ECTEL22

Conference, General education, Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Workshop
On the 13th of September, as part of the EC-TEL22 conference, EduTec team member Ioana Jivet co-hosted the third edition of the Culturally Aware Learning Analytics (CARLA) Workshop together with Olga Viberg from KTH Stockholm and Maren Scheffel from Ruhr University Bochum. Learning analytics (LA) have been implemented in various countries, often at a limited scale. We have also seen that LA have been used in different ways in different countries. This makes the transfer of LA solutions from one country to another challenging, due to varying contextual, technical, and cultural factors. Also, the idea that a ‘one size fits all’ paradigm does not lead to effective LA tool designs and implementation has become accepted within both TEL and LA communities. Yet, there is still a big question about what…
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MILeS 2022 – Multimodal Immersive Learning Systems

MILeS 2022 – Multimodal Immersive Learning Systems

Event, Workshop
On 13th September, the EduTec team members Daniele Di Mitri, Jan Schneider, Fernando Cardernas, Gianluca Romano, and George Ciordas, Sebastian Gombert and Onur Karademir contributed to organising the workshop at EC-TEL 2022 conference entitled MILeS 2022 – Multimodal Immersive Learning Systems. The DIPF also authored various contributions to the workshop: Bibeg Limbu, Gitte Van Helden, Jan Schneider and Marcus Specht. We can teach more than we can tell: combining Deliberate Practice, Embodied Cognition, and Multimodal Learning. Fernando Pedro Cardenas Hernandez and Jan Schneider. Considerations in Feedback and Periodization for the Multimodal Learning Experience of Running via Wearable Devices Gianluca Romano. Meaningful Feedback from Wearable Sensor Data to Train Psychomotor Skills Daniele Di Mitri, Sebastian Gombert and Onur Karademir. Reflecting on the Actionable Components of a Model for Augmented Feedback The MILeS 2022 workshop is…
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Gender & STEM Conference 2022 – EduTec Member Dana Kube presented her Ph.D. work

Gender & STEM Conference 2022 – EduTec Member Dana Kube presented her Ph.D. work

Assessment, Conference, Conference, Digitalisation, Event, Higher Education, Journal, Learning Design, Publication, Workshop
A few impressions: After a two-year break, scholars can finally meet again for a personal exchange at the "Gender & STEM Conference". I was able to meet so many exciting people and studies, and I think that we German universities have benefited especially from the intersectional and feminist perspectives from the USA, Canada and the Netherlands: How do transgender students experience support in Computer Science? What can universities do to keep students of colour and especially women* of colour longer in STEM programmes? Stop fixing Women* in STEM was the tenor, fix the System: I go back to Frankfurt with a lot of smart approaches on the institutional and pedagogical level and a lot of encouraging feedback on my PhD thesis on Gender in STEM/Technology. My personal highlight was meeting…
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