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  1. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  2. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  3. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  4. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  5. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  6. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  7. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.

  8. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  9. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  10. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  11. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  12. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  13. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  14. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.

  15. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  16. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  17. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  18. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  19. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  20. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  21. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.

  22. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  23. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  24. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  25. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  26. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  27. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  28. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.

  29. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  30. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  31. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  32. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  33. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  34. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  35. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.

  36. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  37. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  38. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  39. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  40. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  41. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  42. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.

  43. Models for Content Management in a Next Generation Learning Management Ecosystem

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The concept of sharable LOs has been around for decades, but implementing repositories, guaranteeing interoperability, managing metadata, and achieving organizational and financial sustainability has proven challenging. The realization that there will likely never be a universal Learning Management System (LMS) made the idea of universally shareable content appear even more illusionary on the one hand, but on the other hand also led to the development of learning system interoperability standards. The paper proposes to use either tool-interoperability or self-sovereignty as key technologies for establishing near-universal content repositories.

  44. Report from the Next Generation Learning Management System Workshop 2020

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    What should the future of Learning Management Systems look like? In August 2020, 88 participants from Austria, Germany and Switzerland approached this question from various angles at the Next Generation LMS workshop, offered jointly by CampusSource, the research focus project D2L2 at the FernUni Hagen, and ETH Zurich. We report on the contents of the workshop, its outcomes and offer preliminary postulates as a guidance for future development in the field. Learning and Course Management faces internal and external challenges: users raise a broad and deep range of expectations while an increasingly connected life stimulates competition with outside players.

  45. A Model for Lifelong Learners' Educational Records and Identity in a Next Generation Learning Management System

    e-learning and education, Iss. 14

    The need to be competitive in a fast-changing global job market will likely lead to an increased demand for “just-in-time” educational experiences. Parallel to developments in the medical sector with virtual patient records, the paper presents a model for storing and managing educational data gathered along a lifelong learning journey, such as transcripts, artifacts, and performance analytics. Using the concept of Social Linked Data (“SOLID”), the learners instead of the educational institutions would have sovereignty over their own data, while transactional fingerprints would be used to guarantee data integrity using a federated blockchain.

  46. In-Class Formative Assessment in an Introductory Calculus Class

    e-learning and education, Iss. 13

    We report on the usage of an audience response system ("clickers") in an introductory math course, both in terms of practical usage and in terms of answer distributions, test-theoretical properties and clustering of questions. We give examples of the questions ("items") that we used and their associated properties. We found the system to deliver meaningful and reliable results regarding the conceptual learning of the students, and we found these benefits to be robust independent of the particulars of the instructional setting. Finally we found that peer instruction can make clicker usage even more meaningful, as the discrimination of questions increases after discussions between learners.

  47. The Spectrum of Learning Analytics

    e-learning and education, Iss. 12

    "Learning Analytics" became a buzzword during the hype surrounding the advent of "big data" MOOCs, however, the concept has been around for over two decades. When the first online courses became available it was used as a tool to increase student success in particular courses, frequently combined with the hope of conducting educational research. In recent years, the same term started to be used on the institutional level to increase retention and decrease time-to-degree. These two applications, within particular courses on the one hand and at the institutional level on the other, are at the two extremes of the spectrum of Learning Analytics – and they frequently appear to be worlds apart. The survey describes affordances, theories and approaches in these two categories.

  48. Over two decades of blended and online physics courses at Michigan State University

    e-learning and education, Iss. 10

    In Fall 1992, our first physics course offered online homework. Over two decades later, we have seven physics courses online, spanning the whole range of introductory course offerings, with a total of over 1600 students in 2014. We found that several of the the purely online courses had better learning success than traditional lecture courses, as measured by exam scores. Particularly successful were online materials with embedded assessment. This result can be interpreted in different ways, but may serve as an indicator that during in-class lectures, we are oftentimes not taking advantage of the fact that we have the students on-site.

  49. Project Report: VITA

    e-learning and education, Iss. 5

    In traditional recitation arrangements (e.g. manually graded homework and recitation sessions that are aligned with the lecture), students receive their results with some time delay while the lecture venue progresses. An inherent danger is that potential deficits are neither detected nor corrected. For traditional recitations to be effective (foremost to have small sessions) they require personnel, which, particularly for German universities of applied sciences, do not exist. A second problem, which in part occurs due to lack of practice, is, that many students do not review the lectures. Instead, many students attempt to cram the lecture material close to the exams, which, if successful at all, does not lead to long-term mastery of the content. Therefore, base knowledge is missing for subsequent curricular venues, which should have been established in earlier venues.