Studying online: evaluation of an online study environment

Grabe, Mark; Sigler, Ellen A.

doi:10.1016/s0360-1315(02)00020-9

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“…These advantages of web-based teaching and the increasing demand for a greater reach out from lecturers to students, particularly the graduate students, have resulted in the development of web-based multimedia packages. This coincides with the rapid acceptance of the Internet as a tool for disseminating information [6,9,18] and a growing option as a study tool for students [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 72%

Development of a web-based graduate-level module courseware

Ong

2006

Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ.

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This article presents a survey analysis conducted in and the implementation of a web-based courseware for a graduate-level module on Rapid Response Manufacturing. A courseware website has been developed using HyperText Markup Language, JavaScripts, and Cascading Style Sheets. The website designed is of a hierarchical design. To allow students to navigate easily in this website, a navigation menu that resembled the popular Microsoft Outlook is hence chosen. The website contains course materials, which serve either as introductory materials or pre-class reading materials, and serves to bridge professors and students. The colors scheme and layout used for the website were carefully chosen to achieve a professional look, and the course materials are informative and meaningful. The course materials are presented in an interactive manner using templates created using Macromedia Flash. Using Flash movies, students are able to choose any topic of their choice easily with the click of the mouse. Some animations and mouse rollover effects are also incorporated into the Flash movies for an increased visual experience. The use of dynamic text in Flash movies also greatly improves the way course contents are maintained on the website, allowing the courseware to be easily updated by the lecturers themselves as the materials for the graduate module are updated as technologies in Rapid Response Manufacturing advance. ß 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 72%

Development of a web-based graduate-level module courseware

Ong

2006

Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ.

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“…We selected these particular strategies in order to provide as many different time-on-task estimation strategies as possible. For some of the strategies, we found evidence in the existing literature (Ba-Omar et al, 2007;Grabe & Sigler, 2002;Munk & Drlík, 2011;del Valle & Duffy, 2009;Wise, Zhao, et al, 2013), while others are included in order to provide a comprehensive evaluation of possible time-on-task estimation methods.…”

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“…While this approach has been adopted in many research studies (Grabe & Sigler, 2002;Kraus, Reed, & Fitzgerald, 2001), the details of the process are not always described. While some of these studies (Grabe and Sigler, 2002) described the challenges that the process of time-on-task estimation entails, most of the studies do not. In their study, Grabe and Sigler (2002) used several heuristics for time-on-task estimation: 1) all learning actions longer than 180 seconds were estimated to be 120 seconds long, 2) all multiple choice answering actions to be at maximum 90 seconds, and 3) last actions within each study session were estimated at 60 seconds.…”

Section: Time-on-task and Learning Technologymentioning

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Does Time-on-task Estimation Matter? Implications on Validity of Learning Analytics Findings

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ABSTRACT:With widespread adoption of Learning Management Systems (LMS) and other learning technology, large amounts of data -commonly known as trace data -are readily accessible to researchers. Trace data has been extensively used to calculate time that students spend on different learning activities -typically referred to as time-on-task. These measures are used to build predictive models of student learning in order to understand and improve learning processes. While time-on-task measures have been used in Learning Analytics research, the consequences of their use are not fully described or examined. This paper presents findings from two experiments regarding different time-on-task estimation methods and their influence on research findings. Based on modelling different student performance measures with popular statistical methods in two datasets (one online, one blended), our findings indicate that time-on-task estimation methods play an important role in shaping the final study results, particularly in online settings where the amount of interaction with LMS is typically higher. The primary goal of this paper is to raise awareness and initiate debate on the important issue of time-on-task estimation within the broader learning analytics community. Finally, the paper provides an overview of commonly adopted time-on-task estimation methods in educational and related research fields.

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“…This coincided with the rapid acceptance of the Internet as a tool for disseminating information [4] and as a growing option with respect to serving as a study tool for students [5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Educational Website based on Integration between Web-based Simulation and Retrieval Strategies

Elgamal¹

2013

IJCA

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World Wide Web (WWW) simulation is an engineering tool with enormous potential impact on education, by combining the modeling capabilities of traditional simulation tools with the communication capability of the Internet. This paper describes educational website based on integration between web-based simulation and retrieval strategies. Learners were classified according to their retrieval strategies (organizational -rehearsal) and were exposed to the proposed educational website which explained computer networking concepts in two different formats. The first used simulation only while the second considered the retrieval strategy. The experimental results showed the effectiveness of the proposed system in enhancing academic achievement for organizational learners more than for rehearsal learners.

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Studying online: evaluation of an online study environment

Cited by 37 publications

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Development of a web-based graduate-level module courseware

Development of a web-based graduate-level module courseware

Does Time-on-task Estimation Matter? Implications on Validity of Learning Analytics Findings

Educational Website based on Integration between Web-based Simulation and Retrieval Strategies

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