Atashpendar, Aryobarzan Grevisse, Christian Rothkugel, Steffen
Within the transition from pen-and-paper to digital solutions, many tablet-based note-taking apps have been developed. In addition, sketchnoting, a highly visual form of note-taking, has gained in popularity, especially in teaching and learning. While current solutions already reduce the burden of organizing and searching through stacks of paper, t...
Grevisse, Christian Manrique, Rubén Mariño, Olga Rothkugel, Steffen
Preparing high-quality learning material is a time-intensive, yet crucial task for teachers of all educational levels. In this paper, we present SoLeMiO, a tool to recommend and integrate learning material in popular authoring software. As teachers create their learning material, SoLeMiO identifies the concepts they want to address. In order to ide...
Grevisse, Christian Meder, Jeff Alphonse Antoine Botev, Jean Rothkugel, Steffen
Document collections in e-learning can cause issues to both learners and teachers. On one hand, inquiry from the vast corpus of available resources is non-trivial without adequate formulation support and semantic information. Implicit links between documents are hardly understood without a proper visualization. On the other hand, it is difficult fo...
Tenri Ampa, Andi Quraisy, Hidayah
Published in
SHS Web of Conferences
This research used a descriptive method. It was aimed at identifying students’ learning needs for the English writing skill as the base for designing the learning materials. Writing skill covered the analysis of the types of paragraph, types of text, the components of writing and paragraph development. The subjects of the research were the fourth s...
Grevisse, Christian Botev, Jean Rothkugel, Steffen
The ever-growing set of learning material challenges both students and teachers. While students often need to quickly retrieve resources on a certain topic, teachers have to author high quality documents in a limited amount of time, preferably using their favourite tools. In this paper, we propose an open ecosystem of plugins for popular authoring ...
Grevisse, Christian Botev, Jean Rothkugel, Steffen
The retrieval of appropriate learning material from a heterogeneous, open corpus is a challenge in project-based learning. In addition, with the authoring of high-quality learning resources being a time-intensive task, reusability in different contexts is desirable. In this paper, we propose to move from a material-centric to a student-centric appr...
Hsiao, Chih-Cheng Tiao, Mao-Meng Chen, Chih-Cheng
Published in
BMC Medical Education
BackgroundThis prospective study compares the use of interactive multimedia eBooks (IME) with traditional PowerPoint (TPP) for teaching cell morphology of blood and bone marrow.MethodsFifty-one interns from three Taiwan medical schools training by a single teacher in the pediatric hematology department of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Tai...
Lam, Miranda Man-wai Chan, Avery Chung-woon
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SpringerPlus
Sifuna, Daniel N.
Published in
International Review of Education
This article shows how interventions to provide Universal Primary Education (UPE) from the 1970s into the twenty-first century affected efforts to improve the quality of primary education in Kenya and Tanzania. While the interventions have made significant differences in the lives of many communities by increasing access to education of children wh...
Schroter, Sara Jenkins, Richard D Playle, Rebecca A Walsh, Kieran M Probert, Courtenay Kellner, Thomas Arnhofer, Gerhard Owens, David R
Published in
BMC Medical Education
BackgroundMethods for the dissemination, understanding and implementation of clinical guidelines need to be examined for their effectiveness to help doctors integrate guidelines into practice. The objective of this randomised controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of an interactive online Diabetes Needs Assessment Tool (DNAT) (which con...