Educational portal and its integration with AHyCo LMS

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Educational portal and its integration with AHyCo
LMS

• Nataša HoicBožic
• natasa.hoic_at_ri.t-com.hr
• University of Rijeka (Croatia)

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Agenda

• AHyCo Learning Management System (LMS)
• AHyCo portal
• Main characteristics and future plans

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LMS portal

• AHyCo Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware
• AHyCo LMS - adaptive hypermedia learning
  management system
• Educational portal integrated with LMS
  AHyCo.ffri.hr
• Development since 2000 within several projects
• A system for automated student testing and
  surveying (2000-2001)
• "Adaptive Hypermedia Courseware" (2002-2003)
• "Teaching methods of information science online
  (2004-2005)
• Computing support to education (2002-)

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AHyCo LMS - tools

• Content authoring
• Delivering learning content
• Student assessment
• Collaboration support and communication
• Class management and other tools

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1. Content authoring

• Authoring environment - Microsoft Access forms as
  an interface for authors

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2. Delivering learning content AHyCo learning
environment

• Authorization
• Selecting course or subject for learning
• Course ? Module ? Lesson
• Generating the web page containing the lesson
  according to
• student model
• adaptation rules
• Adaptive navigational support

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Learning environment
Suggestions for further learning
Lesson
User tools
The page with the content of a lesson
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3. Student Assessment

• Students self-evaluation
• Grading the students
• Adaptive navigational support
• Types
• online tests and self-evaluation quizzes with
  multiple-choice questions
• online tests with problem questions
• essay-type assignments (seminar papers) grading
  by person (teacher)
• programming assignments automatic grading

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Multiple-choice question
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Essay-type and programming assignments
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Automated grading of programming assignments

• Support for several programming languages (C,
  C, C)
• Possible extension to other languages (with
  external compilers)
• Arbitrary test input sets
• Random test data generation
• Detection of problematic code sections

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Programming assignments results
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4. Collaboration support and communication in
AHyCo

• Asynchronous communication using forum
• Adaptive group formation
• File sharing module
• Group to group grading and evaluation

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Asynchronous CMC in AHyCo

• Multi threaded discussion forum
• public or private discussions between the members
  of one group
• Learning "anyplace and anytime

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Adaptive group formation

• Dividing students into groups depending on their
  learning success
• Other group forming parameters
• Participation in forum
• Grades from previous courses
• Group's size
• Student's personal data
• Teacher's preferences

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Adaptive group formation
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File sharing module
File sharing between group members
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Group grading and evaluation

• Interface with the given set of criteria

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5. Class management and other tools

• Student administration and progress tracking
• Advanced summary exam statistics
• Optical mark recognition
• Student surveying

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Future plans - LMS

• Further development of the subsystem for group
  work and CMC
• Internal messaging system
• Synchronous whiteboard and chat
• Smart card integration with digital signatures
• Scanning and annotation of written exams
• m-learning support Mobile AHyCo

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AHyCo educational portal

• Main goal to inform and educate in the field of
• applying ICT in education
• enhancement of classical and online teaching
  through new methods and approaches
• Integrated with AHyCo LMS
• Registered users - easy access to relevant
  courses and discussions

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AHyCo users

• Students Teachers
• Studying or teaching (moderating) their courses
• Discussing topics relevant to their courses
• Guests - everyone interested in e-learning issues
• Access to majority of content
• Attending trial course
• Discussing public forum discussion

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AHyCo portal Web interface
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AHyCo educational portalcontent

• Articles are categorized into fields of interest
• E-learning
• Learning and Teaching
• Adaptive Hypermedia
• Computer science teaching methodology
• On AHyCo LMS
• Other

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Future plans - portal

• Adding content for registered users only
• Developing dedicated areas with articles and
  discussions for teachers only
• Forming a community of on-line lecturers, for
  sharing experiences and suggestions