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Feedback Authoring for Exploratory Activities: The Case of a Logo-Based 3D Microworld

Authors : Sokratis Karkalas, Manolis Mavrikis, Marios Xenos, Chronis Kynigos

Published in: Computers Supported Education

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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This paper presents AuthELO an authoring environment that can be used for the configuration of logging and authoring of automated feedback for exploratory learning objects (ELOs). ELOs are web components (widgets) that can be integrated with learning platforms to synthesise highly interactive learning environments. AuthELO has been developed in the context of the MCSquared project that is developing a platform for authoring interactive educational e-books. This platform comprises an extendable set of diverse widgets that can be used to generate instances of exploratory activities that can be employed in various learning scenarios. AuthELO was designed and developed to provide a simple, common and efficient authoring interface that can normalise the diversity of these widgets and give the ability to non-experts to easily develop or customise the feedback that is provided to students using a data-driven approach. In this paper we describe the architecture and design characteristics of AuthELO and a small-scale evaluation with activities in a logo-based 3D microworld called Malt+. We reflect on both the challenges of the authoring process and the pedagogical potential of the feedback when these activities are used by students.

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Title: Feedback Authoring for Exploratory Activities: The Case of a Logo-Based 3D Microworld
Authors: Sokratis Karkalas
Manolis Mavrikis
Marios Xenos
Chronis Kynigos
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Computers Supported Education
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63183-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-63184-4

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63184-4_14

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