QUALINET White Paper on Definitions of Immersive Media Experience (IMEx)

Report (2020)

Mixed Reality - Potential and Pitfalls for Representing History

Presentation (2019)

CHARIOT – Towards a Continuous High-level Adaptive Runtime Integration Testbed

in Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) (2019)

6th International Workshop on Self-Optimisation in Autonomic and Organic Computing Systems

in ARCS 2018 Workshop Proceedings (2018)

Message from the Program Committee Chairs

in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) (2018)

Learning Resource Management through Semantic Annotation Features in Popular Authoring Software

in ICERI 2017 Proceedings (2017, November 16)

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 ... [more ▼]

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 software, enabling teachers to annotate learning resources using domain concepts from ontologies. In addition, a plugin for the Moodle Learning Management System extracts these annotations from the metadata of the provided resources to allow students to get an overview of important concepts and efficiently retrieve corresponding material. [less ▲]

An Extensible and Lightweight Modular Ontology for Programming Education

in Advances in Computing - 12th Colombian Conference, CCC 2017, Cali, Colombia, September 19-22, 2017, Proceedings (2017, August)

Semantic web technologies such as ontologies can foster the reusability of learning material by introducing common sets of concepts for annotation purposes. However, suggesting learning material from an ... [more ▼]

Semantic web technologies such as ontologies can foster the reusability of learning material by introducing common sets of concepts for annotation purposes. However, suggesting learning material from an open, heterogeneous corpus is a nontrivial problem. In this paper, we propose an extensible and lightweight modular ontology for programming education. Its main purpose is to integrate annotated learning material related to programming into an IDE such as Eclipse. Our ontology is based on a modular architecture, which is extensible with respect to different programming languages. Aligning language-specific concepts with user-specific tags allows us to suggest learning resources for code elements in a fine-grained and cross-curricular way. Our concrete implementation establishes relations between learning aspects in Java or C code and annotated resources such as articles on online question-and-answer sites. [less ▲]

Collective Dynamics and Self-Optimisation in Large-Scale Networked Computer Systems

Presentation (2017)

Yactul: An Extensible Game-Based Student Response Framework for Active Learning

in Ponencias del XVIII Encuentro Internacional Virtual Educa, Colombia 2017 (2017)

Student response systems as an active learning strategy have shown to be useful in different study domains. With the advent of gamification, these environments have become very popular to improve student ... [more ▼]

Student response systems as an active learning strategy have shown to be useful in different study domains. With the advent of gamification, these environments have become very popular to improve student engagement. However, existing solutions only provide a static set of activity types and limit their use to classrooms. In this paper, we present Yactul, an extensible game-based student response framework for active learning. Our ecosystem fosters continuous learning both in the collaborative setting of the classroom and the private study environment of the student. Our modular architecture enables a seamless integration of activities from a broad and extensible set. In addition, a mobile app for offline learning extends the experience outside the classroom and allows to replay quizzes anywhere and anytime, track the progress of an individual learner and suggest activities on topics that require more studying. [less ▲]

Integration of Learning Material into an Advanced Project-Based Learning Support Platform

in INTED 2017 Proceedings (2017)

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 ... [more ▼]

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 approach, integrating learning material in an advanced project-based learning support platform. Our ecosystem, relying on semantic web technologies, comprises plugins for common authoring and project realization tools. [less ▲]