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EduNotes – A Mobile Learning Application for Collaborative Note-Taking in Lecture Settings

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Note-taking activities are encouraged in teaching as a mechanism for information retention, review and consolidation, as well as for promoting active engagement with the lecture. Traditional pen-and-paper approaches limit the possibility of note sharing and collaboration between students. An alternative is offered by mobile applications for note-taking, which capitalize on the wide availability of smartphones. In contrast to generic note-taking apps, in this paper we propose a mobile application specifically conceived for educational settings, called EduNotes. Students can write notes associated to a specific lecture slide and share them with peers; they can also tag, rate, add to favorites or comment on notes. Additional features include live notifications, as well as advanced search, filtering and privacy options, which help reduce the overhead of note management. The paper also reports on a successful pilot study involving the use of EduNotes in real classroom settings.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian National Authority for Scientific Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI, project number PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-2604.

The first and last authors are members of the multilateral agreement on academic cooperation on “Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL): Tools, Environments, Applications, and Methodologies”, among University of Novi Sad, University of Craiova, and Comenius University in Bratislava.

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  1. Computers and Information Technology Department, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Elvira Popescu, Constantin Stefan & Sorin Ilie

  2. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Mirjana Ivanović

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  1. University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Dickson K.W. Chiu

  2. Leibniz University of Hanover, Hannover, Germany

    Ivana Marenzi

  3. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Umberto Nanni

  4. University of Caen Basse-Normandie, Caen, France

    Marc Spaniol

  5. Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Marco Temperini

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Popescu, E., Stefan, C., Ilie, S., Ivanović, M. (2016). EduNotes – A Mobile Learning Application for Collaborative Note-Taking in Lecture Settings. In: Chiu, D., Marenzi, I., Nanni, U., Spaniol, M., Temperini, M. (eds) Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2016. ICWL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47440-3_15

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