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

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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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    https://www.geogebra.org/.

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    http://etl.ppp.uoa.gr/malt2/.

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    http://fractionslab.lkl.ac.uk/.

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    We used TaffyDB (http://www.taffydb.com/) — an open source, lightweight and efficient NoSQL database.

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    We incorporated the ace editor (http://ace.c9.io) which is a high performance web-based JavaScript tool. The tool is parameterized to process JavaScript code and display it accordingly. It is equipped with syntax highlighters, automatic code indentation, and code quality control and syntax checking that is based on the well-known tool JSHint (http://jshint.com/).

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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement N\(^{\circ }\)610467 - project ‘M C Squared’. This publication reflects only the authors’ views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein

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    Marios Xenos & Chronis Kynigos

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Karkalas, S., Mavrikis, M., Xenos, M., Kynigos, C. (2017). Feedback Authoring for Exploratory Activities: The Case of a Logo-Based 3D Microworld. In: Costagliola, G., Uhomoibhi, J., Zvacek, S., McLaren, B. (eds) Computers Supported Education. CSEDU 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 739. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63184-4_14

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