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MILAGE LEARN+: A Tool to Promote Autonomous Learning of Students in Higher Education

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This paper presents the free MILAGE LEARN+ App for mobile devices and computers (iOS, Android, Windows and OSX) that allows students to access educational content in online, blended or flipped learning. This app is a tool to support students in the autonomous solving of problems implementing a pedagogical model that includes gamification, self and peer assessment.

In order to motivate and include all students, the MILAGE LEARN+ App incorporates gamification features with different levels of complexity of exercises to support students with greater difficulties in learning and also include more advanced students. Educational videos are available with tutorials and resolution of exercises to give immediate feedback to students.

The MILAGE LEARN+ App also includes a self and peer assessment scheme that aims to stimulate the student’s autonomous work, to revise content for the storage of knowledge in long-term memory and to identify key steps in the resolution of exercises.

This paper shows the application of the MILAGE LEARN+ in a class of “Introduction to Programming with Visual Basic” to students of Mechanical Engineering.

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    The App assessment score was calculated by all 4 items mean (i.e., interesting, useful, easy to use and effective).

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  1. Engineering Institute, CIMA, CIAC, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Mauro Figueiredo

  2. Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, Center for Research in Psychology – CIP, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139, Faro, Portugal

    Cátia Martins

  3. Engineering Institute, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    Conceição Ribeiro

  4. Center of Statistics and Applications, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Conceição Ribeiro

  5. Engineering Institute, CIMA, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal

    José Rodrigues

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Figueiredo, M., Martins, C., Ribeiro, C., Rodrigues, J. (2020). MILAGE LEARN+: A Tool to Promote Autonomous Learning of Students in Higher Education. In: Monteiro, J., et al. INCREaSE 2019. INCREaSE 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30938-1_28

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