Alexei Scerbakov

• Master of Science
• Graz University of Technology

The global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the popularity of video games and online-gaming platforms. However, little research is devoted to understanding how the pandemic has affected gamers, especially live-stream broadcasters. Therefore, our study aimed to evaluate the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on established streamers on Twitch. By...

An effective learning management system (LMS) is a vital component of an E-Learning infrastructure in universities nowadays. Learning Management System can be seen as a structured repository of courseware materials provided with additional communication facilities such as discussion forum, annotations, chats, etc. LMS can be also seen as a communic...

More than 50% of the master curriculum in Graz Technical University consists of elective courses. All the elective courses are provided with a more or less standard description that includes a number of ECTS, a content of the course, knowledge and skills that students are supposed to get after successfully accomplishing the course. The elective cou...

Mobile WEB applications are one of the most fast developing areas of computer science. Almost all the technical universities include the courses on the developing of such applications in their computer science curriculum. Teaching this topic has a number of peculiar features though. Thus, there are a number of alternative ways for developing such a...

The "flipped" classroom (reverse instruction) is an educational strategy where theoretical background is learned by students outside of the classroom. The classroom learning deals mainly with practical application of the theoretical background. The strategy is getting popularity as it improves learning outcomes in some training areas. In this paper...

This is quite usual nowadays that some university courses are taught for hundreds of students simultaneously. To accomplish the practical part of such courses, students are requested to implement practical assignments or projects and upload them into the Learning Management System for further evaluation and getting the final grade. Grading such stu...

Background and Objectives: Facial attractiveness and youthful appearance play an important role in human social interactions. Previous research has shown tremendous social and economic benefits to being attractive. People pay more attention to attractive people; they judge and treat them better than those being less attractive. Aesthetic dermatolog...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a phenomenon of these days. Therefore it seems just a consequent step to carry out research studies how MOOCs can be integrated best in our daily life. This work aims to describe first experiences from the implementation of two MOOCs on a new developed platform. Both courses are related to engineering educati...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a phenomenon of these days. Therefore it seems just a consequent step to carry out research studies how MOOCs can be integrated best in our daily life. This work aims to describe first experiences from the implementation of two MOOCs on a new developed platform. Both courses are related to engineering educati...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) haben sich mittlerweile als eine neue Form von Bildungsangeboten auch in Europa weitgehend etabliert. Anhand von iMooX, der ersten und einzigen MOOC-Plattform Österreichs, wird im vorliegenden Beitrag verdeutlicht, welche Rahmenbedingungen für die Etablierung einer solchen Plattform geschaffen werden müssen, welc...

In this paper an automated method for evaluating the quality of university lecture, is presented. The method is based on the comparison of video viewing habits of groups of students doing blended learning courses.The students’ behaviour is monitored via a special extension of the online movie viewer and recorded on a web site. The gathered data is...

LMS (Learning Management Systems) today are being widely used in almost every educational facility. In the last years all conceivable use cases that need to be carried out by such LMS have been defined and the features a modern LMS needs to offer are very clear. Rarely do we find something a teacher or student needs that an LMS cannot offer. So the...

The e-book market is currently in a strong upswing. This research study deals with the question which practical uses the e-book format EPUB3 offers for (higher) education. By means of a didactic content analysis, a range of interactive exercise types were developed as a result of conversations with teachers. For this purpose, a didactic and technic...

This paper describes the modification and outcome of a performance test applied to a university wide learning management system under realistic conditions to identify usability problems and to compare measures such as success rate, task time and user satisfaction with requirements. Two user groups with 20 test users each took part in this study. D...