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Introduction
I'm interested in research on:
- personalisation of learning
- educational datasets
- linked data
- learning networks
- data mashups
- data visualisations
- learning analytics
- mobile technologies
- science2.0.
I apply these technologies in different stakeholder projects esp. in the medical domain. An overview of my projects can be found here: http://www.drachsler.de/?page_id=94
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April 2006 - April 2015
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Publications (313)
What are effective learning activities in mobile, real-world contexts? We compared three learning activities in a planning app for children. The activities differed in their intended cognitive engagement according to the ICAP framework: a passive reading activity, an active retrieval activity, and a generative activity. Children (N = 106, 9-14 year...
Planning is an important but difficult self-regulation strategy. Successful implementation of a plan requires that it can be recalled when needed in everyday life. Children in particular are unlikely to internalize plans effectively. Therefore, we developed PROMPT, a planning app for children. We designed three learning activities, including a pass...
Feedback literacy is gaining recognition as a key concept for understanding how engage with and learn from feedback in higher education. This study presents validity evidence for a refined version of the Student Feedback Literacy Instrument (SFLI), designed to measure the construct across two dimensions –feedback attitudes and feedback practices– i...
Due to their versatility, conceptual maps are used in various educational settings and serve as tools that enable educators to comprehend students' knowledge construction. An essential component for analyzing a concept map is its structure, which can be categorized into three distinct types: spoke, network, and chain. Understanding the predominant...
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has garnered interest as a potentially new feedback source in education due to its ability to generate human-like text. However, its use in feedback lacks a robust pedagogical framework, which is essential for ensuring effective, responsible implementation and fostering trust in educational contexts. This...
Background
Despite educational advances, poor mathematics achievement persists among K‐12 students, particularly in rural areas with limited resources and skilled teachers. Artificial Intelligence (AI) based systems have increasingly been adopted to support the diverse learning needs of students and have been shown to enhance mathematics achievemen...
Learning in asynchronous online settings (AOSs) is challenging for university students. However, the construct of learning engagement (LE) represents a possible lever to identify and reduce challenges while learning online, especially, in AOSs. Learning analytics provides a fruitful framework to analyze students' learning processes and LE via trace...
Learning in asynchronous online settings (AOSs) is challenging for university students. However, the construct of learning engagement (LE) represents a possible lever to identify and reduce challenges while learning online, especially, in AOSs. Learning analytics provides a fruitful framework to analyze students' learning processes and LE via trace...
Although the existing literature acknowledges the potential of learning analytics in enhancing effective learning design, it lacks evidence on how learning analytics can support learning design considering diversity in instructional conditions. This indicates that learning context plays a major role in successful implementation of learning analytic...
Learning Analytics Dashboards (LAD) have been developed as feedback tools to help students self-regulate their learning (SRL), using the large amounts of data generated by online learning platforms. Despite extensive research on LAD design, there remains a gap in understanding how learners make sense of information visualised on LADs and how they s...
A relevant learning space for academics, especially junior researchers, is the academic conference. While conference participation has long been associated with personal attendance at the conference venue, virtual participation is becoming increasingly important. This study investigates the perceived value of a purely virtual academic conference fo...
This paper presents a teacher dashboard intervention study in secondary school practice involving teachers (n = 16) with their classes (n = 22) and students (n = 403). A quasi-experimental treatment-control group design was implemented to compare student learning outcomes between classrooms where teachers did not have access to the dashboard and cl...
Zusammenfassung
Eine zentrale Herausforderung der Unterrichtswissenschaft bzw. der unterrichtsbezogenen Lehr-Lern-Forschung stellt ohne Frage die gewinnbringende Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz dar. Obwohl Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) in den letzten Jahren und Jahrzehnten zunehmend Einzug in unseren Alltag gehalten hat (z. B. im Rahmen der Sprachste...
This paper describes a contribution to the BEA 2024 Shared Task on Automated Prediction of Item Difficulty and Response Time. The participants in this shared task are to develop models for predicting the difficulty and response time of multiple-choice items in the medical field. These items were taken from the United States Medical Licensing Examin...
Background
Developments in educational technology and learning analytics make it possible to automatically formulate and deploy personalized formative feedback to learners at scale. However, to be effective, the motivational and emotional impacts of such automated and personalized feedback need to be considered. The literature on feedback suggests...
This paper presents an initial report on the co-design processes between researchers and policy stakeholders in the GREAT (Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation) project applied in the context of the climate emergency. The objective of piloting these co-design processes is to develop a methodology to support policy stakeholders in...
Background
Teacher dashboards can help secondary school teachers manage online learning activities and inform instructional decisions by visualising information about class learning. However, when designing teacher dashboards, it is not trivial to choose which information to display, because not all of the vast amount of information retrieved from...
Learning Design (LD) is the strategic orchestration of educational components to create a rewarding experience for students and educators. Adapting it to real-world scenarios with evolving technologies, like learning analytics (LA), adds complexity but offers the potential for enhanced learning outcomes and engagement. Prior research highlights the...
Gender bias underlying discrimination against women are particularly salient in STEM higher education. Complementing top-down measures to mitigate these issues identified in the extant literature, we aim to highlight a complementary bottom-up approach. First, to elicit gender stereotypes and gender bias in STEM, we conducted a group concept mapping...
Peer feedback is introduced as an effective learning strategy, especially in large-size classes where teachers face high workloads. However, for complex tasks such as writing an argumentative essay, without support peers may not provide high-quality feedback since it requires a high level of cognitive processing, critical thinking skills, and a dee...
Training to run is not straightforward since without proper personalised supervision and planning, people will not improve their performance and will increase the risk of injuries. This study aims to identify the different factors that influence running training programmes, examining the benefits, challenges or limitations of personalised plans. Mo...
Various studies empirically proved the value of highly informative feedback for enhancing learner success. However, digital educational technology has yet to catch up as automated feedback is often provided shallowly. This paper presents a case study on implementing a pipeline that provides German-speaking university students enrolled in an introdu...
Technology enhanced learning analytics has the potential to play a significant role in higher education in the future. Opinions and expectations towards technology and learning analytics, thus, are vital to consider for institutional developments in higher education institutions. The Sheila framework offers instruments to yield exploratory knowledg...
Background
Gender and gender diversity are group features affecting social interaction and are critical for gender‐inclusive and equitable education. As such, the role of gender and gender diversity is of particular relevance to computer‐supported collaborative learning (CSCL). However, up until now, research on this topic in CSCL remains scarce. T...
Essay writing tests, integral in many educational settings, demand significant resources for manual scoring. Automated essay scoring (AES) can alleviate this by automating the process, thereby reducing human effort. However, the multitude of AES models, each varying in its features and scoring approaches, complicates selecting one optimal model, es...
Lay Description
What is already known about this topic?
In the field of computer‐supported collaborative learning (CSCL), most studies argue that group work supports the development of social, cognitive, and online collaborative teamwork skills and creates a more inclusive learning environment.
Because women represent non‐majority users in CSCL, e...
Given the crucial role of feedback in supporting learning in higher education, understanding the factors influencing feedback effectiveness is imperative. Student feedback literacy, that is, the set of attitudes and abilities to make sense of and utilize feedback is therefore considered a key concept. Rigorous investigations of feedback literacy re...
Distractions are ubiquitous in today’s technology-saturated environments, an issue that significantly impacts learning contexts employing digital technologies and yields detrimental effects on learning. Digital self-control tools, which aim to assist users in their efforts to reduce digital distractions, are numerous and readily available. Despite...
In Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), students learn in small groups to achieve learning benefits outside what would be possible for individual students. As in other forms of learning, students need feedback on the quality of their work. Still, writing high-quality informative feedback requires time on the part of educators. This mak...
To promote cross-community dialogue on matters of significance within the field of learning analytics (LA), we as editors-in-chief of the Journal of Learning Analytics (JLA) have introduced a section for papers that are open to peer commentary. An invitation to submit proposals for commentaries on the paper was released, and 12 of these proposals w...
Learners use digital media during learning for a variety of reasons. Sometimes media use can be considered “on-task,” e.g., to perform research or to collaborate with peers. In other cases, media use is “off-task,” meaning that learners use content unrelated to their current learning task. Given the well-known problems with self-reported data (inco...
Collaboration is an important twenty-first-century skill. Collaboration quality detection can help to support collaboration. This chapter addresses the collaboration quality detection and measurement: (1) to define collaboration quality using audio data and unobtrusive learning analytics measures; (2) to explain the design of a sensor-based set up...
Researchers tasked with understanding the effects of educational technology innovations face the challenge of providing evidence of causality. Given the complexities of studying learning in authentic contexts interwoven with technological affordances, conducting tightly-controlled randomized experiments is not always feasible nor desirable. Today,...
Im Frühjahr 2020 wurden Schulen unerwartet vor die Herausforderung gestellt, Unterricht und Schulentwicklung vor dem Hintergrund kontinuierlicher pandemiebedingter Disruptionen zu ermöglichen. Unterricht vor Ort wurde ersetzt durch digitale Formate des Lernens und der Kommunikation auf Distanz.
Für die Bildungspraxis erweisen sich dabei die Heraus...
Educational applications (apps) offer opportunities for designing learning activities children enjoy and benefit from. We redesigned a typical mobile learning activity to make it more enjoyable and useful for children. Relying on the technology acceptance model, we investigated whether and how implementing this activity in an app can increase child...
Background
Learning Analytics (LA) is an emerging field concerned with measuring, collecting, and analysing data about learners and their contexts to gain insights into learning processes. As the technology of Learning Analytics is evolving, many systems are being implemented. In this context, it is essential to understand stakeholders' expectation...
Learning Analytics (LA) consists of miscellaneous steps that include data harvesting, storing, cleaning, anonymisation, mining, analysis, and visualisation so that the vast amount of educational data is comprehensible and ethically utilisable by educators or instructors to obtain the advantages and benefits that LA can bring to the educational scen...
Der Beitrag kontrastiert interaktive, adaptive sowie künstlich-intelligente Lernprogramme. Adaptive und KI-basierte Anwendungen erweisen sich in der Entwicklung als aufwändiger und haben sich bis-lang nicht durchsetzen können. Um die Chancen dieser Technologien abzuschätzen, werden ihre Möglichkeiten verglichen. Adaptive Lernprogramme eignen sich v...
Learning analytics offers opportunities to enhance the design of learning activities by providing information on the impact of different learning designs. Despite the availability of design methods that aim to facilitate the integration of learning analytics in learning design, there is a lack of research evaluating their effectiveness. This study...
Planning is an important but difficult self-regulation strategy. The successful implementation of a plan requires that the plan is retrievable in everyday life when it is needed. Children in particular are unlikely to use effective strategies to internalize plans in a way that makes them easy to remember. Therefore, we designed PROMPT, a planning a...
What are effective learning activities in mobile, real-world contexts? We compared three learning activities in a planning app for children. The activities differed in their intended cognitive engagement according to the ICAP framework: a passive reading activity, an active retrieval activity, and a generative activity. Children (N = 106, 9-14 year...
This chapter describes the insights derived by the design and development of the Multimodal Tutor, a system that uses artificial intelligence for providing digital feedback and to support psychomotor skills acquisition. In this chapter, we discuss the insights which we gained from eight studies: (1) an exploratory study combining physiological data...
App-based habit building has been shown to be a good tool for forming desired habits; however, it is unclear how much individual features that are present in many apps contribute to the success of habit building. In this paper, the authors consider the influence of social support features by developing an app in which habit progress was shared with...
Each year, the amount of research publications is increasing. Staying on top of the state of the art is a pressing issue. The field of Learning Analytics (LA) is no exception, with the rise of digital education systems that are used broadly these days from K12 up to Higher Education. Keeping track of the advances in LA is challenging. This is espec...
Lay Description
What is already known about this topic?
Formative assessments are needed to test and monitor the development of learners’ knowledge throughout a unit to provide them with appropriate automated feedback.
Constructed response items which require learners to formulate their own free‐text responses are well suited for testing their act...
As a research field geared toward understanding and improving learning, Learning Analytics (LA) must be able to provide empirical support for causal claims. However, as a highly applied field, tightly controlled randomized experiments are not always feasible nor desirable. Instead, researchers often rely on observational data, based on which they m...
Potential benefits of learning analytics (LA) for improving students’ performance, predicting students’ success, and enhancing teaching and learning practice have increasingly been recognized in higher education. However, the adoption of LA in higher education institutions (HEIs) to date remains sporadic and predominantly small in scale due to seve...
In e-learning, collaborative online whiteboards have become a popular choice for implementing collaborative learning. However, existing solutions fail to deliver data in a way that allows for the application of learning analytics in this field. While the market offers several solutions, most of them cannot be integrated with existing learning manag...
Learning activities are at the core of every educational design effort. Designing learning activities is a process that benefits from reflecting on previous runs of those activities. One way to measure the behaviour and effects of design choices is to use learning analytics (LA). The challenge, however, lies in the unavailability of an easy-to-use,...
National educational standards stress the importance of science and mathematics learning for today’s students. However, across disciplines, students frequently struggle to meet learning goals about core concepts like energy. Digital learning environments enhanced with artificial intelligence hold the promise to address this issue by providing indiv...
Gender equity in education is an essential UN sustainable development goal. However, it is unclear what aspects of gender are important to consider in regard to research outcomes as well as how findings can be interpreted in the context of gender stereotypes and bias. This lack of clarity is particularly salient in the STEM field. Computer-supporte...
Lay Description
What is already known about this topic?
Learning design (LD) is the pedagogic process used in teaching/learning that leads to the creation and sequencing of learning activities and the environment in which it occurs.
Learning analytics (LA) is the measurement, collection, analysis & reporting of data about learners and their contex...
In recent years, Learning Analytics (LA) has become a very heterogeneous research field due to the diversity in the data generated by the Learning Management Systems (LMS) as well as the researchers in a variety of disciplines, who analyze this data from a range of perspectives. In this paper, we present the evaluation of a LA tool that helps cours...
Collaboration is one of the four important 21st-century skills. With the pervasive use of sensors, interest on co-located collaboration (CC) has increased lately. Most related literature used the audio modality to detect indicators of collaboration (such as total speaking time and turn taking). CC takes place in physical spaces where group members...
Background:
The World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Curriculum Guide defines learning objectives for patient safety. Current implementation in healthcare education is insufficient. Possible explanations may be obsolescence and/or a shift in needs. We investigated whether overarching topics and specific learning objectives of the WHO Pat...
This paper presents results from our design and evaluation studies of the Learning Analytics Cockpit (LA Cockpit) for a quiz app, which aims to provide lecturers with important information about students’ knowledge levels. We define a LA Cockpit as a tool for instructors that enables them to steer students’ learning process by providing a LA Dashbo...
Over the last ten years learning analytics (LA) has grown from a hypothetical future into a concrete field of inquiry and a global community of researchers and practitioners. Although the LA space may appear sprawling and complex, there are some clear through-lines that the new student or interested practitioner can use as entry points. Four of the...
This paper describes the CPR Tutor, a real-time multimodal feedback system for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training. The CPR Tutor detects training mistakes using recurrent neural networks. The CPR Tutor automatically recognises and assesses the quality of the chest compressions according to five CPR performance indicators. It detects train...
Background
The COVID‐19 outbreak came with an unprecedented opportunity to investigate how the new reality of social distancing and limited international travel will affect the organization of academic conferences.
Objectives
Drawing on conceptualization of academic conferences as professional learning spaces, in this study, we examine the factors...