Martin Schön

Graz University of Technology | TU Graz · life long learning

An “information system” is a (technical) system that deals with information using the Internet (or Intranet). With other words, simply dealing with information about anything. In our case we will of course look at information systems that are in use for especially teaching and learn-ing. After a general introduction into information systems, we wil...

For youth nowadays, the Internet is so common to their lives that it is impossible to think about being offline or without the Internet itself. Still, only few decades ago, the idea of a decentralized (distributed) worldwide network for communication was entirely a vision. In this text, we give a short introduction into the Internet and its technol...

Although, videos for teaching and learning have been established for many years, transferring of knowledge has changed tremendously within the past decade. Students increasingly consume learning content via videos. In this context, the triumph of YouTube in becoming a main source for learning is astonishing. In combination with an increasing use of...

This work describes the research activities performed in the field of engineering education at Austrian Federal Colleges of Engineering (HTL) in collaboration with both Graz and Vienna Universities of Technology. To support the collaboration process in engineering education, a Product Data Management (PDM) system was introduced to several Austrian...

Since 2007, Graz University of Technology has been conducting an annual poll amongst its first-year students about their IT preferences and competence. On the basis of more than 8600 data records, this long-term survey reports the changes regarding students´ITstudents´IT device ownership, communicative behavior via IT devices, and use of apps as we...

Viele Jahre war der Einsatz von computergestütztem Lehren und Lernen an (tragbare) Computer gebunden. Ob digitale Hilfsmittel, z. B. Laptop und Video-Projektor, zum Einsatz kamen war deutlich erkennbar. Spätestens mit dem ubiquitären Internet und den Smartphones in den Taschen der Studierenden ist diese Grenzziehung zwischen sog. „analoger“ d. h. h...

Starting in 2007, Graz University of Technology has conducted an annual poll amongst its new students about their IT preferences and competences. After ten years of survey it is time to consider the overall results. Based on more than 7700 data records we can obviously state that freshmen have changed significantly according to their IT devices own...

Das Arbeitspapier fokussiert eine neue Form von Lehr- und Lernformaten an Hochschulen, bei denen sog. „analoge“, also herkömmliche Formen des Lernen und Lehren mit digitalen Formen verschmelzen und dabei das Internet sowie die mobilen Geräte der Studierenden genutzt werden. Die Entwicklung kann dabei in zwei Richtungen erfolgen: Bislang rein digita...

For the ninth time, the Graz University of Technology has carried out a survey amongst its freshmen in order to find out their preferences and habits according to the use of modern IT- and Web- technologies. Besides the remarkable long-term changes in regards to the ownership of technology, the results of this year ́s (2015) survey yielded a sensat...

Ziel der Ist-Analyse zu Open Educational Resources (kurz OER) in Deutschland ist es, deren Reichweite innerhalb Deutschlands abzubilden sowie insbesondere die Situation in den Bildungsbereichen Schule, Hochschule, berufliche Bildung und Weiterbildung darzustellen. In der Analyse werden unter „OER“ offene Bildungsressourcen bzw. freie Bildungsmateri...

Since 2007 Graz University of Technology has undertaken questionnaires on its first- year students. The main goal of that annual survey basically concentrates on the IT- and Web- competences as long as they are related to e-learning. The long-term results display progresses and trends that need to be taken into account for a university ́s e-learnin...

E-Learning an der Hochschule bedarf einer Strategie. Dies scheint unumstritten und heutzutage eine Notwendigkeit. Zunehmend stellt sich aber die Frage, wie dies die Studierenden sehen. In dieser Arbeit stellen wir kurz den Prozess der Strategieentwicklung einer Universität dar und bringen diesen mit einer parallel dazu durchgeführten Studierendenum...

In summer 2013 the discussion about security and Internet peaked when the ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden uncovered secret details about his former employer NSA. Since then bad news and stories about government surveillance have come along daily worldwide. But did they change anything according to our way of working and living with the Internet? W...

Much has been written lately about the potential of Learning Analytics for improving learning and teaching. Nevertheless, most of the contributions to date are concentrating on the abstract theoretical or algorithmic level, or, deal with academic efficiencies like teachers’ grading habits. This paper wants to focus on the value that Learning Analyt...

In this work we focus on a specific application named “1x1 trainer” that has been designed to assist children in primary school to learn one digit multiplications. We investigate the database of learners’ answers to the asked questions by applying Markov chain and classification algorithms. The analysis identifies different clusters of one digit mu...

Within this tutorial you will deepen your knowledge about e-Learning technologies. How does an engi - neer think? What was the main invention of the World Wide Web? What are potential future technolo - gies? – These are some of the question we want to discuss here. Throughout this seven-unit tutorial, you will gain a deeper knowledge of technologie...

Understanding the behavior of learners within learning applications and analyzing the factors that may influence the learning process play a key role in designing and optimizing learning applications. In this work we focus on a specific application named “1x1 trainer” that has been designed for primary school children to learn one digit multiplicat...

Individual learning is out of sync with the elements of a curricula and the daily program of a teacher. At a time when multidigit multiplication methods are taught, many children are not perfectly performing the basic multiplication table. Teachers organize settings for learning and they usually have no time to give an individual feedback to every...

Learning Analytics is an emerging field, because the analyses of a big amount of data can lead to deeper insights into how learning occurs. In this publication we introduce a new addition / subtraction trainer which assists teachers in their daily basic math education. A first field study points out that beside of typical mistakes also systematic o...

Das Projekt „Schulbuch-O-Mat“ hat sich zur Zielsetzung gemacht, bis Ende Juli 2013 das erste frei zugängliche und einsetzbare deutschsprachige Schulbuch zu veröffentlichen. Dazu wurden bis zum Januar 2013 per Crowdfunding Basiskapital gesammelt, um dann mit Freiwilligen, unter anderem BiologielehrerInnen und professionellen GrafikerInnen und Gestal...

Individual learning is out of sync with the elements of a curricula and the daily program of a teacher. At a time when multidigit multiplication methods are taught, many children are not perfectly performing the basic multiplication table. Teachers organize settings for learning and they usually have no time to give an individual feedback to every...

Daten, Daten, Daten ... entstehen in der heutigen Welt durch das zuneh- mende Angebot an webbasierten Applikationen. Je mehr sich das Inter- net öffnet, je mehr Benutzer sich auf einer Plattform anmelden, desto mehr füllen sich die dahinterliegenden Datenbanken. Unter den Schlag- wörtern »Big Data« und »Data Mining« versteht man die Analyse dieser...

The ubiquitous availability of applications enables us to offer students opportunities to test and train competences in almost every situation. At Graz University of Technolgy two apps for testing competences in multiplication are developed. They estimate the competence level of every user and adapt to their individual development in this domain. T...

This paper presents the results achieved at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in the field of automating the process of recording and publishing university lectures in a very new way. It outlines cornerstones of the development and integration of an automated recording system such as the lecture hall setup, the recording hardware and software...

One of the first and basic mathematical knowledge of school children is the multiplication table. At the age of 8 to 10 each child has to learn by training step by step, or more scientifically, by using a behavioristic learning concept. Due to this fact it can be mentioned that we know very well about the pedagogical approach, but on the other side...