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Learning Analytics and Spelling

Acquisition in German –

A First Prototype

Markus Ebner, Martin Ebner and Konstanze Edstadler

18th International Conference on Human-Computer

Interaction; Toronto, Canada, 17 - 22 July 2016

22 IDeRBlog - Individually differentiated spelling

with blogs

• Erasmus+ Project (VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3)

• Partners in

• Belgium

• Germany

• Austria

• Combine development of writing skills and

the acquisition of orthographic competences

• Primarily for children, age 8 to 12

IDeRBlog - Individuell Differenziert Rechtschreiben mit Blogs (de)

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33 Ideas and main points

• User friendly web-based platform

• Writing a text and get automatic feedback for

autonomous correction

• German orthography is known to be difficult to master.

• Help pupils who struggle with the acquisition of

German orthography

• Help them improve writing and spelling

• Provide qualitative analysis of orthographic

problems for teachers

• Provide exercises for training

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44 Different needs

Pupils Teachers Researchers

• Focus on the individual needs

• Integrate in the development

Our customers

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General design and workflow for students and teachers

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66 Interface Design

Students, focus on their needs

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Write

(student‘s area)

Exercises

(training DB)

Reading

(Blogs)

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Student‘s workflow

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Students area, after the login

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Write a text Check submitted text• Only 2 choices:

• KISS

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Student: example

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1010 Different feedback strategies:

Student: example

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„Fresch“ System

Standard Feedback

„Say the words out clearly.

If you hear a long vowel

then you write just one

consonant”

„swing the word“

1111 The Intelligent Dictionary

• In case of spelling mistake provide hints for corrections

• Allows autonomous corrections

• Motivating context

• Feedback is formulated in a way that the learner has to

think about the spelling

• being sensitive to misspelled words

• know how to correct them

• use spelling aids

• apply strategies to prevent spelling errors

Intelligent Dictionary

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Teacher‘s workflow

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Training database

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• Contains online and

offline exercises

• Preselection and

recommendations are

made by the system

• Easy to find the right

exercises

• Congruently ordered

in categories of

spelling mistakes

1414 Goals

• make in-depth analysis of occurred misspellings

• better understanding of the process of spelling

acquisition

• predict the performance of students

• make recommendations for personalized exercises

• offer reflections about

• recommended exercises

• changing performance (spelling acquisition)

Researchers

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1515 Educational Technology

• Slides available at:

• http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

• For further information about the project and

partners please visit: • http://iderblog.eu

• http://elearning.tugraz.at

• https://www.tugraz.at/en/

oe/lehr-und-lerntechnologien/home/

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1616 Acknowledgements

This research project is supported by the European Commission Erasmus+

program in the framework of the project IDERBLOG (VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3).

For more information about the project IDERBLOG and its project partners:

Hugo Adolph1, Christian Aspalter2, Susanne Biermeier3, Mike Cormann4, Sandra

Ernst4, Markus Ebner6, Martin Ebner6, Sonja Gabriel5, Gabriele Goor4, Michael

Gros1, Anneliese Huppertz4, Kathrin Irmag4, Konstanze Edtstadler5, Susanne

Martich2, Nina Steinhauer1, Behnam Taraghi6 and Marianne Ullmann5, please

visit our homepage http://iderblog.eu/ (German language only).

1. LPM Saarland, Beethovenstraße 26, 66125 Saarbrücken, Germany

2. University of Teacher Education Vienna, IBS/DiZeTIK, Grenzackerstraße 18, 1100 Vienna, Austria - Europe

3. Albert-Weisgerber School St. Ingbert, Robert-Koch-Straße 4, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany

4. School of Raeren, Hauptstraße 45, 4730 Raeren, Belgium - Europe

5. University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems, Mayerweckstraße 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria - Europe

6. Graz University of Technology, Department Educational Technology, Münzgrabenstraße 35a, 8010 Graz, Austria - Europe

Acknowledgements

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(VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3)

1717 References

1. Ebner, M., Ebner, M., & Edtstadler, K. (2016, July). Learning Analytics and Spelling

Acquisition in German-A First Prototype. In International Conference on Learning and

Collaboration Technologies (pp. 405-416). Springer International Publishing.

2. Edtstadler, K., Ebner, M., Ebner, M.: Improved German Spelling Acquisition through

Learning Analytics. In: eLearning papers 45, pp. 17-28 (2015).

3. Icons designed by Freepik http://www.freepik.com

References

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