Interactive Tools for Online Learning

Overview

Aalto University students (at all levels) need more flexible learning opportunities to practice and improve their academic writing skills. However, the current selection of tools in MyCourses allow a very limited choice of interactive exercises (mainly multiple choice and gapfill), which do not support higher level of learning. The current technologies often prevent the creation of intuitive and pedagogically meaningful exercises and lesson designs, and updating the exercises is slow and error prone.

To address some of the problems listed above, this project aims to develop new activity types and/or modify the existing solutions in order to improve lesson designs, user-interaction, and automate feedback when possible. Such activity types include point-and-click, drag-and-drop, and a text field with pattern matching to enhance automated feedback.