From Course to Online Learning Paths: Improving the Teacher's Experience of an Existing Online Node-link Course Tool

The online website Skill Circuits is a tool developed by teachers at the Delft University of Technology. Skill Circuits is an online learning tool that presents students with a node-link (i.e. a tree) structure where each node represents a skill, containing tasks that aim to teach the skill. The website aims to benefit teachers, by letting them...

Computational Thinking Dashboard: For learners in Jupyter notebooks

Computational Thinking (CT) - the process of thinking like a programmer or computer scientist - is a skill that that has the potential to transform the way students learn at educational institutions in different domains and different grade levels. With the increasing integration of CT in classrooms, there is a growing need for CT assessment...

Automated Writing Feedback

The rising number of students challenges the teacher’s time-consuming task to provide consistent and high-quality feedback for all students. To address the traditional education’s challenges, researchers refer to online educational tools to assist teachers. Although large writing tools (for instance, Grammarly and Microsoft Editor) assist...

Flexible Authoring of Web-based, Open Answer Mathematics Exercises

Practice is central in mathematics skill acquisition. The practice process can be facilitated by flexible digital exercise systems, supporting personalized learning and providing students with parameterized, open answer exercises containing answer-specific feedback. However, current solutions for authoring these exercises lack efficiency and...

Learning Analytics of Beginner Programming Assignments for Teachers

Due to the increase in student numbers, the amount of time teachers have for each individual decreases. To keep the quality of the program the same, learning analytics can be utilized to assist teachers to give a better overview of problems which the students are struggling the most with. This work makes use of WebLab data of the Introduction to...