Exploring students learning behavior with an interactive etextbook in computer science courses

Predicting course outcomes with digital textbook usage data

“…For instance, computer science students who completed more exercises in a digital text scored better on written exams in the course (Fouh, Breakiron, Hamouda, Farghally, & Shaffer, 2014). Fouh et al's (2014) data show that while students did not read the static text, they did engage with the digital text's interactive elements, even when such engagement was ungraded.…”

“…Digital textbooks with interactive exercises give students the opportunity to engage with the text in ways that are more congruent with theories of student engagement-such engagement leads to better course performance (Astin, 1984;Fouh et al, 2014). Having exercises that employ active learning more fully capitalizes on the unique affordances of digital textbooks.…”

“…Taylor (2011) summarized that getting students to read in the first place is of utmost important, irrespective of format. Studies have shown that while most students don't read text elements, most do engage with interactive features of digital texts; engaging with these interactive features leads to better course outcomes (Berry et al, 2010;Dennis, 2011;Fouh et al, 2014). In general, engagement with the textbook is related to better course outcomes (Daniel & Woody, 2013;Landrum et al, 2012); however, format is not important leading Taylor (2011) summarize that getting students to read in the first place is of utmost importance.…”

“…Knowing that student reading is directly related to academic success, digital textbook analytics could suggest how a student will perform in a course (Berry et al,, 2010;Fouh et al, 2014). Analytics measuring students' engagement with their textbooks allow for the collection of data that can act as proxies for students' reading skills and learning strategies.…”

Especificaciones eMathTeacher, creación del Modelo Granular Lingüístico de la evaluación del aprendizaje humano, y diseño de sistemas que implementan estos conceptos

“…Entre los sistemas que usan esta tecnología, destaca JSAV [51], una biblioteca de visualización de algoritmos, que contiene ejercicios de simulación evaluables, permite introducción de datos por el usuario y dispone de elementos pre programados para facilitar la creación de nuevas visualizaciones. Este sistema ha sido diseñado basándose en TRAKLA2 y muchos de sus elementos se han utilizado dentro del proyecto OpenDSA [36], [35], [73] una colección de tutoriales electrónicos, disponibles on-line que combinan explicaciones de calidad similar a las que se pueden encontrar en un libro de texto con ejemplos y ejercicios interactivos y autoevaluables, todos ellos procedentes de JSAV.…”