Social Annotation Tools in Digital Learning: A Literature Review

Krouska, Akrivi; Troussas, Christos; Virvou, Maria

doi:10.1109/iisa.2018.8633609

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“…All the aforementioned features boost and facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge; however, pre-service teachers do not believe that NB can help them learn faster. All the aforementioned features boost and facilitate the acquisition of new knowledge as it is also stated in a study by Krouska, Troussas, and Virvou, (2018) in which they claim that incorporating a social annotation tool in digital learning improves the understanding and memorization of materials; however, in our study, pre-service teachers do not believe that NB can help them learn faster.…”

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The Impact of Online Annotation Tools on Students’ Academic Performance in a Distance University Program

Benitez

Quiñones

González

et al. 2020

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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The present study aims to test the effectiveness of the Nota Bene (NB) software as an on line annotation tool to enhance students' academic performance and to know their perceptions about the use of this tool. In this research, a quasi-experimental design was used in a private university in Ecuador. The participants were ninety-eight pre-service EFL teachers, who were trained during a five-month period and divided into two groups: control and experimental. They took a pre and a post-test at the beginning and at the end of the training period. The students from the experimental group answered a questionnaire about the perceptions on the use of NB. The statistically significant differences found in the results of the post-test indicate that NB is an effective software to enhance participants' academic performance. In addition, the students who used this tool had positive perceptions about the use of NB while doing their academic activities.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 49%

The Impact of Online Annotation Tools on Students’ Academic Performance in a Distance University Program

Benitez

Quiñones

González

et al. 2020

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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“…In the last five years, up to seven different surveys were published [25][26][27][28][29][30][31] which analyze more than 200 annotation tools used in linguistics, education, biology, and e-health research. This denotes the high number of investigations that can be potentially benefited from the use of WACline.…”

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Wacline: A Software Product Line to Harness Heterogeneity in Web Annotation

Medina¹,

Díaz²,

Garmendia³

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…Ghadirian et al (2018) also focused on SA's application in higher education, and presented a more comprehensive review by including both journal articles and conference papers, yielding 71 reviewed papers. Krouska et al (2018) review focused on the comparative analysis of 15 SA technologies, such as Diigo and HyLighter, pinpointing their advantages and limitations, and concluded that personalized annotations and video annotations technology should be further developed. With teachers as their target audience, Zhu et al (2020) located 39 related articles for their review, especially as a timely response to the online teaching and learning challenges which have emerged during the pandemic, and proposed five categorical benefits of SA, including enhanced literacy skills, more efficient instructor and peer assessment, more structured argumentation and inquiry, deeper domain‐specific understanding, as well as improved transactional distance; however, they did not identify such information as research trends, issues or frontiers that point out directions for future researchers.…”

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“…also focused on SA's application in higher education, and presented a more comprehensive review by including both journal articles and conference papers, yielding 71 reviewed papers Krouska et al (2018). review focused on the comparative analysis of 15 SA technologies, such as Diigo and HyLighter, pinpointing their advantages and limitations, and concluded that personalized annotations and video annotations technology should be further developed.…”

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Trends and issues of social annotation in education: A systematic review from 2000 to 2020

Sun

Hwang

Zhang

et al. 2022

Computer Assisted Learning

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Background Social annotation (SA) allows users to collaboratively highlight important texts, make comments and discuss with each other on the same online document. This would not only accelerate and deepen learners' cognitive understanding of information, but also help build a sense of rapport, which is critical especially because of the worldwide shift from face‐to‐face class to remote education as a response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Objective To provide a systematic review of empirical SA studies, so that current development as well as issues in SA practices and research are identified. Methods A total of 32 studies were identified and bibliometrical, instructional, and methodological analysis were conducted. Results and Conclusions The United States has published the most SA research and technology‐related journals are most receptive of SA research; one‐shot quantitative designs with a sample size between 30 and 100 have been adopted most often; there is a lack of theoretical support for SA studies; higher education settings have been more frequently researched than other educational levels; SA technological features and activities have focused more on student uses and outcomes than on those of instructors; self‐designed technologies were more preferred than commercial ones; both cognitive and affective outcomes were emphasized and nearly all studies reported positive findings. Implications Future SA studies may conduct blended designs with larger sample sizes that is grounded upon solid theoretical frameworks; more customized and affordable SA technologies that support both students and teachers should be developed. Learning analytics and emotional design may be capitalized more to meet the demand of remote education during the pandemic.

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Social Annotation Tools in Digital Learning: A Literature Review

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

The Impact of Online Annotation Tools on Students’ Academic Performance in a Distance University Program

The Impact of Online Annotation Tools on Students’ Academic Performance in a Distance University Program

Wacline: A Software Product Line to Harness Heterogeneity in Web Annotation

Trends and issues of social annotation in education: A systematic review from 2000 to 2020

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