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What Do Students Think About Learning Supported by e-Schools Digital Educational Resources?

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Learning and Collaboration Technologies (HCII 2023)

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Today’s students use digital educational resources (DER) to a significant extent, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic made classical teaching in the classroom impossible for several months. It is therefore important that digital educational resources are of high quality and enables meaningful learning even in cases when the teacher is not present. Research which is presented in the paper focuses on DER for primary and secondary level students and their opinions about DER which were created in the e-Schools project. Those DER are primarily focused on providing support for students’ process of learning and must follow requirements and guidelines that were prescribed by the tender documentation. In this paper we describe eight pedagogical requirements, then overall technical requirements, along with the guidelines for the development of multimedia and interactive elements within DER that are aligned with the principles of multimedia learning. The research study was focused on three research questions related to the relation of variables among students’ opinions about DER (RQ1), relations among profiles of primary and secondary school students’ opinions and different aspects of DER (RQ2), and correlation between clusters related to a school class of primary or secondary school students (RQ3). Research results are based on the 11827 students’ answers. Results show three factors consisting of variables which are related. Further, we identified four profiles of students, and lastly, there is no linear relationship between students’ school and obtained cluster. The overall conclusion is that DER which were created within the e-Schools project have consistent quality for all levels of education.

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This work is supported by the project “e-Schools: a comprehensive informatization of school operation processes and teaching processes aimed at the creation of digitally mature schools for the 21st century” funded by the European Union.

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    Goran Hajdin, Dijana Plantak Vukovac & Dijana Oreški

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Appendix – Extracted Parts from Questionnaire for Students Satisfaction with e-Schools DER

Appendix – Extracted Parts from Questionnaire for Students Satisfaction with e-Schools DER

The following statements refer to the characteristics of digital educational resources (DER). For each feature, mark the answer that best corresponds to your perception of how visible that feature was when using digital educational resources. The degrees on the scale mean:

  • 1 – I do not agree at all.

  • 2 – I mostly disagree.

  • 3 – I neither agree nor disagree.

  • 4 – I mostly agree.

  • 5 – I completely agree.

  • NA – I cannot estimate.

  • T1. e-Schools DER encourages me to learn.

  • T2. e-Schools DER explains the material well to me.

  • T3. Contents that are difficult for me to understand are well explained in e-Schools DER using pictures, videos or animations.

  • T4. Moving through the contents of the e-Schools DER is simple and easy.

  • T5. I like the way e-Schools DER looks.

  • T6. e-Schools DER look modern.

  • T7. e-Schools DER makes learning easier for me.

  • T8. Some parts of the material in e-Schools DER are not presented in an interesting way.

Open-type questions:

  1. 1.

    List the features of digital educational resources that you like the most.

  2. 2.

    List the features of digital educational resources that you like the least.

  3. 3.

    What problems have you encountered in the application of digital educational resources?

  4. 4.

    What would be your message and advice to authors who create digital educational resources?

Demographic questions:

  1. 1.

    Year of birth

  2. 2.

    Sex

  3. 3.

    Name of the school

  4. 4.

    Class year

  5. 5.

    List of subjects where you used DER

  6. 6.

    The grade which you got in those subjects in the past school year

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Hajdin, G., Plantak Vukovac, D., Oreški, D. (2023). What Do Students Think About Learning Supported by e-Schools Digital Educational Resources?. In: Zaphiris, P., Ioannou, A. (eds) Learning and Collaboration Technologies. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14040. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34411-4_19

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