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This demonstration will feature the Distributed Active Learning Integrated Technology Environment (DALITE), a novel LTI compliant application which allows Learning Management Systems to include an asynchronous peer instruction component as a part of their course. It has been successfully used in three different MOOCs on the edX platform (Harvardx, MITx, McGillx). This tool not only enables a novel type of formative assessment based on student self-explanations, but also provides a rich source of peer-assessed natural language data for educational research.
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This work is funded by Entente Canada-Quebec, and the Programme de Recherche sur l’Enseignement et l’Apprentissage (PAREA) from the Government of Quebec. The development of the LTI compliant tool in the Django framework was financed by HarvardX. The user studies were made possible by the participating teacher researchers: Michael Dugdale (John Abbott College), Kevin Lenton (Vanier College), and Chris Whittaker (Dawson College).
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Bhatnagar, S., Lasry, N., Desmarais, M., Charles, E. (2016). DALITE: Asynchronous Peer Instruction for MOOCs. In: Verbert, K., Sharples, M., Klobučar, T. (eds) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning. EC-TEL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_50
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