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A Web Comic Strip Creator for Educational Comics with Assessable Learning Objectives

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2012)

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In this paper, we present an application which enables educators to edit comic strips and associate educational goals to each comic strip. Post-comic activities are used to measure the success of the objectives. IEEE LOM metadata are associated to each comic which can be packaged using SCORM.

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  1. School of Computing, Teesside University, UK

    Fotis Lazarinis & Elaine Pearson

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  1. Fotis Lazarinis
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  1. University of Montpellier & CNRS LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34095, Montpellier, France

    Stefano A. Cerri

  2. NASA and Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Human Centered Computing - Intelligent Systems Division, 94035, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    William J. Clancey

  3. Department of Applied Informatics and Multimedia, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, School of Applied Technology, Stavromenos, P.O.Box 1939, 71004, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Giorgos Papadourakis

  4. Neoanalysis Ltd., Marni 56, 10437, Athens, Greece

    Kitty Panourgia

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Lazarinis, F., Pearson, E. (2012). A Web Comic Strip Creator for Educational Comics with Assessable Learning Objectives. In: Cerri, S.A., Clancey, W.J., Papadourakis, G., Panourgia, K. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30950-2_128

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