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ONELab: Online Education with Minimal Human Supervision

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Giovanna Galli,

Maria Cristiana MartiniAuthors Info & Claims

Goodtechs '18: Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

Pages 88 - 93

https://doi.org/10.1145/3284869.3284877

Published: 28 November 2018 Publication History

Abstract

Many educational institutes are recording classroom lessons to improve the students' learning process. Unfortunately, a simple recording does not necessarily imply benefits. Indeed, when producing video lectures, there are different challenges that must be faced: production costs, accessibility, usability, video indexing, just to name a few. In this paper, we share our experience building ONELab, a system designed to capture, record, edit and stream video lectures. ONELab was designed to be scalable and to have low-cost implementation and maintenance. The system has been used in the 2017-18 Academic Year to manage the 49 courses offered by the five degrees available at our Department. In numbers, it supported 1,054 freshman students and produced 1,376 video lectures (for a total of 2,064 hours). The usage analysis showed that students appreciated the system and a comparative analysis between students who used the system and students who did not use the system, showed that the former passed more exams (+97.8%), had better grades (+8%) and acquired more credits (+105%).

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https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.13
Furini M(2021)Automatic and Smart Content Transformation of Video Lectures2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369592(1-6)Online publication date: 9-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369592
Bortoli MFurini MMirri SMontangero MPrandi C(2020)Conversational Interfaces for a Smart CampusProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces10.1145/3399715.3399914(1-5)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3399715.3399914
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ONELab: Online Education with Minimal Human Supervision
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Distance learning
    2. E-learning

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Goodtechs '18: Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

November 2018

316 pages

ISBN:9781450365819

DOI:10.1145/3284869

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Marco Furini
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
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University of Bologna, Italy
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Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
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University of Pisa, Italy

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Martini MFurini MGalli G(2021)Effects of an experimental online education support on lectures fruition and teaching effectivenessASA 2021 Statistics and Information Systems for Policy Evaluation10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.13(67-72)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-461-8.13
Furini M(2021)Automatic and Smart Content Transformation of Video Lectures2021 IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369592(1-6)Online publication date: 9-Jan-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369592
Bortoli MFurini MMirri SMontangero MPrandi C(2020)Conversational Interfaces for a Smart CampusProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces10.1145/3399715.3399914(1-5)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3399715.3399914
Furini MGalli GMartini M(2019)An Online Education System to Produce and Distribute Video LecturesMobile Networks and Applications10.1007/s11036-019-01236-4Online publication date: 2-Mar-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-019-01236-4

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