Scaling Academic Writing Instruction: Evaluation of a Scaffolding Tool (Thesis Writer)

Christian Rapp; Peter Kauf

International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education Vol. 28, No. 4 (2018) pp. 590–615

No thesis -- no graduation. Academic writing poses manifold challenges to students, instructors and institutions alike. High labor costs, increasing student numbers, and the Bologna Process (which has reduced the period after which undergraduates in ...

e-Tutor: A Multilingual Open Educational Resource for Faculty Development to Teach Online

Christian Rapp; Yasemin Glbahar; Mge Adnan

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 17, No. 5 (Sep 26, 2016)

The situation in Ukraine poses severe problems to the higher education system and to students in Eastern Ukraine. Many students and academicians had been compelled to leave their university buildings and move westwards. Hence, they are forced to...

Exploration of Teaching Preferences of Instructors' Use of Social Media

Selcan Kilis; Yasemin Gülbahar; Christian Rapp

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning Vol. 19, No. 1 (2016) pp. 1–18

With the excessive use of social media in the 21st century, attempts to integrate social media within higher education have also increased. In this area, research has been particularly focused on the aspects of students, rather than the instructors. ...

Enriching Higher Education with Social Media: Development and Evaluation of a Social Media Toolkit

Yasemin Glbahar; Christian Rapp; Selcan Kilis; Anna Sitnikova

The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb 28, 2017)

While ubiquitous in everyday use, in reality, social media usage within higher education teaching has expanded quite slowly. Analysis of social media usage of students and instructors for teaching, learning, and research purposes across four...

Development and Pilot Implementation of Online Teaching Style Survey (OTSS)

Okan ARSLAN; Yasemin GULBAHAR; Christian RAPP; Kaan Zülfikar Deniz

EdMedia: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2014 (Jun 23, 2014) pp. 1530–1535

The aim of this study is to create an online teaching style inventory by investigating other teaching styles in the literature within the scope of EU FP7 Era.Net RUS (Russia) project called Somecat (Social Media as a Catalyser for Cross National...

Topics: Implementation Experiences, Groupware & WWW-based Tools

Digital support for academic writing: A review of technologies and pedagogies

Carola Strobl; Emilie Ailhaud; Kalliopi Benetos; Ann Devitt; Otto Kruse; Antje Proske; Christian Rapp

Computers & Education Vol. 131, No. 1 (April 2019) pp. 33–48

This paper presents a review of the technologies designed to support writing instruction in secondary and higher education. The review covers tools to support first and second language writers and focuses on instructional affordances based on their...

Language: English