Learning Management Systems Activity Records for Students' Assessment of Generic Skills

Students' acquisition of generic skills is a key to their incorporation into the job world. However, teachers encounter several difficulties when measuring their students' performance in generic skills. These difficulties increase in online courses based on learning management systems, whe...

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Published inIEEE access Vol. 6; pp. 15958 - 15968
Main Authors Balderas, Antonio, De-La-Fuente-Valentin, Luis, Ortega-Gomez, Miguel, Dodero, Juan Manuel, Burgos, Daniel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2018
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Activity records
assessment
CAI
Computer assisted instruction
generic skills
learning analytics
learning management system
Learning management systems
Online instruction
Scalability
Skills
Sociology
Statistics
Students
Teachers
Teamwork
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Summary:Students' acquisition of generic skills is a key to their incorporation into the job world. However, teachers encounter several difficulties when measuring their students' performance in generic skills. These difficulties increase in online courses based on learning management systems, where there is no direct contact between teachers and their students. To address this problem, this paper adopts a solution based on the use of activity records from learning management systems as indicators of the students' performance in generic skills. After conducting a survey among teachers of online courses on the suitability of the solution, an artefact was developed and applied within four online courses. Interviews conducted with teachers and the results of a survey for mapping skills and activities provide positive evidence of this solution's potential.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2816987