A proficient and versatile online student-teacher collaboration platform for large classroom lectures

Abm Tariqul Islam,Jonas Flint,Clemens H Cap,Philipp Jaecks

doi:10.1186/s41239-017-0067-9

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The popularity of online collaboration on lecture content has been growing steadily over the last few decades because of its potential to enhance the overall learning experience. We propose a didactical approach of online collaboration where the students and the teachers can collaborate seamlessly on the lecture contents. The approach, which we call Multiscript (MS), offers two methods of online learning on one collaboration platform. In MS, we call one method the outside of class Multiscript (OMS) and another, the inside of class Multiscript (IMS). OMS is a form of distance online learning where the students can collaborate on the lecture contents while being outside of class, whereas IMS allows online collaboration among the students and the teacher during the lecture. In OMS, the teacher can share the slides along with audio annotations for each lecture slides and/or a single recorded audio for the whole lecture. The students can access the slides and discuss (via text and audio chat) with their fellow classmates about the slides and annotate them, post feedback about the slides and ask questions to the teacher directly via MS. In IMS, the students can create annotations for the slides and post feedback to the teacher about the slides. We design MS in such a way that it can be accessed by using just a web browser on any PC, tablet or mobile device.

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Over the past few decades, the interest about online collaboration on classroom lecture content has been growing steadily among researchers (Er, Özden, & Arifoglu, 2009)
Islam et al International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (2017) 14:29 in asynchronous online collaboration, the learners participate in the discussion with their peers on the lecture contents uploaded by the teacher, interact with their peers, deliver peer feedback, and reflect on the status of their own learning plans and outcomes (Er et al, 2009; Harris, Mishra, & Koehler, 2009; Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2012)
We propose a didactical approach of online collaboration, called Multiscript (MS), which combines two online learning methods into one collaboration platform

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Over the past few decades, the interest about online collaboration on classroom lecture content has been growing steadily among researchers (Er, Özden, & Arifoglu, 2009). Online learning environments provide the students and teachers with different approaches to interact, share, and offer them the ability to collaborate and ask questions in real-time through available learning technologies. A few other notable DOC tools are Scribbler (2016), Twiddla (2016), RealtimeBoard (2016), GoToMeeting (2016) and WebEx (2016) Most of these platforms support a form of collaboration between a group of participants on specific projects such as artworks or text materials. In Classroom Presenter, the students and the teacher use stationary Tablet PCs which are connected wirelessly It does not support web based connectivity and it fails to reach a wide range of users to interact with the system. Another similar approach to this system is presented by Oura et al in (Oura, Kato, & Akahori, 2006)

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