TecCoBot: Technology-aided support for self-regulated learning

arXiv (Cornell University)

Abstract

In addition to formal learning at universities, like in lecture halls and seminar rooms, students are regularly confronted with self-study activities. Instead of being left to their own devices, students might benefit from a proper design of such activities, including pedagogical interventions. Such designs can increase the degree of activity and the contribution of self-study activities to the achievement of learning outcomes. Especially in times of a global pandemic, self-study activities are increasingly executed at home, where students already use technology-enhanced materials, processes, and digital platforms. Thus we pick up these building blocks and introduce TecCoBot within this paper. TecCoBot is not only a chatbot, supporting students in reading texts by offering writing assignments and providing automated feedback on these, but also implements a design for self-study activities, typically only offered to a few students as face-to-face mentoring.

Authors 7

1. Norbert Pengel

   Leipzig University

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   Leipzig University , Faculty of Education , Leipzig , Germany,

2. Anne Martin

   Leipzig University

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   Leipzig University , Faculty of Education , Leipzig , Germany,

3. Roy Meissner

   Leipzig University

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   Leipzig University , Faculty of Education , Leipzig , Germany,

4. Tamar Arndt

   Leipzig University

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   Leipzig University , Faculty of Education , Leipzig , Germany,

5. Alexander Tobias Neumann Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany

6. Peter de Lange Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University , Aachen , Germany

7. Heinz-Werner Wollersheim

   Leipzig University

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   Leipzig University , Faculty of Education , Leipzig , Germany,