Evaluation comes in many shapes and sizes. It can be as simple and as grounded in day to day work as a clinical teacher reflecting on a lost teaching opportunity and wondering how to do it better next time or as complex, top down and politically charged as a major government led evaluation of use of teaching funds with the subtext of re-allocating them. Despite these multiple spectra of scale, ...

Educational Badges are touted as an alternative assessment that can increase learner motivation. We considered two distinct models for educational badges; merit badges and videogame achievements. To begin unpacking the relationship between badges and motivation, we conducted a study using badges within an intelligent-tutor system for teaching applied mathematics to middle-school students. Our f...

Human daily social interaction is anchored in interpersonal discourse, and linguistic politeness thus vital to our everyday language including face-to-face computer-mediated communication. Politeness conventions emails are not being taught students seem be a work-in-progress. In power-asymmetrical context such as student-teacher interaction, requests pragmatically demanding, complex, inherently...

Online educational applications are more and more requested to provide self-consistent learning offers for students at the university level. Consequently they need to cope with the wide range of complexity and interrelations university course teaching brings along. An urgent need to overcome page bound content becomes apparent. In the present paper we discuss concepts of constructing, authoring...