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Extending and Evaluating a Collaborative Note-Taking Application: A Pilot Study

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Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 10th International Conference. Workshops (MIS4TEL 2020)

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Taking notes during lectures helps students filter information, record key points, clarify ideas and be more actively engaged in learning. This is particularly important in face-to-face lecture-based scenarios supported by slides, when students need to complete instructor handouts with their personal notes in order to facilitate understanding and foster involvement. In order to offer an alternative for handwritten notes or generic note-taking apps, we developed a mobile application with pedagogically grounded functionalities, called EduNotes, which allows students to collaborate with their peers during the note-taking process. In the current paper, we present an extension of the platform with a web version, which supports the simultaneous presentation of the lecture slides alongside the notes, together with a more advanced note management functionality. Both EduNotes versions were successfully used in an experimental study involving 38 students, which is reported in the paper.

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  1. Computers and Information Technology Department, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Elvira Popescu, Sorin Ilie & Constantin Stefan

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  1. Department of Informatics Education, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Zuzana Kubincová

  2. Department of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Coppito, Italy

    Loreto Lancia

  3. Department of Computers and Information Technology, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Elvira Popescu

  4. Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Engineering, Tokyo, Japan

    Minoru Nakayama

  5. Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

    Vittorio Scarano

  6. BISITE Digital Innovation Hub, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Ana B. Gil

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Popescu, E., Ilie, S., Stefan, C. (2021). Extending and Evaluating a Collaborative Note-Taking Application: A Pilot Study. In: Kubincová, Z., Lancia, L., Popescu, E., Nakayama, M., Scarano, V., Gil, A. (eds) Methodologies and Intelligent Systems for Technology Enhanced Learning, 10th International Conference. Workshops. MIS4TEL 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52287-2_18

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