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Researchers have put much effort into developing effective online teaching and learning methods to support the pursuit of education during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research aims to provide insight into experiences gained from the bichronous online learning course Teaching the Teachers, intended to improve teachers’ knowledge and skills in using information and communication technology. A group of 44 primary and secondary school teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina was involved in the research, conducted in May and June 2020. The online course was available through Moodle system and the digital flashcard system Memory. The teachers that used the Memory outperformed those that learned on Moodle. A novel corpus-based approach to the online discussion forum proved to be an effective tool in assessing the teachers’ use of topic-related terminology. We measured the correlation between formative and summative assessments.
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This paper is a part of the work supported by the United States Office of Naval Research grant, N00014-20-1-2066 “Enhancing Adaptive Courseware based on Natural Language Processing”.
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Markić Vučić, M., Tomaš, S., Gašpar, A., Stankov, S. (2023). Bichronous Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic – A Case Study on Teaching the Teachers. In: Vasić, D., Kundid Vasić, M. (eds) Digital Transformation in Education and Artificial Intelligence Application. MoStart 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1827. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36833-2_6
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