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Backstage – Designing a Backchannel for Large Lectures

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Students and lecturers use computers in lectures. But, the standard tools give a rather insufficient structure and support for better learning results. Backstage is an adjustable backchannel environment where students can communicate by microblogs, which they can link to the presenter slides. The lecturer can get feedback by Backstage and place quizzes with an Audience Response System. Backstage is designed to facilitate specific sequences of learning activities and to enhance student motivation with different functions, like asking questions anonymously via microblogs or to rate other students’ questions.

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  • Lectures
  • Backchannel
  • Taking Notes
  • ARS

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  1. Departement of Educational Technology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Vera Gehlen-Baum & Armin Weinberger

  2. Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, Germany

    Alexander Pohl & François Bry

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  1. CASS School of Education and Communities, University of East London (UEL), Stratford Campus, Water Lane, E15 4LZ, London, UK

    Andrew Ravenscroft

  2. Knowledge Management Institute and Know-Center GmbH, Graz University of Technology (TUG), Inffeldgasse 21a,, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Stefanie Lindstaedt

  3. Departamento Ingenieria Telemática, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30,, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos

  4. Information and Communitations Technologies Department, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,, Roc Boronat 138, 08018, Barcelona, Spain

    Davinia Hernández-Leo

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Gehlen-Baum, V., Pohl, A., Weinberger, A., Bry, F. (2012). Backstage – Designing a Backchannel for Large Lectures. In: Ravenscroft, A., Lindstaedt, S., Kloos, C.D., Hernández-Leo, D. (eds) 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills. EC-TEL 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33263-0_43

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