We present FeedbackGen, a system that uses a multi-adaptive approach to Natural Language Generation. With the term ‘multi-adaptive’, we refer to a system that is able to adapt its content to different user groups simultaneously, in our case adapting to both lecturers and students. We present a novel approach to student feedback generation, which simultaneously takes into account the preferences...

The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the heuristic inspection of children’s authoring tools to develop games. The researcher has selected 15 authoring tools for making games specifically for educational purposes. Nine students from Diploma of Game Design and Development course and four lecturers from the computing department involved in this evaluation. A set of usability heuristic chec...

The article reports on how a wiki was introduced in the teaching of Development and Environmental Studies to journalism students in Oslo, Norway and intends to contribute to the understanding of how students use wiki technology to produce knowledge. The findings indicate that using wikis stimulates cooperation between students and strengthens collective processes of learning. Even more importan...

This article outlines the main types of reliability and validity for psychometric instruments by looking at the example of student evaluation of teaching effectiveness (SETE). In the USA, in particular, students are asked to rate their lecturers in terms of quality of teaching, for example. Psychometric questionnaires used to do this have to show that the scores gained for lecturers are an accu...