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Learning Analytics and Spelling
Acquisition in German –
A First Prototype
Markus Ebner, Martin Ebner and Konstanze Edstadler
18th International Conference on Human-Computer
Interaction; Toronto, Canada, 17 - 22 July 2016

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IDeRBlog - Individually differentiated spelling
with blogs
• Erasmus+ Project
(VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3)
• Partners in
• Belgium
• Germany
• Austria
• Combine development of writing skills and
the acquisition of orthographic competences
• Primarily for children, age 8 to 12
IDeRBlog - Individuell Differenziert Rechtschreiben mit Blogs (de)
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Ideas and main points
• User friendly web-based platform
• Writing a text and get automatic feedback for
autonomous correction
• German orthography is known to be difficult to master.
• Help pupils who struggle with the acquisition of
German orthography
• Help them improve writing and spelling
• Provide qualitative analysis of orthographic
problems for teachers
• Provide exercises for training
Ideas and main points
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Different needs
Pupils Teachers Researchers
• Focus on the individual needs
• Integrate in the development
Our customers
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General design and workflow for students and teachers
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Interface Design
Students, focus on their needs
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Write
(student‘s area)
Exercises
(training DB)
Reading
(Blogs)

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Student‘s workflow
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Students area, after the login
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Write a text Check submitted text• Only 2 choices:
• KISS

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Student: example
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Different feedback strategies:
Student: example
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„Fresch“ System
Standard Feedback
„Say the words out clearly.
If you hear a long vowel
then you write just one
consonant”
„swing the word“

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The Intelligent Dictionary
• In case of spelling mistake provide hints for corrections
• Allows autonomous corrections
• Motivating context
• Feedback is formulated in a way that the learner has to
think about the spelling
• being sensitive to misspelled words
• know how to correct them
• use spelling aids
• apply strategies to prevent spelling errors
Intelligent Dictionary
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Teacher‘s workflow
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Training database
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• Contains online and
offline exercises
• Preselection and
recommendations are
made by the system
• Easy to find the right
exercises
• Congruently ordered
in categories of
spelling mistakes

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Goals
• make in-depth analysis of occurred misspellings
• better understanding of the process of spelling
acquisition
• predict the performance of students
• make recommendations for personalized exercises
• offer reflections about
• recommended exercises
• changing performance (spelling acquisition)
Researchers
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Educational Technology
• Slides available at:
• http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
• For further information about the project and
partners please visit:
• http://iderblog.eu
• http://elearning.tugraz.at
• https://www.tugraz.at/en/
oe/lehr-und-lerntechnologien/home/
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Acknowledgements
This research project is supported by the European Commission Erasmus+
program in the framework of the project IDERBLOG (VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-3).
For more information about the project IDERBLOG and its project partners:
Hugo Adolph1, Christian Aspalter2, Susanne Biermeier3, Mike Cormann4, Sandra
Ernst4, Markus Ebner6, Martin Ebner6, Sonja Gabriel5, Gabriele Goor4, Michael
Gros1, Anneliese Huppertz4, Kathrin Irmag4, Konstanze Edtstadler5, Susanne
Martich2, Nina Steinhauer1, Behnam Taraghi6 and Marianne Ullmann5, please
visit our homepage http://iderblog.eu/ (German language only).
1. LPM Saarland, Beethovenstraße 26, 66125 Saarbrücken, Germany
2. University of Teacher Education Vienna, IBS/DiZeTIK, Grenzackerstraße 18, 1100 Vienna, Austria - Europe
3. Albert-Weisgerber School St. Ingbert, Robert-Koch-Straße 4, 66386 St. Ingbert, Germany
4. School of Raeren, Hauptstraße 45, 4730 Raeren, Belgium - Europe
5. University College of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems, Mayerweckstraße 1, 1210 Vienna, Austria - Europe
6. Graz University of Technology, Department Educational Technology, Münzgrabenstraße 35a, 8010 Graz, Austria - Europe
Acknowledgements
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References
1. Ebner, M., Ebner, M., & Edtstadler, K. (2016, July). Learning Analytics and Spelling
Acquisition in German-A First Prototype. In International Conference on Learning and
Collaboration Technologies (pp. 405-416). Springer International Publishing.
2. Edtstadler, K., Ebner, M., Ebner, M.: Improved German Spelling Acquisition through
Learning Analytics. In: eLearning papers 45, pp. 17-28 (2015).
3. Icons designed by Freepik http://www.freepik.com
References
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