eBook Technology Facilitating University Education During COVID-19: Japanese Experience
UNESCO reported that 90% of students are affected in some way by COVID-19 pandemic. Like many countries, Japan too imposed emergency remote teaching and learning at both school and university level. In this study, we focus on a national university in Japan, and investigate how teaching and learning...
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doaj-2d9d66bcf9d24949acb17d56d525aa302021-09-25T02:40:15ZengThe Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE)Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology1499-66771499-66852021-09-0147410.21432/cjlt28038eBook Technology Facilitating University Education During COVID-19: Japanese ExperienceRwitajit Majumdar0Brendan Flanagan1Hiroaki Ogata2LET Research Unit, Kyoto UniversityKyoto UniversityKyoto University UNESCO reported that 90% of students are affected in some way by COVID-19 pandemic. Like many countries, Japan too imposed emergency remote teaching and learning at both school and university level. In this study, we focus on a national university in Japan, and investigate how teaching and learning were facilitated during this pandemic period using an ebook platform, BookRoll, which was linked as an external tool to the university’s learning management system. Such an endeavor also reinforced the Japanese national thrust regarding explorations of e-book-based technologies and using Artificial Intelligence in education. Teachers could upload reading materials for instance their course notes and associate an audio of their lecture. While students who registered in their course accessed the learning materials, the system collected their interaction logs in a learning record store. Across the spring semesters from April - July 2020, BookRoll system collected nearly 1.5 million reading interaction logs from more than 6300 students across 243 courses in 6 domains. The analysis highlighted that during emergency remote teaching and learning BookRoll maintained a weekly average traffic above 1,900 learners creating more than 78,000 reading logs and teachers perceived it as useful for orchestrating their course. https://cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/28038e-BookBookRollLearning AnalyticsHigher EducationOnline emergency teaching and learningCOVID-19 |
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eBook Technology Facilitating University Education During COVID-19: Japanese Experience |
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eBook Technology Facilitating University Education During COVID-19: Japanese Experience |
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Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology |
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UNESCO reported that 90% of students are affected in some way by COVID-19 pandemic. Like many countries, Japan too imposed emergency remote teaching and learning at both school and university level. In this study, we focus on a national university in Japan, and investigate how teaching and learning were facilitated during this pandemic period using an ebook platform, BookRoll, which was linked as an external tool to the university’s learning management system. Such an endeavor also reinforced the Japanese national thrust regarding explorations of e-book-based technologies and using Artificial Intelligence in education. Teachers could upload reading materials for instance their course notes and associate an audio of their lecture. While students who registered in their course accessed the learning materials, the system collected their interaction logs in a learning record store. Across the spring semesters from April - July 2020, BookRoll system collected nearly 1.5 million reading interaction logs from more than 6300 students across 243 courses in 6 domains. The analysis highlighted that during emergency remote teaching and learning BookRoll maintained a weekly average traffic above 1,900 learners creating more than 78,000 reading logs and teachers perceived it as useful for orchestrating their course.
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