Impact of using automatic e-learning correctors on teaching business subjects to engineers

• Autores: Maria Assumpció Rafart, Andrea Bikfalvi, Josep Soler, Jordi Poch García
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 35, no. 6 (Parte A), 2019, págs. 1630-1641
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An innovative higher education is the visible outcome of the combination of the proliferation of Information and CommunicationTechnologies (ICT) and novel approaches in education. We position our paper in this context, describing the experience of using anautomatic e-learning corrector and its impact on bothacademic resultsand aspects ofstudent perception. A total of 333 studentsdoing technical degrees took a basic business administration course and the field work was conducted within this framework. An e-learning platform calledACME_Business, which automatically corrected and assessed all the exercises proposed, was designed,developed and implemented as the novel element of the course. The validity of the proposal was tested at the Polytechnic School ofthe University of Girona in Catalonia (Spain). The results show that implementing the solution is helpful in the learning processand in monitoring courses and that its use improves academic results. The perception assessment showed that the students had avery good opinion of the learning experience using the proposed ICT tool. Beyond these highlighted benefits for students, teacherssave time and effort, and their workload is reduced. The novelty of the solution lies in the enormous potential for personalisation,the full automatization of exercisegeneration, correction, feedback and grading, and the dual educational approach wherein studentsgain knowledge in business administration and mastery in spreadsheet use.