Full paper presented at the 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies - ICALT2014

1. Tsaap-Notes – An Open Micro-Blogging Tool for
Collaborative Notetaking during Face-to-Face Lectures
Franck Silvestre, Philippe Vidal, Julien Broisin
IRIT, University of Toulouse III, France
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ICALT 2014
July 7 2014
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2. Context of research
• Notetaking during face to face lecture
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3. Context of research
• Notetaking during face to face lecture
• Collaborative notetaking
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4. The challenge
How to foster collaborative notetaking activity
during lectures addressed to a large audience ?
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5. Notetaking during lectures
• 60 to 95% of students are used to notetaking
• Covers all disciplines
• A way to enrich the content of the lecture
• Improves the retention of information
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Steimle et al. 2007

6. Collaborative notetaking
• Collaborative knowledge building
• Better student engagement
• May act as feedback for teachers
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7. Kam et al. 2005,

8. O’Neill 2005
Kam et al. 2005,

9. O’Neill 2005
http://www.unishared.com/
Kam et al. 2005,

10. Drawbacks of current tools
• « Single shared document» approach
• No personalized views
• Not designed for large audience
- Student side: hard to contribute
- Teacher site: hard to get representative feedback
• No« intelligence » in the tool
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11. How microblogging can help ?
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Social network approach for sharing and building
knowledges
Cheng et Evans 2009

12. How microblogging can help ?
• Personalized views
• Designed for large
audience
• « learning
analytics ready »
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Social network approach for sharing and building
knowledges
Cheng et Evans 2009

13. Personal Response Systems (PRS) can help too!
• All-round world champion in learner engagement and
motivation
• PRS improve learner outcomes
• Designed to get feedback from a large audience
• Good at triggering confrontations and discussions
between learners and teachers
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Gauci et al. 2009

14. Our goal
Designing and experimenting a notetaking system
built on a microblogging approach,
extended with PRS features
in order to overcome the limits of current tools
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15. Tsaap-Notes
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https://notes.tsaap.eu/tsaap-notes/

16. Tsaap-Notes
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https://notes.tsaap.eu/tsaap-notes/

17. General features
As a user I can
• post notes with a max length of 280 characters
• add Hashtags, mentions in my notes
• answer to a note
• mark a note as favorite
• « follow » what’s happening on a scope
• be notified by email
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18. A scope ? What for ?
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19. A scope ? What for ?
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A way to link a list of notes to a course material
published as a Web resource !

20. The concept of fragment
• a fragment is an identifier of a part of a web resource
• a note can be linked to a scope and to a fragment
• a note can be linked to a sub-part of a course
material published as a Web resource
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21. Annotation of a Web slide
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22. Note as a question
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23. Note as a question
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24. Display of the results
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25. The first experiment
• Master course of Computer Science, University of
Toulouse III
• Main topic of the course: collaborative development
• 40 students
• 62 slides presented during 4 hours of lecture
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26. PRS impact on notetaking
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Count of notes 23
Count of contributors 10
Mean count of notes per slide 0,37

27. PRS impact on notetaking
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Count of notes 23
Count of contributors 10
Mean count of notes per slide 0,37
Proportion of students answering questions 78 %
Proportion of notes taken on slides having question 65 %
Mean count of notes per slide having question 3

28. Conclusion
• Tsaap-Notes - collaborative notetaking system,
microblogging, PRS
• Encouraging initial results
• Need more various and rigorous experiments
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29. Perspectives
• Semi-automatic generation of tests that use the
student notes as feedback
• Learner production metadata
• The use of these metadata to improve adaptivity in
learning management systems
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30. • Thank you for your attention!
• Questions?