Summary of the dissemination and exploitation strategy
EduJudge – Integrating Online Judge into effective e-learning
Introduction to the strategy The consortium wanted to involve key people in every partner country who had a potential to initiate change in the area of assessment, also those people who had a motivation and interest in change because they are dissatisfied with the current system. The idea was to involve people from various disciplines (psychologists, medical doctors, teachers) as well as the ‘”end-users”, parents & teachers; people from training centres with a potential to train new young people; people in a decision role having influence over a region. The partners organised a series of partner meetings and each time they added a ½ day of 1 day conference. The consortium wanted to collaborate with well-established international associations who have lots of contacts to attend and present at international conferences; to deliver seminars and lectures at national and international courses, to publish in popular as well as scientific press.
135221-LLP-1-2007-1-ES-KA3-KA3MP Transversal Programme / Key Activity 3: ICT (Multilateral Project) 29 months: 1 January 2008 – 31 May 2010 CEDETEL – Centro para el Desarrollo de las Telecomunicaciones de Castilla y León (CEDETEL – Centre for the Development of Telecommunications in Castilla y León) (Spain) Project Partners: Universidad de Valladolid (University of Valladolid) (Spain), Universidade do Porto (University of Porto), (Portugal), Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), (Sweden), Matematikos ir Informatikos Institutas (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics), (Lithuania)
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Material and resources used for dissemination Presentations, articles, videofragments, leaflets, book and DVD.
Electronic resources
Project description
Website, electronic newsletter, DVD.
Challenge
Media and events The project had local newspaper coverage on 2 occasions (Ostersund & Evora meeting). The “backing up” of partner meetings with each time an “open day” also ensured local dissemination. The Daffodil project was presented in many national and international conferences which had impact within the partners’ countries and beyond. The publication of book and DVD is accompanied by a public presentation and a mailing campaign.
Target group involvement On the whole the consortium sufficiently reached the target group they wanted to reach: psychologists, special needs teachers and regular teachers, doctors involved in assessment, policy makers and parents. The most difficult part was to ensure enough collaboration from the “medical” assessment departments, i.e. those that make a diagnosis of developmental disturbance, make an official evaluation of disability. They proved to be the hardest to consider a change in policy.
Follow-up All partners have started ongoing follow-up discussion groups where the “daffodil” approach will be implemented and evaluated. The partners intend to present a new project focussed more on networking and dissemination in other countries. An ongoing repetition of the summer school is planned if evaluations prove to be positive.
The UVa Online Judge (uva.onlinejudge.org) is a successful online programming trainer created in 1995 with the aim of training users who participate in worldwide programming competitions. Users can submit solutions to the proposed problems and the judge automatically indicates if the code is correct. Many of these users were demanding a greater pedagogic character for this tool and from this necessity the EduJudge project was conceived. The main aim of the EduJudge project is to integrate the UVa Online Judge into an effective educational environment in order to satisfy the users’ demand for a greater pedagogic character and, in this way, facilitate the use of this tool as another activity for official courses.
Project objectives
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To improve the accessibility and use of algorithm problems creating a remote problem repository;
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To integrate Online Judge into QUESTOURnament and other communication and teaching mechanisms available in Moodle platform;
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To develop a distributed system for remote evaluation so that the application field of EduJudge can be extended.
To give Online Judge a greater pedagogic character designing an intelligent system and classifying problems into different levels of difficulty;
Target group The target groups of EduJudge are students and teachers of the University sector and post degree, for several technical and science degrees, and of secondary schools, for the computing field.
Results
Contact information Coordinator: University of Antwerp, Belgium
Name: Jo Lebeer
E-mail: jo.lebeer@ua.ac.be
Project website: www.Daffodilproject.org
The main result of the EduJudge project is the EduJudge system, a system to learn mathematics and programming with enjoyment participating in contests. EduJudge is made up of three main components integrated into Moodle:
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