A Web Application for Aiding Tutors to Develop Course Outlines

Nikolaos Spanoudakis, Evangelia Krassadaki, Aliki Pialoglou, Nikolaos Matsatsinis

2019

Abstract

In 2011, the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency prepared and distributed a course outline template, in paper format, to be filled in by the university tutors. This template contains details about learning outcomes, generic skills, teaching and assessment procedures for each course. The teaching staff, having little knowledge on the aforementioned topics, faced serious difficulties in filling it in. Thus, we developed a web-based information system for outlining courses in our institution. It guides the user (tutor) step-by-step to properly record, document and store every detail of a course, and export it to a pdf file. Additionally, by recording the information in a database, it allows any kind of queries, thus it offers various statistics in university/school/departmental level on the usage of verbs of the Bloom’s taxonomy, about the nurtured generic skills, about the students’ workload per course, etc. The system is user-friendly, according to the results of a short survey, and it is fully expandable. This paper focuses on the presentation of the web-based system application along with the benefits it introduces firstly for the tutors and secondly for the quality assurance team of the university.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Spanoudakis N., Krassadaki E., Pialoglou A. and Matsatsinis N. (2019). A Web Application for Aiding Tutors to Develop Course Outlines.In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-367-4, pages 323-330. DOI: 10.5220/0007715003230330

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu19,
author={Nikolaos Spanoudakis and Evangelia Krassadaki and Aliki Pialoglou and Nikolaos Matsatsinis},
title={A Web Application for Aiding Tutors to Develop Course Outlines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,},
year={2019},
pages={323-330},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007715003230330},
isbn={978-989-758-367-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU,
TI - A Web Application for Aiding Tutors to Develop Course Outlines
SN - 978-989-758-367-4
AU - Spanoudakis N.
AU - Krassadaki E.
AU - Pialoglou A.
AU - Matsatsinis N.
PY - 2019
SP - 323
EP - 330
DO - 10.5220/0007715003230330