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An increasing number of students and the trend to enhance traditional on-campus classes to cover the everytime-everywhere character of modern study programmes require new ideas to support students. Especially when students require support while learning independently from the university, e.g. at home in the evening, this cannot be covered satisfyingly by a human course advisor. As a major step to resolve this, we present our concept of an exercise assistant for practical networking and IT security courses in higher education. This exercise assistant can be preloaded with modelled exercises and is able to provide feedback and guidance, whenever and whereever it is required by a student. We also show, how expert knowledge and description logic can be used by the exercise assistant to verify a students solution.
J. Haag—Work has been done as a Ph.D. student of the Open Universiteit.
H. Vranken and M. Van Eekelen are also affiliated with Radboud University Nijmegen.
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Haag, J., Karsch, S., Vranken, H., Van Eekelen, M. (2015). An Exercise Assistant for Practical Networking and IT Security Courses in Higher Education. In: Zvacek, S., Restivo, M., Uhomoibhi, J., Helfert, M. (eds) Computer Supported Education. CSEDU 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 510. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25768-6_6
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