How an open learning environment affects the motivation of secondary and higher education students

Technology mediated learning is very actively and widely researched, yet there are few studies on if and how open learning environments (OLEs) affect the motivation of students. It is very important to showcase not only the effect on different groups of students but on students in various educational levels. This paper is a report on the findings of a study conducted in parallel, using the same OLE, on the students of a postgraduate engineering course and on the lyceum students attending their mandatory secondary education curriculum. The students used the Student Diagnosis, Assistance, Evaluation System based on Artificial Intelligence (StuDiAsE), an open learning system for unattended student diagnosis, assistance and evaluation based on artificial intelligence. The report indicates that the use of the OLE has particularly beneficial effects on the performance of certain student groups.

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