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ItemUse of User Tour, Contact Form, and Accessibility Plugins in Enhancing a Moodle-Based Virtual Conference Experience(MoodleMoot Japan 2023, 2023-02)Academic conferences have been conducted in an online or hybrid setup ever since the onset of the pandemic. Various virtual platforms have arised to address this need but most of them are costly and offer varying features. The use of Moodle as a virtual conference platform is now being explored worldwide. The University of the Philippines Open University has used Moodle together with user tour function and plugins such as contact support and accessibility for its semi-annual National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning this 2022. The purpose of integrating these features is to enhance a Moodle-based virtual conference experience. A survey was conducted at the end of the conference to measure the effectiveness of using these features. Results showed that using user tour, contact support and accessibility plugins significantly enhanced the Moodle-based virtual conference experience of the participants. The use of these Moodle features can also still be improved in the future as suggested by the participants.
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ItemACES: Automated Academic Essay Scoring Using a Natural Language Processing-Based Regression Mechanism(Asian Association of Open Universities, 2022)Academic essays are essential testing instruments that evaluate the students’ ability to organize thoughts and synthesize information. However, grading them is an exhausting and cumbersome process that requires considerable manpower. It may be prone to errors, and there are also serious concerns about fairness, such that an essay graded B+ today may be graded B- tomorrow by the same checker. Therefore, the author proposes ACES, an essay scoring mechanism that employs natural language processing (NLP) to address the issue at hand. NLP is a sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) concerned with granting computers the ability to understand texts in much the same way humans can. With essay scoring reformulated as a regression problem, ACES takes the essay answer as the input, converts it to a vector representation of numbers in the embedding space, and feeds it to the neural network model (which serves as the approximate regression function) to predict its score as the output. In this paper, the author successfully implements four versions of ACES that employ different embedding sources and neural network models, with the ACES variant that considers context and word frequency information performing the best (i.e., ACES-BERT).
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ItemConnecting to the Life of Agta Community: Inspirations and Aspirations( 2022-04-22)This is the presentation file of a group from the ColLaboratoire 2020 Research Residency Program which had explored the theme of transformative education. The presentation was featured as part of the final public engagement activity of the ColLaboratoire 2020 program, a video recording of which is available on https://networks.upou.edu.ph/37098/radical-pluridisciplinarity-for-sustainable-development-outcomes-from-the-collaboratoire-2020 ColLaboratoire 2020 was a week-long Research Residency program in multiple-disciplinary research and sustainability for early-career researchers. During the residency, ColLaboratoire Fellows explored applying imaginative, methodologically innovative, and radically multiple-disciplinary approaches to six Research Challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program was inspired by the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, CogNovo, which was hosted from 2013 until 2017 at the University of Plymouth. For more information about ColLaboratoire 2020, see https://collaboratoire20.cognovo.org
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ItemPlayful Storytelling as Innovation in Education and Future Applications to Participatory Action Research( 2022-04-22)This is the presentation file of a group from the ColLaboratoire 2020 Research Residency Program which had explored the theme of transformative education. The presentation was featured as part of the final public engagement activity of the ColLaboratoire 2020 program, a video recording of which is available on https://networks.upou.edu.ph/37098/radical-pluridisciplinarity-for-sustainable-development-outcomes-from-the-collaboratoire-2020 ColLaboratoire 2020 was a week-long Research Residency program in multiple-disciplinary research and sustainability for early career researchers. During the residency, ColLaboratoire Fellows explored applying imaginative, methodologically innovative, and radically multiple-disciplinary approaches to six Research Challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program was inspired by the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, CogNovo, which was hosted from 2013 until 2017 at the University of Plymouth. For more information about ColLaboratoire 2020, see https://collaboratoire20.cognovo.org
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ItemEnvironmental Empathy( 2022-04-22)This is the presentation file of the group from the ColLaboratoire 2020 Research Residency Program which had explored the theme of environmental empathy. The presentation was featured as part of the final public engagement activity of the ColLaboratoire 2020 program, a video recording of which is available on https://networks.upou.edu.ph/37098/radical-pluridisciplinarity-for-sustainable-development-outcomes-from-the-collaboratoire-2020 ColLaboratoire 2020 was a week-long Research Residency program in multiple-disciplinary research and sustainability. During the residency, ColLaboratoire Fellows explored applying imaginative, methodologically innovative, and radically multiple-disciplinary approaches to six Research Challenges related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program was inspired by the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network, CogNovo, which was hosted from 2013 until 2017 at the University of Plymouth. For more information about ColLaboratoire 2020, see https://collaboratoire20.cognovo.org