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The Catholic University of Leuven is Belgium’s oldest and biggest university, with over 39.000 students and more than 1.400 senior academic staff members (full professors) and 5.000 junior academic staff (assistant professors). It offers a wide variety of online courses and exercises through mainly 2 platforms, Edumatic being one of them.

The K.U.Leuven has chosen Edumatic as one of their core online learning platforms. Edumatic is used as a major tool in the university’s Toledo platform for e-learning.
Edumatic was developed in collaboration with important research groups from various faculties:

  • Language faculty for the unique translation correction algorithm, the voice recording questions and the questions including Test-to-speech and Speech-to-text technology (Automatic Speech Recognition, ASR).
  • The Law faculty for the unique Open question (with fully automated correction and feedback) and Item container question types.
  • The Faculty of Business and Economics.

Hundreds of teachers (professors and assistants) are working as authors to create questions and as coaches to do student follow-up. Edumatic is a real and important part of many of the university courses.

Facts and figures

  • 36 923 students
  • 9 560 staff members
  • E-learning with Edumatic:
    o More than 10.000 students online every year
    o 228 differents courses online
    o More than 92.000 active (used) items in the database
    o Peak uses in exam periods, more than 3.000 student online simultaneously.
    o Fully automatic Single Sign On (SSO) webservice with Blackboard learning platform.
  • E-testing with Edumatic Exam:
    o More than 47.760 online exams for the faculty of Business and Economics since 2008.

Details

Country
Belgium
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