STARS Hackathon — What Happens When You Give Students Three Days to Redesign How They Learn?

Hackathons and EU research projects rarely intersect, but this one was exceptional. The LUT team hosted a 3-day STARS Hackathon where students earned 3 ECTS credits by designing SRL-based prototypes and testing the STARS peer-review AI system.

Design by Engaging Learners — A Light Piloting of the SRL-Enhanced Peer-Review System

The third STARS project workshop and special Hackathon took place at LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland. Partners tested an improved SRL-enhanced peer-review system with real students and worked through the project's impact strategy report.

STARS Partners Move Towards Need-Finding, State-of-the-Art, and Design of the SRL-Enhanced Peer-Review System

At the second STARS partner meeting, the Tartu partner organized an exciting three-day participatory workshop focused on need-finding, a state-of-the-art report, and designs and prototypes for the SRL-enhanced peer-review system.

SETU - Why we started the STARS project

We are lecturers at South East Technological University in Ireland. We work in different disciplines - Daire in computing and Niamh in social science ...

An Cosán - Why we joined the STARS project

An Cosán (Irish for ‘The Pathway’) is a unique community education organisation, working in the heart of the communities of Tallaght in West Dublin, Ireland ...

Tartu - Why we joined the STARS project

Teaching writing has become more of a mission than a formal component of our workload as lecturers and professors at the University of Tartu ...