Automatically Generated and Marked E-Learning Exercises for Logistics Cost Accounting

This paper presents the concept and realisation of an e-learning tool that provides predefined or automatically generated exercises concerning logistics cost accounting. Students may practise where and whenever they like to via the Internet. Their solutions are marked automatically by the tool while considering consecutive faults and without any intervention of lecturers.

Authors:

• Markus Siepermann
• Christoph Siepermann

Keywords:

• Automatic marking
• e-learning environment
• onlinepracticing
• randomly-generated exercises.

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