hellenic teachers’ life-long learning skills validation via interactive eportfolios

Hellenic Teachers’ Life-Long Hellenic Teachers’ Life-Long Learning Skills Validation via Learning Skills Validation via

Interactive ePortfoliosInteractive ePortfolios

A Theoretical Proposition

Niki Lambropoulos PhD Intelligenesis R&DMarianna Vivitsou PhD Student University of Helsinki

Intelligenesis.EU

AGENDA The Need for Skills Validation The Project Pedagogical outcome: Validation skills framework Research outcome: Innovation E-research Technological outcome: Interactive ePortfolio Open Innovation: New Tools Conclusions - Expected results

The Need for Skills Validation European Report for the World in 2025” (2009)

Major changes in education & employment Communities of Practice (CoP) (Lave &

Wenger, 1991) Acquisition of knowledge & skills is vital for

professional communities Peripheral to core participation Apprenticeship

Skills development

Examples US Community Colleges British Learning and SKills Council

The Project Reforms in the Greek education system

Support is absent Inadequate performance Confusion

Our solutions CoP: Hellenes Educators community Technical: E-portfolio

Interactive tools for measuring performance Frameworks for LLL development

Reflection in Practice Current pedagogical approaches

Pedagogical outcome: Validation skills framework Phase I: Detect, identify, codify and present

pedagogical frameworks. Phase II: Identify associated pedagogical

frameworks in current literature. Phase III: Link emerged and theoretical

pedagogical frameworks. Phase IV: Compare, combine, classify and

evaluate frameworks-in-action (intervention). Phase V: Create the validation skills

framework(Argyris and colleagues research on Reflection in

Action)

Research outcome: Innovation E-research Diverse and multidisciplinary techniques

Qualitative Quantitative & thematic analysis Quantified qualitative analysis

Time-related eResearch (Daniel, 2007; Kirschner & Lai, 2007, Romero, 2010)

Ethnotechnology Algorithms

Quantified qualitative analysis Random frequency Specific frameworks frequency

Time series design for coordination

Technological outcome: Interactive ePortfolio ePortfolios have now extensive used as a

reflection of a person undergoing continuous personal development (Barrett, 2010)

JISC (2009): an e-portfolio is a collection of applications and services that work together to support learning and training.

Personal digital archive containing personal information, records of achievement and artefacts, transcript-type data supplied from official institutional transcripts, and information on the people and organisations to which the owner has granted access

Mahara in Moodle Mahara supports interactivity via

Social media Multiple views user generated context Comments Blogs Watchlists

New CSCeL tools HybridSynergyTag Tool SNA Avatars

Mahara Structure

Open Innovation: HCI@Intelligenesis

1. Context & Learning Values - Hypothesis

2. (Iterative) Design – Requirements 3. Evaluation with user groups/experts4. Development5. Evaluation with user groups6. Re-Design & Development7. Study & Research - Tool Release

1CH 2DR 3E 4D 5E 6D 7RTR

E-Learning Tools

2005-9: Visualisation Interaction Tools (Social Network Analysis )

2004-8: HySynTag(Argumentation Tags)

2007-8: Graphs & AvatarsParticipation Levels – Participation Eyeball Participation Avatars

Hybrid Synergy Hybrid Synergy is another technique

developed specifically for e-meetings. The members can use a discussion tool and tag their postings. This tagging is a non-linear structure with the following attributes:

1. information and data2.emotions and social cues3.creativity and exploration4.evaluation and assessment5.overviews and assignments

CSCW-CSCL (Lambropoulos et al., 2008)

Hybrid Synergy analytical framework

HySynTag Tool in Moodle

HySynTag http://books.google.com

Conclusions - Expected results Work towards the Greek crisis

Identify sustainable solutions Presentation of learner achievements to educational

establishments or employers Utilities to facilitate the application process CoP Skills development from a LLL perspective CoP self-evaluation, autonomy and accountability Accountability (Wenger, 2010)

Horizontal: between teachers Vertical: between teachers and decision makers). 45 degrees: Individuals as key as information brokers

Thank you for your attention!! Niki Lambropoulos niki@intelligenesis.eu &

nikilambropoulos@gmail.com

Intelligenesis Ltd R&Dhttp://intelligenesis.eu

Marianna Vivitsou marianna.vivitsou@helsinki.fi