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New Learning Architecture for the University

Jaroslava Mikulecká

University of Hradec Králové

Czech Republic

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Learning Architecture

Design, Sequencing, Integrating,

of all electronic and non-electronic components of learning to deliver the optimum improvement in competence and performance of students and teachers.

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Why New Learning Architecture?

It is not the strongest of the species who survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsible to change

Charles Darwin

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Knowledge management approach

Knowledge building capabilitiesshared and creative problem solving,implementing and integrating new

methodologies and tools, experimenting and prototyping,importing and absorbing technologies from

outside of the University’s knowledge

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Core Capabilities

Constitute a competitive advantage for a firm; they have been built up over time and cannot be easily imitated: Physical systems, Employee knowledge and skills, Managerial systems, Organization’s values and norms.

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Trust and social capital

Trust is expectation that arrives within a community of regular, honest and cooperative behavior, based on commonly shared norms on the part of the other members of that community.

Social capital is the capability that arises from the prevalence of trust in the society or in certain parts of it Social capital is developed and fostered when individuals believe that their actions will be appropriately reciprocated, and that individuals will meet their expected obligations.

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KM at the Universities

Universities usually possess a modern information infrastructure,

To share their knowledge with others is very natural for professors and teachers in general,

To acquire knowledge from accessible sources as fast as possible is the natural desire of students,

There is usually a trustful atmosphere at universities, no one is neither hesitating nor being afraid of publishing or otherwise disseminating her or his knowledge

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New Methodologies and Tools

From classroom teaching to e-learning: modern presentation equipment digital cameras digital libraries (as ACM and IEEE digital

library - http://www.acm.org ) e-books CD ROMs with CBT

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New Methodologies and Tools

e-packs (as on WebCT page http://www.WebCT.com)

distance learning management software (e-learning systems as WebCT, LOTUS Learning Space, Blackboard and many others)

authoring tools software (as Macromedia Flash or Autorware)

web based scheduler and course planner

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Financial Resources

TEMPUS project S-JEP 12339-97: Multimedia and Distance Learning for Teachers.

SOCRATES/MINERVA project No. 90683-CP-1-2001-1-CZ: E-DILEMA - E-resources and Distance Learning Management

Research stream CEZ: J20/98:184500001 “Knowledge Management for Information Society”, 1999-2003

Research stream CEZ: J20/98:184500002 “ICT in the global education”, 1999-2003

Special funds of the Ministry of Education

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Finance

Communication HW (development, SWTechnical supportTrainingStudy materials

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Motivation

financialaccreditationcompetition

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Competition of distance courses

The main aim of the competition is to stimulate cooperation among Czech (and

Slovak) universities, to motivate development and deployment of

on-line courses,to evaluate quality of on-line courses materials, to demonstrate on-line teaching methodology,

problems and achievements.

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Evaluation procedure

The evaluation procedure has two-steps:

1. The jury grades course materials (1 to 9, the more the better) according to the criteria given in the table below.

2. A workshop is organised where the authors of the best courses demonstrate their products to the jury and to all interested people.

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Evaluation Criteria

The basic features (35% of all points)– Mesurable and testable course objectives– Intuitiveness of course control– The overall design of the course– Course graphics– Usage of multimedia– Lucidity– Resourcefulness– Response time of the system– Quality of supplementary materials

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Evaluation criteria

Motivation of the students (27% of all points)Discussion groups and whiteboardWorkgroupsPractical examplesPlanning and organising of learning process

(8%)Support with calendar, vocabulary, index,

search possibilities

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Evaluation criteria

Feedback (30%)Monitoring of student’s progressAutotestsTests, assessments, assignments, exams

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eDILEMA project

Objectives of the project : to develop innovative practices for building joint

electronic educational resources and services for distance learning at a collaborative principle

to develop a optimal strategy for converting traditional way of teaching to mixed-mode distance delivery

to test the designed practices via building distributed e-resources and services for distance learning in the subject area of business studies

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Digital Library of Learning Objects

Learning Object is any entity, digital or non-digital, that may be used for learning, education or training.

Metadata for learning object describe relevant characteristics of the learning object

DL – controlled set of digital information objects – special type of information system fulfilling the role of library

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DL is not …

web – is not controlledmultimedia database – does not provide

library serviceson-line information resource – need not to

be on-line

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Metadata for DL

1. general information on the resource itself

2. semantics of the resource

3. pedagogical attributes

4. technical characteristics

5. conditions for use

6. meta-meat data

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Metadata Standardisation

IMS - has produced a wide range of specifications for learning technologies; recently Digital Repositories White Paper - http://www.imsglobal.org

Dublin Core – developing a widely used resource discovery specifications - http://www.purl.org/dc

ARIADNE – developing concepts and tools for e-learning with a strong emphasis on the sharing and reuse of e-resources - http://www.ariadne-eu.org/main.html

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Client Client

Application serverDB server

e-Repository - Physical View

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Database server

Web browser

Web server (IIS)

MS SQL Server 2000

DHTML & JavaScript

User

ASP .NET

Application objects

Stored procedures

Database

Object f iles

MS Index Server

E-Repository – logical view