learning analytics and sensemaking in digital learning ecosystems - examples from higher education...
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Presentation given at the Seminar "Opportunities and Challenges of Learning with Technologies: Evidence-based Education" at the Permanent Representation of Estonia to the EU on 12 November 2014 in Brussels.TRANSCRIPT
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Learning Layers
Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning in SME Clusters
Learning Analytics and Sensemaking in
Digital Learning Ecosystems
Examples from higher education and the workplace
Tobias Ley, Center for Educational Technology,Tallinn University
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Digital Learning Environments
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Villemard, 1910: À l' École, Bibliotèque national de Francehttp://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/grand/3_95b1.htm
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Some trends in distributed
Learning Environments
• Use of social media and social software in education and at the workplace
• Open Educational Resources
• A drive towards Personal Learning Environment
• New pedagogical trends: Self-directed learning, learning as knowledge building
• Lifelong Learning and Professional Development
• MOOCS and other modes of scaling learning
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Dialectics of TEL system
evolution
• THESIS: mainstream TEL systems today are LMS (e.g. Moodle)• ANTITHESIS: innovators among academic staff are radically
opposing LMS and propose using PLE and social media instead• SYNTHESIS: new quality, taking the best from both worlds.
Digital Learning Ecosystem?
IVA LMS Blog-based
PLE
Dippler
DLE
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Pedagogy-driven design User-centered design
1.1 Initial ped. framework
1.2. Participatory
design
1.3. Evaluation
2.1. Experimenting with blogs
2.2. Participatory
design2.3. Case
studies
3.1. Participatory design
3.2. Updated
ped. framework
3.3. Participatory
action research
3.4. Generic ped.
model for DLE
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Digital Learning Ecosystem
DLE is an adaptive socio-technical system consisting of mutually interacting digital agents (tools, services, content used in learning process) and communities of users (learners, facilitators, trainers, developers) together with their social,
economical and cultural environment.
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Some Examples
• Higher Education: From blog-based courses to digital learning ecosystems
• Higher Education: Managing the MOOCS Ecosystem
• Scaling Informal Learning at the Workplace
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EDUFEEDR, LEPRESS &
DIPPLER
Higher Education: From blog-based courses to digital learning ecosystems
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Open and Personal
Blog-based Courses
• Students use Weblogs as Personal Learning Environments
• Courses are temporal configurations of learning settings
• Tools offer coordination, awareness and management functionalities
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Course Blogs
Student Blogs
ContentAssignments
FeedackAnalytics
EduFeedrLePressDIPPLER
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DIPPLER: Prototype of a Digital
Learning Ecosystem
Social media
Blog Profile
Courses
Activities
RSS
Users
Analytics
Courses
Widgets
Institutional
BOS Middleware:
BackOffice Service
Cloud
Storage
HTTP
WS
Types of tasks:PostStructured postArtefact (file) Discussion Self-testTest Group task Offline task
All coursesFeatured
My courses
Course page
SummaryCourse infoOutcomesAnnouncem.ParticipantsGroupsResourcesTasksSettings
Categories
Learner's Wordpress
with Dippler plugin
Dippler: institutional
client, teacher's tool
IOS app:
mobile client
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Connecting…
• Competences with learning outcomes
• Learning outcomes with assignments
• Assignments with learning resources
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EMMA
Higher Education: Managing the MOOCS Ecosystem
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EMMA Learning Analytics
• For learners:– Support personalization and support the achievement
of learning goals through:• personalized feedback to individual learners• new learning paths recommendations• reflection opportunities to assist in monitoring learning and
achievement
• For MOOC providers/ instructors– Offers prediction functionalities to give feedback in
order to enhance/improve their course design considering traced learning experiences
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LEARNING LAYERS
Scaling Informal Learning at the Workplace
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The Dilemma of Informal
Learning at the Workplace
How do people learn at the workplace?• Ask colleagues, search for help, try
things out, learn from experience• Learning is informal, connected to
work practices, multi-episodic, just-in time [Hart 2011, Kooken 2009]
How do learning technologies look like? • follow traditional training models• based on direct classroom instruction
and courses transfered to the screen [Kraiger 2008]
highly effective
individualized
contextualized
motivating
does not scale
not persistent
few benefit
expensive
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlemunicipalarchives/7165372144/
Seattle Municipal Archives
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Building & Construction
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Straw Building
How To
X3-PVQX3-PJC
X3-POZ PLC Equipment
One possible
Construction Scenario
Explaining the use of a new construction technique and materials on site
Making video material available on site through QR tagsUse of video recording and
annotation
Further questions on the use of the technique connected to site
Material, questions and best practices collected and
discussed
Collection transformed into instructional material to
enhance traditional training
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Deployment & SustainabilityScaling in Regional Clusters
Architecture & Integration LayerIntegration through Common Infrastructure
Workplace Learning LayerIntegration through Workplace Learning Practices
Scaling Informal Learning:
Project Architecture
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Interaction Layers: An Ecosystem of Tools
Social Semantic LayerIntegration through Shared Meaning
Interacting with Physical Objects
Interacting with People
Interacting with Digital Materials
Straw Building How To
X3-PVQX3-PJC
X3-POZ PLC Equipment
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ACHSO!
Mobile Social Learning on the Construction Site
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AchSo! Mobile Learning on the
Construction Site
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Video: http://vimeo.com/84383004
Software: http://developer.learning-layers.eu/tools/ach-so/
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MAKING SENSE OF BITS AND
PIECES
Sensemaking in the Healthcare domain
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Design Idea
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more busy time more flexible working time
EvernoteAchSo!
KnowBrain
B&P
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Bits and Pieces - Sensemaking
about Learning Experiences
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Software: http://developer.learning-layers.eu/tools/bits-and-pieces/Running Demo
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THE SOCIAL SEMANTIC
SERVER
Integrating the Tool Ecosystem
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Deployment & SustainabilityScaling in Regional Clusters
Architecture & Integration LayerIntegration through Common Infrastructure
Workplace Learning LayerIntegration through Workplace Learning Practices
Scaling Informal Learning:
Project Architecture
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Interaction Layers: An Ecosystem of Tools
Social Semantic LayerIntegration through Shared Meaning
Interacting with Physical Objects
Interacting with People
Interacting with Digital Materials
Straw Building How To
X3-PVQX3-PJC
X3-POZ PLC Equipment
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Who When Where What ... ... ... ... ... ...
An Artefact Actor Network
User Profile
Resource Profile
Topic Modeling
RecommendedResource
Each interaction increases the network ...
... and is tracked in the history
Trust and Social Network
Traces of the Network History
Knowledge is built by people interacting with other people and artefacts
New Information displayed to Support User Interactions
Intelligent Services derive new information
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Who When Where What ... ... ... ... ... ...
Who When Where What ... ... ... ... ... ...
Who When Where What ... ... ... ... ... ...
Whom to ask? What to read and watch? Who are the experts? What do people talk about?What’s the quality?
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Project
Consortium
Basiskarte: digitale-europakarte.de
Project Coordination
Learning Technology Research
Regional Application Clusters
Scaling Partners
Technology Partners
Health Care – Leeds
Construction & Building – Bremen
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DLEs introduce new
opportunities ...
• Social and informal processes play a bigger role in learning
• Better opportunities for connecting formal and informal contexts of learning
• Learning across institutional boundaries
• Learning as knowledge creation, not as simple acquisition
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... but also new challenges!
• How to make tools work together to allow for a meaningful learning experience?
• How to help learners make sense of the multitude of content and experiences?
• How to enable teachers and institutions to exhibit some control over the learning process?
• How to make the educational system evidence-based?
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Conclusions
• Both tools and infrastructure are needed to make sense of the Digital Learning Ecosystem
• Learning Analytics provide an opportunity to cope with the inherent complexity and make education more evidence-based
• Great Opportunities for European Learning Technology SMEs
– Strong focus on Open Source and Open Resources
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Learning in the Digital Ecosystem
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Tobias LeyTallinn University
Institute of [email protected]
skype tobias_ley
http://tobiasley.wordpress.com
Learning Layers ProjectICT EU-FP7, 12mEUR, 2012-2016
Web: http://learning-layers.eu
Software: http://github.com/learning-layers