learning design engines as remote control to learning support environments

April 22, 2023

Learning Design Engines as Remote Control to Learning

Support Environments

Andreas Harrer, Nils Malzahn,Kay Hoeksema, Ulrich Hoppe COLLIDE research groupInstitut für Informatik und interaktive Systeme, Universität Duisburg-Essen

2www.noe-kaleidoscope.org

Outline of the Talk

Motivation: „Unscripted“ Learning Support Environments and „Scripting“ with Learning Design

The Remote Control Approach Example Scenario Implementation Prototype Further Work


Learning Environments and Learning Flow Models

A wide variety of Collaborative Modelling, Argumentation and Inquiry Learning Environments are already existing

Belvedere (Suthers 1995 passim) CoLab (de Jong, van Joolingen et al.) ModellingSpace, Synergo (Avouris et al.) CoolModes, FreeStyler (Hoppe et al.)

Most of these environments do not explicitly follow or offer a process structure


Using Process Structures for Learning Environments

Introducing explicit Process Models provides

Students a scaffold for their learning Teachers support in setting up their intended

process (e.g. with different group settings, roles and tools)

Researchers opportunities to evaluate efficiency of scripts


Implementation Alternatives

For existing Learning Environments there are two options for introducing the process model

Implementing a (proprietary) process modell within the learning environment, i.e. „Build an own engine“

Using existing engines as external control to the learning environment, i.e. „Engine as remote controller“

The first option has to be developed completely separate for each learning environment, the second can be re-used for several


The Engine as Remote Controller (ERC)


An Example Process


Modelling the Scenario in LD

Map each phase to a learning activity Properties for

Current activity Voting_demanded Voting_active Voting_result Consensus_achieved

On each state transition a Cool Modes workspace is shown or hidden


The Process within Cool Modes

Communication Primitive „Show workspace for Voting Phase“


„Remote Control Architecture“


First Implementation of the „ERC“ Approach

CopperCore as Learning Design Engine Cool Modes as Learning (Support) Environment Creation of events in the engine extension Remote Control Component encapsulates mapping from

LDE events to general communication primitives uses the Java Message Service (JMS) to publish the primitives to

the translators subscribing to the Remote Control Mapping of primitives to Cool Modes functionality by a

“Cool Modes translator” providing the remote interface „Show workspace for Voting Phase“ ::=

„Add Voting Plugin“ „Initialize Workspace“ „Provide Result“


One step further: protoype of ISIS – Integrated Science Inquiry System


CoLab and Cool Modes integrated


Outlook

At the moment we are in the process of generalizing and extending the vocabulary of communication primitives useful for different LSEs

Mapping of primitives to concrete LSEs, like Cool Modes and CoLab.

Abstract direct (low-level) interoperation of LSEs to define mode of interoperation at LD level


Wrapping it up…

Collaborative Learning Environments and Learning Design can and should be used in combination

Model Learning Designs in the Collaborative Tools with different levels of specification (that‘s a different story about LD editors…)

Use the Learning Design and Engines to introduce process support in „non-scripted“ learning environments


Thank you!

Please feel free tocomment and ask…

learning design engines as remote control to learning support environments

Documents