Creating a shared educational space through Learning Objects: Israel participation in the CELEBRATE project

יצירת מרחב חינוכי משותף באמצעות עצמי למידה : השתתפות ישראל במיזם CELEBRATE

דב וינר

מצגת בכנס מו " ח 2004

תל - אביב

ינואר 2004

ICT in Education – Frans van Assche

Content plus Context

Networked learning environments and constructivist learning models require new metaphors for how we understand content and the exchanges that take place between learners

RESOURCES (Learning Objects) plus

COLLABORATION, SERVICES, ACTIVIES (Learning Community Resources )

EUN Project Concept

New learning models require new ‘content’ models based on reusable learning objects (LOs)

Content = resources + activities/communication

Existing didactic learning models require ‘packaged’ content

How do you ‘unpack’ that content and repackage it for web delivery?

Reusable LOs - facilitate more constructivist learning models?

A Large-Scale Project

European Schoolnet plus 21 partners

Belgium (2) Finland (4)

France (3) Hungary (1)

Israel (1) Italy (3)

Netherlands (1) Norway (2)

Spain (1) UK (3)

Ministries of Education Pedagogical Researchers

LMS/LCMS providers Technology providers

Publishers/Content Providers 500 Schools

CELEBRATE Objectives

Provide 500 schools in six countries with access to Demonstrator Portal (LOs and LO ‘components’)

Evaluate the extent to which reusable LOs support a new pedagogy for e Learning - constructivist learning models.

Test interoperability of LOs and LMS/LCMS.

Explore how a LO methodology can be applied to educational activities and services as well as learning materials .

Provide a catalyst for the European e Learning content industry - standards’ compliance, new business models

Issues

Will LOs support more constructivist pedagogical models?

Will LOs and LCMS enable teachers and pupils to engage in ‘open source’ content development?

Will teachers sequence LOs and build courses?

New business models for content development, management and distribution involving LOs to include innovative pricing, royalty and licensing models?

Issues

Strategies for co-existence of open source and commercial educational content?

“ There is astonishingly little conversation around the instructional design implications of learning objects.” David Wiley

Without agreement on how to sequence LOs are we just providing a form of ‘clip-art’ instruction?

We need a taxonomy of learning object types

פדגוגיה

Pedagogy Work Package

Pedagogical models for School Exploitation of LO’s

Schools (usage and creation of digital content)

Developers of LO’s

Support the ‘real’ but diverse worlds of schools

Try to support innovative learning practices

Try to support the emergence of innovative (types of) LO’s & LCO’s

Pedagogy - Main Partners

University of Amsterdam

University of Helsinki

University of Turku

Université des Science et Technologies de Lille

Pôle Universitaire Européen de Nancy-Metz

But: plus many interactions with the other partners

Main pedagogical challenges

provide content developers with practical suggestions to create innovative learning objects and learning sequences (report produced)

guide teachers and pupils to use the Celebrate demonstrator portal containing a range of diverse learning objects in pedagogically innovative ways and guide them to create new LO’s (report due July 2003)

Validation and evaluation (Sept 2003->)

Old & New pedagogical models

School: Transmission & control

Learning=transmitting knowledge from one person to the other

For learning you need a teacher

Learning takes place in institutions

Connected school: Participation & collaboration

Learning=gradually becoming a member of community/culture/discipline /profession

Learning= self-directed+interaction with others, aimed at Knowledge Building

Learning is everywhere

Instructivism vs constructivism

What the Pedagogy WP has done? 1. Bottom up

Analysed existing learning objects

Preliminary pedagogical evaluation framework of LO’s

Objectives and purposes of the LO

View of knowledge represented

Type(s) of learning activity

Teaching and assessment activities

Scaffolding & guidance

What the Pedagogy WP has done? 2. Top down

Analysed existing learning objects: framework

Described a number of pedagogical models and approaches

Problem-based learning

Progressive Inquiry model

Discovery learning

Cognitive Apprenticeship

Collaborative learning models

etc

Progressive Inquiry Model

Where is the pedagogy

LO’s (or CAI) with ‘embedded’ pedagogy:

comes often in the form of presenting content in a certain way and allowing a limited degree of freedom of choice when navigating within and between components of the learning object

typically learning objects that learners use for independent learning around more or less fixed knowledge domains

Cannot model the student’s learning

It can model knowledge and can be responsive to students’ actions (interactive)

But not responsive to the student’s learning (except Good! or Try again!)

Where is the pedagogy

Leave that to the teachers’ expertise

Pick and use from the critical mass high quality pre-designed LO’s with embedded pedagogy

Training teachers to use digital material

Simple interface

Powerful search engine

Provide tools for teachers and learners

Templates of pedagogies

Create learning objects ranging between unstructured (assets) to highly structured (nested, layered, networked)

Tools for teachers

Tools for learners

פורטל הדגמה

How to use it Search, Browse, Educational Basket, VLE, Community Using/managing/ creating LOs European Learning Module Introduction to the Demo Portal Functionality Pedagogical Module Introduction to Los and Learning Environments Where What

Pedagogical Guidelines Eun Learning Management System Pilots’ Entry and news Brokerage System (ETB and EUN repository) Search Browse European Learning Module Results pages Predictor check Anonymous Visitor EUN Community EUN Portal Content Content from pilots Log-in Register Eun Learning Content Management System Save Educational and pedagogical context

Pedagogical guidelines