The document discusses research initiatives in Pakistan to improve access to education through open educational resources and mobile/adaptive learning. It outlines challenges in Pakistan's education system and initiatives including developing mobile learning courses, contextualized open educational content, and an intelligent adaptive tutoring system. The system would provide individualized instruction tailored to each student's learning style and needs, incorporating different pedagogical strategies, pacing, content presentation, and assessment types. The goal is to improve teaching and learning outcomes.

1. Research Initiatives
Research Lens – Impact on end user

2. Background
• Challenges of Pakistan
• Open Educational Resources – access, improve
quality, reduce cost

3. Initiatives
• Mobile Learning – M Learning
• Design of Contextualized Open Educational
Resources
• Intelligent Adaptive Learning System

4. Mobile Learning or M Learning
LOW COST SIMPLE MOBILE PHONES

5. Instructional Design
• Limitations of Technology
• Linked with Curriculum/Context
• Cognitive process
• Understand
• Assessment for Learning, Assessment as
Learning, Assessment of Learning

6. Math & English
• Instructional Design of Math
• Instructional Design of English

7. OER Contextualized Digital Content

8. IT labs and other Initiatives

9. Contextualize Open Education
Resources
• Improve teaching and learning
• Instructional Design
• End users

10. Context

11. What will the learners learn?
• Constructivism
• Multimedia Principles
• Cognitive Load Theory

12. Instructional Design
• Focus on assessment – conceptual
understanding
• Narrow focus on curriculum – symbols and
formulas
• Too much content is covered in limited time
• Background knowledge
• Practical application

13. Intelligent Adaptive Tutoring System
ENGAGE, CHALLENGE, ASSESS, LEARN, INVOLVE

14. Difference between ITS and IATS
• Rule based system – set rules based on expert
knowledge
• Follow rules
• Various examples
• Hopefully learn content

15. Need for IATS
• One on one attention
• Emotions and Motivation
• Cater to individual learning style of each
student

16. Design of IATS
• Different learning strategies/ styles
• Pedagogies
• Different pace
• Content in different Pedagogical Framework
• Different ways of presentation
• Social interaction
• Feedback from facial expression
• Assessment for learning, Assessment as learning,
Assessment of learning
• Multiple opportunities to learn

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