Customized Learning Environment - A new approach
-
Upload
anabela-mesquita -
Category
Education
-
view
318 -
download
1
Transcript of Customized Learning Environment - A new approach
Customized Learning Environment: A new approach
16-06-2016Gran Canaria, Espanha
Anabela MesquitaCICE –ISCAP / IPP, Portugal
Algoritmi RC, [email protected]
Fernando MoreiraUPT, IJP, DEGI, Portugal
IEETA, UA, Aveiro, [email protected]
Paula PeresCICE – ISCAP /IPP, [email protected]
Authors
16-06-2016 2
Anabela MesquitaCICE –ISCAP / IPP, Portugal
Algoritmi RC, [email protected]
Fernando MoreiraUPT, IJP, DEGI, Portugal
IEETA, UA, Aveiro, [email protected]
Paula PeresCICE – ISCAP /IPP, [email protected]
Introduction
16-06-2016 4
Changes
Education system must address the diversity of students’ backgrounds and needs.
Educational equity
Learning should be personalized
Lack of interaction in traditional classes – which is essential for learning
Assumptions
Adopting e-learning platforms
Effective in connecting people and resources
Facilitate interaction
Promote collaboration
Contribute to critical thinking
Development of informal learning environments
Introduction
16-06-2016 5
Platforms designed for e-learning, open source or commercial - more focused on the design of the needs of institutional progress
or activities concerning teaching and learning.
Personal Learning Environment - approach to integrate different practices and resources to address individual learning needs - more
flexible and aims to focus on the needs of students.
Still relies on what teachers make at students’ disposal and not empower student to create his / her own environment
IntroductionModel
To develop their CLE using a set of tools and services that cover the functions in their learning process and customise their learning environment.
Learning and e-learning elements
Student is the focus Decides what should be included in this learning environment
Customized Learning Environment
Background (1)• Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
– “conceptual and technological frameworks that help learners take control of and manage their own learning”.
• Providing support for learners to:– Set their own learning goals– Manage their learning (learning outcomes and
processes)
• Personal
16-06-2016 8
Related with engagement with other learners and experts; consists of an assembly of resources from various sources.
Background (1)• PLE characteristics
– Support – environment planned to help students to design and manage their learning environment;
– Educational component – all the resources that are available in the learning environment;
– Social – environment developed take into consideration the need to engage with other (knowledge is something that is socially constructed);
– Technological component – design of the tools used. All components should be tailored, student-centered and driven.
16-06-2016 9
Background (2)
• Social network– “… a web service that allow individuals to (1) construct a public
profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.”
• Social network can be:– Horizontal - used for more general purposes; diverse users;
address a wide range of topics; reduced specialization; less privacy, public – lot of users and information; no filter
– Vertical - highly segmented user base, addressing specific topics in depth, high degree of specialization, generally more private and closed.
16-06-2016 10
Background (3)• Pedagogical Learning Theories
– Constructivism - all new knowledge and learning is based on previous knowledge and past learning.
– Main principles: • 1) learning and understanding comes from interaction
with the environment; • 2) learners encounter cognitive conflict which in turn
stimulates learning; • 3) new knowledge develops through social interaction
16-06-2016 11
Background (3)• Pedagogical Learning Theories
– Connectivist - learning occurs through the process of a learner connecting to and transferring information into a learning community.
• Characteristics related with PLE
16-06-2016 12
Related work• Service-based framework
– Components: • 1) Institutional context (include one or more LMS in which the
students carry out their academic activities, e.g. Moodle), • 2) Personalized context (facilitates de integration of the different tools
that students use in their learning) and • 3) Communication channels • 4) Mediator elements (to facilitate communication between specific
instances of the LMS and the online tools included into the PLE) and / or the representation of these elements in other contexts (such as mobile devices).
16-06-2016 13
Learningenvironment
InstitutionalLMS
Facilitate communication
Conclusions• CLE
– Technological developments are bringing more and more functionalities to this learning environment while learning theories support and are the basis for the conceptual principles of these environments.
– Student is the center of all the learning process– Learning does not occur only in the classroom– LMS should also take into consideration informal
learning, valuing and assessing it.
16-06-2016 15
Conclusions• Next step– Test this customized learning environment– Propose an integration of all the learning space -
formal and informal - in the LMS
16-06-2016 16