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Customized Learning Environment: A new approach 16-06-2016 Gran Canaria, Espanha Anabela Mesquita CICE –ISCAP / IPP, Portugal Algoritmi RC, Portugal [email protected] Fernando Moreira UPT, IJP, DEGI, Portugal IEETA, UA, Aveiro, Portugal [email protected] Paula Peres CICE – ISCAP /IPP, Portugal [email protected]

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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

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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]

Agenda

• Introduction• Background• Related work• Model proposed• Conclusions

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Introduction

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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).

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Learningenvironment

InstitutionalLMS

Facilitate communication

Proposed model (1)

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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.

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Conclusions• Next step– Test this customized learning environment– Propose an integration of all the learning space -

formal and informal - in the LMS

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Thank you

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