icls2010: preparing for the long tail of teaching tools

Preparing for the Long Tail of Teaching and Learning Tools

Charles Severance and Stephanie D. TeasleySchool of Information, University of Michigan

International Conference of the Learning SciencesChicago, IL - June 29, 2010

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e Large-scale and enterprise

A Tale of Two Eras• Mid 1990's

• Innovative, experimental, lots of small teacher and student-run efforts

• Rough edges, many inconsistent solutions missing basic functionality

• Late 2000's

• Rational development is resistant to change, very well understood

• Pick a vendor, pay them and turn it on - focus on reliability

• IT staff make most choices - a few teachers might be on a committee

1997

Sync-O-Maticwww.syncomat.com

1998

Title: Using Asynchronous, Web-based, Video to Humanize Distance Education

2003

Membership Level

Non-Profit

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Dr. Chuck Travel 2004-2006

2006

TeachRelax

ReflectRecharge

2007

2007

2008

Standards

Commercial

Open Source

LMS

Publishers

www.imsglobal.org

CommonCartridge

ToolsInteroperability

2008

May 2010

Learning Tools at University of Michigan

2008 Sakai Usage Data at University of Michgan (Lonn, Teasley 2009)

2008 Sakai Usage Data at University of Michgan (Lonn, Teasley 2009)

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Ranking

The Single, Overarching, Enterprise Learning Management System

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SUBSET

NARROW

Ranking

Three Categories• Core (Management oriented)

• Well known tools, widely used across multiple disciplines and teaching styles, and levels of education - included in most LMSs

• Subset (Pedagogy or Particular kind of Management)

• Very widely used within a a few disciplines, teaching styles, levels, etc

• Narrow / Experimental

• Limited to a particular book, course, topic, school, culture, etc...

University of MichiganAnn Arbor

University of MichiganFlint

Washtenaw Community College

https://www.lecturetools.com/

Subset:Interactive

Lecture Pedagogy

Subset:Physics, Math,

Chem

Narrow:People teaching a

particular Chapter of a particular book

An Emerging Marketplace for Learning Applictions

A Learning App Store

• Commercial Tool Providers are starting to notice this path into Learning Management Systems

• With a widely supported integration standard, a logical step is an "Learning App Store"

http://videos.noteflight.com/MoodleBasicLTI.mov

http://etherpad.org/

Charles Severance csev@umich.eduStephanie Teasley steasley@umich.edu

Thank You