Download - Standards for Smart Learning Environments
Standards for Smart Learning Environments –
towards a development framework
Tore HoelOslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
Norway
Lecture at Beijing Normal University2016-11-21
Who is this guy?
Standards
Open EducationalResources (OER)
ICT in education
EU & Nordicprojects
Learning Analytics
Interoperability Communication &Information Management
愚笨教育现象比比皆是
Understanding Smart• To define Smart Learning as the counterpoint to Stupid
Learning is not so smart!• A is, what B is not: Mathematically, this gives an indefinite
space of A – you will never be able to know what the boundaries of A are
• We have the same problem defining Scope when developing standards!
Smart StupidSmart
Grounding new theories
• Flat vs Deep• Associative vs Grounded• 2D vs 3D
Smart should be grounded…
So should also our standards work!
What is the implied theoretical and empirical model behind
Smart Learning Environments?
What theoretical and empirical model of learning technologies
should inform LET standardisation?
Smart as in the Journal
Launched in 2014
The aim of the journal is to help various stakeholders of smart learning environments better
understand each other's role in the overall process of education and
how they may support each other.
Conceptualizing the field
• Zhi-Ting Zhu• Jonathan Michael
Spector• Gwo-Jen Hwang• Rob Koper
Zhu Zhi-Ting
• For learners: Smart refers to wisdom and intelligence
• Ability to think quickly and cleverly
• For educational environment, ‘smart’ refers to engaging, intelligent and scalable.
• Collective intelligence
The essence of smarter education is to construct technology-infused environments and create finer ecology of pedagogies, so that higher achievements of teaching, better experiences of learning and personalized learning services could be enabled, and thus talents of wisdom who have better value orientation, higher thinking quality, stronger doing ability and deeper potentiality of creating could be fostered. ( Zhu Zhiting, 2012)
智慧教育的初步定义A preliminary definition of Smarter Education as proposed
( 1949-20?? )
Zhu: 10 key features of SLE• Location-Aware• Context-Aware• Socially Aware• Interoperability• Seamless Connection• Adaptability• Ubiquitous• Whole Record• Natural Interaction• High Engagement
Mike Spector
• Necessary characteristics
• In a general sense, a smart learning environment is one that is effective, efficient and engaging
Hwang Gwo-Jen
• Minimally, a SLE should be• context-aware• adaptive• personalized
Rob Koper• Smart learning environments
(SLEs) are physical environments that are enriched with digital, context-aware and adaptive devices, to promote better and faster learning.
• Human Learning Interface: set of interaction mechanisms that humans expose to the outside world, and that can be used to control, stimulate and facilitate their learning processes.
Educational Modelling Language• Based on a
Pedagogical meta model
• empirist (behaviourist)
• rationalist (cognitivist and contructivist)
• pragmatist-sociohistoric (situationalist)
EML Unit of Study model (Koper & Manderveld 2004).
Where Koper is
coming from
Koper: 5 Human Learning Interfaces
• Cognition: Representations!
What behaviours and learning processes can be represented?
Koper: Conditions for effective SLEs
• Digital devices added to physical world
• Support for core HLIs: identification, socialisation and creation
• Support for meta HLI: practice and reflection
• Adaption based on location, context, preferences, physical & mental condition, culture
• Intervention: questions, tasks, information, resources, conditioning
• Specify and communicate learning objectives
• No friction
SLEs are physical environments that are improved to promote better and faster learning by enriching the environment with context-aware and adaptive digital devices that, together with the existing constituents of the physical environment, provide the situations, events, interventions and observations needed to stimulate a person to learn to know and deal with situations (identification), to socialize with the group, to create artefacts, and to practice and reflect.
Koper: Definition of Smart LE
Testing the framework
SLE framework
(Koper 2014)
Where do Zhu, Spector, Hwang requirements fit?
• Location-Aware
• Context-Aware
• Socially Aware
• Interoperability
• Seamless Connection
• Adaptability
• Ubiquitous
• Whole Record
• Natural Interaction
• High Engagement
• Scalable
• Flexible
• Personalized
• Conversational
• Reflective
• Innovative
What about Learning Cell (Yu Shengquan)?
«Learning cell will be adapted to ubiquitous learning and informal learning environment, and has some basic characteristics including • utilizing collective wisdom, • sustaining evolvement, • generative information sharing, • distributed runtime resource
sharing, • social network sharing, • intelligent resources, etc.»
Developing standardsfor SLEs
The standard setting experts of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36
SC36 structure today• WG 1Vocabulary • WG 2Collaborative and
intelligent technology • WG 3Learner information • WG 4Management and
delivery • WG 5Quality assurance and
descriptive frameworks
• WG 6Platform, Services, and Specification Integration
• WG 7ITLET - Culture, language and individual needs
• WG 8Learning Analytics Interoperability
ISO/IEC JTC1/SC36
SC36 has published metadata standards, mainly related to description of learning content and content delivery systems, competency structures, quality metrics, and accessibility.
New work items in SC36• Digital Badges• Smart Learning Environment – “Smart Classroom”• Environments and resources for augmented reality and virtual reality
• MOOCS• Study group on a higher level within ISO on blockchain (electronic distributed ledger) technologies
• A working group wanted input on “collaborative learning communication with social media”
• Work on privacy and data protection in the context of learning analytics
Should SC36 be restructured
according to a Smart Learning
Environment Framework?
Pro• SLE is the most modern and
most general framework being discussed
• Comprehensive, extensive• Could be robust - if done right• Change working process to
include the whole committee – work more across work groups
• Too fuzzy, the boundaries are unclear
• People issues• Existing projects must go on• Legacy work on published
standards
Con
How would standards
development according to Koper’s SLE
framework look like?
Physical Environments
• CCNU project on developing metrics for describing Learning Space
Situations and Events
• Curricula standards• Competency frameworks• Vocabulary for contexts (LA
activity specifications - xAPI)• Nomadicity and Mobile Learning
Interventions• What types of interventions?
• Question management• Task management• Provisioning of learning resources• Conditioning of learning environment
• What digital support for pedagogical interventions?
Digital Devices
• Learning Technology Architecture • Types of devices• MOOCs• Augmented and virtual reality tools
Observations• All aspects of learning analytics
• Metics• Activity stream formats• Collection• Storing• Analysing
• Assessments and tests
Context-Awareness
• Need for vocabularies describing contexts
Adaptiveness
• Support for setting up learning instances based on observations
Identification
• Competency descriptions• Learning targets• Tasks• Problem descriptions
Socialization
• Social learning support• Peer learning• Group learning• Role Negotiation
Creation
• Support for all types of externalisation of learning activities
Practice• Storage and retrieval• Performance targets• Self-monitoring systems• Drill & practice• Serious games
Reflection
• Create and present representations of representations
And how should it be tested?• vocabulary• collaborative
tech• intelligent
technology• learner
information• managemen
t & delivery• quality• service
integration• accessibility • analytics
• wisdom• quick
thinking• clever• engaging• at scale• Location-
Aware• Context-
Aware• Socially
Aware• Interoperabil
ity
• Seamless Connection
• Adaptability• Ubiquitous• Whole
Record• Natural
Interaction• High
Engagement• personalised• adaptive• conversation
al
• reflective• innovative• learning
status• evaluation• content• support• knowledge
base• tests• portfolios
Conclusions• Smart learning, smart education, smart learning
environments, etc. need to be grounded in a verified theory• We need a coherent framework model of Smart Learning
Environment• When a new element is identified and being run through the
model you see where it fits, and if not, where the model needs to be fixed
• A Smart Learning Environment Framework could be a model for structuring learning technology standardisation – needs further exploration
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