icls2010: preparing for the long tail of teaching tools
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This was given at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences - June 30, 2010.TRANSCRIPT
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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20
40
60
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120
1/14/04 7/12/04 1/8/05 7/7/05 1/3/06 7/2/06 12/29/06
2004
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)
Leve
l of U
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Ranking
The Single, Overarching, Enterprise Learning Management System
Leve
l of U
se CORE
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/
