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Application Scenarios and Ongoing Exploration

of Learning Cell

Xianmin YangPHD Candidate

Knowledge Media Institute, Beijing Normal University

http://lcell.bnu.edu.cn

yangxianmin8888@163.com

Table of Contents

一．Analysis of the Application Scenarios of

Learning Cell

二．Ongoing Exploration Based on Learning Cell

Part-1 Analysis of the Application Scenarios

of Learning Cell

Application can promote the development of Learning Cell!

Where can Learning Cell play his role?

Six Application Scenarios

Construction of digital resource library

Guided by the idea of web2.0, collect the wisdom of crowds, collaborative editing content

In a school, build school-based resource library by teachers

In a company, HR department can make staff engage in the collaborative construction of enterprise resources for training

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Knowledge Management

For individual consumer Build personal knowledge base Build personal knowledge network Weave your interpersonal network for learning

For organizational consumer Encourage your staff to create learning cells with their

practical experiences Transfer and share these knowledge represented by learning

cell in the organization Promote Tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge conversion to

each other Improve organization performance

Organizational learning

LCS is not only a CMS, but also provide functions of LMS

Learning community can help to aggregate contacts and organization wisdom, promote communications among staff

Online assessment based on the learning procedural information can drive employees online learning

Build learning organization

We are using LCS to build a learning research team.We are using LCS to build a learning research team.

Project management

Learning Community provides functions of announcement, BBS, resource sharing, membership management, task management and activity management.

It can be used as a platform of project management

Task allocation and program monitoring

Project A: Teach Future ChinaProject A: Teach Future China

Project B: Educational Application of NEC Tablet PC

Project B: Educational Application of NEC Tablet PC

Regional network-based study of teaching

Sharing and collaborative editing of teaching plans

Teachers in different schools can co-design a common teaching plan when they will have the same class in the near future.

Teachers can also set up research group using learning community freely to solve specific discipline problem.

Large-scale collaborative study of teaching in Feixi City of Anhui province of China

10 primary schools, more than 50 teachers

Large-scale collaborative study of teaching in Feixi City of Anhui province of China

10 primary schools, more than 50 teachers

College teaching and learning

Unlike traditional LMS, such as BB, Moodle, Sakai…

LCS has much web2.0 features and pay more attention to the construction of social learning network.

It can also undertake tasks of college teaching.

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A doctoral course named new developments of educational technology instructed by Prof. Shengquan YU

15 participants, one semester, 16 weeks

Part-2Ongoing Exploration Based on

Learning Cell

LCS is also a supporting platform for academic research.

What researches are we doing based on LCS?

Six key research issues

Orderly evolution of learning resource inu-Learning environment

Research Goal Consider learning resource as an organism from the

ecological perspective, combine semantic gene and social trust model technologies to automatically control the orderly evolution of learning resource in an open ecological system

Orderly evolution of learning resource inan open environment

Research Framework

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Orderly evolution of learning resource inan open environment

Key problems need to be solved How to control the evolving direction and

realize automatic audit of versions in content evolution?

How to find and build dynamic associations between learning resource entities in association evolution?

Personalized recommendation of learning resource in u-Learning environment

Research Goal Design a Personalized Recommendation Model of

Content (PRMC) in u-Learning environment and realize the personalized recommendation of LC based on this model.

Adaptive recommendation of LC

Key problems need to be solved How to design a personalized content

recommendation model adapted to u-Learning? How to realize the personalized content

recommendation in LCS？ How to evaluate the effect of personalized

content recommendation?

Adaptive recommendation of LC

Technical route

Design of multidimensional learning model for u-Learning based on LC

Research Goal Design an effective multidimensional learning model

based on learning cell and validate the effect

Learning model design for u-Learning based on LC

Key problems needed to be solved How to design and implement multidimensional

learning based on learning cell? How to design and verify the learning effects of

this models based on LC?

Automatic Construction of Visual Social and Knowledge Network

Research Goal Automatically construct social and knowledge network

through mining kinds of learning procedural information (comment, create, annotation, invitation, add friends, questions and answer, test…)

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Key problems needed to be solved How to construct social and knowledge network

dynamically ？ How to display the network visually? How to find specialists most useful for learning in

a subject or field from the social and knowledge network?

Adaptive presentation of Learning content on multi-devices

Research Goal Explore an adaptive presentation technology to

implement the self-adaption adjustment of learning cell on different learning devices

Self-adaption of Learning content on multi-devices

Problem needed to be solved How to display learning contents correctly

according different screen sizes, operating systems, memory sizes and storage spaces?

Other research contents How to implement offline learning on mobile phones? How to implement some useful applications combined

with features of mobile phone, such as photo taking, video recording and so on…

Design of Structured Knowledge Template

Research Goal Design various resource templates for different

types of knowledge based on multimedia learning theories

Help users to create high-quality learning cells quickly

Design of Structured Knowledge Template

Research Contents Design and develop scientific content templates

for different knowledge types Validate the effect of templates on learning

outcomes and resource constructions

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If you are interested in these research issues, please contact us by email LearningCellAdmin@163.com

Our researches have just started, welcome your participation!

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