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The 4th Annual Conference of Learning International Networks ConsortiumAmman, Jordan, October 28-30, 2007
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Modeling the Communities of Practice of E-Learning
“CoPEs”Azeddine Chikh
Associate ProfessorUniversity of Tlemcen,
Algeria
Lamia BerkaniNational Institute of
Computer Science “INI”Algeria
Akila SarireteLecturer and Cisco Coordinator, Effat
College, Saudi Arabia
Presented by Akila Sarirete
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Objectives
Extend the application of the (CoPs) Communities of Practice to the E-learning field
The proposed category called CoPE
The CoPE concepts have been illustrated through a case study within the European project of distance education CoseLearn
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Presentation Overview
Introduction to Community of Practice?
Concept of Community of Practice of E-learning “CoPE”
Case Study
Conclusion and Perspectives
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Managing New FunctionsEducational institutions are moving towards the use of the Internet for delivery, both on campus and at a distance
Current technology hyper-change faces significant challenges…
How to create a work environment that enable people to: Learn, Adapt, Share, Respond effectively to innovative systems
How to manage new functions & structures
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What is a CoP?
Community of Practice CoP (Lave & Wenger, 1998) is a tool by which knowledge is owned in practice and whose main goal is learning
It is about a group of professionals who gather and organize themselves, face to face or virtually, in order to:
Share information and experience, related to their area of expertise,
Exchange and cooperate in order to solve problems encountered in their activities,
Learn from each other and develop their professional competencies
Build knowledge and formulate best practices to be followed in the realization of their daily activities.
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Characteristics of CoPs
CoPs are characterized by three fundamental features
How it functions?
What it has Produced?
A MutualEngagement
What it is about?
A SharedRepository
A JointEnterprise
To TransformationTo Transformation
From InformationFrom Information
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Community of E-learning (CoPE)
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What is CoPE?
A CoPE is a group of professionals in e-learning who gather, collaborate, and organize themselves face to face and mostly virtually in order to:
Share information & techno-pedagogic experiences related to the development & use of Online Learning System (OLS)
Exchange and cooperate in order to solve problems
Build (improve and/or create) together techno-pedagogic knowledge and model the best practices to be followed in the realization of the OLS
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What is a CoPE? (cont’ed)
Develop competencies in engineering pedagogy;
Promote the application of e-learning standards such as: IMS-LD for learning scenarios; IMS-LIP for learners description; IMS-LOM for pedagogical resources qualification; and SCORM for inter platforms exchanges;
Define terminology, glossary, or ontology, conciliating the various views and articulating them around the above mentioned standards.
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CoPE & Online Learning System
A CoPE is a virtual space of exchange, sharing, and resolution of problems encountered by actors of e-learning during all phases of an online learning system life cycle
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Learning Situations characterized by the collaborative aspect
Problem Situation: find solutions to common problems encountered during the two phases of acquisition and utilization in LMS. Example: how to incorporate a Java Applet for a given exercise in Moodle LMS in order to make it interactive.
Decision Situation: deciding on choosing between several alternatives during the acquisition phase or the validation of some results of the design. Example: What type of learning situation do we select in a specific course? Or what role do we choose to ensure a moderation activity in a given group (tutor/moderator-learner)?
Project Situation: concerns the final build up and realization of the online learning system according to the acquisition cycle. Confrontation of individual practices allows the best practices to surface.Example: Development of an online learning system related to a course on system engineering for master students in computer science field
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Components of a learning situation
Actors with their roles
Activities
Learning environment
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Roles in CoPE
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CoPE ActivitiesCoPE members carry out joint activities to exchange techno-pedagogical information
Activities correspond to the stages of learning life cycle
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CoPE Environment View Use of a specific environment intended to CoPEs
Use of a generic environment intended to CoPs
Use of an LMS environment type
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CoPE vs. LMS
CoPE is considered as a thinking space about e-learning activities.
Find solutions to encountered problems and to favor practices of reuse and exchange between actors in terms of techno pedagogic knowledge and know-how.
Strong relationship between CoPE and LMS LMSCoPE exchange: support discussions inside CoPEs with real problem situations encountered in LMS, making the CoPE’s space more active ; CoPELMS exchange: consists to experiment the solutions, obtained in the COPE’s space, directly in LMS before reifying them in the CoPE memory.
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Case Study
CoPE developed and realized within the framework of the project of distance education CoseLearn “Switzerland Cooperation”
Promote e-learning in a number of French-speaking countries in Africa
CoseLearn program leads to the professional diploma (MIEL) of “International Master in E-learning”
Principal actors of the project: Professors; Tutors; Administrators and Master candidates
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Case Study (cont.)
The problem situations:finding answers to the various questions encountered by the candidates during all their training and instruction, namely during the duties stated in various subjects as well as during the final project.
The decisional situations:identifying the possible alternatives of design and development, and the criteria and/or the arguments necessary to the selection.
The project situations :exchanging the practices, which appear by a viable know-how in terms of construction of the online education courses (best practices).
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Conclusion & Perspectives
Extend the application of the Communities of Practice (CoPs) to the e-learning field.
The proposed category called CoPE is considered the center of reflection of techno-pedagogic practices and promotes collaborative and cooperative learning.
The concepts related to CoPE have been illustrated through a case study developed and realized within the project of distance education program CoseLearn that leads to International Master in e-Learning.
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Conclusion & Perspectives
We plan to provide a specification language of the learning scenarios in CoPEs. This language will be based on IMS-LD
The feasibility of exchanges (LMSCoPE) is conditioned by a formal modeling of learning situations in their both sides. The IMS-LD language permits to model only the learning situations for LMS. Accordingly, a language of specification of learning situations within CoPEs is more than necessary