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The document describes a digital workbook (DWB) created by Opus Learning to track student interactions and reflections during online learning. The DWB records student notes, quiz responses, and messages as they interact with content. This data provides insights into learning behaviors and needs for intervention. It also forms an audit trail for authentication and a longitudinal record of learning for assessment. Benefits of the DWB include improved content through learner feedback, rich data for analysis, and a holistic assessment strategy across courses. The DWB aims to enhance the social learning experience by facilitating personal, peer, and instructor interactions.
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- 1. Reflection Logs as a Dashboard John Gordon Ken Currie Opus Learning 22nd November 2012
- 2. The problem • Opus Learning provides online education, so the usual problems – Tracking learning – Authentication – Identifying problems in learning – Recognising need for intervention
- 3. The Solution Student interacts with content Learner interacting with content, Makes notes, responds to leaving traces quiz, send messages, etc Store in MLE Capture notes Print off record of learning
- 4. Digital Work Book: Challenge • To develop tools for: – Teachers as authors – Audit trails from the learning process – Identify and understand behaviours – Authenticate candidates – Identify intervention requirements – Develop scalable assessment
- 5. What we wanted • Interactive content • Student to Content Interaction • Recording interactions, and reflection • Embedded activity and Assessment • Multi-user activity • Logging and monitoring of learning
- 6. What we made • A portfolio embedded in the content • A dashboard for learning, from all user points of view • Recording of legacy from learning • Rich seam of data and behaviours for mining • Ongoing formative assessment, and potential summative assessment
- 8. Digital Work Book: Features – Content based, an integral part of the learning materials – Context based, a support mechanism for testing concept understanding – Supporting Reflective Thinking – A longitudinal form of assessment
- 10. Learners interactions • Classical view - four types of interaction – learner-content – learner-learner – learner-tutor – learner-interface • The Opus view – there’s more! – the sum of interactions leads to meaningful learning
- 11. ∑ Interactions = Meaningful Learning Student/Student Student Student/Tutor Student/Content Student/Environment Content Tutor Tutor/Content Tutor/Tutor Content/Content Content/Environment Tutor/Environment Environment Based on diagram in Environment/Environment Anderson 2003
- 12. Interaction Table Interaction Methodology Student/Content Digital Work Book Student/Tutor Environment + Digital Work Book Student/Student Environment + Multiuser Digital Workbook Student/Environment Standard VLE such as Moodle 2.3 ( or others) Content/Content Rich Single Source Publishing + high level of linkage/integration + objects Tutor/Tutor VLE Features+ SQA QA Processes Tutor/Environment VLE Features+ Digital Work Book Dashboard Content /Environment VLE Features+ CAPDM Enhancements Environment/Environment VLE Audit trail. Tutor/Content CAPDM Single Source Publishing System
- 13. DWB Examples – Source Page
- 17. The DigitalWork Book: Benefits – Learner reflections form a legacy • A physical recorded book for the learner • A set of behaviour records for the learning provider – Learning content feedback – improvement of content – A behaviour trail – A rich source for data mining – Holistic assessment, across courses and programmes – Authentication Support
- 18. DWB Dashboard
- 19. Digital Work Book: Assessment Strategy – Provides ‘longitudinal’ assessment to augment assignments, exams, quizzes, etc. – Integrates assessment across courses and programmes – Is part of the ‘dashboard’ for Opus assessment
- 20. Example of Assessment screen
- 21. Standard Templates Standardised programme design – all modules have the same feature set 21
- 22. Concept Maps & Gateways • The DWB can be used anywhere, but it is effective when contextually relevant – Study Guides can be useful Concept Maps – Key concepts can be thought of a ‘gateways’ through which a student must pass successfully – The DWB can be used to assess understanding of these concepts • Contextually aware student input
- 23. Digital Work Book: Applications • Audit Trail – Very useful to check on student progress – Relevant in compliance related training • Personal portfolio – A reflective log – Augments and provides alternative to file stores • Student support – Intervention assessment – Authentication – A navigational aid
- 24. Creating the Social Learner • DWB is part of a social learner strategy – Rich interaction spaces – Personal interaction with the content (DWB) – Interaction on specific issues (traversing the web) – Social learner (Forums, Facebook, etc.) • The DWB is interaction
- 25. The Future • The DWB is sharable, including – with the Tutor – with other students, • In the future it will – support groups – support many content types – integrate with other portfolio components • The DWB will be our main assessment toolset • The DWB will be our main behaviour manager
- 26. References • Veronica Thurmond, Karen Wambach “Understanding Interactions in Distance Education: A Review of the Literature”, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2004, http://www.itdl.org/journal/jan_04/article02.htm • Su, Bonk, Magjuka, Liu and Lee; The Importance of Interaction in Web-Based Education: A Program-level Case Study of Online MBA Courses; Journal of Interactive Online Learning, Volume 4, Number 1 Summer 2005. http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/issues/pdf/4.1.1.pdf • Terry Anderson, Getting the Mix Right Again: An updated and theoretical rationale for interaction, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 4, No 2 (2003). http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/149/230 • THANK YOU • www.opuslearning.com