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Title: Learning Technology Standards what might they mean for Pedagogy Professor Mark Stiles Head of Learni


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Learning Technology Standards what might
they mean for Pedagogy?Professor Mark
StilesHead of Learning Development
InnovationStaffordshire University
CETIS Pedagogy Forum April 2003
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Two important initial points
  • Its not about content, stupid!
  • Mount Culture is a BIG climb!

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A bit of context
  • Currently we have
  • A largely untrained workforce
  • With modest IT skills
  • Choosing technologies which are intuitive to
    them!

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Current Traditional Practice?
  • Passive
  • Transmissive
  • Input focus

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Current Practice in eLearning?
  • Delivery focus
  • Content focus
  • Passive

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Choices for eLearning systems?
  • Top 10 reasons for selection
  • Ease of use 31
  • Ease of use staff 30
  • Cost 21
  • Flexibility/Versatility 16
  • Integration with MIS 15
  • Widely used 14
  • Functionality/Features 13
  • Pedagogic/Educational 13
  • Imposed/A mystery 10
  • Own system 10

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The Content Culture
  • Traditional delivery encourages staff to focus on
    content rather than pedagogy
  • IPRs totally overvalued

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The Content Culture
  • Content expensive to produce
  • Content wheels constantly reinvented

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The Content Culture
  • Need more focus on pedagogy
  • Need to stop wheel reinvention
  • But, they LIKE writing notes
  • AND, pedagogy is HARD

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So, what is e-Content
  • Resources
  • VLE Notes
  • E-Resources
  • E-Books
  • WWW Resources
  • Remits/Activities
  • Advice
  • Assignments and Tests
  • Combined to form learning opportunities

Note this ignores all forms of communication
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One view of e-Content
  • Resources resource ACTIVITY
  • Remit plus
  • Informational Content (and Refs)
  • Advisory Content
  • Assessment Information
  • Prerequisite/Subordinate activities
  • Activity normally involves communication

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A cleft stick?
  • We want staff to reuse content
  • We want staff to innovate pedagogy
  • Will a focus on content stunt pedagogy?

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Reuse or repurposing?
  • Reuse
  • In theory will save time and money
  • But might reinforce the content focus?
  • Might free time to focus on pedagogy?
  • But this is a big culture shift

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Reuse or repurposing?
  • Repurposing
  • Disaggregating others content to build your own
    what?
  • Gives an important feeling of control
  • But an illusion if pedagogy stays the same

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Reuse or repurposing?
  • Repurposing
  • Reuse a scenario with different problems and
    resources
  • Reuse a problem with different advice
  • Reuse a formative test with own problems and
    resources

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Why content standards? - Metadata
  • Needed for resource discovery
  • Needed to protect IPRs
  • Needed to communicate educational intent
  • Needed to support accessibility
  • BUT we are woefully short of Vocabularies

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Why content standards? - Packaging
  • Is just that!
  • Provides means to interchange content
  • However structure and intent lost
  • Bad for reuse
  • Disaggregation (Tins of Beans) aids repurposing
  • IF you have the tools to reaggregate

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Tin of Beans before.
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Tin of Beans after
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Why content standards? - SCORM
  • Single learner model
  • Largely instructional in intent
  • Provides some run-time behaviour and preserves
    intent within its limits
  • NOT enough
  • NOT essential
  • But, NOT useless and it exists

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Why content standards? Simple Sequencing
  • Single learner model
  • Largely instructional in intent
  • Uses an activity tree to control paths
  • Will be used by SCORM
  • NOT essential
  • But, NOT useless

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Eddies scos standalone COs
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Eddies scos standalone COs
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Conclusion
  • Introduction of content standards a two-edged
    sword
  • Holds out the promise of sustainable eLearning
  • Aids reuse and repurposing
  • Content reuse could reinforce current pedagogical
    weakness
  • Will demand a strong and coherent approach to
    staff development and support

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Thank you
  • m.j.stiles_at_staffs.ac.uk

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