Title: Learning Technology Standards what might they mean for Pedagogy Professor Mark Stiles Head of Learni
1Learning Technology Standards what might
they mean for Pedagogy?Professor Mark
StilesHead of Learning Development
InnovationStaffordshire University
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2Two important initial points
- Its not about content, stupid!
- Mount Culture is a BIG climb!
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3A 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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4Current Traditional Practice?
- Passive
- Transmissive
- Input focus
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5Current Practice in eLearning?
- Delivery focus
- Content focus
- Passive
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6Choices 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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7The Content Culture
- Traditional delivery encourages staff to focus on
content rather than pedagogy - IPRs totally overvalued
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8The Content Culture
- Content expensive to produce
- Content wheels constantly reinvented
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9The Content Culture
- Need more focus on pedagogy
- Need to stop wheel reinvention
- But, they LIKE writing notes
- AND, pedagogy is HARD
10So, 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
11One 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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12A 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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13Reuse 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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14Reuse 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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15Reuse 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
16Why 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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17Why 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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18Tin of Beans before.
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19Tin of Beans after
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20Why 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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21Why 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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22Eddies scos standalone COs
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23Eddies scos standalone COs
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24Conclusion
- 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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25Thank you
- m.j.stiles_at_staffs.ac.uk
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