New Learning Architecture for the University

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New Learning Architecture for the University

• Jaroslava Mikulecká
• University of Hradec Králové
• Czech Republic

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Learning Architecture

• Design,
• Sequencing,
• Integrating,
• of all electronic and non-electronic components
  of learning to deliver the optimum improvement
  in competence and performance of students and
  teachers.

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Why New Learning Architecture?

• It is not the strongest of the species who
  survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones
  most responsible to change
• Charles Darwin

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Knowledge management approach

• Knowledge building capabilities
• shared and creative problem solving,
• implementing and integrating new methodologies
  and tools,
• experimenting and prototyping,
• importing and absorbing technologies from
  outside of the Universitys knowledge

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Core Capabilities

• Constitute a competitive advantage for a firm
  they have been built up over time and cannot be
  easily imitated
• Physical systems,
• Employee knowledge and skills,
• Managerial systems,
• Organizations values and norms.

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Trust and social capital

• Trust is expectation that arrives within a
  community of regular, honest and cooperative
  behavior, based on commonly shared norms on the
  part of the other members of that community.
• Social capital is the capability that arises from
  the prevalence of trust in the society or in
  certain parts of it Social capital is developed
  and fostered when individuals believe that their
  actions will be appropriately reciprocated, and
  that individuals will meet their expected
  obligations.

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KM at the Universities

• Universities usually possess a modern information
  infrastructure,
• To share their knowledge with others is very
  natural for professors and teachers in general,
• To acquire knowledge from accessible sources as
  fast as possible is the natural desire of
  students,
• There is usually a trustful atmosphere at
  universities, no one is neither hesitating nor
  being afraid of publishing or otherwise
  disseminating her or his knowledge

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New Methodologies and Tools

• From classroom teaching to e-learning
• modern presentation equipment
• digital cameras
• digital libraries (as ACM and IEEE digital
  library - http//www.acm.org )
• e-books
• CD ROMs with CBT

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New Methodologies and Tools

• e-packs (as on WebCT page http//www.WebCT.com)
• distance learning management software (e-learning
  systems as WebCT, LOTUS Learning Space,
  Blackboard and many others)
• authoring tools software (as Macromedia Flash or
  Autorware)
• web based scheduler and course planner

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Financial Resources

• TEMPUS project S-JEP 12339-97 Multimedia and
  Distance Learning for Teachers.
• SOCRATES/MINERVA project No. 90683-CP-1-2001-1-CZ
  E-DILEMA - E-resources and Distance Learning
  Management
• Research stream CEZ J20/98184500001 Knowledge
  Management for Information Society, 1999-2003
• Research stream CEZ J20/98184500002 ICT in the
  global education, 1999-2003
• Special funds of the Ministry of Education

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Finance

• Communication
• HW (development,
• SW
• Technical support
• Training
• Study materials

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Motivation

• financial
• accreditation
• competition

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Competition of distance courses

• The main aim of the competition is
• to stimulate cooperation among Czech (and
  Slovak) universities,
• to motivate development and deployment of
  on-line courses,
• to evaluate quality of on-line courses
  materials,
• to demonstrate on-line teaching methodology,
  problems and achievements.

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Evaluation procedure

• The evaluation procedure has two-steps
• The jury grades course materials (1 to 9, the
  more the better) according to the criteria given
  in the table below.
• A workshop is organised where the authors of
  the best courses demonstrate their products to
  the jury and to all interested people.

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Evaluation Criteria

• The basic features (35 of all points)
• Mesurable and testable course objectives
• Intuitiveness of course control
• The overall design of the course
• Course graphics
• Usage of multimedia
• Lucidity
• Resourcefulness
• Response time of the system
• Quality of supplementary materials

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Evaluation criteria

• Motivation of the students (27 of all points)
• Discussion groups and whiteboard
• Workgroups
• Practical examples
• Planning and organising of learning process (8)
• Support with calendar, vocabulary, index, search
  possibilities

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Evaluation criteria

• Feedback (30)
• Monitoring of students progress
• Autotests
• Tests, assessments, assignments, exams

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eDILEMA project

• Objectives of the project
• to develop innovative practices for building
  joint electronic educational resources and
  services for distance learning at a
  collaborative principle
• to develop a optimal strategy for converting
  traditional way of teaching to mixed-mode
  distance delivery
• to test the designed practices via building
  distributed e-resources and services for
  distance learning in the subject area of
  business studies

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Digital Library of Learning Objects

• Learning Object is any entity, digital or
  non-digital, that may be used for learning,
  education or training.
• Metadata for learning object describe relevant
  characteristics of the learning object
• DL controlled set of digital information
  objects special type of information system
  fulfilling the role of library

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DL is not

• web is not controlled
• multimedia database does not provide library
  services
• on-line information resource need not to be
  on-line

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Metadata for DL

1. general information on the resource itself
2. semantics of the resource
3. pedagogical attributes
4. technical characteristics
5. conditions for use
6. meta-meat data

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Metadata Standardisation

• IMS - has produced a wide range of specifications
  for learning technologies recently Digital
  Repositories White Paper - http//www.imsglobal.or
  g
• Dublin Core developing a widely used resource
  discovery specifications - http//www.purl.org/dc
  
• ARIADNE developing concepts and tools for
  e-learning with a strong emphasis on the sharing
  and reuse of e-resources - http//www.ariadne-e
  u.org/main.html

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e-Repository - Physical View
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E-Repository logical view