L’article de Patrick qui donne une vue d’ensemble de l’utilisation des technologies de formation à l’EPFL est paru dans le Flash Informatique sous le titre Vers l’intégration des technologies dans l’enseignement.
Notes taken during the MObile Support for Integrated Learning (MOSIL) Duisburg minicamp on educational script modelling, IMS-LD, UML and Active Documents. Official outputs are available on the MOSIL BSCW repository.
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The educational script visualization I presented at the Duisburg mini camp on Educational Modelling (IMS-LD, UML and Active Documents)
Maze diagram
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Notes from Pierre’s explanation of his SWISH (Split Where Interaction Should Happen) model
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Notes from Pierre and Patrick’s article on modelling integrated learning scripts
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Posters for the EPFL I&C Research Day 2004 are available in the CRAFT Research Booklet. CatchBob!, BILL, and ShoutSpace are featured.
My notepad notes during the MObile Support for Integrated Learning (MOSIL) mini camp in Lille, France. Official outputs are available on the MOSIL BSCW repository.
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A few notes written prior to the Lille mini camp on action/role taxonomies and workflow for modelling scripts for collaborative learning. A workshop part of the MObile Support for Integrated Learning (MOSIL) project.
Collaborative educational learning scripting for mobile technologies:
- We are looking for an asbtract description of CSCL scripts, especially those exploiting mobile technologies
- Increase effectiveness of collaborative learning by augmenting the frequency of types of interactions that produce knowledge
- Collaboration -> (conflic resolution, argumentation, negociation, mutual regulation, explantion) -> Learning
- A script defines a distributed cognitive system. Learning results from compensating the drawbacks of task distribution
- Script authomatically interpreted by the computer and generate a environment to carry out the activity with the computer
Dimensions of a script:
- Design Rationale (conflict, abstraction, complementarity)
- Degree of coercion (prompter, trained, instructed, induced)
- Degree of appropriation (internalisation, adoption)
- Degree of generalisability
To describe scripts we need:
- a reprensation of a sequence of activites and interactions, with a time structure
eg: [Phase_1 = Task Group Mode Timing]; [Task = input activity output]
- a representation of the social structure (individual, group, social). Social Planes = individual, group, class, community, world
- a represenation of dataflow
A phase is:
- taks the student has to perform
- composition of the group
- the way that the task is distributed within the group
- the mode of interaction (state or sequence diagram)
- the timing of the phase
And the the modelling (based on Patrick’s work) I presented as introduction:
- Phase diagram [page 1]
- Arguegraph modelling [page 1] [page 2]
- Maze modelling [page 1] [page 2]
Early version of StrategyBob2, the Java version of StrategyBob, a strategy visualizer for the BILL (Biology Instruments Learning Lab) module.
The first version of Biology Instruments Learning Lab (BILL), a project-based learning application in the field of biology is now in production mode. Developed by the CRAFT, BILL will be used by freshmen cellular theory students of the EPFL and UNIL. The goals of BILL are to:
- solidify and expend theoretical knowledge (via online content or book references) of instruments used in cellular biology
- familiarize the learner to strategically solve problems by using the appropriate combinations of instruments (outputs of each instruments are simulated)
BILL is based on a community portal which can allow learners to communicate and collaborate. Courses (series of questions with their instruments, resources and outputs) are formalized in XML for easy editing and to improve reusability.
A demo login is available at http://craftsrv1.epfl.ch/bill/
