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Integrating Portal Based Support Tools to Foster Learning
Communities in University Courses
Niels Pinkwart, Andreas Harrer, Steffen Lohmann, Stefan VetterUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Typical problems of University lectures with growing size:
• Loss of personal contact to students• Lack of individual support• Resources bound to management
Web based solutions?
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E-Learning commonalities…
• “Blended Learning” scenarios, combining presence elements with new technologies
• Availability of networking facilities (also on-campus)
• Web technologies for exchange of media resources
• Community support through portals (and their functions for learning!)
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Systematically… the requirements:
• Community support: “communication and collaboration”
• Organizational support: “management and co-ordination”
• Task support: “help and assessment”• (Learning) Process support: “blending
and smooth integration”
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Architectural requirements/criteria
• Platform independency• Deployment• Portability
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Web based solutions
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Architectural requirements/criteria
• Platform independency• Deployment• Portability• Learnability (Transfer!)• User Management• Module libraries• Extensibility
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CMS technologies in Web Portal trameworks
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iPAL Components:
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Community Support:Strength of Web Portals
• Wikis• Discussion Forum• Private Messages• Polls
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Organizational Support:CMS as system base
• Users and groups • Mails & newsletters• Lab groups selection• Exercise management ( Task
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Task Support:Extensions to CMS needed
• Dynamic provision of learning resources (links, up/downloads)
• Comments, Ratings of resources• Exercise distribution, assessment
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assessment
solution
Learning Process Support:Weak Point of general CMS
• Links & Downloads• Authentic Lecture Content:
– Digital Whiteboards– Immediate Upload of Slides– Comments and Questions possible
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...back to the chalkboard !?
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Course “Programming” - Subjective Impressions:
• ~180 presence participants• Immediate acceptance (first 30 registrations
during first lecture)• Highly positive polls (e.g. 86% consider portal
helpful for exercises)• Well received lecture notes integration• De facto replaced the established forum• Great reduction of management work
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Usage Statistics:
• 340 users, 470.000 page views• 250 forum threads with 1500 articles
(75% content related)• Downloads per resource: Ø 200• Uploads rarely used• Comments on lecture slides seldom
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Evaluation: Learning support?
• Real scenario no “control group”• High number of uncontrolled
variables
Approach: Correlation of system usage with exam scores
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Spearman rank correlation:
ρ = 0.485 (p<0.01)
Medium positive correlation
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Only three students with high number of postings but low scoreWBE 2005
Further developments:
• Usage: four further lectures• Improvement of usage tracking • Enhanced analysis methods (to be
presented at Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning)
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http://distsys.collide.info(english version)
Questions?
Niels [email protected]
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