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Panning for Gold(Designing Pedagogically-
inspired Learning Nuggets)
Chris Bailey, Mohd T Zalfan &
Hugh DavisLearning Technologies Group
Karen Fill & Gráinne Conole School of Education
Structure of Presentation
BackgroundNugget ModelComparison with IMS-LDDemoConclusions
The DialogPLUS Project
3 year JISC/NSF Digital Libraries in the Classroom project
Concerned with creating, sharing & repurposing online learning activities that draw on a wide range of available resources pulled from digital libraries
Geography partners: Southampton, Leeds,UCSB,Penn State
Nuggets
Due to confusing terminology definitions within e-learning, a pedagogically neutral term was invented for the geographers - the nugget
A nugget would represent an atomic, self-contained set of resources centred around specific learning objectives.
Nugget aka ‘learning activity’ Several nuggets could be used in a lecture, as
assignments or practicals. Nuggets can range from written notes, word/pdf
documents web pages, small website, flash animation
Examples of Nuggets
Why model nuggets?
Our intention was to provide a nugget repository/digital library (e.g. JORUM) where geographers could upload their own nuggets, attaching pedagogically-orientated metadata and search/view other people’s nuggets using these same terms
This lead to the development of the toolkit
Aware of the development of IMS-LD, however..
Previous experiences in similar situations highlighted negative aspects of enforcing existing standards onto practitioners
We decided to create our own modelAlthough developed independently, there
are a lot of similarities between our nugget model and IMS-LD
IMS-LD
Learning Activity
A learning activity (nugget) has these main elements:
Required: learning outcomes a set of attributes tasks roles
Optional: tools resources outputs
Learning ActivityLearning outcomes
Tools
Discussion board
Web browser
Excel
.....
Resources
LO1 webpageLO2 online journalLO3 databaseLO4 ......
Outcomes
Contribution to discussionTextAnswers.......
Attributes
Tasks 1. Brainstorm a concept 2. Read a paper 3. Write short critique 4. Analyse data 5. .....
Pedagogy Subject Skills
mini activity
Roles
individual learnerfacilitatorgroup participant......
Final (ish)
nuggetmodel
Iterative development over several years from close discussions with project partners
Final (ish)
nuggetmodel
Iterative development over several years from close discussions with project partners
Description
Aim
NameOutcome Type (t)
Sequence
Learning Outcome
NameSubjectDifficultyPre-requisitesApproach to L&T (t)
Environment (t)
Learning Activity
DescriptionLengthType (t)
Technique (t)
Interaction (t)
Task
Role Type (t)
Skill Type (t)
Role
NameType (t)
URL
Resource
NameType (t)
URL
Tool
Type (t)
Technique (t)
Assessment
*
*
*
*
**
*
*
*
Learning Activity
Comparison with IMS-LD
With a stable version of the nugget model, we have returned to IMS-LD and analysed our model in light of IMS-LD
Different aims of the two approaches
Lots of similarities
Comparison with IMS-LD
Now for a Demo…
Experiences
What have we learnt? It is possible to provide a mapping from our
nugget model to that of IMS-LD But does not always provide a complete
mapping We can produce LD ‘templates’ Mapping onto the lower levels of LD To be more extensive/flexible, another level of
object composition would be useful
Reflections for IMS-LD
Areas where metadata would be useful but not supported in IMS-LD. E.g. pre-requisite & learning objective metadata on intermediate
objects such as Activity-Structures
Experiences in the DialogPLUS project have shown that pedagogical metadata (such as our approach to learning and teaching) and general design are often the most reusable aspects of a learning design
Tools such as our nugget toolkit can (we hope) greatly improve the impact of IMS-LD by providing a more user-friendly environment for authoring units of learning
Thanks for listening
Links: Toolkit: http://www.nettle.soton.ac.uk/toolkit Nugget model
Approach to Learning & Teaching Outcomes Assessment Tools & Techniques
Chris Bailey: [email protected] Karen Fill: [email protected]