MATEL 2015: 7th Int. WS on Motivational
and Affective Aspects in Technology-
Enhanced LearningIngo Dahn, Christine
Kunzmann, Johanna Pirker,
Andreas P. Schmidt, Carmen Wolf
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Engineering socio-technical systems
Trends towards social-everything• Social project management, social collaboration, social
business process management, …
Engineering such solutions has only partly to do with technical features
Example: why does one messenger app succeed, another disappears in oblivion?
User experience in social systems• Motivational structures• Affective reactions
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Holocher-Ertl, Teresa, Kunzmann, Christine, Müller, Lars, Pelayo, Verónica Rivera, Schmidt, AndreasMotivational & Affective Aspects in Technology Enhanced Learning: Topics, Results, and Research RouteIn: ECTEL 2013
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Idea of patterns
In complex domains, such as motivational & affective aspects it is difficult to come up with cookbook recipes
Pattern-based approaches have proven useful in similar areas, ranging from architecture via software engineering („design patterns“) to educational patterns
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What‘s a pattern
In its essence: Pairs of problems and solutions• Described in a way that they allow the user of a pattern
to translate into their situation
Usually enriched structured description with• Context: contexual condition under which the solution
is known to be a solution to the problem• Evidence: examples or evaluation results that show
that the solution is a solution to the problem• Forces: main influencing factors (usually conflicting)
that constitute the deeper core of the problem• Consequences: How the solution resolves the forces
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Why patterns?
Patterns provide a structured description of experiential knowledge on good practices, making explicit the context of the experiences
Patterns are especially useful for newcomers to a domain to gain access to experiential knowledge
Patterns can evolve into a domain language
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Sample structure
Name Problem Context Analysis
• Forces Known Solution(s)
• Consequences References/evidence Diagrammatic representation of solution Example Related patterns
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What‘s difficult about patterns
It is about decontextualizing experiences
It is about proven solutions
It is about making it accessible to others
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Patterns evolve: Maturing processes of patterns
Kunzmann, Schmidt, Pirker: Pattern-oriented approaches for design-based research in collaborative research projects: A knowledge maturing perspective, EuroPLoP 2016
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Generator patterns
To make patterns practical, we have chosen a collection of patterns from collaborative inquiry
Generator is a role in collaborative inquiry• person has an ongoing engine within the self that keeps
on generating curiosity and ideas, • creates new values that would potentially change
peoples’ perspectives• leads the process of inquiry (not as a result of a formal
role, but by its behavior)• Interesting also as the transformed role of teachers and
closely related to others forms of facilitation, such as peer coaching
Masafumi Nagai, Taichi Isaku, Yuma Akado, Takashi Iba: Generator Patterns: A Pattern Language for Collaborative Inquiry, EuroPLoP 2016
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Three Key Characteristics Leading the group inquiry.
• involve the people around her into this process of resolving a doubt and forming a new belief
• nurture communications and a chain of ideas Make the inquiry reflect your person
• a Generator often facilitates conversations among participants
• not afraid to provide/present her own ideas, beliefs, and feelings
• honest to her curiosity, and in most cases, she is the one who is enjoying the inquiry the most
Awaken the participants’ creativity from within.• A Generator is never a self-centered person who just
pursues her curiosity by “using” the people and resources around he
• often gains the trust of the people around her and can also satisfy her creative desires by solving other people’s problems
• Believes that all people can become creative, and interacts with them so that they can start generating ideas themselves.