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Dai Griffiths <[email protected]>
Institute for Educational Cybernetics
D4L, 20th May 2008, Manchester
A new generation of Learning Design tools
The TENCompetence project
• 4-year EU Integrated IST-TEL project • Led by Rob Koper of OUNL, one of the
main architects of IMS LD• Developing “ technical and organisational
infrastructure for lifelong competence development”
• Open source, standards and interoperability specifications compliant
The “C” word• In the TENCompetence project
competence:– is not a thing in the head– is related to a niche– can’t be observed directly– is a disposition of an actor (individual, team,
organisation)– is identified and defined in a community of
practiceSee Cheetham & Chivers (2005) Professions, Competence and Informal Learning
So… learning is someone saying something about someone
• TENCompetence is a framework for those conversations, and relates them together
• Including “How do I learn to…?”• The conversations need to bridge social
and organisational contexts (HE, KM, HRM…)
• The structure should constrain learning or teaching processes as little as possible
What spaces will be used for conversations about learning?
• Threads which could converge?• Social applications on the web
• PLE ideas
• Mash-ups
• eFramework
• Competence frameworks
In the context of Institutional pedagogic & demographic change
• Infrastructure should not be tied to the current structures of institutions
• Degrees from a single institution?
• Accreditation organisations?
• Private universities and tutors?
• Libraries and classrooms?
• An open infrastructure should at least allow us to experiment with alternatives
This context suggests that…• We need shared models and
specifications for learning activities• IMS LD is not an act of faith, but also
should not be dismissed • It is hard to sort out the limitations of
implementations from limitations of the specification
• Our development is seeing how far we can push the spec
Often we just want access to information and suggestions
• Simple sequences of learning resources and activity descriptions
• In the context of a community and a competence development objective
• No cohorts, no teacher intervention• So no need for a separate runtime phase• TENCompetence provides this
If we need something more…
– Find, choose and adapt learning activities– With an explicit model which we can share– Infrastructure to mediate and coordinate
sophisticated learning activities for learners & teacher
– Open Source applications to edit them
• Then TENCompetence uses Learning Design
Simple web based editor / runtime for teachers. Will export to IMS LD (under development)
Wookie widget layer provides services. Allocates groups to tools in learning context; & provides flexible channel. Not exclusively LD.
ReCourse LD Editor v1.5 Successor to Reload LD editor
(level A editing, B & C file support)
Plug-ins for ReCourse provided integrated workflow
• OpenDocument.net repository – Browse and upload UOLs, parses manifest
• UOL Publisher– Replaces CLICC
• Widget services authoring• Editor for subset of QTI
– (under development, available soon)
Linking UOLs with the wider context
• Work in TENComptetence underway• Aligning objectives in PDP with learning
objectives in UOL• Advertising available runs of UOLs• Returning results of runs to the Personal
Competence Manager• Many identity and privacy issues, but we
think that this can be handled
Useful links• All TENCompetence downloads
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tencompetence/
• Info (and friendly links to downloads)– ReCourse LD Editor http://www.tencompetence.org/ldauthor/
– Wookie Widget server http://www.tencompetence.org/ldruntime/
• Web editor videos http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9E92FF44A85CCBFE
• Demos– Web editor: http://145.20.173.186/design.php
– Wookie widget server: coming soon, watch www.tencompetence.org…
• Support forums: http://www.tencompetence.org/forum/
Your participation is welcome!
• The TENCompetence foundation has been established– A vehicle which maintain the code and
coordinating its use
• More informally we would like to share– pilots, developing software, working on
specifications, future projects…– talk to me or Chris Kew, or visit
www.tencompetence.org
The Web editor
• http://145.20.173.186/design.php• The ideas will be familiar to some of you
– Wollongong verbs– 8 Learning Events Model
Demos of ReCourse and Widgets