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N.Vivekananthamoorthy R. Sampath
KCG College of Technology
Plan of Presentation
Overview Introduction Changing paradigms
Overview
Technology Enabled Learning UML Modeling Self Regulation Faculty Empowerment
The responsibility of learning - shifted from teacher to the learner. The role of teacher - changed from instructor to facilitator. Faculty empowerment - key indicator in fostering Self Regulated Learning. A UML based e-Learning Model - Controlled environment in which self-directed learners can become autonomous. UML Model - helps in conceptualizing an e-Learning framework. Self Regulation - can be implemented with UML Design Patterns. Pilot Study - Web based experimental set up . Free Tools - used for creating web content. Faculty - empowered to create e-learning content and provided with 3 tools monitoring student learning processes.
Introduction
Advancements in Information and Communication Technologies have opened up new challenges and opportunities in higher Educational Institutions.
There is steep rise in internet usage around the world during the last decade. Connectivity and instant access have opened up new vistas in many spheres of lives of people.
The traditional class room based educational system needs transformation to catch up with technology.
The learners today have opportunities and flexibility of learning at any time, any where , and at any pace.
Changing Paradigms
Now the responsibility of Learning has been shifted from teacher to the learner. The role of teacher has been changed from instructor to facilitator or mentor of Learning. The faculties need empowerment to acquire new skills to facilitate this transformation.
VLE is a learning Platform which provides web based access to content ,grades, assessments, and other online learning facilities.
VLE faces problems like Information overload, poor usability , Lost in Hyperspace syndrome. Majority of professors primarily use Blackboard a) To post course content , b) to calculate grades , and c) to communicate with students via the Announcements tool. Advanced features like Rubric, Wikis, and blogs are not widely used. (Janiess Sallee et al.,2012)
The new technologies would transform teaching and learning process from being highly teacher dominated to student centered and the students would develop problem-solving abilities, creativity and higher order thinking skills.
However study by Guri-Rosenblit (2009,2011) ,there exists noticeable gap in e-Learning research.
Self Regulation
Self Regulation Key Indicator
Since E-Learning heavily depend on shifting the responsibility from
the Instructor to Learner, Self regulated learning is a key-indicator for enhancing the learning outcome of the learners. Zimmerman(1990) , David J. Nicol (2006) emphasize learners to assume responsibility and control for their own acquisition of knowledge and skill.
Some self Regulated Learning Strategies are a) Self-evaluation b) Goal setting and Planning, c) Self-monitoring etc.
All researchers agree Self Regulation depends on continuous feed back of learning effectiveness.
Oracle principal product manager for UML and cochair of the OMG's
UML facilitates to represent the holistic view of the e-Learning System in a Domain Model
Feedback
Assignment * * Test 0..1 * takes 0..1 Assessment 0..1 0..1 adopts * Learning Strategies
Student
conducts * supervise
Progress Statement
runs
contains *
Topic
* browses
UML State Machine Diagram The diagram shows a UML state machine diagram representing students role in ELearning. In the course life cycle, a student can be in any one of different possible states. For example, when a student browses through the E-Learning content, he moves to the self-learning state.
The chart shows a plot of the web usage statistics for the month of April for the years, 2010, 2011, and 2012. It can be seen from the graph that there is a steady increase in visitors and pages referred for the last three years.
The charts show web usage statistics for course OOAD for two periods namely April-2011 and May-2012. It can be seen from the graph that there is increase in page views during certain dates. The site usage was maximum during the exam period.
It can be seen from the graph that Pattern exists in web usage. The peak indicating the maximum page access for course OOAD repeats every year during the same period during University Examinations.
It can be seen from the chart that majority of students belonging to two groups have responded positively for the criteria on learning preferences. It can be inferred that E-learning framework has a positive impact on the focused group and it helps the students to enhance their learning outcome better than class room lectures.
Conclusion
This research work highlighted faculty empowerment as the key indicator in fostering self regulated learning.
A UML based e-learning model was suggested in this work which provides a controlled environment in which self director learners can become autonomous. This study hypothesizes that an UML based model helps in conceptualizing an e-Learning framework with holistic and serialbased view and also Self Regulation can be implemented with UML Design Patterns. A pilot study was done using a web based experimental set up where a faculty was empowered for creating content, provided with tools for monitoring states of student learning processes. The student feedback and reports on web analytics confirm that there are interesting pattern exists in student learning behavior.
Future Directions
The present work is preliminary. Concrete experimentation needed to support the proposed UML Model. UML Modeling, Self-Regulated Learning, and Faculty Empowerment are separate concepts. More experiments and evidence needed to prove that the suggested model helps to improve student learning outcome. The pilot study has to be scaled up covering a larger audience. More studies o to establish correlation between site visits, page views and Learning outcomes. Educational Data Mining Techniques can be adopted . o Automatic analysis of web log data. o Generation of visual reports o Pattern analysis and knowledge discovery