Transcript Chapter 11: Searching for Information

Modeling the Communities
of Practice of E-Learning
“CoPEs”
Azeddine Chikh
Lamia Berkani
Akila Sarirete
Associate Professor National Institute of
Lecturer and Cisco
University of Tlemcen,Computer Science “INI” Coordinator, Effat
Algeria
Algeria
College, Saudi Arabia
Presented by Akila Sarirete
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Objectives
Extend the application of the (CoPs)
Communities of Practice to the
E-learning field
The proposed category called CoPE
The CoPE concepts have been
illustrated through a case study within
the European project of distance
education CoseLearn
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Presentation Overview
Introduction to Community of Practice?
Concept of Community of Practice of
E-learning “CoPE”
Case Study
Conclusion and Perspectives
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Managing New Functions
Educational institutions are moving towards the
use of the Internet for delivery, both on campus
and at a distance
Current technology hyper-change faces
significant challenges…
How to create a work environment that enable
people to: Learn, Adapt, Share, Respond
effectively to innovative systems
How to manage new functions & structures
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What is a CoP?
Community of Practice CoP (Lave & Wenger, 1998) is a
tool by which knowledge is owned in practice and
whose main goal is learning
It is about a group of professionals who gather and
organize themselves, face to face or virtually, in order to:
Share information and experience, related to their area of
expertise,
Exchange and cooperate in order to solve problems
encountered in their activities,
Learn from each other and develop their professional
competencies
Build knowledge and formulate best practices to be followed
in the realization of their daily activities.
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Characteristics of CoPs
CoPs are characterized by three
fundamental features
From Information
A Mutual WhatAitJoint
is about?
Engagement Enterprise
How it functions?
A Shared
What
it has
Produced?
Repository
To Transformation
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Community of E-learning (CoPE)
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What is CoPE?
A CoPE is a group of professionals in e-learning who
gather, collaborate, and organize themselves face to face
and mostly virtually in order to:
Share information & techno-pedagogic experiences
related to the development & use of Online
Learning System (OLS)
Exchange and cooperate in order to solve problems
Build (improve and/or create) together technopedagogic knowledge and model the best practices
to be followed in the realization of the OLS
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What is a CoPE? (cont’ed)
Develop competencies in engineering pedagogy;
Promote the application of e-learning standards
such as: IMS-LD for learning scenarios; IMS-LIP
for learners description; IMS-LOM for pedagogical
resources qualification; and SCORM for inter
platforms exchanges;
Define terminology, glossary, or ontology,
conciliating the various views and articulating them
around the above mentioned standards.
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CoPE & Online Learning System
A CoPE is a virtual space of exchange, sharing,
and resolution of problems encountered by actors
of e-learning during all phases of an online
learning system life cycle
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Learning Situations
characterized by the collaborative aspect
Problem Situation: find solutions to common problems encountered
during the two phases of acquisition and utilization in LMS.
Example: how to incorporate a Java Applet for a given exercise in
Moodle LMS in order to make it interactive.
Decision Situation: deciding on choosing between several alternatives
during the acquisition phase or the validation of some results of the
design.
Example: What type of learning situation do we select in a specific
course? Or what role do we choose to ensure a moderation activity in a
given group (tutor/moderator-learner)?
Project Situation: concerns the final build up and realization of the
online learning system according to the acquisition cycle. Confrontation
of individual practices allows the best practices to surface.
Example: Development of an online learning system related to a course
on system engineering for master students in computer science field
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Components of a learning situation
Actors with their roles
Activities
Learning environment
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Roles in CoPE
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CoPE Activities
CoPE members
carry out joint
activities to
exchange technopedagogical
information
Activities
correspond to the
stages of learning
life cycle
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CoPE Environment View
Use of a specific
environment
intended to
CoPEs
Use of a generic
environment
intended to CoPs
Use of an LMS
environment type
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CoPE vs. LMS
CoPE is considered as a thinking space about
e-learning activities.
Find solutions to encountered problems and to favor
practices of reuse and exchange between actors in
terms of techno pedagogic knowledge and know-how.
Strong relationship between CoPE and LMS
LMSCoPE exchange: support discussions inside
CoPEs with real problem situations encountered in
LMS, making the CoPE’s space more active ;
CoPELMS exchange: consists to experiment the
solutions, obtained in the COPE’s space, directly in
LMS before reifying them in the CoPE memory.
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Case Study
CoPE developed and realized within the
framework of the project of distance education
CoseLearn “Switzerland Cooperation”
Promote e-learning in a number of Frenchspeaking countries in Africa
CoseLearn program leads to the professional
diploma (MIEL) of “International Master in
E-learning”
Principal actors of the project: Professors;
Tutors; Administrators and Master candidates
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Case Study (cont.)
The problem situations:
finding answers to the various questions encountered
by the candidates during all their training and
instruction, namely during the duties stated in various
subjects as well as during the final project.
The decisional situations:
identifying the possible alternatives of design and
development, and the criteria and/or the arguments
necessary to the selection.
The project situations :
exchanging the practices, which appear by a viable
know-how in terms of construction of the online
education courses (best practices).
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Conclusion & Perspectives
Extend the application of the Communities of
Practice (CoPs) to the e-learning field.
The proposed category called CoPE is
considered the center of reflection of technopedagogic practices and promotes
collaborative and cooperative learning.
The concepts related to CoPE have been
illustrated through a case study developed and
realized within the project of distance education
program CoseLearn that leads to International
Master in e-Learning.
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Conclusion & Perspectives
We plan to provide a specification language of
the learning scenarios in CoPEs. This language
will be based on IMS-LD
The feasibility of exchanges (LMSCoPE) is
conditioned by a formal modeling of learning
situations in their both sides. The IMS-LD
language permits to model only the learning
situations for LMS. Accordingly, a language of
specification of learning situations within CoPEs
is more than necessary
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