A Framework for the Pedagogical Evaluation of eLearning Environments

I came across the following resource which provides a, "A Framework for the Pedagogical Evaluation of eLearning Environments".

The paper uses Chickering & Gamson's (1987) 'Seven Principles of Effective Teaching' as the framework for examining the potential of Virtual Learning Environments to enhance learning. It also includes a questionnaire based on the viable system and conversational models articulated by Britain and Liber (2004).

The document is made available from Eduforge, "an open access collaborative learning and exploratory environment designed for the sharing of ideas, research outcomes, open source educational software, and tools within a community of educators, researchers and developers."

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[Marylou]

I am a graduate student in IDT at Walden University and found your blog by searching for ID sites. Since I am not an educator by trade I sometimes find the jargon of education is a new world - which I like. The first paper referenced on this date "A Framework..." has assisted me greatly in getting the underpinnings of pedagogy application. The seven principles greatly delineated the core of much of our learnings in my course. First thank you - and secondly, I'll be staying in touch with your postings.

[Pam Drum]

I agree that the pedagogical aspects of an eLearning environment system is important. The environment should lend itself to different pedagogies to be as adaptable and flexible as it needs to be. By following the Eduforge link that you provided, I also realized that there is a need for the LMS application programming itself to also be flexible and adaptable to reap the full benefits of open educational resources. Selecting a more proprietary LMS that does not “share well” with others might limit the ability to use excellent shared resources regardless of pedagogy preference. So this weaves yet another layer into the selection process of an eLearning environment system or LMS.

The Eduforge blog titled “Shades of openness” speaks of whether open educational resources (OERs) should be made to meet standardization to accomplish use across different LMSs or whether code should be written to translate uses an analogy between OERs and free trade agreements, but my first choice of analogy would be between OERs and the birth of the Internet. It’s interesting to me that the ISO is involved in both OER and Internet beginnings. Without the standardization on the makeup of information being used on the web, I feel it would be a mess and it would actually hinder the free trade of information if people had to be on a certain version of the Internet to be able to access information. Standardization has its benefits as long as the standardization isn’t too restrictive and allows expansion.

So the question seems to be should LMS content be made to conform to the standards or should code be written to translate the content from one LMS to another. It seems the less onerous would be to create the translation code as you suggest as long as that code is reliable and doesn’t create more clean up than it’s worth. By cleanup, I mean having to tweak the result to make it really fit and having to spend hours going through the resulting translated material to look for areas where it didn’t quite translate as expected.

What I can relate this to (in non-programming term) is how many of us have scanned and performed optical character recognition (OCR) on a document only to have to spend more time cleaning up bad characters and incorrect OCR than the whole process is worth? Sometimes after a particularly bad OCR event, the person performing the action realizes they could have retyped the whole thing in less time and with less frustration. My vision of faulty or messy translations between LMS platforms is the same. By the time the translation is performed and the cleanup is done, the content could have been re-created in the new LMS with a better resulting outcome. Especially when you consider that most people are going to want to personalize their OER content anyway. If a translation and cleanup with added personalization is considered, the outcome could be an onerous mess unless the translation code works well.

So even though it looks like translation code would be the “freer” approach, perhaps the standardization approach with its “plug-and-play” mentality would be equally as free depending on the translation capabilities between LMS platforms. After all – going back to the Internet standardization analogy – standardization of LMS wouldn’t have to limit freedom and functionality as long as the standardization was open enough to give breadth of creativity and choice.

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