Abstract
The design of educational tools tends to focus on students’ learning, giving less importance to the role of the teacher. The design of these tools often does not allow teachers to adapt the technology according to their learning designs. This means that the designer may impose pedagogical approaches to teachers. This is a problem as it does not offer teachers the flexibility they need to make an effective use of the technology for their courses. A promising approach to address this problem is the metaphor of orchestrable technology, which poses that teachers should be allowed to tune the tool so it can be adapted to their activity designs. This paper describes our work in progress in the context of small group Entity-Relationship (ER) diagramming. We present Hecoder, a learning tool that allows the teacher to design tasks, organise groups, monitor student’s work, provide feedback and assess the final outcomes. The paper examines the design implications of our system; presents preliminary results of using Hecoder in an authentic classroom; and provides insights about our future strands of research using Hecoder and other collaboration tools.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups |
Editors | Jihie Kim, Erin Walker, Roberto Martinez- Maldonado, Ilya Goldin, Cindy Hmelo-Silver |
Place of Publication | Cham Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer |
Number of pages | 6 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups 2014 - Honolulu, United States of America Duration: 5 Jun 2014 → 5 Jun 2014 Conference number: 3rd https://sites.google.com/site/its2014islg/program |
Conference
Conference | Workshop on Intelligent Support for Learning in Groups 2014 |
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Country/Territory | United States of America |
City | Honolulu |
Period | 5/06/14 → 5/06/14 |
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Keywords
- ER diagramming
- visualisations
- CSCL
- orchestration