A Critical Analysis of IMS Learning Design

Caeiro, Manuel; Anido, Luis; Llamas, Martin

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-0195-2_44

Cited by 28 publications

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“…Even with these multiple instance activities, IMS LD provides insufficient support for (collective) artefacts [4] and no straightforward mechanism to model the flow of artefacts between activities [14]. Therefore, proposed already to some extent by Caeiro et al [15], Miao et al [4] also defined a possible model for artefacts, where the data flow is derived from the specification of creation-/consume-activities. IMS LD's activity sequencing capabilities have been described as "quite simplistic" [16] and fine-grained splitting or synchronization of the control flow is not readily expressible [4].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Improved Support for Adaptive Collaboration Scripting in IMS LD

König

Paramythis

2010

Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice

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Abstract. The IMS Learning Design specification is acknowledged as the most promising option available presently for the implementation of collaboration scripts in e-learning. Nevertheless, it has been criticized for a number of shortcomings, and, specifically for its lack of support for constructs that would enable comprehensive adaptive support to be effected over the collaborative learning process. In this paper we propose concrete extensions to the specification, which build upon prior work and address a wide range of problems and omissions. The most important modifications introduced include: explicit support for groups, and run-time member assignment; addition of a run-time model; introduction of concrete artefacts; introduction of an event-handling model; and, a modified sequencing and script organization model.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Improved Support for Adaptive Collaboration Scripting in IMS LD

König

Paramythis

2010

Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice

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“…2007). Some efforts (e.g., Caeiro et al 2003;Hernandez et al 2004;Miao, Hoeksema et al 2005; Van Es and Koper 2006) have been made to investigate whether IMS LD is sufficiently expressive to represent collaborative learning processes effectively, usually by analyzing special cases. The most serious research in this direction was done by Van Es and Koper (2006), which investigated many examples, randomly selected from 6034 lesson plans.…”

Section: Group-based Learning and Collaboration Scriptsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representation of Coordination Mechanisms in IMS LD

Miao

Burgos

Griffiths

et al. 2009

Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects

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Group interaction has to be meticulously designed to foster effective and efficient collaborative learning. The IMS Learning Design specification (IMS LD) can be used to create a formal representation of group interaction and the model can then be used to scaffold group interaction by means of coordination support at run-time. In this chapter, we investigate the expressiveness of IMS LD in representing coordination mechanisms by using coordination theory as an analytical framework. We have found that IMS LD can represent almost all the basic coordination mechanisms. We have also identified some hurdles to be overcome in representing certain coordination mechanisms. According to coordination theory, common coordination mechanisms can be reused in different settings. We briefly explore the feasibility of representing coordination mechanisms at a high-level of abstraction, which will be easier for instruction designers and teachers to understand and use.

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“…Particularly, IMS-LD can be used to describe collaborative learning scenarios [13], [14]. It enables the design of learning processes that include several roles, each of which can be played by several people (a group).…”

Section: Ims-ld Documentsmentioning

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“…Gridcole is based on two standards that have appeared recently. On the one hand, the IMS Learning Design (IMS-LD) specification [12] provides an Educational Modeling Language (EML) that enables formal description of teaching-learning processes for a wide range of pedagogies in online learning, including collaborative learning [13], [14]. In this sense, IMS-LD can be employed for the description of collaboration scripts.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%