A Process Using Ontology to Automate the Operationalization of Pattern-Based Learning Scenarios

Abstract

For most teachers-designers, operationalizing learning scenarios based on patterns just replicates traditional ways by adding course content and multimedia elements on learning management systems (LMS). We aim to go beyond this method by trying to engage the teachers-designers to design deployable learning scenarios. Using patterns for their design is proven to be an adequate solution to seek balance between the need of expressive instructional scenarios, and the technical constraints that occur while deploying these scenarios on learning management systems. Pattern's formal description is needed in order to translate the concepts of a pedagogical scenario, according to those embedded in the LMS. In this paper, we propose a process to structure, index, formalize, and finally adapt and operationalize the pattern-based learning scenarios. The presented process shows how the use of an ontology modeling learning scenario's concepts helps the automation of deploying the learning scenarios on an LMS. For that, this ontology has been extended with one representing a learning platform paradigm.

Rethinking Learning Design for Learning Technologies: A Formalized Vision to Operationalize Pattern-Based Scenarios

“…The work was carried out in three steps following the lead of an algorithmic course design [26]. As a first step we extracted a list of learning concepts identified in the textual version (e.g.…”

“…We defined a five steps process [26] for pattern-based learning scenarios operationalization. Structuring (1) and indexing (2), allowing a mapping of the educational concepts with the learning platforms concepts and features.…”

“…We aim to mitigate the existing gap between the expressiveness, (scenarios formalization) and the computer usability of a learning scenario representation form (deployment on a target platform). To do so, we propose a process based on patterns and ontologies, the different phases of the process are presented as a whole in [26].…”

“…The next section (section II) provides a short summary of the related research work on instructional design, from the operationalization perspective. We focus on the pattern-based approaches which have been proven to be the most suitable choice of design to our operationalization goals, for their structural representation helping to better illustrate teachers practices for an LMS oriented design [26].…”

Platform Oriented Semantic Description of Pattern-Based Learning Scenarios

“…The challenge is to easily master the process from the design to the operationalization of learning scenarios, for that, we believe that the operationalization of learning scenarios on LMSs is more than a technology-related question. Different research issues around instructional design are to be addressed in order to provide pedagogical expressiveness of the different elements within a learning scenario, while the design respects sufficiently the structure to describe the learning scenario [3] [4]. In our research, we seek to provide solutions to the problem of the automatic deployment of learning scenarios.…”