Application Scenarios and Ongoing Exploration
of Learning Cell
Xianmin Yang
PHD Candidate
[email protected]
Knowledge Media Institute, Beijing Normal University
http://lcell.bnu.edu.cn
mLearn 2011
Table of Contents
一．Analysis of the Application Scenarios of
Learning Cell
二．Ongoing Exploration Based on Learning Cell
Part-1
Analysis of the Application Scenarios
of Learning Cell
 Application can promote the development
of Learning Cell!
 Where can Learning Cell play his role?
 Six Application Scenarios
Construction of digital resource library
1
 Guided by the idea of web2.0, collect the wisdom
of crowds, collaborative editing content
 In a school, build school-based resource library by
teachers
 In a company, HR department can make staff
engage in the collaborative construction of
enterprise resources for training
Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
http://lcell.bnu.edu.cn/websites/eet/ind
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Knowledge Management
 For individual consumer
 Build personal knowledge base
 Build personal knowledge network
 Weave your interpersonal network for learning
 For organizational consumer
 Encourage your staff to create learning cells with their
practical experiences
 Transfer and share these knowledge represented by
learning cell in the organization
 Promote Tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge
conversion to each other
 Improve organization performance
2
Organizational learning
 LCS is not only a CMS, but also provide functions
of LMS
 Learning community can help to aggregate
contacts and organization wisdom, promote
communications among staff
 Online assessment based on the learning
procedural information can drive employees
online learning
 Build learning organization
We are using LCS to build a learning
research team.
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Project management
4
 Learning Community provides functions of
announcement, BBS, resource sharing,
membership management, task management and
activity management.
 It can be used as a platform of project
management
 Task allocation and program monitoring
Project A: Teach Future China
Project B:
Educational
Application of
NEC Tablet PC
Regional network-based study of teaching
 Sharing and collaborative editing of teaching
plans
 Teachers in different schools can co-design a
common teaching plan when they will have the
same class in the near future.
 Teachers can also set up research group using
learning community freely to solve specific
discipline problem.
Large-scale collaborative study of
teaching in Feixi City of Anhui province of
China
10 primary schools, more than 50 teachers
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College teaching and learning
 Unlike traditional LMS, such as BB, Moodle,
Sakai…
 LCS has much web2.0 features and pay more
attention to the construction of social learning
network.
 It can also undertake tasks of college teaching.
A doctoral course named new developments
of educational technology instructed by Prof.
Shengquan YU
15 participants, one semester, 16 weeks
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Part-2
Ongoing Exploration Based on
Learning Cell
 LCS is also a supporting platform for
academic research.
 What researches are we doing based on
LCS?
 Six key research issues
Orderly evolution of learning resource in
u-Learning environment
 Research Goal
 Consider learning resource as an organism from the
ecological perspective, combine semantic gene and
social trust model technologies to automatically control
the orderly evolution of learning resource in an open
ecological system
1
Orderly evolution of learning resource in
an open environment
 Research Framework
P1
P2
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Orderly evolution of learning resource in
an open environment
 Key problems need to be solved
 How to control the evolving direction and
realize automatic audit of versions in content
evolution?
 How to find and build dynamic associations
between learning resource entities in
association evolution?
1
Personalized recommendation of learning
resource in u-Learning environment
 Research Goal
 Design a Personalized Recommendation Model of
Content (PRMC) in u-Learning environment and realize
the personalized recommendation of LC based on this
model.
2
Adaptive recommendation of LC
 Key problems need to be solved
 How to design a personalized content
recommendation model adapted to u-Learning?
 How to realize the personalized content
recommendation in LCS？
 How to evaluate the effect of personalized
content recommendation?
2
Adaptive recommendation of LC
 Technical route
2
Design of multidimensional learning model
for u-Learning based on LC
 Research Goal
 Design an effective multidimensional learning model
based on learning cell and validate the effect
3
Learning model design for u-Learning based
on LC
 Key problems needed to be solved
 How to design and implement multidimensional
learning based on learning cell?
 How to design and verify the learning effects of
this models based on LC?
3
Automatic Construction of Visual Social
and Knowledge Network
4
 Research Goal
 Automatically construct social and knowledge network
through mining kinds of learning procedural information
(comment, create, annotation, invitation, add friends,
questions and answer, test…)
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Automatic Construction of Visual Social
and Knowledge Network
4
 Key problems needed to be solved
 How to construct social and knowledge network
dynamically ？
 How to display the network visually?
 How to find specialists most useful for learning in
a subject or field from the social and knowledge
network?
Adaptive presentation of Learning content
on multi-devices
 Research Goal
 Explore an adaptive presentation technology to
implement the self-adaption adjustment of
learning cell on different learning devices
5
Self-adaption of Learning content
on multi-devices
 Problem needed to be solved
 How to display learning contents correctly
according different screen sizes, operating
systems, memory sizes and storage spaces?
 Other research contents
 How to implement offline learning on mobile phones?
 How to implement some useful applications combined
with features of mobile phone, such as photo taking,
video recording and so on…
5
Design of Structured Knowledge Template
 Research Goal
 Design various resource templates for different
types of knowledge based on multimedia
learning theories
 Help users to create high-quality learning cells
quickly
6
Design of Structured Knowledge Template
 Research Contents
 Design and develop scientific content templates
for different knowledge types
 Validate the effect of templates on learning
outcomes and resource constructions
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Our researches have just started,
welcome your participation!
If you are interested in these research issues, please
contact us by email [email protected]
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