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Keynote
Four-Component Instructional Design: Approaches to Scaffolding Complex Learning
Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer, School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Four-component instructional design
offers a systematic approach to the design of educational programs for teaching complex skills such as clinical reasoning, doing research, or conceptual modelling. It stresses the use of authentic learning tasks that exhibit the same variability as can be found in the real world, and a well-designed educational program shows simple-to-complex sequencing of those tasks and decreasing learner support and guidance at each level of complexity. Students work on the learning tasks is promoted by three other components: (a) supportive information, which helps students to perform the reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making aspects of the learning tasks, (b) procedural information, which helps students to perform the routine aspects of learning tasks, and (c) part-task practice, which helps students to fully automate critical routine aspects of tasks. This keynote presentation will focus on 4C/ID's different approaches to scaffolding complex learning, such as build-in task support, modelling examples, process worksheets, performance constraints, and the provision of different types of information. The take-home message is that complex learning requires a well-designed learning environment in which students gradually build the competencies needed by beginning professionals.
Material referenced during the presentation
- App-development course of Marco Marcellis
- Paper: Designing a Blended Course in Android App Development using 4C/ID
- Paper: Architectural design education: in varietate unitas
- Paper: Making explicit in design education: generic elements in the design process
Object-Oriented Modeling – Diversity matters!
Christian Huemer
"Object-Oriented Modeling – Diversity matters!" , by Christian Huemer Object-oriented Modeling (OOM) is a mandatory course for all students in computer science and business informatics at TU Vienna. It is a course of the second semester and it is usually completed by about 500 students per year. This high number of students also implies a great diversity of their needs mainly due to (i) learning types, (ii) previous education, (iii) native language, and (iv) special needs (e.g. those of deaf students). It was our goal to respond to the diversity of student needs by a diversity of different teaching and learning methods, to offer the best education in modeling to our students. In this presentation, we outline our teaching and learning methods, that helped us to reduce the percentage of students that fail in this course from 45% to 15%:
(1) The „digital“ lecture,
(2) The book,
(3) The practical lessons,
(4) The e-learning platform,
(5) The App,
(6) The exercises,
(7) The test
Towards a Multi-Stage Strategy to Teach Enterprise Modelling
Erik Proper
This short presentation concerns a suggested multi-stage strategy to teach enterprise modelling. We start by positing some key challenges in teaching enterprise modelling, that are inherent to the actual act of modelling. These challenges are rooted on a theoretical perspective of modelling, as well as practical experiences. We then highlight a possible strategy to deal with these challenges in teaching modelling.
Learning from conceptual models: Some insights from an eye-tracking study
Geert Poels
Conceptual models are a great tool to learn about a domain. Few studies have looked into how fast a domain is learned from a conceptual model. We provide first insights into an eye-tracking study that investigated how students look at conceptual models to retrieve and interpret the information needed for acquiring domain understanding. We compare viewing patterns for models constructed using different structuring principles and discuss the use of eye-tracking as a non-intrusive measurement instrument in empirical studies on learning from conceptual models.
Conceptual Model-driven Development versus Conventional Programming: an Experimental Comparison
Oscar Pastor
Conceptual Model-driven Development (MDD) is claimed to be the right solution for building software of high quality. Nevertheless, no convincing experimental evidences exist to assess that statement. In this talk, I will present an experiment that assesses this statement with the help of an industrial MDD tool. The experiment has been performed in the Master Course of Information Systems Engineering in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The talk will focus on explaining how the experiment has been designed and performed, and the results that have been obtained.
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Studying the learning of conceptual modeling: A learning observatory based on multi-model data collection
Stefan Strecker & Kristina Rosenthal
The complexity of learning conceptual modeling and the involved multifaceted learning processes suggest that research on learning conceptual modeling benefits from taking several complementary perspective. We present a browser-based modeling tool integrated with a learning observatory developed in support of learning conceptual modeling and of studying the learning of conceptual modeling. Implementing a multi-modal data collection approach, the learning observatory tracks learner-tool interactions, records verbal data from learners and surveys learners. In this short talk, we focus on the research design of a study based on the multi-modal data collection approach which aims at identifying difficulties faced in learning conceptual modeling.
Instructional design methods & Conceptual Modelling: how is the fit?
Monique Snoeck
Instructional design methods provide guidance on course design. I will present my experiences with how using Bloom's Taxonomy and 4C/ID influenced my course design, and which difficulties I experienced in doing so.