TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting the selection of digital resources for classroom-based teaching activities
AU - Atif, Yacine
AU - Sampson, Demetrios G.
AU - Harous, Saad
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Digital systems are offering opportunities to find, select, adapt, and use digital educational resources for teaching and learning which are openly available in the Web. As a result, innovative technology-supported classroom-based activities are widely anticipated by key stakeholders in formal education, namely, students, parents, education managers and policy makers. This puts a tremendous pressure on teachers and instructors to exploit digital resources in their daily classroom activities. Re-using available teaching resources is currently a major trend worldwide. This creates the need for tools that can support teachers in finding, and selecting appropriate digital resources for populating their lesson plans in school classrooms. Such tools can facilitate teaching processes to adopt technology-supported instructional strategies in a cost effective manner. In order to be able to build such tools, it is important to devise and study methods that can support teachers in discovering and selecting appropriate digital resources to populate their classroom-based teaching activities, taking into consideration important parameters of classroom-based instruction, such as time constraints and class population. To this end, in this paper we propose a design-to-time classroom-based teaching model and a time-adjusted lesson planning method that incorporates a classroom-constrained selection algorithm for digital resources available in Learning Object Repositories. We also evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm.
AB - Digital systems are offering opportunities to find, select, adapt, and use digital educational resources for teaching and learning which are openly available in the Web. As a result, innovative technology-supported classroom-based activities are widely anticipated by key stakeholders in formal education, namely, students, parents, education managers and policy makers. This puts a tremendous pressure on teachers and instructors to exploit digital resources in their daily classroom activities. Re-using available teaching resources is currently a major trend worldwide. This creates the need for tools that can support teachers in finding, and selecting appropriate digital resources for populating their lesson plans in school classrooms. Such tools can facilitate teaching processes to adopt technology-supported instructional strategies in a cost effective manner. In order to be able to build such tools, it is important to devise and study methods that can support teachers in discovering and selecting appropriate digital resources to populate their classroom-based teaching activities, taking into consideration important parameters of classroom-based instruction, such as time constraints and class population. To this end, in this paper we propose a design-to-time classroom-based teaching model and a time-adjusted lesson planning method that incorporates a classroom-constrained selection algorithm for digital resources available in Learning Object Repositories. We also evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm.
KW - Classroom learning
KW - learning objects
KW - learning technology
KW - lesson planning
KW - pedagogy
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U2 - 10.1109/ICALT.2013.110
DO - 10.1109/ICALT.2013.110
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885196948
SN - 9780769550091
T3 - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013
SP - 359
EP - 363
BT - Proceedings - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013
T2 - 2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, ICALT 2013
Y2 - 15 July 2013 through 18 July 2013
ER -