ERIC Number: EJ1183011
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Publication Date: 2018
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Learning Buckets: Helping Teachers Introduce Flexibility in the Management of Learning Artifacts across Spaces
Munoz-Cristobal, Juan A.; Asensio-Perez, Juan I.; Martinez-Mones, Alejandra; Prieto, Luis P.; Jorrin-Abellan, Ivan M.; Dimitriadis, Yannis
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, v11 n2 p203-215 Apr-Jun 2018
Technology offers rich opportunities for learning across different physical and virtual spaces. However, most of current across-spaces proposals are either highly teacher-centered, inflexible in the students' self-management of learning artifacts during the enactment, or allow the teacher little/no control of such students' management of artifacts. Moreover, these proposals tend to be disconnected from the practices and tools that are usual in the classroom. How can we achieve a middle ground between keeping the teacher in control of across-spaces situations and, at the same time, providing students with a degree of flexibility to manage learning artifacts? Aiming to address such a challenge we propose the notion of learning bucket, and the Bucket-Server, a system implementing such a notion. A learning bucket is a container of learning artifacts which are generated and/or accessed across-spaces by the students during the enactment, according to constraints configured by teachers at design time. The responsive evaluation conducted, based on a feature analysis and a pilot study with experts, suggests that learning buckets can help evolve from teacher- to student-centered approaches, while maintaining the teacher in control of students' actions. The evaluation also indicates that the Bucket-Server surpasses the support provided by alternative proposals to across-spaces learning.
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Technology Integration, Pilot Projects, Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Cooperative Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Teaching Methods, Physical Environment, Information Technology, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Workshops, Questionnaires, Observation
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