Learning Enhancement Support System

A presentaiton at IGNOU to clarify and suggest approach to the proposed SAKSHAT portal

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LESS for More
Learning Enhancement Support System

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What is LESS?
•An idea: expanded to Learning Enhancement Support
System
•Probably another name for the One-Stop Educational
Portal
•Support student learning
•Provide testing services, remedial learning support,
and student tracking
•Interactive system with additional facilities to provide
interaction with experts
•System does not really replace the existing systems,
but further enhances their quality

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Learning Object Strategy
•Suggested by the three member sub-committee
•Learning object is a digital resource that can be used
to support learning
•Anatomy of a learning object:
Text
Audio
Video
Animation
Graphics
Pages
Frames
Digital Assets
Information Objects
Learning Object

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Information Objects
May be:
•Content items
•Assessment items (both for practice as well as test)
•Generic items such as introduction, learning
outcomes, summary, keywords, references

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Learning Objects
Consists of
•Overview/ Introduction
•Learning outcomes (one for each content items)
•Content items
•Assessment items (for practice)
•Assessment items (for test of both pre- and post-test
type)
•Summary, keywords, references

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Metadata
LO also needs appropriate metadata to:
•Identify and retrieve them
•Share and collaborate
Metadata elements required are:
•Reuse information
•Retrieval information
•Tracking information

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Back-end users
Teachers
Content authors
Editors
Administrators
Media designers
LO Server
LCMS
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Metadata Authoring
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Management System
IGNOU Server
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Learners
One-Stop
Education Portal
Technology
suggested

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Skill Demand
•Web designing
•Multimedia
•Animation
•Java and XML
•LCMS/LMS
•Digital audio and video
•Database handling
•Many more…
•Demands team work
•Assumes high technology maturation

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Distance Teacher
•Difficult to combine all the skills
•Can become the content experts
•Also can support the instructional design
component, including chunking and preparing
assessment items
•Type of questions that could be accommodated
include: short answer type, multiple choice,
true-false, fill in the blanks and sequencing

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Generic Information for Preparing
Questions
•Identification no.
•Language
•Subject code
•Topic code
•Level (target audience)
•Pre-requisites
•Table of specification code
•Cognitive process code
•Item type
•Performance record about this items

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Specific Item Dependent Data
Multiple Choice
•Question/ item stem
•Options (1 to 4/5)
•Score/ weight
•Feedback on each options
•Additional support on each option (links to LO
(internal or external)
•Identification of correct answer

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Specific Item Dependent Data
Short Answer
•Question/ item
•Suggested answer/ Hints
•Additional support on each option (links to LO
(internal or external)
•Links to experts (possibly)

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Just an Example
Which type of microphone is sensitive to
sound coming from half the environment to
which it is pointing:
a)Ribbon
b)Omnidirectional
c)Cardiod
d)Gun

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Feedback
Sorry, you got it wrong. Ribbon microphones
are sensitive to physical shock and are
suitable for recording in controlled
environment. More…

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Feedback
No. As the name suggest omnidirectional
microphones are sensitive to sound coming
from any direction. More…

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Feedback
Correct. Cardioid mics are unidirectional
and thus, are sensitive to sound coming
from half the environment to which it is
pointing. More…

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Feedback
No, this is not correct. As you know Gun
mics are used for avoiding environmental
noise and are sensitive to only a narrow
angle of sound. More…