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Zeit: Freitag, 18. August 2023, 14.00 Uhr
Der öffentliche Vortrag findet hybrid statt:
Ort: Raum 5053.2 (großer B-IT-Hörsaal)/Informatikzentrum, Ahornstraße 55
Zoom:
https://rwth.zoom.us/j/67829456459?pwd=RFM0SjNPb2xidzNIT0xJMUg1UkZGQT09
Meeting-ID: 678 2945 6459
Kenncode: 280923
Referent: Dipl.-Gyml. Matthias Ehlenz
Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Informatik 9 (Lerntechnologien)
Thema: A Sustainable Research & Development Ecosystem for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning with Interactive Tabletop Displays
Abstract:
Computer-supported learning processes are of consistently increasing importance for education. Considering innovative platforms, interactive tabletops provide distinct advantages: They introduce automated feedback, individualization
capabilities, and interaction mechanics that enable self-regulated learning in computer-supported collaborative learning processes. They allow truly equal, simultaneous interaction. At the same time, the strengths of face-to-face communication of traditional
group work are preserved. Additionally, the digitization of collaborative face-to-face learning opens new research opportunities by enabling the usage of methods from learning analytics and introducing innovative ways of multi-modal data collection.
Still, we do not know much about the practical impact of interactive tabletops on the learning process and successful usage in education requires the tuning of content and media to fit each other. Previous promising technologies
missed out on their potential by lacking content, research, and sustainable concepts.
This dissertation aims to help overcome obstacles and thus enable interactive tabletops to have a positive impact on future education. Assisting developers and educators to implement open-source learning games, providing
interdisciplinary research teams with methods and tools to produce highly configurable research prototypes and partake in open science, and enabling teachers to improve their students’ learning by providing insights through the open learning analytics infrastructure:
The Multi-Touch Learning Game (MTLG) ecosystem is intended to take a holistic approach on facilitating interactive tabletops for better learning experiences. This dissertation provides a systematic approach to the requirements of, research on and educational
use of interactive tabletop systems. The MTLG ecosystem presents an integrated research and prototyping framework for collaborative learning with interactive tabletop displays. The components are the MTLG core and toolchain (fundamental building blocks for
the rapid creation of capable research prototypes); the MTLG infrastructure (server-side components for connecting sessions across devices, managing users and more); the MTLG research components (supporting experimental setups). Considering scientific sustainability,
this dissertation goes beyond technical aspects and slightly beyond the scope of this project. In an interdisciplinary effort a sustainable, science-driven proposal for a learning analytics metadata infrastructure has been developed. The overall evaluation
is done in a threefold approach: First, case studies are presented to show research in depth. Second, the broad applicability is shown by presenting learning applications of different scopes and subjects. Third, a technical prototype and a corresponding case
study are presented to showcase the interplay of components.
Conclusively, this dissertation presents a coherent ecosystem of software, methods, and infrastructure to research collaborative learning processes involving interactive tabletop displays, large multi-touch systems placed
horizontally for face-to-face learning in groups.
Es laden ein: die Dozentinnen und Dozenten der Informatik
Dipl.-Gyml. Matthias Ehlenz
Koordination & Konzeption MediaLab
Lehrerbildungszentrum der RWTH Aachen
Kármánstr. 17-19
52062 Aachen
+49 241 80 96 435