A widget for mapping student tasks over time
Output from an experimental pedagogy widget
As part of our OULDI (http://ould.open.ac.uk) and Corse Buisness Models work at the Open University we are trying to produce a set of representations to capture courses at the curriculum level. One of the views is what we call a Pedagogy Profile view. We have a flash-based widget which enables the user to enter the amount of time students are expected to spend on six different types of pedagogy, plus the amount of time they will spend on assessment tasks. The user can choose the granularity of time (week, month, semester, etc) and the scaling (hours, ratios, percentages). In the example below I have used weeks and time divided into hours. The profile is automatically generated from the user-inputted data.
We think this has a number of uses
- As a means of teachers/designers getting a quick feel for the spread of task-types students are undertaking; typically there is an overload of 'assimilative' and 'assessment' tasks.
- As a means of teachers/designers deconstructing a course to find its profile
- As a means of comparing profiles across a deptment or faculty
- For students to assess their own learning patterns and mix of task types.
Thoughts welcome on the value of this!
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Comment 1 by Andrew Brasher
Comment 2 by Gráinne Conole
Gráinne Conole
5:07pm 9 September 2009
Hi Andrew where u trying to embed from slideshare? At the moment we are needing to use a work-around
eg. <a rel="embed" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=grqt3HoLOIA">Video about Moodle, on YouTube</a>
Comment 3 by Andrew Brasher
Andrew Brasher
5:13pm 9 September 2009
Hi Grainne
Yes, I was. I've now updated my comment using the workaround you suggested. Thanks!
Comment 4 by Gráinne Conole
Comment 5 by Andrew Brasher
Andrew Brasher
5:31pm 9 September 2009
Btw, on a more technical note, I think the the google docs spreadsheets and charts fuctionality be used to generate bar charts via the api, and to collect the chart data.
See e.g. http://code.google.com/apis/chart/
Comment 6 by Gráinne Conole
Comment 7 by Ethel Enstrom
Ethel Enstrom
6:12pm 16 October 2009
As an instructional designer, I think this could be a useful tool for getting a sense of the various tasks/activities when designing a course. It could also be useful for students to track the time they spend on various tasks/activities within a course. It could a good course evaluation tool, as well, to see if changes need to be made in the design.
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Andrew Brasher
5:03pm 9 September 2009 (Edited 5:12pm 9 September 2009)
It could be useful to show how the profile varies over time e.g.
Pedagogy profile