Diana Laurillard ( Institute of Education University of London, UK) keynote at ePIC 2012 on Rethinking teaching identities: e-portfolios supporting teachers as a professional community
2. Outline
• The pedagogic value of e-portfolios
• Individual and social identities
• A social identity for teaching professionals
• Teachers as design scientists
3. The pedagogy of e-portfolios
Provides the learner with opportunities to
• Collect resources and ideas
• Practice presentation of knowledge and skills
• Exchange outputs with peers
• Offer and respond to feedback with peers
• Produce presentations of what learned
4. A pedagogical framework
Begin with the educational requirements –
What does it take to learn?
(any subject, any age)
- then challenge the technologies to meet them
5. The learner learning
Acquiring
Talk, book,
Teacher L L
Learner
video, Web
concepts C C
concepts
Inquiring
Modulate
Generate
L
LearnerL
P P
practice
Learning through acquisition of concepts and ideas
Learning through inquiry into resources
6. The learner learning
Teacher L L
Learner
concepts C C
concepts
Productions
Modulate Modulate
Generate Generate
Task/Feedback
Design, Game,
Learning L
LearnerL
Simulation
environment P P
practice
Actions
Revisions
Learning through practice with reflection on meaningful intrinsic feedback
Learning through production from reflecting on practice
7. The learner learning
Acquiring Ideas, critiques
Talk, book,
Teacher L L
Learner Peer
video, Web
concepts C C
concepts concepts
Inquiring
Ideas, critiques
Producing
Modulate Modulate Modulate
Generate Generate Generate
Task/Feedback Productions
Design, Game,
Learning L
LearnerL Peer
Simulation
environment P P
practice practice
Actions
Productions
Revisions
Instructivism - Social constructivism – Experiential learning -
Constructionism – Collaborative learning (Dewey, Vygotsky, Piaget,
Gagné Bruner, Papert, Marton, Bransford…)
8. The complexity of the learner learning
Acquiring
Teacher Peer
Teacher L L
Learner Peer
concepts Inquiring
communication
C C
communication
Discussing concepts
cycle concepts cycle
Producing
Modulate Modulate
Generate Generate
Teacher Peer
Learning L
LearnerL Peer
modelling
Practising Sharing
modelling
environment cycle
P P
practice cycle practice
The teacher needs to use all these types of learning to promote and
facilitate the cycles involved in learning
9. Representing collaborative learning
Teacher L L
Learner Peer
concepts
Producing C C
concepts
Discussing concepts
Modulate Modulate
Generate Generate Generate
Design, Game,
Learning L
LearnerL Peer
Simulation
environment Practising P P
practice Sharing practice
Collaborative learning (Roschelle, Schwartz, Dillenbourg)
Interactions with teacher, peers, environment and peers’ outputs drive the
internal reflective cycles of generating and modulating concepts and practice
10. Further details…
Teaching as a Design
Science: Building
pedagogical patterns
for learning and
technology (Routledge,
2012)
11. What can e-portfolio environments offer?
Podcast
Teacher Peer
Teacher Web L L
Learner Webinar Peer
communication communication
concepts resources C C
concepts Forum concepts
cycle cycle
Video, PPT,
Modulate designs Modulate
Generate Generate
Teacher Peer
Learning Design L
LearnerL Collaborative Peer
modelling modelling
environment tools
cycle
P P
practice design tools
cycle practice
The teacher must design the e-Portfolio Environment to
support all these aspects of the learning process
12. Individual and social identities
• E-portfolios help students to develop an
individual digital identity
• Students also interact with online groups,
collaboration tools and social networks
• E-portfolios can contribute to social learning
and collaborative learning
• How do teachers learn how to facilitate and
support these forms of learning?
13. E-portfolios for teacher
development
• E-portfolios are being used successfully to
develop trainee teachers’ individual identity
• All teachers need to learn from each other, to
develop knowledge of learning technology
• For this, we need teachers to be a professional
learning community
14. Teachers as design scientists
Teachers must be a professional learning community
• Building on the work of others
• Articulating their pedagogy
• Adopting, adapting, testing, improving learning designs
• Sharing learning design
Teachers need to share their teaching ideas
16. Adopt/Adapt a teaching pattern
Read, Watch, Listen
Investigate Export to
Discuss
Practice Word
Share [Moodle]
Produce
Add link to a resource,
e.g. an e-portfolio to
record their practice
Adjust the type of
learning activity.
Edit the Check the
instructions. feedback on the
overall distribution
of learning activity
Adopt – Adapt – Import other resources or designs - Export
17. Comments on PPC for staff development
• You could base its use in PG Cert… this kind of flow, so
that it becomes a learned behaviour from the start.
• I like the idea of working through this with some new staff
and getting them to think before they get pulled into just
standing there and lecturing because that's what
happened to them when they were at university, getting
them to think through how they can shift the patterns of
how they're designing their learning
18. Comments on reflection and sharing
design ideas
• “Yes I think that is very useful to see what someone else has
done… you get very useful ideas that you hadn’t thought of
before that you use in your design”.
• “I think it definitely helps you to reflect on what you're doing [...]
And then to see the pie chart and then to realise I want some
more production and practice in there...”
• “This would cause me to think again about my design … if the
system tells me that what I am planning has no inquiry element
but yet that's what I'm trying to achieve, there must be
something wrong”
19. Representing teachers’ collaborative
learning with e-portfolios
Other
Pedagogic Teacher’s
L L
knowledge
Producing CideasC Discussing teachers’
ideas
Modulate Modulate
Generate
Generate Generate
Pedagogical Other
Learning Teacher’s
L L
Patterns Practising Sharing teachers’
environment P P
practice
Collector practice
20. The ecology of FE teaching community tools
College template
Strategic goals
Personalised assessment
Export design
to Word
template
Import designs from
Excellence Gateway
XML
mapping
Excellence Gateway Export design to
REfLECT for CPD
learning designs
REfLECT e-Portfolio
Build the
community
knowledge
21. Summary
The pedagogic value of e-portfolios
to support inquiry, practice, discussion, sharing
Individual and social identities
e-portfolios help to develop both
A social identity for teaching professionals
e-portfolios for teachers collaborating on e-learning
A new identity: Teachers as design scientists
design tools for adopting, adapting, sharing ideas
www.tinyurl.com/ppcollector3
Notas do Editor
See Ch4 of Laurillard, D. (2012). Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology. New York and London: Routledge.
The same cycles can be prompted by interaction with a peer learner – discussing/arguing/explaining in the communication cycle; exchanging their practice in the modelling cycle, and commenting on each other’s work in the practice cycle.Put together, the full picture represents all the different ways of learning, expressed in all the different pedagogical approaches listed.
Schwartz, D. (1999). The Productive Agency that Drives Collaborative Learning. In P. Dillenbourg (Ed.), Collaborative learning: Cognitive and computational approaches (pp. 197-218). New York: Elsevier Science/Permagon.Roschelle, J., & Teasley, S. D. (1995). The construction of shared knowledge in collaborative problem solving. In C. O'Malley (Ed.), Computer supported collaborative learning. (Vol. 128, pp. 69-97). Berlin: Springer.Dillenbourg, P., & Traum, D. (2006). Sharing Solutions: Persistence and Grounding in Multimodal Collaborative Problem Solving. Journal of the Learning Sciences., 15(1), 121-151.
Laurillard, D., & Ljubojevic, D. (2011). Evaluating learning designs through the formal representation of pedagogical patterns. In C. Kohls & J. W. Wedekind (Eds.), Investigations of E-Learning Patterns: Context Factors, Problems and Solutions (pp. 86-105): IGI Global.
Laurillard, D., Charlton, P., Craft, B., Dimakopoulos, D., Ljubojevic, D., Magoulas, G., . . . Whittlestone, K. (2011). A constructionist learning environment for teachers to model learning designs Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, (Accepted).