Date

2010-12-10

Lecturer

Davinia Hernández-Leo (UPF)

Summary

Multiple educational disciplines often require skills and knowledge aspects related to geographic maps. Drawing frontiers and locating buildings obtaining an automatic score, answering questions on fauna and flora aspects, or checking if someone knows how to reason on social and economical issues considering a certain type of neighborhood urbanism following either a virtual or a real path, are evaluation activities that can be carried out thanks to technology.

In this presentation it will be explained how web maps (such as Google Maps) have been integrated with an interpreter of IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI v2.1) standard so that: (1) it is possible to formulate questions that require interactions directly on maps (eg, place markers in a certain order on the map, draw the path shortest distance between two places, etc.), (2) questions can be used with existing interactions in QTI and displayed in specific coordinates on a web map (e.g. a Multiple Choice type question is geolocated in a natural park for students to choose what kind of tree that prevails in the area), and (3) QTI geolocated questions can be obtained automatically in mobile devices when the student is in a specific location (e.g., neighborhood areas that reflect their socio-economic characteristics). In three cases, and through the use of QTI, you can get ratings and feedback instanly. It also provides the integration of these evaluation activities within broader learning processes computationally represented with IMS Learning Design (LD), as the scores on the QTI questions can be used as properties that affect conditional or adaptative learning flow aspects in IMS LD.

This work is being developed as part of the doctoral thesis of Patricia Santos, co-directed by Davina Hernandez-Leo and Josep Blat, in the context of the Learn3 project (TIN2008-05,163).

Slides

Videos

Seminario eMadrid sobre "Diseño instruccional en entornos multidimensionales" - Actividades de evaluacion con mapas web from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author Biography

Davinia Hernández-Leo (UPF)

Davinia Hernández-Leo is a professor in the Department of Technology Information and Communication of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona, coordinator of the educational technology research line of the Interactive Technologies Group (ITG) and director of the Quality Unit and Teaching Innovation of the Polytechnic School.

Davinia was previously (2003-2007) a member of multidisciplinary group GSIC/EMIC and professor in the Department of Signal Theory, Communications and Telematics Engineering of the University of Valladolid, where he completed his studies in Engineering and PhD (European mention) in Telecommunications in 2003 and 2007, respectively. She conducted a research visit in 2006 at the Open University of the Netherlands (OUNL).

Davinia has written over 45 journal articles, conference and book chapters in educational technologies field, she also is a reviewer and committee member of conference programs and magazines in this area. She has several awards, such as the 2006-2007 European CSCL Award for Excellence in the field of CSCL Technology and best article awards in the International Conference in Advanced Learning Technologies 2004, on Computer-assisted Assessment Conference 2010. His research interests include educational technology standards, computer- assisted collaborative learning, languages and visual design for the technology-enhanced educational modeling, and the evaluation and orchestration of educational situations support.