Date

2011-01-14

Lecturer

Iván Martínez (UCM)

Summary

The Educational Modeling Languages (EMLs) allows instructors to describe and formalize the learning processes by a document called learning design. These learning designs deal both with the educational contents and also with the complementary activities needed to achieve an effective use of the educational contents and foster the learning process. The learning designs formalized with an EML have the advantage that can be automatically processed by a software tool. This automatic processing of a learning design allows for the automation of the virtual learning environment configuration to support the teaching process and for the execution of the activities represented in the learning design. This explicit representation of the teaching process has additional advantages, such as these learning designs can be reused by other instructors just as an example of good practices or as an starting point to create their particular learning design specifically adapted for their learners’ needs.

Despite of the great potential of the EMLs, their use by educators is rather limited probably due to the difficulty imposed by the high expressiveness of these languages and by the lack of mature user-friendly authoring tools. The <e-LD> approach aims to facilitate the adoption of EMLs through two main lines of work:

• To close the gap between the EMLs terminology and the common terminology used by educators.
• Promote and simplify the reuse of the existing learning designs by providing tools that allow to considering at the same level the learning designs’ reengineering and the authoring of the learning designs from scratch.

Slides

Video

Seminario eMadrid sobre "Diseño de aprendizaje" - Autoría y reingeniería de diseños educativos: aproximación e-LD from eMadrid net on Vimeo.

Author Biography

Iván Martínez (UCM)

Iván Martínez Ortiz has a Master Degree in Computer Science by the Complutense University of Madrid –UCM- (2007). From 2004 to 2007 he was a Lecturer at CES Felipe II of Aranjuez, Spain, and since 2007 he is a Full-time Lecturer in Computer Science at Computer Science School of UCM. Mr. Martínez Ortiz has co-authored more than 40 research papers published in journals and conferences. His research interests include e-learning technologies, authoring in e-learning, and the integration of educational modeling languages and workflows technologies. He is currently finishing his PhD at UCM, where he is a member of the research group on e-learning technologies <e-UCM>.