Julie Mullen Notes:

Day 1: Presentations - posted elsewhere

Day 2:

I arrived late - so I was trying to catch up with the discussion - see bullets below from morning session - images uploaded to other page.

Learning Path

Adaptive Applications

Adaptive engine interacts with user
UX elements
- Sequence

Verbs:

On/off/elements ux elements
Content
Scope/filter
State

Basic central design – content (Pearson adaptive)

Learning model availability used to adapt UX

Adaptive exp runtime query

Adaptive Engine

Hinting – problem level
Mastery – problem level
Recommendation – consider authority level (what happens when we give user choices -
Gamification – adaptive ux elements
Need fallback path
Should lms inform AE re: platform (mobile, desk) (yes, UI etc)
Includes
- Content map (? Not same meaning)
- Forums/discussion
- Tools/schedule
- Learner mode

xAPI

Event is dot – who did what when with what result
But we need the sequence – student stopped video example – of dots
Want to record events from pedagogic perspective

Afternoon Session:

Questions from the morning:

1. Stakeholders
  1. Instructor – can override
  2. Course team – configures
    1. Student can modulate? (y/n)
    2. Required
    3. recommended

Adaptive engine - suggests

Platform – enforces
Learner – creates own path for learning goal cross platform

Course teams configure AE
How to use AE result
Level 1 – Define interfaces for AE at Adaptive UX component level
Level 2– assessment level
Level 3 – adapting sequence/structure

Concept map (Adaptive Sequences)
1. Visual representation
2. Mathematical or CS operation of mapping
3. Structure of course
Review Adaptive Usages list
Specific use case walkthrough (water through the pipes)
1. Walking through Harvard Engine
UI experience – needs
1. Pluggable (Adaptive) UX components (cross course potential)
  1. Can use Adaptive Exp. Service
2. In-course x blocks
  1. Can also use Adaptive Exp. Service

Defining UI responsibility

Propose: not expecting adaptive engine to create UI (i.e html) but can give feedback re: how to configure (mobile/desktop), what adaptive options/block to add

key: not part of Adaptive Engine

What’s next API

Set of options
Could be defined by LM and LMS would render

Update diagram:

Replace LMS with “front end” and “back end”

What is Adaptive Ex – extended xblock with more flexibility and functionality

Custom engine <=> custom xblock

Braden: xblock = leaf content, UI adds the adaptivity

Agree on “pluggable UX components”

Clear Use Case

Adaptive hints
Adaptive sequence

Research suggests that maps overwhelm students

Autogeneration of path through content/course/multiple courses for “degree/cert”

Andrew Ang – walkthrough of VPAL updates

Zach – Berkeley use case

Initial training
- Gets event
- Uses items from event store
- Compares versions (remove vertical/ add vertical)
- Builds a set of recommendations
Turn on engine week 2
- Student accesses page
- Every unit (vertical) has content that comms with AE for recommendation (work around)
- Comm student at page through events, xAPI
- Engine not reply to Adaptive Exp until get retuls (to avoid race condidtion)
- Update history
- Add to model
- Model gives as output à comms with Adapt. Exp
- Adapt Exp talks to block store to get name of unit/vertical and that gets inserted in UI code
- UI code div ==visible to display to learner
- When user goes to new vertical – update time spent in old vertical
Question – how would this look if Zach had xUnit/adaptive unit

Immediate Deep Dives that need to be done later

Content tagging
Grading (tabled for future discussion)
Reuse some blocks for some users
API specification
- Adaptive experience service API
- Egnine’s – what’s next

Summary:

Projects:

Blockstore (edX + Opencraft + Harvard
1. Summer time release
2. Built into master branch
3. Tagable at every level
4. Constructs for tagging
5. Dissociates content from navigation
Harvard Adaptive courses (ALOSI evolution)
1. Adaptive assessments
2. Adaptive units
3. Fall time frame
CET
1. Have Campus.il (Open edX)
2. Adaptive course using CET
3. Need to integrate xAPI into edX insights
4. Demo May, phase 2 – integrate to edX
Berkeley
1. 4 courses in May (2 Microsoft, 2 Delft)
2. running with current edX workaround
3. need Open edX partner
Content Library (MIT Campus)
1. What is the state
Need tagging service (what does Branden see this as?)
1. Taxonomy 1^st class service
2. How do you define tazonomy
3. Way to associate content with taxonomy
4. Query taxonomy
5. Auto generated
6. Used across serves
7. Tags for
  1. Units,
  2. Sections

Components

Courses

General Needs

LMS + API from 3^rd party
1. xAPI translator for LMS clickstream
2. LMS provides who à event store
3. 3^rd party provides did, what à event store
event store
1. for analysis
plugable adaptive UI elements
1. for adaptive sequences
2. broader implications requires working with edX team
block store + other new primitives
metadata

Logistics:

summary of workshop
will make wiki available
project definition open for contribution
1. time line
2. description
3. interested parties
Left for discovery
1. Metadata/content tagging
2. grading