I have a background in learning psychology and ITS, but I guess I mostly feel that I am an instructional designer...
As an instructional designer I struggle with the atomistic, almost mechanical view of learning presented today, like learning can be split up into little pieces that can be combined like lego blocks by some system that can take over the role of the teacher. Haven't we tried this in ITS & learning object times? In my world we have come to the conclusion that this view too simplistic, it might work for (non-complex) STEP domains or some part-tasks but it doesn't apply to learning complex tasks. There are fundamental problems here, that cannot be solved with big data or powerful computing.
Not that I think that EDM or LAC is useless..... but I think we should be using it for things that human teachers are not good at (and he, we know why some teachers are more effective than others, ask the principal or the students and they'll tell you :-))
For example, keeping an overview on lots of information from different sources...
- so yes, if you can help me to identify students who are 'bad writers' early on (start looking at writing assignments in different courses, but there might be other predictors too)
- so yes, if you can help me to collect and synthesize information about my communication skills from different courses, exams, people....
I'll think about other areas this week.
Daniëlle
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