AdAPTIVE Learning Environments UG4/MSc
2010-2011
Assessed assignment 3 (MSc/MINF Level
11 ONLY)
Updated Thursday March 8th 2012
You should spend about 12 hours on each assignment (maximum 16
hours). Coursework accounts for 30% of the credit available, the
examination is
worth 70%. Two coursework assignments are set for 4th year (level
10) students and
3 for MSc/MINF (level 11) students.
The deadline for submission is: 4pm Friday 30th March
The third assignment is related
to the seminar and requires you to write an essay on the
influence of classic systems on current
learning environment development and research.
Select one of the classic systems or approaches presented in the
seminars, or one of the others described in the lectures (this does not
have to be the one your group presented). Those covered in the seminars
were:
Guidon
Logo Lisp
Tutor
BUGGY/DEBUGGY/IDEBUGGY
Sophie Steamer
Menotutor
Cognitive Apprenticeship
Your essay should address the following:
- Briefly describe the classic system that you have chosen.
- What research followed on from this, either by the original
research group or others?
- Give examples of how this system has influenced more recent
research and development of learning technology.
- Evaluate the contribution of this classic system to the field.
Note that in some cases this may require a little detective
work......
References for ASSIGNMENT:
The seminars page will have the presentations made by the various
groups, as they become available, and the related references. The
readings page has a number of
references for the classic systems. A good starting point is texts such
as
Wenger (1987) and
Woolf (2009) and the
Nkambou et al (2010) text.
Some suggestions on how to go about
this:
- as said above, see what various textbooks say
- look at what the authors of the classic system did more
recently (e.g. what did Bev Woolf do after menotutor?)
- see who cited the classic work and whether what they did builds
on it
- look at the topic and issues addressed and search on them
(following Steamer, who else developed configurable interfaces for
industrial process?)
- search for systems with similar names (e.g. logo - starlogo)
You should not spend more than
about 16 hours on this assignment. Your report should be 4-6 pages (c.
2-3,000 words) long. Note it can be longer if you wish.....
Submit the assignment either
by hand to the ITO office, or using the
submit program (the latter is preferred).
submit ale1 3 filename-of-your-submission.pdf
where 3 is the assignment number.
In the latter case
your submission
should be a .pdf file. Put your name and/or matric number in the
submission.
