FUTURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT http:mlab'uiah'fifle

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FUTURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT http//mlab.uiah.fi/fl
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• Teemu Leinonen
• UIAH Media Lab
• University of Art and Design, Helsinki

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FUTURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT RD Project

• Research Partners
• Media Lab, University of Art and Design,
  Helsinki, Finland
• Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki,
  Finland
• Media Education Centre, University of Helsinki,
  Finland
• Industrial Partners
• Sonera Ltd (Telecom Finland)
• Grey Interactive Ltd
• WSOY Publishing Ltd
• Apple Computer Finland
• Financing
• TEKES (Finnish Technology Development Centre)
• Finnish Ministry of Education
• Industrial Partners
• Research Partners

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Design Principles of the FLE
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FLE pedagogy?

• Problem Based Learning (PBL)
• Inquiry Learning
• Collaborative Knowledge Building
• Distributed Expertise

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What is the FLE-Tools prototype?

• www-based service for computer supported
  collaborative learning (CSCL)
• On-line learning community
• Collection of server-based applications and
  databases
• Cross platform
• (Linux, Mac, Win PC, WebTV, Nokia 9000, etc)

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FLE-Tools prototype

• Personal WebTop (desktop in the www)
• Knowledge building (conferencing)
• Jam Session -module
• Library
• People
• Administration

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Personal WebTop (desktop in the www)

• Virtual desktop
• To store and share digital materials
  with other students
• Fellow students - the learning team
• Leaving and sending messages (stickies)
• Evaluation tool

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Knowledge Building

• Shared spaces for discussion / conferencing
• The discussion is guided by the 'Deep Principles'
• Students are asked to label the discussion notes
  with different 'Categories of Inquiry', such as

My Working Theory
Problem
Deepening Knowledge
Help
Comment
Meta Comment
Summary
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Jam Session -module

• To develop ideas and concepts
• Collaborative construction of digital artefacts
• Providing graphical representations of
  projects phases

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Library

• Space to publish and browse
  multimedia learning materials
• The tutor or teacher may search clips
  from the FLE-Librarys database
• The tutor may choose relevant clips and
  publish them for the course
• Also the work of the study groups will be
  saved to the FLE-database

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People

• People (users) database
• User groups
• 1. Students/ basic users
• 2. Tutors (administrating courses)
• 3. Admin. (system administration)

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Administration

• Courses (new, remove, edit)
• Course materials (upload, remove)
• Users students, tutors (new, remove, edit)

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FUTURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT http//mlab.uiah.fi/fl
e/

• Teemu Leinonen
• UIAH Media Lab
• University of Art and Design, Helsinki