TEL-Map

Overview

This project focuses on ‘exploratory/Roadmapping activities for fundamentally new forms of learning’ to support take-up of those new forms, via ‘Awareness building and knowledge management on the results of EU RTD projects in TEL’ and ‘socio-economic evaluations in education and for SMEs’. We gather information on the current, desired and emerging position of TEL, and on awareness and appropriation (by educators and SMEs) of RTD results in TEL. We codify that information using state of the art knowledge management tools/ methods, at three levels of scale:

1. Macro (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental),
   
2. Meso (organisation of education and training systems and institutions), and
   
3. Micro (enacted paradigms of learning and teaching).
   

Cutting across these levels of scale is the categorisation of changes as exogenous or endogenous relative to forms of learning and to the TEL community. This provides direct input to TEL-relevant decisions at all three levels, including economic, political, and research discussions. With a 10-year horizon, we co-develop a portfolio of stakeholder-specific roadmaps and influence maps, to gain insights into fundamentally new forms of Learning, Education and Training activities (LET) and into what makes for effective transfer and scalability. Our collaborative development approach leads to a Multi-perspective Dynamic Roadmap to track, anticipate and manage knowledge about new forms of LET and their impact on TEL. This extends established TEL Roadmapping methods in novel, powerful and cost-effective ways, with high potential for sustainability and for targeting each stakeholder’s goals. Outcomes include well-grounded recommendations on TEL and LET innovations, plus a platform and a sustainable dynamic process that will foster collaboration and consensus-building across specialized communities and stakeholder groups.

First Year Achievements by the ACIS Group

In the first year of the project (October 2010 - September 2011), our ACIS Group has produced several key contributions to the project. We hosted and developed services for the project’s service portal for the European Commission at http://www.learningfrontiers.eu. We extended the Mediabase, which was established by i5 in the FP6 project PROLEARN, with new information on collaboration networks in EU funded projects, as well as with publications related to TEL, thus supporting TEL-MAP in achieving its mapping and roadmapping objectives.

We were able to achieve synergies within i5 by

• adopting and adapting cutting-edge widget developments from the ROLE project and by
• adopting the established academic event recommender system (AERCS) developed at i5.

In 2011, we have represented and disseminated TEL-Map results in several project deliverables, at IEEE ICALT in Georgia, US (see the slides of the plenary address below), as well as at ADVTEL and EC-TEL in Palermo, Italy.

Second Year Achievements by the ACIS Group

Deliverables with ACIS contributions:

• Hoel, T., Stergioulas, L. (eds.), Cooper, A., Loureiro-Koechlin, C., Kravcik, M., Müller, D., Olivier, B., Pawlowski, J. M., Pirkkalainen, H.: Dynamic engagement, dissemination & awareness guidelines and tools integration. TEL-Map Deliverable D7.1, December 2010.
• Derntl, M. (ed.), Cooper, A., Pham, M.C., Klamma, R., Renzel, D.: Mediabase Ready and First Analysis Report. TEL-Map Deliverable D4.3, September 2011.
  
• Ebner, H. (ed.), Pirkkalainen, H., Derntl, M., Naeve, A. (2011). Specification and architecture of the integration of context mapping with electronic portfolios and discourse support into a Roadmapping platform. TEL-Map Deliverable D2.2, July 2011.
• Cooper, A., Voigt, C., Unterfrauner, E., Kravcik, M., Pawlowski, J., Pirkkalainen, H.: Report on Weak Signals Collection. TEL-Map Deliverable D4.1, July 2011.
• Freitag, K. (ed.), Stergioulas, L., Kamtsiou, V., Pirkkalainen, H., Derntl, M., Loureiro-Koechlin, C. (2011). WP6 - Report on Web Design. TEL-Map Deliverable D6.2, September 2011.
• Pirkkalainen, H., Naeve, A. (eds.), Pawlowski, J., Ebner, H., Lefrere, P., Garduno, J.L., Derntl, M.: Supporting Discourse Management for TEL-Map Stakeholders. TEL-Map Deliverable D2.3, October 2011.
• Hoel, T. (ed.), Cooper, A., Derntl, M., Freitag, K., Lefrere, P., Giorgini, F., Naeve, A., Stergioulas, L., Wild, F.: Report on engagement, dissemination & awareness results. TEL-Map Deliverable D7.2b, April 2012.
• Ebner, H., Naeve, A. (eds.), Derntl, M., Millwood, R., Olivier, B., Pirkkalainen, H.: Supporting Roadmapping in TEL – Core Technical Infrastructure. TEL-Map Deliverable D2.4, July 2012.
• Freitag, K. (ed.), Derntl, M., Cooper, A., Messagi-Kaya, M.: TEL-Map Portal Analyses and Survey Tools. TEL-Map Deliverable D6.4a, September 2012. 

Presentations:

Publications

2013

• Michael Derntl, Nikou Günnemann, Ralf Klamma

  A Dynamic Topic Model of Learning Analytics Research

  Published in Proceedings of the LAK Data Challenge, Leuven, Belgium, April 9, 2013, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 974, 1-5.

2012

• Michael Derntl, Susanne Neumann, David Griffiths, Petra Oberhuemer

  The Conceptual Structure of IMS Learning Design Does Not Impede Its Use for Authoring

  Published in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 5(1): 74-86 (2012)

• Michael Derntl, Ralf Klamma

  Social Network Analysis of European Project Consortia to Reveal Impact of Technology-Enhanced Learning Projects

  Published in Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), European Projects Track, Rome, Italy, 746-747

• Michael Derntl, Susanne Neumann, Petra Oberhuemer

  Interactions for Learning as Expressed in an IMS LD Runtime Environment

  Published in Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2012), Rome, Italy, 383-387

• Michael Derntl, Ralf Klamma

  A Mediabase for Technology Enhanced Learning in Europe

  Published in IEEE Learning Technology Newsletter, 14 (3), 2-5 (2012)

• Michael Derntl, Ralf Klamma

  The European TEL Projects Community from a Social Network Analysis Perspective

  Published in A. Ravenscroft et al. (Eds.): 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills - 7th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany, LNCS vol. 7563, pp. 51-64, Springer Verlag (2012)

• Michael Derntl, Stephan Erdtmann, Ralf Klamma

  An Embeddable Dashboard for Widget-Based Visual Analytics on Scientific Communities

  Published in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, I-KNOW '12. ACM Press (2012)

• Elvira Popescu, Ling Qi, Ralf Klamma, Howard Leung, Marcus Specht

  Advances in Web-based Learning - ICWL 2012

  Published in Proceedings 11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012, LNCS Vol. 7558

• Manh Pham, Michael Derntl, Ralf Klamma

  Development Patterns of Scientific Communities in Technology Enhanced Learning

  Published in Educational Technology & Society, 15(3): 323-335 (2012)

• Manh Pham, Michael Derntl, Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma

  Learning Analytics for Learning Blogospheres

  Published in E. Popescu et al. (Eds.): ICWL 2012, LNCS 7558, pp. 255–264, 2012. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

2011

• Michael Derntl, Susanne Neumann, Petra Oberhuemer

  Propelling Standards-based Sharing and Reuse in Instructional Modeling Communities: The Open Graphical Learning Modeler (OpenGLM)

  Published in Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2011), Athens, Georgia, USA

• Michael Derntl, Susanne Neumann, Petra Oberhuemer

  Opportunities and Challenges of Formal Instructional Modeling for Web-based Learning

  Published in 10th International Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7048, 253-262, Springer Verlag

2010

• Marc Spaniol, Quing Li, Ralf Klamma, R. W. H. Lau

  Advanced in Web-based Learning - Guest Editorial Preface for Special Issue

  Published in International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET), April-June 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3

• Ralf Klamma

  Werkzeuge und Modelle für die übergreifende Untersuchung von Social Software

  Published in i-com, Jahrgang 9 (2010) Heft 3, S. 12-20, DOI 10.1524/icom.2010.0034 (http://i-com-media.de)

• Zinayida Petrushyna

  Self-modeling and Self-reflection of E-learning communities

  Published in In Proceeding of Doctoral Consortium at 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)