Title :
Towards a Model Driven eLearning Framework to Improve Quality of Teaching
Author :
Chimalakonda, Sridhar ; Nori, Kesav V.
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Res. Lab., Int. Inst. of Inf. Technol.-Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
Abstract :
There is a significant dearth of time and qualified teachers to make 200 million adult illiterates of India spread across 22 Indian Languages literate and it would take massive effort to address the scale and variety challenges. In this paper, we summarize four and half years of our experience of analyzing and improving a decade-long technology to adult literacy problem. Based on this experience and extensive interviews with teachers/learners and with the goal of devising quality instruction at attractive productivity rates through technology, we propose GAMBLE as a unified modelling framework and technical platform to organize instructional material in the form of data (facts, cases, rules and models). Essentially GAMBLE allows learners to perform well at all levels (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate and create) of Bloom´sTaxonomy. We briefly present the case of applying GAMBLE framework to adult literacy and discuss its broad applications for school education as well.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; educational aids; natural language processing; productivity; social sciences computing; Bloom´s taxonomy; GAMBLE; Indian Languages; adult literacy problem; decade-long technology; instructional material; model driven eLearning framework; productivity rates; quality instruction; school education; teaching quality; technical platform; unified modelling framework; Cognition; Computational modeling; Data models; Education; Materials; Productivity; Taxonomy; Adult Literacy; Blooms Taxonomy; Design of Instruction Material; Design of Teaching Process; Information and Communication Technology; Quality of Instruction; eLearning Platform;
Conference_Titel :
Technology for Education (T4E), 2012 IEEE Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hyderabad
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2173-0
DOI :
10.1109/T4E.2012.29