Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1223: Feedback Based Quality Management in E-Learning
Subject Area
Psychology
Term
from 2006 to 2010
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 949791
E-Learning is characterised by a large gap between promising research results and unsatisfactory common practice. The Research Training Group intends to help bridge this gap: iterative processes shall be investigated, developed and applied in support of gradual quality improvement.
The high potential and importance of the area justify novel research efforts. At the same time, there is a lack of young scientists who are appropriately qualified.
E-Learning is a highly interdisciplinary topic, applied and researched both in the humanities and in engineering disciplines. The Research Training Group is deliberately rooted in equal measure in these two usually separated scientific cultures. The Research Training Group emphasises two core concepts, quality improvement and processes with feedback loops, considered as driving forces for goals like sustainability, efficiency, reuse and large scale deployment. E-Learning by itself does not guarantee better quality. However, computer assistance can greatly facilitate the evaluation, improvement and assurance of quality in loopback controlled E-Learning processes.
Computer-supported (meta) process models and building blocks can also help to render quality control sustainable. Feedback processes are common to all scientific disciplines involved, e.g., as feedback or reflection. The different concepts and approaches for feedback are the basis for integrating the interdisciplinary research. Teaching/Learning and development processes and meta models of loopback processes are considered. Feedback effects range from the current process over following iterations to the meta level.
The study programme, research topics and overall structure of the Research Training Group clearly aim at enhancing the students' skills with a rigorously interdisciplinary identity and scientific setting. Innovative concepts comprise the development of an E-Learning course on E-Learning, supervision tandems, internships at international research sites, and more. The research programme is divided into four strongly interdisciplinary areas:
(1) "digital" feedback in teaching/learning processes (computer supported feedback in the context of content presentations, via concepts of authority, by analysis of learning traces);
(2) personal feedback in teaching/learning processes (computer supported yet human generated: self regulation, learner and teacher assessment, etc.);
(3) feedback in development processes (quality ensurance in authoring processes, in transition processes from traditional learning to E-learning, etc.);
(4) meta modelling and meta-feedback (epistemological and formal modelling, advancement of theories, extraction of reusable models and building block).
The high potential and importance of the area justify novel research efforts. At the same time, there is a lack of young scientists who are appropriately qualified.
E-Learning is a highly interdisciplinary topic, applied and researched both in the humanities and in engineering disciplines. The Research Training Group is deliberately rooted in equal measure in these two usually separated scientific cultures. The Research Training Group emphasises two core concepts, quality improvement and processes with feedback loops, considered as driving forces for goals like sustainability, efficiency, reuse and large scale deployment. E-Learning by itself does not guarantee better quality. However, computer assistance can greatly facilitate the evaluation, improvement and assurance of quality in loopback controlled E-Learning processes.
Computer-supported (meta) process models and building blocks can also help to render quality control sustainable. Feedback processes are common to all scientific disciplines involved, e.g., as feedback or reflection. The different concepts and approaches for feedback are the basis for integrating the interdisciplinary research. Teaching/Learning and development processes and meta models of loopback processes are considered. Feedback effects range from the current process over following iterations to the meta level.
The study programme, research topics and overall structure of the Research Training Group clearly aim at enhancing the students' skills with a rigorously interdisciplinary identity and scientific setting. Innovative concepts comprise the development of an E-Learning course on E-Learning, supervision tandems, internships at international research sites, and more. The research programme is divided into four strongly interdisciplinary areas:
(1) "digital" feedback in teaching/learning processes (computer supported feedback in the context of content presentations, via concepts of authority, by analysis of learning traces);
(2) personal feedback in teaching/learning processes (computer supported yet human generated: self regulation, learner and teacher assessment, etc.);
(3) feedback in development processes (quality ensurance in authoring processes, in transition processes from traditional learning to E-learning, etc.);
(4) meta modelling and meta-feedback (epistemological and formal modelling, advancement of theories, extraction of reusable models and building block).
DFG Programme
Research Training Groups
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Max Mühlhäuser
Participating Researchers
Dr. Bruno Arich-Gerz; Professorin Dr. Regina Bruder; Professor Dr.-Ing. José Luis Encarnaçâo; Professorin Dr. Petra Gehring; Professorin Dr. Iryna Gurevych; Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Lange; Dr.-Ing. Christoph Rensing; Dr. Guido Rößling; Professor Dr. Josef Rützel; Professor Dr. Bernhard Schmitz; Dr. Werner Sesink; Professor Dr.-Ing. Ralf Steinmetz
