It is indeed an interesting report, well worth sharing.
See too my commentary at https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/1088798/niggles-about-ngdles-lessons-from-elf, which has links to this whitepaper, to my earlier comments on it, and to Tony Bates's thoughts on the idea that started the conversation. See also some excellent analysis by Michael Feldstein at http://mfeldstein.com/the-educause-ngdle-and-an-api-of-ones-own/ which goes into a lot of technical depth and detail on where the dragons lie in all this.
The paper describes how many of us think we should be thinking about building systems to support online learning - indeed, I have been saying so for well over 10 years - though I and others are a bit concerned that it will repeat the mistakes made in earlier projects of a similar nature, especially on the very similar and even higher profile ELF project over 10 years ago. It's the right way to build learning systems but perhaps a lighter-touch approach to standards would be wise.
Thanks, Hongxin. There are some great design principles here—as usual, the challenge is to apply them in ways that work as we intend them to!
Can you give me a quick preview? What is an Intelligent Agent? I would think that Learning Analytics have a lot of potential to enable interaction for self-paced leaners.. matching learners at similar stages. Or, alternately, matching a beginning leaner with a student mentor.. lots of possibilities but it is hard to guess which approaches will work.
Matching learners at similar stages is exactly what the IA is going to do. Here I think IA is closely related to Learning Analytics in that the IA needs to get each individual's stage by analyzing the students data, such as students' assignment submission date, log date, study guide progress ...
Matching a beginner learner with a student mentor is another very good idea, some call it peer-learning / study-buddy / web-buddy. For this, IA and learning analytics should still be needed in order to optimize the matching.
Thank you for this Hongxin. A wonderful quote and thoughtful words from you. This is very much connected with Moore's Theory of Transactional Distance and herein lies the challenge, to assist students in the internalizing of new ideas within an DE context.
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