Information Needs and Uses for Online Teaching and Learning
🖐️ The big picture
Over the last two decades, technology has been transforming ways in which teaching and learning are delivered to millions of learners around the globe for both formal and non-formal education and training. The use of learning technology brings forth both opportunities and challenges. Designers of learning technologies often squeeze more features from one release to another, and tend not to consider teachers’ practices as much. Very much the same from the learners’ perspective, such technologies, are often designed around “do your best”.
Can we bridge the gap between online learning technology and pedagogy?
I studied this question as part of my Ph.D. dissertation. I examined the design and use of information dashboards to inform teachers’ practices when assisting learners in using online learning platforms. I sought to examine not only what teachers are supposed to do or can do with dashboards, but more importantly what they actually do with such technologies in their everyday work and in the long run.
I argue that this research draws social, pedagogical, and technical ramification, which are crucial to articulate. We cannot truly elicit reflections on social factors without a critical inquiry into the pedagogical practices and technical challenges that teachers’ dashboards underpin. Concurrently, we cannot properly design such technologies without a profound understand- ing and consideration of the social impetus of users’ interactions in the context of classroom situations.
Publications
Read more about my research into teachers information needs and uses in the settings of online learning:
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Emotion Awareness Effects on Teachers’ Feedback in-the-wild
- Ez-zaouia, Mohamed, Aurélien Tabard, and Elise Lavoué (2020). “Emodash: A dashboard supporting retrospective awareness of emotions in online learning.” In: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 139, p. 102411. issn: 1071-5819. doi: 0.1016/j.ijhcs.2020.102411. url: Science Direct.
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Learning Progression Effects on Teachers Practices in-the-wild
- Ez-zaouia, Mohamed, Aurélien Tabard, and Elise Lavoué (2020). “Progdash: Lessons Learned From a Learning Dashboard in-the-wild.” In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 2: CSEDU. 🏆 Best Industrial Paper Award. INSTICC. SciTePress, pp. 105–117. isbn: 978-989-758-417-6. doi: 10.5220/0009424801050117. url: Scite Press.
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Multimodal Emotions Awareness in Online learning
- Ez-zaouia, Mohamed and Elise Lavoué (2017). “EMODA: A Tutor Oriented Multimodal and Contextual Emotional Dashboard.” In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference. LAK ’17. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: ACM, pp. 429–438. isbn: 978-1-4503-4870-6. doi: 10.1145/3027385.3027434. url: ACM Digital Library.
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Towards Teachers Centered Design
- Ez-zaouia, Mohamed (2020). “Teacher-Centered Design Process.” In: Companion Proceedings 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowedge, in the 2nd International Workshop on Explainable Learning Analytics. LAK ’20. Frankfurt, Germany, pp. 511–528.