The implementation of the planning toolkits in NEXT-TELL as an integrale part of the tool ecosystem is performed on different levels of abstraction (student/teacher planning of learning activities and assessments, teacher inquiry planning and strategical alignment of ICT development in schools by principles and administrators).

The setup of the overall ecosystem is motivated and introduced in the video below.

The goal of the project is to provide two distinct implementation of modelling toolkits using the ADOxx Metamodelling platform as the development environment. The motivation of this development lies within the observation that "...evidence-centred approaches to assessment have been developed over the last years as a baseline to enable pedagogical decision making on a continuous basis. These approaches build upon the assumption that students create evidence for specific competences and skill mastery levels while performing specific learning activities. This learning evidence is continuously made available and can be evaluated/appraised using (formative) assessment methods as a semantically rich layer for interpretation."[1] To enable such an evidence-driven system, a design environment is essential, to enable human as well as machine interpretation in a distributed, heterogenous environment.

ECAAD Planner:

The Next-TELL ECAAD Planner tool provides a structured planning approach for activity and assessment description based on the ECAAD (Evidence Centered Activity and Assessment Design) methodology.

The tool supports in an integrated manner the definition of the domain, definition of learning activity steps and related assessment approaches for learning activities as a knowledge management tool for teachers.

From a tool perspective, a graphical, model-driven implementation is provided that builds on collaboration, sharing and reusability of defined plans utilizing a library of plans, plan fragements/snipplets. [Source: NEXT-TELL Website]

TISL/SPICE Planner:

The TISL Planner is designed for teachers and educational researchers interested in evidence-based practice. It allows planning, recording and sharing research findings.

The TISL Planner is based on TISL method (Teachers Inquiry into Students Learning), giving teachers and researchers a structured, step-by-step guidance for defining inquiries, supported by various mechanisms to establish and enable quick wins for involved stakeholders. [Source: NEXT-TELL Website]

References

1. Wilfrid Utz, Peter Reimann, Dimitris Karagiannis: Capturing Learning Activities in Heterogeneous Environments: A Model-Based Approach for Data Marshalling. ICALT 2014: 624-626 [DOWNLOAD]
2. Wilfrid Utz, Michal Kossowski, Zbigniew Misiak: ECAAD Modelling Tool based on ADOxx. ICIM 2013, May 2013. [DOWNLOAD]
3. Peter Reimann, Elena Barbera: "Assessment and Evaluation of Time Factors in Online Teaching and Learning". Idea Group Reference 2013, Oktober 2013 [DOWNLOAD]
4. Wilfrid Utz, Michal Kossowski, Zbigniew Misiak: Tailoring modelling method to non-technical user needs in TEL-related project. Experiences of the NEXT-TELL project. Second International Conference on e-Learning and e-Technologies in Education (ICEEE 2013), September 2013. [DOWNLOAD]