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The Smarter Classroom Project Solutions for Smarter Education IBM Research Smarter Human Systems Group
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Acknowledgement
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This work has been supported and partially funded by FINEP / MCTI, under subcontract no. 03.11.0371.00. Platform for the Development of Accessible Vocational Training
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Motivation
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ENHANCE STUDENT EXPERIENCE - Interactive material - Personalized content - Immersive learning environments - others…
ENHANCE TEACHERS CAPABILITIES - Preparing teachers to interface with new technology - Creating repositories of quality material - Support teachers to easily create education material that exploits the potential of new technology - others…
Smarter Education
EVOLVE PLANNING and RECOMMENDATION - Understand the learning eco-system -- based on analysis of feedback and interactions - Recommend actions to adjust the education process
Planning & Administration …
Instructor
Student Classroom
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Research and Development Roadmap
#1 Smarter Classroom Instrumenting Classroom and
Teachers
#2 Smarter Education Material
Creating Intelligent and Adaptable Digital Education Material
Learning Analytics models for Smarter Classroom
Models to compute on ‘human signals’ collected from Smarter
Classroom, aiming to understand the relation between individual/social behaviour and education
performance
Learning Analytics
Social Analytics Social Learning
Analytics
Self-adjustment of Digital Education Material
Optimisation models to recommend and adjust
education material towards promoting student engagement
and improving education performance
Composition Methods
Now Research and Development
Transformation Processes
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(1) Front-end Solutions
School X – Classroom Class Video Repository
Class #101 – 12-Apr-2012 – 08:00am Teacher: Mr. Smith Classroom: 1A
Good morning. Today we will be talking (…). Class #102 – 12-Apr-2012 –
09:00am Teacher: Mr. Bloom Classroom: 2A
Good morning. Today we will be talking (…).
Class #103 – 12-Apr-2012 – 10:00am Teacher: Mr. Happy Classroom: 3A
search Search for classes:
Class #104 – 12-Apr-2012 – 11:00am Teacher: Ms. Rose Classroom: 4A
Good morning. Today we will be talking (…).
Student Teacher
(2) Content Processing Methods
Video Camera
Capture Students’ Events whilst interacting with
Education Material
(3) Social Learning Analytics
Social Learning Analytics
Per
form
ance
Groups A B C D
signals
signals
Repository of Classroom
human signals
Repository of Quality Education Content
Other data repositories
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IBM Smarter Classroom Towards Integrated Learning Environment
Enhance Teaching Capabilities and Foment collaboration between Teachers
Content Management System
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Profiles
Deliver Measure Performance
Analyze & Validate
Adjust & Improve
Look for Optimization
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3
Track Interactions & Measure Assimilation
Stu
dent
Per
form
ance
Group A Group B
Group C Group D
Stu
dent
Per
form
ance
Group A Group B
Group C Group D
Interactions, Feedback & Performance Metrics
Analytics Methods
Optimization Methods
Adjustment Methods
Customization Rules
Stu
dent
Per
form
ance
Group A
Group B Group C
Group D
Expected Results Optimize to Improve Performance
Create a Process for Evaluating and Self-Adjusting Methods to measure performance, analyse, validate, optimize and self-adjust the
Composition Rules
Smarter Education Environment
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Current educational system is expensive and not really effective
Students do not have their needs and requirement properly fulfilled
Modern technologies are not properly employed in classrooms
IBM Smarter Education Material
Improve student experience through configurable and customizable Accessible Education Material and reduce costs by automating its development
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Towards the Digital Education Material of the Future Methods to Enhance Interactions, Personalization, Traceability and Re-usability of
Digital Education Material
IBM Smarter Education Material Instrumentation of Teachers and Students
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IBM Smarter Education Material Results Students receive personalized Digital Content Material Running on Tablet Computing Devices
visual disability
hearing disability
Material for Student Profile A
Ingest Convert from different formats, including text and multimedia components
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Transformation Convert into Digital format, through multi-phase transformation considering personalization of parts.
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3 Delivery Select appropriate content format to deliver to target end-user profile.
Material for Student Profile B
IBM Smarter Education Material
Decompose Elements
Load Configuration
Rules
Process Services
Repackage Elements
Service Interface
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Smarter Education Material
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Content Repository
Profiles
Transformation Processes
Material Ingestion Decompose Augment &
Combine Deliver Compose
Automate the Process of Composing Education Material Automated the Composition of Variations of Education Material
visual disability
hearing disability
others
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3 Customization Rules
Composition Methods
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