System Design Framework for a Learning Collaboratory

The emergence of computer technology has had profound implications for instruction. Early efforts consisted of practical instructional tools designed around classroom needs and focused on the transmission or delivery of knowledge to the student. Subsequent work in intelligent tutoring systems took a more cognitive approach and attempted to emulate the behavior of skilled human tutors via software. More recent work has focused on collaborative learning processes, and the idea of a collaboratory as a virtual space for work. This thesis describes a design process to support the development and use of collaborative learning technologies. This process, the Learning Collaboratory Design Framework (LUCIDIFY), integrates methods and concepts from cognitive systems engineering, theories of learning and instruction, distributed computing, and computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL). LUCIDIFY is instantiated in an actual software testbed, the Collaborative Learning Environment for Operational Systems (CLEOS). CLEOS is a collaboratory for teachers, students, and practitioners in the physical sciences, and in particular for NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction experiments. CLEOS includes two virtual instrument tutorials, CVS and VXRD; an asynchronous messaging system, QB; a project-based design environment, TOSP; and an architecture for developing collaborative apprenticeship learning systems, CALOT; an authoring environment, BAUEN; and a collaborative multi-user domain infrastructure, MudSpot. The design and evaluation of CLEOS is described.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Industrial Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Dorneich, Michael Christian

Contributors dc:contributor

• Patricia M. Jones

• Computer Science

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9944836

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87102