Implementing a Workflow Visualization System

December 18, 2012

Educators need data systems that will better document the implementation history of complex cyberlearning interventions, including their contexts, rationale, iterations and outcomes. Sharon Derry and colleagues are developing a Workflow Visualization System to help researchers and educators preserve, organize, and analyze complex information captured from multiple design iterations of complex cyberlearning implementations. Moodle, a widely used learning management system, has data collection algorithms, but Derry recognized a need for more tools. Her team’s work will augment Moodle with visual, multi-layered representations of (a) the design of complex educational interventions, including information about variables such as tasks, resources used, participant structures, and workspaces; and (b) the enacted implementations of these interventions, including data about learners’ completion of tasks or acquisition of resources and learner-produced data. More information is available here.