Vickis+heuristics

Hi. Here's my first heuristic: Determine student needs before commencing with online instruction

SG - Just wanted to comment so you didn't feel all alone stuck out on a page by yourself. Agree with your heuristic. I've been really interested in adaptive tutoring systems, that diagnose students learning as they proceed, and attempt to adjust instruction in the light of that. John Anderson has a very active tutoring group at Carnegie Mellon looking at Adaptive tutors, I think they've gone commercial now, but there's lots of literature about online and brief assessment that can be incorporated into online automated instruction. I did some work with Kurt Van Lehn on diagnosing students scratch marks as they solve arithmetic problems. I could build a parser that would look at the sequence of scratch marks (like digits, carry marks, ect) and build a model of the students 'buggy' procedures (research took after John Seely Brown). Instruction could then target that particular procedure e.g. Carry Ten etc.

Shirley 13/8: Suggestion - add a reason for determining students needs to your heuristic, eg: When designing online instruction, determine your student needs so that ........ What about: When designing online instruction, determine student and teacher needs so that the instructional strategy assists in the attainment of quality learning(?) Sh irley 18/8: still a little vague - try to be more specific or To ensure that students and teachers use online instruction effectively, firstly determine their requirements. Shirley 18/8: suggestion- explain "requirements"

My second one is:

Digital learning tools usefulness depends upon student’s disposition; otherwise, they will go unused **. **  Shirley 18/8: good idea for heuristic! Try and elaborate on student's disposition My third one is: Customisation of online instruction assists student knowledge acquisition and retention in an online environment.

Hi I suggest for first one : To ensure that students and teachers use online instruction effectively, first determine their requirements

//Online resources should be designed depending of learners requirements//  I dont know if it is correct but I think it is better

Thank you for your suugestion on my heuristics

Regards, Fawaz