From April 6th to 8th we had a 3-day-workshop to work on a theoretical framework that connects pedagogical aims with technological possibilities and limitations. The framework focuses on the requirements that are needed for technology to support different learner-centric pedagogical approaches in an effective and efficient way. On Monday, the first day of our workshop, we took a picture from some members of the ROLE consortium who are involved in this work.

The workshop started by presenting the results of two projects that have already been finished: the iClass project and the iCamp project. We were discussing overlappings, similarities, differences and ideas for ROLE.

Afterwards we were collecting and reviewing existing pedagogic models for self-regulated learning that we updated regarding the idea of ROLE. In groups we worked on three very concrete learning scenarios and placed the learner activities vis-à-vis the self-regulated learning processes and vis-à-vis the derived tool requirements. Having introduced the modeling tool TELOS from the Canadian LORNET project, we started to model the first examples of learning sequences. On the last day we had more presentations on available modeling technologies. One nice tool was Conzilla that includes new ways of modeling. We decided to imply this one for our upcoming work. The workshop ended with a roadmap towards producing the survey of existing models as well as a short discussion about the vision on new ways of modeling and its implications on learning.

The workshop has been organized and kindly hosted at the University of Koblenz-Landau. Many thanks to Peter Ferdinand and Ingo Dahn, especially for the lovely winetasting in the Marienberg at Koblenz.