Model Based Learning - the Learn PAd way

Model Based Learning – The Learn PAd Way
Andrea Polini
Computer Science Division – University of Camerino
Nemo Summer School
Wien – July 22nd , 2016
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http://www.learnpad.eu

Outline
1 The Learn PAd project
2 Learning and Models
3 The Learn PAd modeling method
4 The Learn PAd architecture and mechanisms
5 Conclusions
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What is Learn PAd?
Learn PAd is a EU commission financed collaborative project
Fact sheet
Call: FP7-ICT-2013-11
Objective: ICT-2013.8.2 – Technology-Enhanced Learning
Target: Holistic learning solutions for managing, reaching and
engaging learners in public administrations
Kick-off: February 1st, 2014 (30 months)
End date: October 31st, 2016 (3 months extension)
Total Cost: e 3,535,000 (EU Contribution: e 2,635,000)
Effort: 388,5MM
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Learn PAd: Partners and People
The Learn PAd consortium includes 9 partners from 5 EU countries:
Partner Key Personnel (Unit and WP Leaders)
CNR-ISTI IT Antonia Bertolino (PC), Stefania Gnesi
Guglielmo De Angelis (TL)
BoC Asset Management AT Robert Woitsch, Nesat Efendioglu
Linagora SGO FR Jean-Pierre Lorr´e
No Magic Europe LT Darius Silingas (EL)
Regione Marche IT Andrea Sergiacomi
University of Applied CH Barbara Th¨onssen, Knut Hinkelmann
Sciences and Arts
Northwestern Switzerland
University of Camerino IT Andrea Polini (SL), Barbara Re
University of L’Aquila IT Alfonso Pierantonio
XWiki FR Fabio Mancinelli, Jean Simard,
Caleb De Lisle
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Project Context
Current trends in PA organizations
PA from controllers to proactive service providers
continuous need for service improvements
fast changing context, decreasing budget and decreasing numbers
people relocation
In carrying on their daily activities civil servants are nowadays much more
challenged, and need eﬀective support to better understand their activities
Tutoring cannot be considered anymore a viable solution!
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Project Context
“Requirements” from the call for proposal
Holistic learning solutions
Effective solutions for adaptation to rapidly changing external/internal
environment, changing task/competence requirements
Support to the development of performance culture, engaging the
entire organisation at all levels, providing an efficient measuring
method based on clearly defined performance metrics
Solutions should foster the development of critical skills, including
transversal skills such as effective communication, collaborative
building of knowledge resources, critical thinking, self-management
Solutions should be validated in public administrations
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Learning. . . a really complex topic
Definition
According to Merriam Webster learning is “the activity or process of
gaining knowledge or skills by studying, practicing, being taught, or
experiencing something: the activity of someone who learns.”
Learning complexities
Different people learn accordingly to different styles
Different topics generally benefit from different approaches
Learning is clearly dominated by motivation
Learning is a continuous activity
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The Learning Pyramid
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Learning in PA
Some charactistics on learning in PA:
generally relies informative and instructivist approaches
based on long tutoring periods
one for all learning strategies
address book is the most used “tool” to find solutions to problem
(difficulties in sharing knowledge)
difficulties in relating activities “in the small” with the overall
objective
generally no ICT system is available to provide access to information
and guidelines while serving real requests
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Learn PAd proposal to learning in PA
→ provide learners with a wide range of services to assist and facilitate
knowledge construction and sharing, rather than imposing a particular
learning method on them
→ informative learning
→ collaborative learning
→ case based learning
→ learning by doing
→ “early adopters” in PA are starting to introduce modeling and
enterprise architecture strategies to reason on the various aspect of
the organization
Learn PAd intuition is to reuse models to make knowledge more easily
accessible, and to permit to civil servant to become proﬁcient in
performing, cooperating and reasoning on the activities to be carried on.
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Model Based Learning
Intuition
A model is an abstract representation of a reality of interest, it codifies knowledge that
can help to organize knowledge
Project focal point
Learn PAd defined and implemented mechanisms permitting to transform models into a
collaborative infrastructure, that keeps model structural properties, and organizes
learning and collaboration activities around the same models
What we needed to do
Identify relevant perspectives, concepts and relations useful for learning within a PA
Define relations among the different perspectives
Define mechanisms permitting to derive a collaborative infrastructure from a set of
models
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Resources
WP3 - Approaches Enabling Model-Based Learning
→ WP Leader: Alfonso Pierantonio – University of L’Aquila
Deliverables (available at http://www.learnpad.eu)
→ D3.1 – Domain Analysis of Business Processes in Public
Administrations
→ D3.2 – Design and Initial Implementation of Metamodels for
Describing Business Processes in Public Administrations
→ D3.3 – Final Learn PAd Metamodels and Implementation of Model
Transformations for Managing Business Processes Models in Public
Administrations
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Meta-modeling in Learn PAd
In a given domain and given a perspective the codification of knowledge
happens at first identifying basic concepts and their relations
Learn PAd has defined a meta-model structured on three layers
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Models for Learning in PA
Included model kinds
The Learn PAd has identiﬁed the following aspects, considered useful to
structure and organize knowledge
Business Process
Case Management
Data and Knowledge
Business Motivation
Competency
Organizational
Key Performance Indicators
Building a single “mega modeling” notation would have been an unfeasible
task. When possible Learn PAd does not reinvent the wheel.
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Learn PAd Conceptual Metamodel
The Learn PAd Conceptual Metamodel (LCMM) captures only the major concepts and
relations. Each of these concepts will be reﬁned as a separate meta-model in the Learn
PAd Platform Independent Metamodel (LPIMM)
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Learn PAd Platform Independent Metamodel
When possible Learn PAd reused existing meta-models covering the listed
perspectives. In particular the following existing notations have been
considered:
→ Business Process → Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
→ Business Motivation → Business Motivation Model (BMM)
→ Case Management → Case Management Model and Notation
(CMMN)
The following meta-model have been instead built from scratch:
→ Competency metamodel
→ Document and knowledge metamodel
→ Key performance indicator metamodel
→ Organization metamodel
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LPIMM – Representing Complex Meta-models
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LPIMM – Organization Meta-model
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Weavings
Weaving models are typically used for deﬁning correspondences between modeling
elements belonging to diﬀerent metamodels
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Learn PAd Platform-Speciﬁc Metamodel (LPSMM)
→ The LPIMM has been implemented on ADOxx which is the reference
implementation for the Learn PAd platform.
→ Concrete syntax has been deﬁned to derive a fully functional modeling
environment
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Business Process Modeling
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Case Management Modeling
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Data and Knowledge Modeling
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Business Motivation Modeling
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Competency Modeling
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Organizational Modeling
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KPI Modeling
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High level architecture
→ Roughly based on a repository based architecture
→ integrated components do not interact directly
→ the core mediates interactions among plugged and decide on
components to activate for each event
→ component can be logically substituted (plug-in based integration)
→ Learn PAd provides a reference implementation to validate the ideas
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Modeling Environment
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Core Platform
→ The core platform permits the interconnection of all the other
components. Main functionalities
→ coordinate and mediate the interactions
→ include software to perform model transformations (from models to the
collaborative infrastructure)
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Model transformations
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Collaborative Infrastructure
Main characteristics:
→ For each element in a model the infrastructure include a description
page and a set of pages that can be collaboratively edited
→ The BP model is transformed in a ﬂow of pages
→ for each element links to other related models are available (e.g. for a
task information concerning required competences, people involved
and so on according to concretized weavings)
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Collaborative Infrastructure – Landing page
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Collaborative Infrastructure – User context
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Collaborative Infrastructure – Process Main Page
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Collaborative Infrastructure – Model Browsing
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Collaborative Infrastructure – Contributions
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Comments and Feedbacks lifecycle
For each element page it is possible to introduce:
→ Comments
→ Introduced by the users in order to get clariﬁcation, provide suggestions
for improvements, and any possible request a user could have
→ considered, and then possibly deleted, by content managers that can
update the descriptions. If modiﬁcations have an impact on models the
content manager can issue a feedback to the modeler
→ Feedbacks are issued by content manager and managed by modelers
within the modeling platform
This mechanisms permit to monitor if organizational learning and critical
thinking are really activated
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Additional components/funtionalities
→ Model Analysis
→ Structural Properties Veriﬁcation
→ Understandability Guidelines
→ Recommender and Ontology reasoner
→ given competencies model permit to suggest contents and previous
cases to consider. Also expert identiﬁcation is possible
→ Simulator and case manager
→ enable the learn by doing paradigm
→ collaborative simulations – enable collaborative learning
→ Questionnaire component
→ automatic generation of questionnaire from models
→ KPI dashboard and monitoring component
→ enable self-evaluation and self improvment
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Learn PAd modeling method – ﬁnal remarks
Let’s reconsider everything in the context of the Karagiannis - K¨uhn
framework
Modeling procedure roles: Modelers, Civil Servants, Content Managers
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Enter and contribute to the Learn PAd community
https://www.adoxx.org/live/web/learnpad-developer-space
https://github.com/LearnPAd/learnpad
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Thanks!
Andrea Polini PhD
Learn PAd Scientiﬁc Leader
andrea.polini@unicam.it
Get in contact with the Learn PAd project:
https://twitter.com/ProjectLearnPAd
https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6661961
http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectLearnPAd
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