Introducing Personal Timeline : »Learning History«

1 Initial Problem

In ILIAS, different perspectives on one's own learning can be taken: competence orientation, learning objective orientation, learning progress and informal learning about badges.

» » But nowhere can the learner comprehend his learning or discuss with mentors or lecturers.

2 Conceptual Summary

 
New element in the main menu "Personal Desktop", in which all learning events such as learning progress changes, the achievement of learning objectives, the acquisition of competencies and the receipt of badges are processed in chronological order.

2.1 Rules

• COMPETENCE ENTRIES
  • Status [Competence Level] of [linked Competence Title] assigned by [Type of Formation] in [linked Object Title] or [Personal Desktop (linked to Competences)]

• LEARNING OBJECTIVE ENTRIES
  • Mastered [linked Title of Learning objective] in [linked Course Title]

• BADGE
  • [linked Badge Title] was awarded by [linked Object Title] or [Service Title] or manually from [linked Course Title]
  • Note: If a badge is deleted, the entry lives on. There is no way in Timeline to delete an entry.

• LEARNING PROGRESS
  • [linked Object Title] was completed
  • Note: "completed" is only LP-Progress that is considered
  • Note:  Learning Progress will keep dying unless Persisting Learning Progress is implemented
• CERTIFICATES
  • get [linked Certifcate] in [linked Object Title]
    • new Home of Certificates: Persisting Certificates

• RULES
  • There are no [linked Object Title] in other [linked Object Title].
  • The first parent course or group is the maximum envelope.
  • In each line we only ever listed one event.
  • If an object carries several events, several lines are written.
  • If Objects are deleted the links are dead and just text.

• DESIRABLE BU NOT MANDATORY
  • The First Login is shown as start of learning history

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Main Menu gets new entry  "Learning History".
• Introducing a new Screen "Learning History". See MockUps below.

3.2 User Interface Details

The new screen use the timeline, which is used in courses KS-Entry: Vertical Timeline. 

3.3 New User Interface Concepts

We use known information again.
We use known icons again. 

We need a Icon for Learning History.

4 Technical Information

Killing, Alexander [alex], 3 Apr 2018: We need some kind of interface for collecting these information from the various services.

5 Contact

• Author of the Request: Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila]
• Maintainer: Killing, Alexander [alex]
• Implementation of the feature is done by: {The maintainer must add the name of the implementing developer.}

6 Funding

If you are interest in funding this feature, please add your name and institution to this list.

• Technische Hochschule OWL

7 Discussion

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 06 MAR 2018: The general problem that should be tackled with this request is described as follows: "But nowhere can the learner comprehend his learning or discuss with mentors or lecturers." If I understand the description above correctly, each user can see "his learning history" in the new PD menu entry. But how does s/he share it with a tutor or mentor? Do I have to integrate this screen into my portfolio? Or is the sharing ressources workflow used for it? And where are the entry points? Does a "Learning History" button appear on my profile? Or is a mail with a permalink sent to the person whom I want to show my learning history?

Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila], 06 Mar 2018: 
Hello Matthias, you are completely right and just overtake me. ;)
There should be a separate page element in the portfolio. This should make the data available to third parties. (» Page Element for Portfolios: Learning History)
This should also ensure that it is clearly controllable who gets to see how much of which achievements. I do not see this in shared resources. The approach with the profile is still an interesting consideration - but the sharing workflow in personal profile would be a completely new construction.

Killing, Alexander [alex], 3 Apr 2018: I support the idea. There are at least three maintainers involved here. We have to decide where this aggregation takes place and who is responsible for the necessary interface.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 09 APR 2018 : We highly appreciate this feature request and schedule it for 5.4. We would like to have this feature implemented as a new service under the maintenance of Alexander Killing. And we would like to have an open and documented interface for delivering learning history triggers that could be used by other components, too, e.g.: xAPI.

Killing, Alexander [alex], 27 Sep 2018: We need a global activation for this, otherwise this feature will always appear (since courses are one feeding source that cannot be deactivated). Even if installations use some of the components that feed into the service (e.g. badges) they still may want to not show the learning history.

Proposal: New Checkbox "Enable Learning History" under Administration > Personal Desktop.

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 08 OCT 2018 : We accept a global activation of the learning history as suggested by Alexander.

8 Implementation

Test Cases

Test cases completed at 2018-010-09 by Tödt, Alexandra [atoedt]

• 24751 : Vorbereitung: Sytsemkonfiguration und Testobjekte vorbereiten
• 24752 : Leere Learning History im Persönlichen Schreibtisch aufrufen
• 24756 : Eintrag für händische Zuweisung Komeptenzausprägung im Kurs
• 24757 : Eintrag durch Bearbeitet-Status einer Ressource
• 24758 : Eintrag für durch Kompetenz-Test
• 24760 : Eintrag durch 360° Umfrage
• 24761 : Eintrag durch Lernfortschritt
• 24753 : Eintrag für Activity Badge
• 24754 : Eintrag für Merit Badge
• 24755 : Eintrag für Lernfortschritt Badge

Approval

Approved at 2018-10-16 by Samoila, Oliver [oliver.samoila].