Project Task-Market Claudia Schmucki Institute of Applied Simulation Life Sciences and Facility Management, Wädenswil

Content Presentation of the idea „Task-Market“  motivation  functionality  concept „Task“  technical aspect  next steps

Motivation  assignments of tasks are an important element in every instructional design  solving problems and formulating tasks help students handling information and understanding topics better  formulating tasks is a time-consuming job  Bologna brought a large number of assessments, a lot of tasks must be provided a good task is a valuable resource that can be reused in different context tasks and the solutions must be saved in a open repository

Functionality of this Task-Market  students and teachers formulate tasks and upload it to the market  students solve problems and improve solutions  students exchange tasks by up- and downloading to and from the market  tasks are rated by students or by teachers  tasks can be used in assessments  students and teachers can up- and download the tasks via a special webpage or via the eLearning platform (i.e. moodle)

Concept „Task“  a task can be a file, a multiple choice question, a picture …  the type of task is not specified, it can be text in any format, a picture, a video etc.  metadata belong to every task, enabling a powerful search

Tasks in the Task-Market solution metad solutio n metad solution meta d rating task metadata task metadata metadata like subjectauthorlevel of difficulty courseversiontime and effort semesterhistoryadequacy topicrelated task…. keywordstype…. rights and roles

Technical Aspect LMS e.g. moodle Webpage upload search, filter delete modify rate report print s

Project next steps stepsdead-line provide project documents February 2010 submit the project as university project March 2010 optionally submit the project to the competition specification terminated August 2010 start realisationAugust 2010