MOVING: Applying digital science methodology for TVET

MOVING.
Applying digital science methodology for
TVET.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler
c/o Institute of Vocational Education + Media Center
Dresden University of Technology
Voc Ed Summer School & DAAD Alumni Conference 2018
“PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT FOR NETWORKED WORKING ENVIRONMENT IN
THE AREA OF TENSION BETWEEN VOCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC
EDUCATION”
TU Dresden / Uni Leipzig, 19.-27.06.2018

STRUCTURE OF THE PRESENTATION
1. Digitization & Web 2.0: insights into a changing academic
practices
- Influencing factors
- Terminology around eScience
- Brief history of eScience
2. The concept of e-science
- Social sciences: Is research changing?
- Consequences for the (social) sciences
- Research projects of TUD
3. Design based research
- Use cases of the MOVING project
- Structures and Outcomes
- Moving the idea further

Digitization and Web 2.0
Influencing factors:
Online + Digital Communication
 changed the way we communicate, inform, learn or entertain
 modified the conditions and the standards for these activities
 permanent Online-presence with network technologies + mobile computing
Online + Digital Collaboration
 substantial dissolution of spatial-temporal limits of our physical world
experience (cp. Weinberger, 2007).
 not always visible, but still active individual participation (cp. Kahnwald
2011).
Online + Digital Data
 in the digital space institutional and physical embeddedness is replaced by
permanent availability of massive data for anyone who is interested
 computer-mediated communications lead to new structures of collaboration
in sciences as well as between sciences and industry, which even converts
existing organizational patterns.

What is e-science?
Term is used in a broad understanding
 Electronic science, dealing with technologies and infrastructures like ‘Grids’
and e-research infrastructures
 Data-intensive science with high performance computing of ‘Big Data’
 Networked science and collaborative practices rather than individual activities
 Open science approaches that even allow opening toward ‘Citizen Science’
Definition
 the eScience Research Network Saxony is describing it as the „expansion of
academic activities through the integration of information and communication
technologies in all areas and disciplines of scientific research, communication
and dissemination of knowledge“.
 it is clear that the term chosen is not a perfect concept for a dynamic
agenda!
cp. www.escience-sachsen.de
Terminology

A brief history
 E-Science or Electronic Science describes different methodological fields of
research and development in the context of the defining and using
computer technologies in scientific research.
 While primarily in Germany and Great Britain, the term e-Science is used,
in the U.S., the comparable concept of a "Cyber Infrastructure" or in
Australia, the "e-Research“ term can be found. Currently, the discussion
expands under the slogan "Science 2.0“ and goes in particular to digital
scientific cooperative work (Weichselgartner, 2010).
 Here, the thematic range starts with infrastructures on application
architectures, grid and cloud technologies but also extends to educational
technology, so-called e-learning.
 Also e-science systems support cooperative research between universities
and in cooperation with industry (see Ziegler & Diehl, 2009).
E-Science

Consequences for the (social) sciences
1. The life takes place in a digital lab!
2. Digitalization of science and scientific work has happened already!
3. It is likely that scientists are not aware that change from a
methodological point if view!
(Köhler 2011, Pscheida et al. 2012, Mohamed et al. 2013a / 2013b)
Status Quo of Social Sciences

The life takes place in a digital lab!
 For the first time communication is entirely taking place in form of digital
text – an advantage that is invaluable.
 So far with any observation or data collection process encountered the
problem to collect ‘complete’ data in a qualitative sense. However, every
attempt will always be only an approximate solution. Reference is made in
this by ‘Transcription rules’ and ‘observer training’.
 The investigation within computer networks, however, allows an automatic
logging of all interaction occurring (insofar as it is uttered). This 1:1
relationship between log and setting again is unique.
 Its importance lies in the possible extraction of socially relevant
communication or interaction from a complete social situation.
 From an experimental perspective it is important to notify that possibly
existing pre-knowledge of communicators can be excluded at least in the
case of new group members / research subjects (Köhler, 2003) .
 The practical result is the overcoming of the traditional divide between
laboratory and field, i.e. the digitality kills the divide!
Digital life takes place in the lab!
Consequences

Digitalization of science and scientific work has
happened already!
 Digital libraries
 Open access Publications
 Digital Dissertation Servers
 Online surveys
 Online conferences / - conference management
 Online appointments etc.
 Online exams, assessments, BA/ MA thesis submissions
 Virtual labs
 Digital texts for scientists daily communication (email, blogs, twitter, etc.)
 Digital videography, software based content analysis
Academic work has completely arrived in the
digital world!
(cp. Köhler 2011)
Consequences

Lack of focus
 scientists only marginally consider the methodological dimension:
 Just a few (social) scientists discuss methodological issues of digitalization.
 There doesn’t seem to be clear standards of good research practice in a
digital world.
Your perspective
 Do you select your web2.0 tools after serious methodological consideration?
What to do?
 We need both, empirical (i.e. data) and theoretical (i.e. analytical)
awareness.
Consequences

The “eScience Research Network Saxony”
 a joint project of all universities and colleges in the German federal state
Saxony,
 funded by the European Commission together with the local Ministry of
Science in the period 2011 – 2014
 appr. 25 smaller research projects in different areas of eScience,
 research reports, publication and networking conferences
 counseling for the participating universities and colleges
 sustainable implementation of new approaches and technologies in the
scientific practice of the partners and beyond
 First study: Science 2.0-Survey 2014_PDF_A.indd.pdf cf. chapter 4. “Use of
social media and online-based tools”
The European project ”MOVING”
 profiles eScience research technology toward collaborative science practice
 focus on two sectoral differentiated eScience use cases of research activity
 Focus on data processing + collaboration methods and development of
appropriate tools
 Specific training of respective practices among scientists by using
Technology Enhanced (Online) Learning
Research contexts

Design based research
• Within the “MOVING” project we characterize e-science as a
scientific discipline focused on analysis, adoption and
development of local and distributed hardware and software
systems, associated application scenarios and organizational
structures to create an efficient environment for collaborative
cross-university research.
• The ‘real’ research in its diversity shall be considered along with
upstream activities such as resource mobilization, problem
identification and calculation, downstream phases such as the
transfer of results into economy and the evaluation of research
performance, as well as with accompanying phases such as
public relations and teaching.
• Cf. www.moving-project.eu
Use cases of the MOVING project

Objective of the MOVING
• The objective of the MOVING project is to improve the
social capacity for innovation by expanding its
competencies in digital information management.
• The goal of the MOVING project is to train and empower
people from all societal sectors and disciplinary
backgrounds to apply data analytics tools and techniques
in their daily working routines.
• To that extent, an open and interdisciplinary platform will
come to aid which is similar for different branches and
use cases.
MOVING: improve the social capacity

MOVING: Design based research
• Based upon the background of the professional partner
Ernest & Young
• The use case described here addresses public
administrators, and is provided by EY and their 60.000
compliance officers.
• The objective here is the application of a human-centered
design approach.
• According to the scenarios described for this use case, we
applied, for the requirement analysis, a mixed-methods
design conducting a series of internal interviews,
conducting brainstorming sessions based on the
questionnaire analysis of responses and performing a
review of existing text mining tools.
Use case I: legal accountants

• Based upon TU Dresden and respective training networks with
junior researchers.
• Task: Managing and mining research information
• The reception of the activities and results of other scientists in a
certain research field as well as a precise knowledge of the
current state of the discussion within the relevant scientific
community is one of the core tasks in scientific work process in
means of research quality.
• On the one hand, this practice makes sure that newer or even
older ideas cannot be falsely stolen and solutions do not have to
be worked out twice.
• On the other hand it is the base for the scientific principle that
new scientific ideas should always build on the results of
previous work to enhance scientific innovation.
• Therefore, serious scientific work has to go hand-in-hand with
good literature review.
Use case II: junior researchers

• Today, the internet is the central place for scientific
information and literature review.
• The available sources are varied: in addition to increasing
library catalogues, online archives and databases as the
classical approaches, social networking sites (e.g.
ResearchGate) and content sharing platforms such as
Slideshare or scientific blogs are available as sources.
• Cf. http://researchgate.net/
Use case II: junior researchers

MOVING Demonstration
• The research report: http://moving-
project.eu/wiki/doku.php?id=info:technology:mockups
• The Model of a primary personae: Table 6: Primary
persona of use case 2
• Developing a ‘mock up’ of the use cases: fetch.php.pdf
Developing a ‘mock up’ of the use cases

Hands on MOVING technology!
• http://moving-project.eu/moving-platform/
Let’s try the MOVING technology:
Four main steps to individual results:
1. Create an account.
2. Use the free search with any term.
3. Visualize your results.
4. Find appropriate learning support videos.

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Thank you for your interest!
I appreciate your inquiries.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler / Dresden University of Technology
Affiliations:
A) Faculty of Education / Institute for Vocational Education / Educational
Technology Chair: http://tu-dresden.de/bt
B) Media Centre: http://tu-dresden.de/mz
Address:
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eMail: Thomas.Koehler@tu-dresden.de
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