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Category: “Teaching Processes/Characteristics”
DC-Education Working Document–February 5, 2000

This Version: <http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dc-ed/Pedagogy_SS_1.html>
Latest Version: <http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/dc-ed/Pedagogy_SS_1.html>

Editor: Stuart A. Sutton
© 2000 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. All Rights Reserved.

Purpose

This working document is intended to represent the Editor’s synthesis of the DC-Education listserv discussion of the “Teaching Processes/Characteristics” category through the above date; and sets out a strawman proposal for an “auxiliary” element for discussion both online and at the face-to-face meeting in Melbourne. There is no consensus from the discussions about what the element should be called. While “pedagogy” was bandied about and not considered coextensive with the category, it is arbitrarily used here as the token for the element with the final name left as an open issue. The document does not represent all of the various ideas expressed on the listserv; rather, it seeks to represent areas of general consensus. The Editor hopes that bringing forward a strawman proposal will assist in the identification of open issues needing resolution in Melbourne. This working document is not an official document of the DCMI.

“Teaching Processes/Characteristics” is one of five categories of information derived from an exploration of existing Dublin Core-based education/training-focused metadata projects and the IEEE 1484.12 Learning Object Metadata (LOM) proposed standard. It is the Editor’s intention that this document be “refined” periodically as the online discussions progress. For information on the remaining four categories, see the minutes of the DC7 DC-Education Working Group Meeting: <http://www.ischool.washington.edu/sasutton/DC7_DCEd.html>

Discussion Summary

It is generally agreed among members of the Working Group that the capacity to designate various kinds of activities of students, and various kinds of methods used by teachers/trainers in the teaching/learning process is important for networked information discovery and retrieval. The table below summarizes areas of general consensus and notes areas of debate.

ELEMENT ELEMENT
QUALIFIER 		VALUE QUALIFIER
(CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES) 		DESCRIPTION
PEDAGOGY     The kinds of structured activities of students and the various kinds of methods used by teachers/trainers in the teaching/learning process.
  ACTIVITIES   Structured activities of students/trainees through which the learning process occurs.

  METHODS   Methods used by teachers and trainers in structuring the processes of teaching, learning, and learner evaluation.

Proposal

  1. ELEMENT:

    • Name:  PEDAGOGY
    • Definition:  The kinds of structured activities of students and the various kinds of methods used by teachers/trainers in the teaching/learning process.

  2. ELEMENT QUALIFIERS

    • Name:  ACTIVITIES
    • Definition:  Structured activities of students/trainees through which the learning process occurs.

    • Name:  METHODS
    • Definition:  Methods used by teachers and trainers in structuring the processes of teaching, learning, and learner evaluation.

  3. VALUE QUALIFIERS†

    • Name:  
    • Definition:  

†While the Working Group currently does not propose value qualifiers, it recognizes the need for their immediate development. The question is open whether DC should attempt such vocabulary development or leave such development to the various communties .... or exercise both options.

Open Issue: The name of the element remains an open issue.

DC-Education Working Group Participants