OSBLE
On-line Studio Based Learning Environment
The Online Studio-Based Learning Environment (OSBLE) is a learning management system for building teaching and learning communties based on the studio-based learning model. As a learning management environment, OSBLE provides a variety of features that enable instructors to set up and maintain online presences for their courses. These include an activity feed, a course calendar, an internal course e-mail system, a course file management system, an integrated gradebook, and (most importantly) a way to create assignments and assess students’ work through line-by-line comments and structured rubrics.
Unique to OSBLE is its powerful support for studio-based assignments, in which students can iteratively submit and refine their artifacts through critical reviews involving peers, instructors, and even disciplinary professionals. OSBLE supports three specific asynchronous studio-based activities:
- critical reviews in which students, and optionally expert moderators,are assigned to review teams that critically review the artifacts of the members of the team using both inline comments with structured categories, and structured rubrics. These reviews can optionally be run single-blind and double-blind.
- issue voting sessions in which review team members vote on the issues that were within the critical reviews.
- author rebuttal sessions in which authors are given the opportunity view and to respond to the issues identified in the critical reviews and issue voting sessions.
Another key feature of OSBLE is its support for communties of teachers and professionals in a common discipline to discuss teaching practices, provide support, and share resources. In particular, teachers can share materials (assignments, rubrics, issue categories, and course materials), student-student interactions, and student-instructor interactions from their active courses with those in their community. Community members can discuss their teaching practices and provide support to each other. When community members view shared items, students are automatically anonymized, so that such sharing does not violate student privacy laws. Moreover, instructors can easily inject discipliinary professionals into review, issue voting, and author rebuttal activities such that identities of both students and professionals remain anonymous.
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