The agenda for the final project implementation meeting wlll be informed by the following overview of the original proposal, which we shall systematically and critically review.

The CONSTRUIT! project proposal revisited ...

"A strategic partnershp addressing more than one field"

Overview of project: in retrospect

"Experiencing and reflecting on the practical progress on making construals over the course of the project ..."

Reviewing key points in the proposal

1. The most relevant priorities addressed by the project (p27)

• Revising and strengthening the professional profile of the teaching professions
• Promoting the professional development of staff and youth workers in ICT methodologies
• ICT - new technologies - digital competences
• New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses
• Open and distance learning
  

2. Deliverables "results expected during the project and on its completion": (p28)

An open online course on making construals

- A curriculum for making construals
- An open source environment for making construals
- Resources illustrating e.g. how construals can be used to create OERs for a variety of target groups and application areas.

These are the components of Intellectual Output O1.

A report contextualising 'making construals', relating it to other work, identifying its qualities and limitations, detailing its potential for application, strategic significance for teaching and learning in Europe, and future prospects, to include:

- documented case studies of learning experiments conducted to test the claims made for 'making construals'.

- an account of how making construals is related to other practices in computing and technology-enhanced learning with which it shares a common orientation and similar aspirations

- a discussion of future directions for education, training and youth work with specific reference to the evolution of ICT practices and the future of computing education.

This report will draw upon the Intellectual Outputs O2 and O2.

Publication of joint research papers involving members of the project team

Re-implementing the proposal form in the MCE ...

3. Implementation framework (p30)

Structured around the six claims for investigation (p24-25)

MC1a. Principles and concepts for making construals
MC1b. Principles of construal comprehension
MC2a. Collaborative construal construction
MC2b. Instrumenting construals for interactive assessment and evaluation
MC3a. Deriving OERs from construals
MC3b. Other applications for making construals

More details of the six claims for investigation. [Allusion to Spreadsheets in Education]

Cooperation and communication within the project refers to "the possibility of exploiting online construals themselves as a novel means of electronic communication" (p27).

4. Target groups (p34)

- schoolteachers (MENACE pilot project): Edumotiva C14, C2/C15, C16, Warwick CAS/MOOC

- HE students: C5, C6, C7 / Edinburgh online students

- SciFest: C8, C9, C10 / Warwick IGGY

O3 claims refer to "organising activities with learners from particular groups (such as female learners, the
visually impaired, retired people or young unemployed)" and with/without experience of other varieties of programming ["JS-EDEN vs Java vs Imagine Logo in a Hackathon competition", "experts in Imagine Logo, agent-based systems or spreadsheets"]

Virtual Workshops

"allow students who attend learning activities in person to follow up online".

"address a specific topic and lead to the development of appropriate shared OERs"

Examples:

classroom topics (trigonometry or matrix algebra)

recreational topics (chess endgames)

domestic faciliity (central heating system)

[Quartet in the role of tutors to recruit other experts from diaspora]

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Overview of project: current concerns

5. O1: An open online course as a practical resource for 'making construals' (p35)

Scheduled for August & September 2017 ...

O1-A17 Finishing (p43)

Finalising and documenting resources relating to the OOC / MC3

- curriculum for making construals: based on MC1, MC2 and MC3

O1-A18 Reporting

Reporting on resources relating to the OOC / MC3

6. O2: Evaluation of the OOC (p44)

Scheduled for August & September 2017 ...

O2-A5 Analysis of MC Activity for C7, C10 C16 (p46)

O2-A6 Reporting on analysis of the OOC / MC3

7. O3: Evaluation of claims for making construals (p47 - as described here)

Scheduled for August & September 2017 ...

O3-A5 Evaluation of claims MC3 (p48)

O3-A6 Reporting on claims MC3 (p49)

8. O1-A19 Completion

Drawing together the components MC1, MC2 and MC3 for final review

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Overview of the project: looking to the future

9. Follow up: Impact (p63-64)

"a paradigm for co-construction of OERs through a cumulation of incremental interactions with a
construal that can at all times be understood through its close relationship with our lived experience"

[Example construals such as: seasons of the year, mobile phone operation, appreciating cricket]

HE students encouraged to be creative problem solvers and lateral thinkers

addressing problems concerned with the interoperability of OERs

"expect to enhance the expressive power of the MC instrument to allow web resources of a very
general nature to be readily integrated with it. This will highlight the clear potential for interdisciplinary applications."

bring unity to science and arts and humanities in practice not just in principle

deploying in other countries?

"The impact of the project on the participants will be measured by the extent to which they find it congenial and feasible to apply 'making construals' in ways that promote active and creative learning."

10. Dissemination to be reviewed (p64-65)

Rene Alimisi to review with input from Piet, Hamish and Warwick pedagogy team

Stakeholders:

Internal :

• Individuals supporting learning and teaching (teachers, tutors, learning technologists, educational developers, curriculum designers and more)
• Learners (registered students, potential applicants, and alumni)
• Groups responsible for sharing good practice and training staff (e.g. Learning Technology Centres)
• Groups preparing lecturers and post-graduates for internal teaching qualifications
• Those in Education Departments responsible for (national) initial teacher training qualifications

External:

• Educational institutions of all kinds
• Public authorities and policy makers (local authorities, governmental Departments and agencies, those responsible for qualifications at all levels)
• Subject communities (for example the Computing at School initiatives, and Mathematics teaching and learning communities, but including employers and professional bodies)
• Individuals supporting learning and teaching (teachers, learning technologists, educational developers, curriculum designers and more)
• Learners at all stages – school and college students, life-long learners, retired people

"we have something special and innovative to offer but that this involves changes in educational cultures"

"Each partner will undertake dissemination in their respective country"

Dissemination activities:

• website with links to "suggested activities" and "a multimedia library"
• leaflets and bi-annual newsletters
• conference and workshop presentations
• social media presence
• professional bodies, administrative authorities and policy makers
• Erasmus+ dissemination platform
• Virtual Workshops (in total 10 planned)

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