PyramidApp
PyramidApp
PyramidApp
A scalable approach facilitating flexible collaborative learning, based on the Pyramid or Snowball collaborative learning flow pattern
PyramidApp is a scalable technological approach facilitating flexible collaborative learning following Pyramid or Snowball collaborative learning flow pattern.
Using PyramidApp authoring tool, practitioners can design activities that can be enacted in any preferred education context. Students will use PyramidApp to access the activity and submit individual option (which can be a question, comment, suggestion, or even a link of a created resource) for a given task. Students will be able to collaboratively discuss and negotiate upon a common agreed option in groups and rate those options iteratively following a snowball or pyramid structure till the complete crowd reaches a global consensus on the most interesting option(s).
The objective of the tool is to allow students to learn from peers in the process of proposing options, discussing and selecting the best option(s)! Practitioners are able to monitor on-going pyramid activities and view the winning options in order to discuss further.
How it works
Authoring:
Activity enactment:
Create Pyramids & Enact!
PyramidApp is integrated within ILDE platform.
- If you have an account to ILDE, simply go to
- New design (in the main menu) -> Author -> PyramidApp.
- Here you can design Pyramid activities by specifying preferred parameters.
- Click "Save & Exit" button to save your design.
- In the next screen click "Publish this document" button to publish your Pyramid activity.
- Once you publish your design in ILDE, you will get a “public link“.
- Using this public link, students can access the activity, using smartphones or Google chrome web browser.
Here you can find a user manual explaining these authoring aspects of the PyramidApp.
More information: https://pyramidappupf.wordpress.com
Publications (complete list here):
- Manathunga, K., Hernández-Leo (2018), Authoring and enactment ofmobile pyramid-based collaborative learning activities, British Journal of Educational Technology, 49(2),262–275, doi:10.1111/bjet.12588, open access at https://repositori.upf.edu/handle/10230/33322
- Manathunga, K., Hernández-Leo, D. (2019). Flexible CSCL Orchestration Technology: Mechanisms for Elasticity and Dynamism in Pyramid Script Flows, International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Lyon, France.
- Manathunga, K., Hernández-Leo, D., PyramidApp: Scalable method Enabling Collaboration in the Classroom. In: Proceedings of 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 2016, LNCS 9891, 422- 427.
- Manathunga, K., Hernández-Leo, D., Sharples, M., (2017) A Social Learning Grid for MOOCs: Exploring a FutureLearn Case, Springer LNCS (vol. 10254) Proceedings of eMOOCs 2017, Madrid, Spain, 243-253.
- Amarasinghe, I., Hernández Leo, D., Manathunga, K., & Jonsson, A. (2018). Sustaining continuous collaborative learning flows in MOOCs: orchestration agent approach. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 2018; 24 (8): 1034-51.
- Amarasinghe, I., Hernández-Leo, D., & Jonsson, A. (2019). Data-informed design parameters for adaptive collaborative scripting in across-spaces learning situations. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 29(4), 869–892, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11257-019-09233-8.
- Amarasinghe, I., & Hernández-Leo, D. (2019). Adaptive Orchestration of Scripted Collaborative Learning in MOOCs. In Proceedings of European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 2019, 591-594.