Oversight

This is a discussion of Thai culture as it relates to learning. 

The focus is on understanding, mitigating the worst, and leveraging the best. 

A vital value of school is to credibly show that the student has learned.  Certificate, grade, and transcript are common.   

LSS also provides student work, feedback, revisions, and adaptation.

LSS provides some features to mitigate fraud i.e. detecting plagiarism.

This reflects on the student, teachers, and school.

Facilitating visibility into the student's work is both intrinsically and extrinsically motivating.
 

Extrinsically in that parents might intervene for example.

The system will make it easy for a student to see their work, versions of their work, teacher evaluations, and metrics of their work. Clearly seeing one's own progress, not merely the evaluations of others, is intrinsically motivating.

The best way to learn is to do with expert feedback.

This system will reduce the cost of providing valuable feedback.

A significantly demotivating aspect of classroom education is being behind in learning. The system will make remedial material tuned to the student's interests available.

A simple example of this is students writing.  They write on a given topic say "my favorite animal"  200 words ... but they make many choices as they write.

Having open assignments like this makes it much more costly to mark.  One reason for the popularity of multiple choice.   

This system will lower the cost of marking more open assignments.

A very difficult problem most teachers struggle with.

This system will help teachers mitigate this problem. The overall approach is to provide visibility, aid learning, and facilitate drive.

For weaker leaners the system can make rich material from previous years available.  Not all material because that would be imtimidating and worse than useless.  Material tuned by teachers over years to what the learner is trying to express.  

An example is markup for a missing article.  The reference contains some hints for median learners who understand the basic ideas but are having some trouble applying in this particupal instance.  It is too hard for a weak learner because they stopped learning years ago.

Many students do not care.  A lot of time is spent wondering (mostly complaining about) why and trying to induce caring.  This is rarely effective with poor students but always starves good students.

One strategy is Tit for Tat: focus on students who demonstrate interest and reward them with attention, guidance, and feedback.

An example is providing feedback on written work.  Spending a lot of time to provide quality feedback which is not even read is a waste of time and worse deprives an eager student.

Parents should have the ability to easily see their child's progress:  grade, attendance, class participation, materials ...  The teacher could also provide feedback only to the parent.

Parents will need an account bound the their child's account.

One approach is to send an email to the parent with a link.  Another would be to provide an link on the child's account that the parent could use to create an account though this would be gamed.