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Engaging with Learners

MAXOS - Overview. Engaging with Learners. Putting portability back into Portfolios. www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/. RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning. Engaging with Learners. Thomas Rochford E:Learning Advisor, Infrastructure, RSC Eastern. Portable Learning : Rationale.

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Engaging with Learners

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  1. MAXOS - Overview Engaging with Learners Putting portability back into Portfolios Go to View > Header & Footer to edit www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning

  2. Engaging with Learners Thomas Rochford E:Learning Advisor, Infrastructure, RSC Eastern e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  3. Portable Learning : Rationale The rationale • There are still some places without internet connections • Prisons • Airplanes • Village Halls • Rural/Remote areas • Stables? • Mobile Internet can be expensive/slow • Demonstration purposes • Testbed for development e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  4. Portable Learning : Tools • The tools • Moodle: Delivering the content • Maxos: Developing the content • Mahara: Organising the learner’s portfolio • MoMo: For mobile use e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  5. Portable Learning : Case-Study 1 • What do these have in common Paston College, North Walsham Norfolk 700 FTE Students 100 FTE Staff e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  6. Portable Learning : Case-Study 1 • The Problem • Significant minority of children had no access to computer or Internet • The Solution • Wm. Paston’s foundation grant used to buy ASUS netbooks • Students without Internet Access provided with Moodle on a stick • An Issue • Problems synchronising Moodle on a Stick with Server e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  7. Portable Learning: Mahara on a Stick • Problems • Until version 1.1. released in the middle of 2009, it was not portable to Windows environments • Windows Implementation Issues • Difficulties with mySQL (Collation UTF-8) • Post-installation tweaking (Session cookie not working) • But …. • It can be done • However…. • Do users actually like Mahara? e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  8. Portable Learning : Case-Study 2 • Students at Otley College talk about Mahara e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  9. Portable Learning: Mahara • Features • Manageable Filestore • Blogging Tool. External blogs can be included via RSS • Provides ‘social networking’ in educational context. • Shareable Resumés • Document academic, career and personal goals • Uploaded resources (‘Artefacts’) can be organised in shareable ‘Views’ • ‘Groups’ enable users to build communities of practice and facilitate team work • Highly customisable interface • Can be linked to Moodle e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  10. Portable Learning : MAXOS • What is MAXOS? • MAXOS enables you to run Moodle, Xerte and Mahara on a USB stick, without Internet access • How do you get MAXOS? • http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/RSC_files/technical/maxos/MAXOS_150.zip • Unzip into a new folder on your desktop • Copy contents of this new folder onto the root of a USB Stick. • Free at this event! • Instruction • http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/RSC_files/technical/maxos/index.html • Contact your local RSC or RSC-Eastern for details of XERTE training events e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  11. Portable Learning : Group Tasks • Hands On • Hands-on Xerte Toolkits - Try it • Hands-on Mahara – Try it • Mobile Moodle – http://www.ilite.co.za/mlearnusername ‘mary’; password ‘password’ • Discussion • Is there a future for Portable Learning; and if so where? • What would you expect from a portable e:Portfolio • Questions/Feedback e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  12. Portable Learning : Starting MAXOS • Insert the USB stick in a windows machine • Make sure Skype is turned off • Click on ‘startup.bat’ • IMPORTANT – Close the Command Shell window before removing the stick. • Xerte users • Click on Xerte • Select the Introduction or any other file to start trialling. • Mahara users • Click on Mahara • Login as admin/mahara. • You should find some images in your folder. Add more from Internet, create a ‘View’, set some personal targets etc. e-Portfolios: Effective Uses in Teaching and Learning, London

  13. Maxos: Training Questions ?? t.rochford@rsc-eastern.ac.uk Accessibility and Inclusion Role Group, Belfast

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