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Starting collaborations in Quebec

Open Symposium on Strategic Collobations for eLearnin Gilbert Paquette LORNET Scientific Director Télé-Université. 1. Major International Needs and LORNET. 2. Strategic collaborations abroad. 3. Starting collaborations in Quebec. 4. Conclusion. Priorities and orientations. 1.

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Starting collaborations in Quebec

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  1. Open Symposium on Strategic Collobations for eLearninGilbert PaquetteLORNET Scientific DirectorTélé-Université

  2. 1 Major International Needs and LORNET 2 Strategic collaborations abroad 3 Starting collaborations in Quebec 4 Conclusion Priorities and orientations

  3. 1 Major International Needs and LORNET • Huge demand towards Web-based resources for knowledge and skills acquisition • Towards a new generation of the Internet: Tackle the exponential growth of available information. • Flexible learning technologies, accessible anywhere, anytime, in a variety of context • Knowledge extraction from documents for knowledge management. • Software agents adaptable to users and their contexts to promote intelligent use of information. • Maximal use of the capacity of broadband networks for advanced multimedia delivery. • Seamless technology integration made simple by powerful and versatile assembly systems.

  4. 2 Strategic Collaborations abroad International Consortia • US: Sakai and UPortal: • 80universities (including 4 canadian); Mellon Foundation (2,4 millions $) and 4 millions in-kind; english only • France: • 4 consortias financed by Éducation Nationale, from 1,2 M euros to 4,5 millions euros. • Claroline: • started at Université de Louvain, Belgium,443 organizations in 63 countries; typical open source project; multilingual • Moodle: • 50000 individual users in 160 countries; multilingual

  5. 2 Strategic Collaborations abroad • Governance by a board of University representatives • Technical joint development team • Open source orientation • Assembly of open source and proprietary components • An Open Portal Approach instead of tranditinal LMS and LKMS • Large interest in LORs and Standards • Intellectual Property: a question of recognition more than retribution

  6. 3 Actual Situation in Quebec - A 2004 survey • All 17 universities or superior schools use some platforms • 44 % of university students have used a platform at least once étudiants ont interagi avec un ENA dans le cadre de leur formation. • 9 institutions have developed their own platforms, TELUQ is the only instiutions that used no commercial platform • Proprietary plaforms are still dominant , use a a few functionalities: • WebCT in 10 institutions • Claroline (open source ) in 3 institutions • Learning Space in 2 institutions • First Class, QuickPlace, Sigal, Moodle each used in 1 institutions

  7. 3 Actual Situation in Quebec - A 2004 survey No more a marginal phenomena • 5 764 complete on-line courses • 12 000 courses use a platform for delivery • 7 929) professors and tutors have and access code to a platform • 197 524 students have and access code to a platform Few functionalities are used • Delivery of documents • Communication tools and forums • Little use for course design New needs expressed: more flexibility in pedagogical models

  8. 3 Starting Collaborations between universities in Quebec • Infrastructure for wired schools, CEGEP and Universities (RISQ) • Ministry of Education Working Group on Norms and Standards • LO Repository Project started in 9 universities • PROCENA : towards a common university portal in Quebec • Concepta: 4 level portal base on DotNetNuke integrating tools and modules from previous platforms (Explora, Adapweb, Sydife)

  9. 4 Priorities and orientations • Focus on real learning object repository projects • Build a multilingual eLearning Warehouse: tools, documents, components, portal assembly tools • Support provincial collaboration projects • Support networking between provincial networks of repositories and portals • Need of acoordinating body to fund long term intiatives in Canada, in collaboration with the provinces • Support the Globe Project • Dowplay for a while other international collaboration till we have more to offer (They know what to do, we know what to do)

  10. Open Symposium on Strategic Collobations for eLearninGilbert PaquetteLORNET Scientific DirectorTélé-Université

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