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Virtual Congress: Using Cloud Computing to Support Collaborative Projects in Education

Highlighting the contributions of using collaborative projects in educational institutions nationwide to enhance student learning through new classroom dynamics and deployment scenarios.

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Virtual Congress: Using Cloud Computing to Support Collaborative Projects in Education

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  1. Using Cloud Computing to Support Virtual Congress Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido jlalinde@eafit.edu.co

  2. Objective Highlight the contributions of the strategy of using collaborative projects, in educational institutions nationwide (public and private), to the learning process of students through reflection on new classroom dynamics and the socialization of deployment scenarios.

  3. Specific Objectives • To socialize experiences and report cases of implementation of the strategy of collaborative projects in education establishments in Colombia. • Encourage the education community to use collaborative projects as a strategy that promotes meaningful learning • Making effective use of technological infrastructure and connectivity at the national level for increase coverage and participation of the educational actors in the Congress.

  4. Target Audience Currently active teachers of primary and secondary education Normal complementary cycle students Teachers in training Research community Professional teachers General community

  5. Academic Committee • Claudia María Zea – • Programa Nacional de uso de Medios y TIC • Ministerio de Educación Nacional • Ma. del Rosario Atuesta • Proyectos colaborativos - EAFIT • Mauricio Duque Escobar • Pequeños científicos - Uniandes • Beatriz Agudelo • Red Virtual Escuela Nueva Caldas • María Elena Manjares • Colciencias Ondas • Paula Pérez • Fundación Evolución, Argentina • Escuela nueva virtual de Caldas • CPE - Mincomunicaciones • Fundación FE – Argentina • REDAL – REPEAL • Colciencias • Universidad EAFIT – Comunicación social Sponsors

  6. Virtual Congress Structure - Time line - Pre-Congress activities February 9 to 22 Prepare audience for topics and activities Central dynamics February 23 to March 6 Academic, social and knowledge production activities Post-Congress activities March 9 to 20 Evaluation of the congress and deployment of contents to Colombia Aprende

  7. Pre-Congress activities Advertisement (1 month before) Portal Colombia Aprende – National Portal’s Network ICT Managers – Educations Secretaries email Prepare audience Guided activities Review Project Repository Expectation campaing Training activities Virtual course: ABC on CP Experiences recompilation Identify relevant experiences nationwide On site information recompilation Content creation

  8. Pre-Congress activities Working area Virtual Events Platform - Universidad EAFIT

  9. Virtual Congress Structure – Information and contents flow - Central dynamics February 23 to March 6 Academic, social and production activities Academic Social Knowledge Production Exhibition of teacher and student experiences and testimonies with collaborative projects based on ICT Coffee Shop Videoconferences Forums Workshops Collaborative wiki construction about collaborative projects. Thematic Forums

  10. Academic Streaming and Live videoconferences Forum to support direct interaction between the audience and the lecturer

  11. Academic Private workshops to promote the knowledge and use of web 2.0 tools and services. Reflections around documents or videos proposed by special guests who will moderate the discussion. A support team for both activities will be available.

  12. Socialization Experiences reported by students and teaches Interviews, papers, video documentaries, photos, images Live interaction with project leaders Comments

  13. Socialization: Colombia tours

  14. Knowledge Production: CP’s Wiki Wiki built during the congress by the attendants Supporting team

  15. Knowledge Production: CP’s Wiki

  16. Social Network: Coffee Shop

  17. Post-Congress Activities Evaluation Importance and impact of pre-congress activities, subject relevance for education, pertinence of the format, discussion quality, theme management, interaction dynamics, workshop’s quality and pertinence, support documents, etc. Contents Compilation of contents for indexing and publishing in http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co, including videos, interviews, editorials, posters, documents, wiki about CP, etc. Analysis of the experiences identified and selected in order to let them join the program “Colombia Innova”.

  18. Evaluation intention is to verify that: • The purpose of the congress, to highlight the experiences with CP, is fulfilled • Virtual activities encourage the use of ICT • The virtual format increased the coverage of the congress, allowing more teachers to attend • Teachers are motivated to work with CP • Trained and enthusiastic staff enhances the dynamics of interaction

  19. Evaluation congress contribution to the use of ICT Technology Platform behavior Skills for using available tools Relevance and usability of the virtual format Human Resource Support quality Attendance’s ICT skills Knowledge created and/or transmitted Resources and contents Quality and relevance of supporting material Topic relevance Quality of lectures Interaction Participation alternatives Intervention quality Relevance of the proposed dynamics

  20. Dynamic Components Updated information and activities development Recent activities Daily event Visit to the regions Module through which evidenced the participation of the attendees at the conference spaces: Forums, wiki, conferences, comments on an expedition, participation inworkshops and tutorials, coffee, tell us your experience. Banner that promotes the day’s main activity. May be related to conferences or workshops. This message was changed daily. The messages Focused on highlighting the topic: Do you know how to integrate technology in your project? Banner promoting the visit to a given region of the country where experiences identified are highlighted. Links to a region. Have you missed a conference? Reflection News News kind of content, Accompanied by video or pictures and text, reporting on the subject to work and the moderator in charge. Interesting news on the latest activities. With pictures or videos. Links to lectures’ log. Conferences can be viewed on demand.

  21. User menu Attendance Schedule Forum Share your experience with CP Invite a friend Congress submentu RSS, news and forum Tags Cloud Transversal components Components that allow direct access to different information services Users are able to add information to their profile, contact other users through messages and make them part of their contacts. It shows the number of attendees registered. It is updated automatically.. Detailed information about events, lecturers, moderators, topics, with direct link to the activity site. Detailed list of all forums. Creation of forums is promoted in the coffee shop. The attendees define the topics. Users will receive updates of recent activities in forums and news through mail. Enables users to register and document experiences that have not been identified. Allows a user to send an invitation to a friend Additional menu. Includes News, Certificates, FAQs, Help, Site map and links. Cloud with the more popular tags.

  22. Call for participation • Expectation campaign on Colombia Aprende • Direct email to registered users of: Colombia Aprende, formation processes, Operators, CPE, national network of portals. • Colombia Aprende, Medellin Digital, other sites. • Direct email to social networks and virtual communities in Colombia Aprende. • Free registration • Pre-Congress activities for Pre-register. • Updates on activities of the congress, on-site conference, Colombia Aprende microsite.

  23. Microsite Congreso Virtual en Colombia Aprende http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co

  24. Public space Work space Ingreso e inscripciónal congreso

  25. Schedule

  26. Attendees conference end date conference start date • Registration started on February 10, 2009

  27. Foreign participants: 35 countries

  28. Foreign participants: 35 countries

  29. Participation through comments

  30. Virtual Workshop: Participation during 3 weeks

  31. Congress and the WEB 2.0

  32. Original System Design • Guiding principles: • Do not reinvent the wheel • Users must perceive only one environment • ICT literacy must no be a limitation • Critical issues: • Video bandwidth. Both for live and on demand. • Availability

  33. Original System Design Selected tools: Cloud based video services Drupal Moodle MediaWiki MySQL

  34. Too successful, evolve • Three days before starting: 4000 users • Solution: Evolve • Key concepts: • Load balancing • Preserve sessions • Synchronize servers • Use HTML properties (RESTful orientation)

  35. First Approach

  36. Second Approach

  37. Third Approach

  38. Final Design

  39. Conclusions • Scalability is a must. We were lucky! • Problematic situations to avoid: • Data stored in local file systems • Multiple ids – multiple sessions • Open issues: • Chat with multiple users • We are currently developing from scratch a cloud compatible application

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