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Designing Physics Online Courses with EJSApp | AAPT Summer Meeting

Explore using Moodle for virtual labs and EJSApp plugins to enhance online Physics courses. Learn about EJSApp functionalities and how to create engaging VRLs.

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Designing Physics Online Courses with EJSApp | AAPT Summer Meeting

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  1. AAPT Summer Meeting, Minneapolis, 2014 American Association of Physics Teachers Using Moodle to design Physics online courses with virtual and remote laboratories based on EJS Luis de la Torre1, Sebastian Dormido1, Jose Sánchez Ruben Heradio2 1 Dept. of Computer Science and Automatic Control 2 Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Systems July 26-30, 2014 - Minneapolis, USA -

  2. Contents • Motivation • Why Moodle? • Our approach for Virtual and Remote Labs (VRLs) • What is EJSApp? • EJSApp plugins • EJSApp • EJSApp File Browser • EJSApp Booking System • EJSAppCollab Sessions • OSP • UNILabs – an example of an online course with EJS VRLs AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  3. 1. Motivation • Online courses (Moodle) • Experimental practices (VRLs) • Easy construction of VRLs (EJS) • Easy deployment of VRLs (EJSApp) • Easy management of VRLs (EJSApp) • Enhanced functionalities of VRLs (EJSApp) • Enhanced functionalities of online courses (EJSApp) AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  4. 2. Why Moodle? • Moodle is a free open source LMS. • Supports teachers with their teaching and learners with their learning. • Integrates anything needed for a course (blocks, activities…). • It can be customized to support the needed features. • It can be used from any device (tablets, smartphones…). • More than 60 million users (one of the most used LMS in the world). AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  5. 3. Our approach for virtual and remote labs (Moodle) (EJSApp) (EJS) (ALMOST) ANYTHING YOU WANT! AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  6. 4. What is EJSApp? Free & open source! 5 plugins > 8000 downloads in oneyear and a half MoodleHatAward AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  7. 5. EJSApp plugins • Core plugin (EJSApp) • Storing data and other files (EJSApp File Browser) • Managingtheaccess to theRLs (EJSAppBookingSystem) • AllowingcollaborativeworkwiththeVRLs (EJSAppCollabSession) • Accesingsimulationsfromthe OSP-ComPADRElibrarydirectlyfrom Moodle (OSP) • Downloadthemfromhttps://moodle.org/plugins/browse.php?list=set&id=27 • Visitourchannel in Youtube: UNEDLabs (http://www.youtube.com/user/UNEDLabs) AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  8. 5. EJSApp plugins - EJSApp • Add EJS applications to a Moodle course • Simulations or virtual laboratories • Remote laboratories • Set standard Moodle conditions for accessing these new activities • Automatic backup and restore features • Multi-language support • Personalize EJS simulations for each student • Different initial states for each EJS simulation AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  9. 5. EJSApp plugins – EJSApp File Browser • Extends Moodle’s Private Files native repository • Store files saved from an EJS application integrated into Moodle by means of EJSApp • Image files • Text (data) files • State files • Load previously saved states for a particular EJS simulation AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  10. 5. EJSApp plugins – EJSApp Booking System • Provides a way to manage the access to the RL resources • Students need to make a booking before they can work with the RL • Teachers have free access to the RLs • Sends e-mails to both students and teachers about the bookings and the state of the RLs • Allows teachers to control the booking rights of students over each individual RL AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  11. 5. EJSApp plugins – EJSAppCollab Sessions • Real time collaboration with VRLs between two or more Moodle users • Student-student(s) • Teacher-student(s) • The session director creates the collaborative session • Selects the VRL to work with • Selects the invited users • Sends Moodle’s IMs and e-mails to the users invited to a collaborative session (Mobile too) AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  12. 5. EJSApp plugins – OSP • Access to the OSP-ComPADRE repository directly from Moodle • Over 500 ready-to-use simulations • Add them automatically as an activity to your Moodle course using the EJSApp plugin • Java and Javascript simulations • List all of them or search for a particular one • Read a brief description and watch an image to get the look and feel of a simulation before you download it AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  13. 5. UNILabs – Online courses with EJS VRLs • Network of VRLs in differentfields • Basedon Moodle, EJS and EJSApp http://unilabs.dia.uned.es • Open coursewith free VRLs in Automatic Control • Comingsoon: a coursewith free VRLs in Physics(documentationonlyavailable in Spanish atm) AAPT 2014 Summer meeting

  14. AAPT Summer Meeting, Minneapolis, 2014 American Association of Physics Teachers Thank you for your attention!

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