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WP7-8: Technical Update Presentation

WP7-8: Technical Update Presentation. Bernd Simon (Knowledge Markets) Kris Popat (University of Bolton) With Input from: Michael Aram (KM) Jean-Noël Colin (FUNDP) Will Ellis (EUN) Lars Ingesman (UNI-C) David Massart (EUN) Tien Hoang Minh (FUNDP) Tarmo Toikkanen (AALTO)

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WP7-8: Technical Update Presentation

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  1. WP7-8: Technical Update Presentation Bernd Simon (Knowledge Markets) Kris Popat (University of Bolton) With Input from: Michael Aram (KM) Jean-Noël Colin (FUNDP) Will Ellis (EUN) Lars Ingesman (UNI-C) David Massart (EUN) Tien Hoang Minh (FUNDP) Tarmo Toikkanen (AALTO) Pilot Preparation Work Group 19th March, 2012

  2. What iTEC is doing technically: Open and configurable learning technologies that • provide access to collections of resources beyond content • deliver these collections of resources across a wide range of platforms and devices. • stimulate teachers’ and learners’ innovative practice in facilitating learning iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  3. How are we going to do this? Via three key technologies: • Composer • Widget Store • Shells brought together in the iTEC Cloud. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  4. What is the iTEC Cloud? • The iTEC cloud is based on WP7 to 10 technologies: • A Wookie-based Widget Store run by Bolton • Two LMS/VLE shells: • DotLRN Shell run by KM • Moodle Shell run by FUNDP • In the forthcoming weeks we aim at expanding the iTEC Cloud with • Identity management environment run by FUNDP • Composer run by KM • Eventually all WP7 – WP10 components will be integrated into the iTEC Cloud: • People & Events Directory • SDE • LRE • IWB? iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  5. Composer • An authoring tool that supports the composition of learning stories and activities that are enriched by resources made available via iTEC Application Store. • Functions as a back-end tool for performing administrative tasks such as the management of resources. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  6. Recent End-User Relevant Developments • Developing the Composer to a pre-pilot tool: • GUI Design: • graphical design • forms and form labels, e.g. functionalities vs. affordances • navigation design • folksonomies vs. taxonomies • Browser compatibility iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  7. Composer GUI: Adaptive Theme • Responsive User Interface: • Improve usability on smaller screens (widget container, mobile device, …) iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  8. Convergeto WP3 • Relabeling, rearranging ofform elements to get closerto WP3 terminology iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  9. Composer Challenge: Functionalities & Resources • A learning activity may require abstract functionalities, concrete resources, or both… • Actual “functionalities”and “resources”should derived by harnessing collectiveintelligence (tagging,collaborative taxonomycreation,…) iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  10. The iTEC Widget Store iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  11. What widgets do we have? iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  12. Recent Widget Developments • GeoGebra Widgets • A Widget called Tiny is in development which links to social media functionality • Twitter Widget • uTube Widget iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  13. Shells as shown in the iTEC Teacher Community iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  14. Recent End-User Relevant Developments DotLRN Moodle Translated WP3 learning activities into Moodle Features … • Translated WP3 learning activities into DotLRN Features and Widgets • Improved Usability of Widget Handling (seamless integration) • openIDIntegration (on-going): one user account for the iTEC Cloud including the teacher community iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  15. DotLRN Demo in Discussion Group Session 11.00 @ Large Meeting Room iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  16. Thankyou! WEB: http://itec.eun.org EMAIL: bernd.simon@km.co.atkjpopat@gmail.com The work presented in this presentation is partially supported by the European Commission’s FP7 programme – project iTEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (Grant agreement Nº 257566). The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  17. Workshop Agenda • Brief Introduction to the DotLRN Shell • The DotLRN Shell part of the iTEC Cloud • Translating Cycle 2 Learning Activities into DotLRN functionalities iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  18. Brief Introduction to the DotLRNShell • DotLRN is a LMS – or also referred to as VLE • It has a similar architecture like other leading LMS in schools, i.e. supporting multiple schools with one installation • It is provided on a SaaS Basis • The service is highly successful in Austria and branded as LMS.at iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  19. Brief Introduction to the DotLRNShell • It is based on a Community Concept: Users register – or are registered to - multiple communities such as courses, groups, classes, and schools. • Communities are served by applications • DotLRN applications • W3C widgets provided by the iTEC widget store iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  20. DotLRN - Applications

  21. The DotLRN Shell as part of the iTEC (Educational) Cloud • We started to distinguish between free iTEC pilots and iTEC Cloud Pilots: In free iTEC pilots any technology or tool can be used, including third party services like facebook, twitter, or locally available technology like VLEs - the local Moodle, for example - or IWB. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  22. The DotLRN Shell as part of the iTEC (Educational) Cloud • iTEC Cloud Pilots - on the other hand - will be supported by WP7-10 technologies. The vision behind is a private educational cloud. We are about to set up a range of hosted services that will be made available to pilot partners. The iTEC Cloud will - as a starting point - include the following service types and instantiations: • identity management (IM) service: an openID service run by FUNDP • shells: Moodle run by EUN/FUNDP, DotLRN run by KM • widget store: a Wookie server with extra GUI run by EUN/BOLTON • content store: an OpenACS run by KM, LRE run by EUN iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  23. WP3‘s Cycle 2 Learning Story ... ... focuses on • collaborative learning activities • ... potentially across organisations • ... or even boarders ... has a distance learning perspective ... is student-centred ... is agnostic in terms of age group ... does not focus on a particular subject domain iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  24. Proposed Learning Activitiesand potential DotLRN-related Technologies 1) Forming teams Student discuss in a DotLRN Forum set-up in a student community potential subjects they are interested in; they might also discuss group preferences or report on particular strengths. Based on the discussions the teacher forms DotLRN Courses. Alternatively we are investigating the integration of theTeamUp Widget. 2) Ad-hoc collaboration DotLRN Forums within the groups are used to further define the subject domain they are interested in. 3) Learning-oriented browsing As part of their work with the figures, the students browse the web for additional material, tutorials, presentations of a given figure. They collect all the resources found (e.g. links, youtube videos, files) in the DotLRN Library 4) Reflection A simple commenting feature of the DotLRNLibrary (under development) is used where the group notes status and reflections on the resource they have collected. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  25. Proposed Learning Activitiesand potential DotLRN-related Technologies 5) Peer Feedback Students present their thoughts or work to others in order to get feedback. Depending on the work they may use a number of channels: YouTube in the DotLRN Library – latter maybe the iTEC media store - if they produce videos, or an IWB class session if the teacher wants to present results as part of a classroom discussion. 6) Information grouping This is a simple sort of mind mapping activity where students use the DotLRN Library Textbook or a Mind Mapping Widget (available?) or other information grouping tool to create an overview of the information they collect. 7) Prepare results The created DotLRN Library Textook is used to present the results of the group work. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  26. DotLRN Demo iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  27. Open Questions https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jw_tLgEGIuw1WAP2_EZhSgW_ZTRVUF49DDwzYeHMq04/edit iTEC - Designing the future classroom

  28. Thankyou! WEB: http://itec.eun.org EMAIL: bernd.simon@km.co.atkjpopat@gmail.com The work presented in this presentation is partially supported by the European Commission’s FP7 programme – project iTEC: Innovative Technologies for an Engaging Classroom (Grant agreement Nº 257566). The content of this presentation is the sole responsibility of the consortium members and it does not represent the opinion of the European Commission and the Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of information contained herein. iTEC - Designing the future classroom

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