final presentation to the woncos 2012 workshop

E Learning in Higher Education

S ArulselvanAssociate Professor

Dept of Electronic Media and Mass Communication, Pondicherry University

Ice Breaker

1. Coursera

2. Sakshat

3. MOODLE Abbreviation.

4. Google Form

5. Hot Potatoes

6. Xerte

7. Mark Prensky

8. Digital Natives, Digital Migrants

9. Learn, Unlearn, and Relearn

10.Prezi

Ice Breaker

11. Khan Academy

12. MERLOT

13. MIT Open Courseware

14 BRIHASPATI

15. OpenLearn

16. Heymath

1. Coursera

It's a social entrepreneurship company that partners with the top universities in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Coursera envisions a future where the top universities are educating not only thousands of students, but millions. Their technology enables the best professors to teach tens or hundreds of thousands of students.

Through this, Coursera hopes to give everyone access to the world-class education that has so far been available only to a select few. It wants to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.

https://class.coursera.org/gamification-2012-001/lecture/21

2. Sakshat

Sakshat is One Stop Education Portal dedicated to the nation for enhancing teaching and learning for citizens of the country. It envisages to reach hitherto deprived sections and rural/under-devoloped areas and help in raising the GER in higher education.

http://www.sakshat.ac.in/aspx/frmFAQ.aspx

3. Moodle

Moodle - Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.

Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the GNU General Public License). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work.

https://moodle.org/

4. Google Forms

A product of Google, used to collect online data

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGx1SlM3U1JRN1EyRGtReXVic2psVkE6MQ

5. Hot Potatoes

The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is freeware, and you may use it for any purpose or project you like. It is not open-source. A product of Humanities Computing and Media Centre, of University of Victoria, Canada.

http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

6. Xerte

The Xerte Project provides a suite of award-winning open-source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials. The tools are in use in institutions and organisations all over the world, with an enthusiastic community of users, and an active team of developers working to bring new features and enhancements to the software.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/index.aspx

7. Marc Prensky

Today's children have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones, and all the other toys and tools of the digital age. Today‟s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives.

http://www.marcprensky.com/

8. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts. Alternatively, this term can describe people born during or after the latter 1960s, as the Digital Age began at that time; but in most cases, the term focuses on people who grew up with the technology that became prevalent in the latter part of the 20th century and continues to evolve today.

8. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

There are hundreds of examples of the digital immigrant accent. They include printing out your email (or having your secretary print it out for you – an even “thicker” accent); needing to print out a document written on the computer in order to edit it (rather than just editing on the screen); and bringing people physically into your office to see an interesting web site (rather than just sending them the URL).

Marc's favorite example is the “Did you get my email?” phone call. Those of us who are Digital Immigrants can, and should, laugh at ourselves and our “accent.”

“The illiterates of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn”-

Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communication revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity

9. Learn, Unlearn and Relearn

10. Prezi

Prezi is a presentation tool that helps you organize and share your ideas.

http://prezi.com/kdpymtr6x4lp/the-rational-persons-guide-to-the-mayan-apocalypse/

11. Khan Academy

The Khan Academy is an organization on a mission, [a not-for-profit] with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you free of charge.

https://www.khanacademy.org/

12. MERLOT

MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching, is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.

Listen to the video to know further about MERLOT

13. MIT OPEN COURSEWARE

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

Through OCW, educators improve courses and curricula, making their institutions more effective; students find additional resources to help them succeed; and independent learners enrich their lives and use the content to tackle some of our world’s most difficult challenges, including sustainable development, climate change, and cancer eradication.

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

14. BRIHASPATI

A platform independent, highly scalable content-delivery tool for web based e-learning system !!

An Opensource component development supported by Elearning Division, MCIT, IIT Kanpur, and NMEICT, MHRDhttp://202.141.40.215:8080/brihaspati/servlet/brihaspati

15. OpenLearn

OpenLearn aims to break the barriers to education by reaching millions of learners around the world, providing free educational resources and inviting all to sample courses that its registered students take – for free! http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

16 Heymath

HeyMath! was founded in May 2000 on a worldview that there is no perfect education system. It's based in Chennai, India, and are privately funded. The mission is to create a flat world curriculum by diligently seeking out proven best practices from great teachers and discerning parents around the world. HeyMath! lessons are developed with advice from the University of Cambridge. Highly capable Math editors then blend this collective wisdom into bite-sized animated and interactive explanations that provide concept clarification visually and help remove the fear of Math.http://www.heymath.com/index_in.jsp

Sample E Content Courses

DC Fundamentals: The Role of Electrons by eLearnerEngaged. This engaging, educational Storyline course takes advantage of many great features, including click-and-reveal interactions, drag-and-drop activities, imported video, and embedded YouTube video.http://articulate.demos.s3.amazonaws.com/dc_fundamentals/story.html

Sample E Content Courses

Articulate 2010 Guru Award Gold winner e-Mersion created this Diabesity course , which leverages a number of features in Articulate Studio ’09, including intuitive navigation and branching, precision-synched animations, seamless integration of Articulate Engage interactions, and tailored quiz slides.

http://elearning-examples.s3.amazonaws.com/Diabesity/player.htmlDiabesity Course by e-Mersio

Information Age

Technological innovations have radically changed the society in six ways that are vital to recognize and understand (Wiley, 2006):

1. from analog to digital ,

2. from tethered to mobile,

3. from isolated to connected,

4. from generic to personal,

5. from consumers to creators,

6. from closed to open

“New media forms have altered how youth socialize and learn

“Today's digital natives (our students) expect to communicate, learn and explore their world using technology 24/7. To keep up with them, to meet their learning preferences and to engage them in the learning process, we need to make schools/colleges relevant to them. We cannot do that without keeping up with technology and Web 2.0.”

The educator’s role is changing from being a provider of information to a facilitator or moderator.

changing role of educator:

The learner plays a central role in the learning process – not as a passive recipient of information, but as an active author, co-creator, evaluator and critical commentator.

The seven highest-ranking priorities for the E-Learning programmes would be :

1. Keep students interested and engaged

2. Meet the needs of different kinds of learners

3. Develop critical thinking skills

4. Develop capabilities in students that can't be acquired through traditional methods

5. Provide alternative learning environments for students

6. Extend learning beyond the college day

7. Prepare students to be lifelong learners

young people belonging to this generation tend to exhibit :

1. Well developed multitasking capabilities

2. Active preference toward knowledge construction, rather than following instructional pedagogical designs

3. Little tolerance for delays: technology taught them to expect immediacy

4. Easiness in interactive settings, were they are not just viewers, but also actors.

The processes of engaging with Web 2.0 technologies develop a skill set that matches both to views on 21st- century learning skills and to those on 21st-century employability skills – communication, collaboration, creativity, leadership and technology proficiency

• What is Moodle ?

• Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment

• Moodle is an open source Course Management System (CMS) used by universities, community colleges, K-12 Schools, business and even individual instructors to add web technology to their courses.

Open Source• Freedom from vendor lock-in• Customizable• World-wide support• Continual development• Platform independent

• It’s

http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php

• Moodle is used by more than 20000 educational organisations around the world to deliver online courses and to supplement traditional face-to-face courses. Moodle is available for free on the Web, so anyone can download and install it (http://www.moodle.org ), so any one can download and install it.

Moodle was created by Martin Dougiamas, a computer scientist and educator, who spent time supporting a CMS at a university in Perth, Australia. A community of dedicated open source developers from around the world works with him in a collaborative effort to make Moodle the best CMS available.

Martin DougiamasCreator & Lead Developer

• Moodle started out as a hobby for Martin and evolved into the topic of his Ph.D. thesis:

“The use of Open Source software to support a social constructionist epistomology of teaching and learning within Internet-based communities of reflective inquiry.”

Martin Dougiamas

Founder

Martin Dougiamasdesigned Moodle based on the social constructivist pedagogy.Built-in social networking and collaboration toolsMost students will already know how to use these tools.

Philosophy of Online Learning

Activities are at the heart of a course management system.

The concept of social constructivism extends the above ideas into a social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings. When one is immersed within a culture like this, one is learning all the time about how to be a part of that culture, on many levels.

Social Constructivism

Social constructivists view learning as a social process. It does not take place only internally, nor is it a passive development of behaviors that are shaped by external forces. Meaningful learning occurs when individuals are engaged in social activities.

• In Moodle you can CREATE

• In Moodle you can CONTRIBUTE

• In Moodle you can LEARN

What can you do?

Discussions – live and forum

Assessments/Surveys/Quizzes

Shared, community-created glossaries

Wiki Document sharing

Online classrooms Web page creator/editor

Embed multimedia

Display feeds from other sitesCreate a shared calendar

Assignment submission

Integration withSecond Life

Bulk email

What tools are available?

Allows “Hybrid” courses

• Meet student demand• Meet student schedules• Deliver better courses

OnlineLearning

Face-to-face CMSCMS

What makes Moodle special?

• Free

• Open-source

• Simple intuitive user interface

• Focus is on sharing ideas and engaging in the construction of knowledge

• Built around a “Social Constructionism”“Social Constructionism” educational philosophy

Who Will Help You Use Moodle?

Hundreds of knowledgeable open-source users have joined with Moodle developers in a community of learners.

Instructor’s ‘Administration’ menu

Course specific teacher/developer

discussions

View or download students’ grades

View learners’ activity report for all modules

Change course name, details, enrolment key,

participant lables, assign groups, etc.

View instructors

Add/remove learners

Backup course or restore from a previous backup

Customize grading scales (ex. Good/Fair/Poor)

Manage uploaded class resource files

Instructor’s manual

Basic Modules

• People– Participants

• Profile• Activity reports

As a course creator, you can invite others as teachers in your course

Basic Modules• Administering Your Class• Turn editing on • Settings • Edit profile • Teachers • Students • Groups • Backup • Restore • Import course data • Scales • Grades • Logs • Files • Help • Teacher forum

Basic Modules• Adding Content

– Adding a Resource• Compose a text page • Compose a web page• Link to a file or web site• Display a directory• Insert a label

– Adding an Activity• Assignment• Chat• Choice• Forum• Glossary• Hot Potatoes Quiz• Journal• Lesson• Quiz• SCROM• Survey• Wiki• Workshop

Navigating moodle- editing

Common symbols when editing

Move right or left

Move up or down

Edit text

Delete

Show/Hide

Navigation Editing tools

Editing content

Calendar

• A calendar event allows a user to post significant events, relative to their account permissions

• The chat module allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion via the web

• A Forum is basically a posting area where participants can create or contribute to a theme with their own comments

Lesson

• A lesson module delivers content in an interesting and flexible way

• Consists of a number of pages

• Each page normally ends with a question and a number of possible answers

• Student progresses onto next page depending on choice of answer

• A quiz module consists of multiple choice, true-false, short answer questions

• Questions are kept in a categorized database, and can be reused within and between courses

• Can allow multiple attempts• Teacher can provide feedback• Includes grading facility

Glossary

• The Glossary feature in Moodle acts as a definition resource

• Can be presented in a number of formats

• Glossary entries can be linked to key phrases throughout system

Assignments

• Assignments can be delivered to students through Moodle, their responses posted back with online feedback

• Logs show the activity in a class for different days or times

• Check the time students spend on activities

Pedagogical Considerations• Advantages

– 24/7 Access– Expanded

Collaborative Opportunities

– Variety of Online Activities available

• Limitations– Not all Students have

Internet Access– Student artifacts are

locked up in Moodle where outside users cannot view them

Applications of Moodle• Virtual Classroom

• Blended Learning/Hybrid

• Freestyle Course – Self Motivated Learning

• Forum-based Discussion Course

• Single Activity Focused Courses (portfolios, semester projects, etc).

Content RepositoryContent Repository

Today it takes about 15 minutes for the world to churn out an equivalent amount of new digital information. It does so about 100 times every day, for a grand total of five exabytes annually. An exabyte is a Quintillion or billion gigabytes.

According to Roy Williams, who heads the Center for Advanced Computing Research at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena. That's an amount equal to all the words ever spoken by humans!!!

It took two centuries to fill the U.S. Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with:-29 million books and periodicals, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps,

57 million manuscripts.

Students:

Forums

Glossaries

Online resources

Staff:

ResourcesAssignmentsMessagesGradesFeedbackSchemes

Presentation & EngagementPresentation & Engagement Staff & StudentsStaff & Students

Moodle’s Help System and Documentation

Throughout Moodle, you will see a question mark in a yellow circle (or another colour if you not used standard theme).

This is a link to Moodle’s very extensive help system (the community has worked hard to provide you with a help system that is tied to what you are doing at that moment).

When you click the question mark icon, a new window pops up with the help file for the item you are asking about

Creating an Account

•Right above the language selection list, you’ll find a hyperlink that says “Login.” Click the link and Moodle will present you with the login to the site page,

Creating an Account

Your username and password will depend on how your system administratorset up the system.

Moodle has a number of options for user authentication,including email-based self-registration, where you create your own account.

If you are logging in to a server run by your university or department, check with the Moodle administrator to see if you need to create an account.

More institutions are automatically creating accounts for all of their users.

Creating an Account

•You now have a verified account. Your account isn’t automatically associated with the courses you’re teaching. Most likely, your system administrator will assign you the role of teacher in the courses you’re teaching.

Editing Your User Profile

•Once you have successfully confirmed your account and logged in, you will find yourself back at the main page.

•If you look at the upper-right corner, you’ll see that the Login link has changed. It now says “You are logged in as” and whatever your name is, highlighted as a clickable word. Click on your name.

•Moodle will then present you with your personal profile page.

You’ll see your profile summary and the last time you logged in. Across thetop of your profile summary you will see a number of tabs.

•If this is a new account, you’ll see three tabs: Profile, Edit profile, and Blog. As you begin to participate in forums and other activities, other tabs will appear here that will give you access to your contributions on the site.

•Below your profile summary are buttons to change your password and to open the messages window. (We’ll cover messaging later).

To edit your profile:

1. Select the “Edit profile” tab in your personal profile page. The edit profile page will look like Figure in next page. The profile options with a red star next to them are required fields.

On the right side of the profile form, you’ll see a Show Advanced button. Thereare a number of profile options that are hidden by default. These are not changed very often and can be a bit confusing for a new user. In the description of the options below, we’ve marked the advanced options with an asterisk.

A First Look at a Course

•On the left side of the front page, you’ll see the My Courses block, which includes a list of all the courses you are teaching or taking as a student.

•You can access your courses by clicking on the course name in the block.

•Let’s start with the upper-left corner of the course page, you’ll see the name of your course as entered when the course was created.

•The far-left and far-right columns contain tool blocks, while the center column contains your course content and activities.

Tools Blocks:

People block:From here, you and your students can view the individual profiles of other participants in the course.

Activities block:As you add forums, quizzes, assignments, and other activities to your course, the activity types will be listed here. By clicking on the activity type, students can view all activities of that type that are currently available to them.

Search Forums block:

Administration block:Assuming you’ve been assigned the role ofteacher, you’ll find links to set your course options, assign roles, perform backups of the course, and manage student grades inthe Administration block.

Latest News block:lists the latest items added to the News forum, such as important news stories that pertain to the subject you’re teaching.

Upcoming Events block:lists events you’ve created in the calendar,such as exams and holidays, together withassignment and quiz deadlines.

Recent Activity block:lists recent course activity, such as forum postings and uploads.

course content and activities:This is where you add all of your content and activities, such as forums, quizzes, and lessons for students to access. Before we get to that, however, you need to make a choice about the format in which to present your course.

Course Short Name

Tool BlocksTool Blocks

Course Content and Activities

People Block

Activities block

Search Forums block

Administration block

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