piloting the dotlrn shell

Piloting the DotLRN Shell

Bernd Simon (Knowledge Markets)

With Input from:David Massart (EUN)Michael Aram (KM)

Jean-Noël Colin (FUNDP) Kris Popat (University of Bolton)

Lars Ingesman (UNI-C)Tien Hoang Minh (FUNDP)Tarmo Toikkanen (AALTO)

Will Ellis (EUN)

Turkey Pilots

May, 2012

Workshop Agenda

The DotLRN in the iTEC Big Picture DotLRN in a nutshell DotLRN for English Teachers iTEC WP3’s Learning Activities DotLRN Demo and Workshop

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iTEC - Designing the future classroom

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Trends driving Innovation in Schools

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Child-centred Learning

Child-centred Learning

Any time access to education

Any time access to education

On DemandLearning

On DemandLearning

Evidence-basedPersonalizationEvidence-basedPersonalization

21st century skills21st century skills

Authentic Learning

Authentic Learning

Standards for 21st century skills

Standards for 21st century skills

InternalMotivation

InternalMotivation

New Media LiteraciesNew Media Literacies

SocialLearning

SocialLearning

Source: Cranmer S., Ulicsak M. (2011) D2.1 - Summary Report of Scenarios Development Process.

What iTEC is doing technically:

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Open and configurable learning technologies that

1. provide access to collections of resources beyond content

2. deliver these collections of resources across a wide range of platforms and devices.

3. stimulate teachers’ and learners’ innovative practice in facilitating learning

How are we going to do this?

Via three key technologies:1.Composer2.Widget Store3.Shellsbrought together in the iTEC Cloud.

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How are we going to do this?

Via three key technologies:1.Composer2.Widget Store3.Shellsbrought together in the iTEC Cloud.

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Focus of Today

Shells as shown in the iTEC Teacher Community

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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.

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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

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Brief Introduction to the DotLRN Shell

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

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Brief Introduction to the DotLRN Shell

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

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DotLRN - Applications

Innovative teaching and learning environment across all types of schools

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One log-in for the virtual teaching and learning environment

Secondary school (NMS/HS)

Grammar school (AHS)

Secondary college of business

administration (HAK/HAS)

Secondary college of tourism

(HLW)

Secondary college of engineering

(HTL)

Vocational school (BS/PTS/LFS)

Special needs schoolUniversity of education

(teacher training) Others

Reliable infrastructure

Powerful and efficient software Professional server in data centre (BMUKK – IT-

Centre) Daily back-up and professional concepts to

prevent break-downs Professional support of hardware and system

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No additional effort for IT administrators at individual schools

SCHOOLS CAN START WITHOUT FURTHER ADO

Overall didactical targets

Providingan innovative and target-oriented learning and teaching environment

Framework of innovative learning environment

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Didactical and

technical support

Teacher training

Vgl. Euler/Wilbers, 2002, S. 10

Teachingmaterials

LMS

Teaching materials on DotLRN

Weblinks Files (download of various files: Word-,

Powerpoint-, Excel-, MP3-, PDF-files, etc.) Self-study exercises

– multiple choice, gap-fill, etc. Glossary Textbooks (online informationen with

navigation and PDF printing) Online-Tests (assessment scheme, time-

controlled) Learning packages

– combining resources to didactic/topic-oriented teaching units

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English Content Pool – Topics and Skills

More than 2,600 teaching materials available

Structured in topics/skills according to curriculum

Search filters (topic, skill, educational level)

Clear structure of curriculum content

Centrally maintained and up-dated

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2,600 teaching resources

Copying materials into individual courses

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Competent Content Partners

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British Council portal on DotLRN-

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Promotion of Learn English materials, BRC events

Selected materials on LMS.at students do

interactive exercises in familiar learning

environment teachers access materials more

easily

Self-study courses:Opportunity To Practice

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Example: OTP Listening practice

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Advantages for students

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Improving language skills in familiar learning environment Easy access to top-quality resources Personal learning statistics OTP English grammar – 8,344 users

OTP Listening practice – 1,770 users

Advantages for teachers

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Workshop Agenda

The DotLRN in the iTEC Big Picture DotLRN in a nutshell DotLRN for English Teachers iTEC WP3’s Scenarios DotLRN Demo and Workshop

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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

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Proposed Learning Activities and potential DotLRN-related

Technologies1) Forming teamsStudent 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 the TeamUp Widget.

2) Ad-hoc collaborationDotLRN Forums within the groups are used to further define the subject domain they are interested in.

3) Learning-oriented browsingAs 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) ReflectionA simple commenting feature of the DotLRN Library (under development) is used where the group notes status and reflections on the resource they have collected.

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Proposed Learning Activities and potential DotLRN-related

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5) Peer FeedbackStudents 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 groupingThis 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 resultsThe created DotLRN Library Textook is used to present the results of the group work.

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Thank you!

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.

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