New Opportunities for LAMS with Sakai

N ew Opportunities for LAMS with Sakai James Dalziel Professor of Learning Technology and Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE) Macquarie University [email_address] www.melcoe.mq.edu.au AuSakai 2009 Conference, Bathurst, Australia, 17 th September 2009 This presentations is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Overview
Learning Design, LAMS & Sakai
Sharing Learning Designs – The LAMS Community
New LAMS Features
LAMS Activity Planner
Sakai 3 & LAMS

What is Learning Design?
Learning Design is an approach to describing teaching and learning processes in a structured way
Typically describes sequences of student activities (scaffolding of content + collaboration)
A sequence applies to a class/week/topic (not whole unit)
Focus on sharing and re-using good sequences
Often implemented online with technology
But becoming a general framework for face to face and online

Learning Design, LAMS & Sakai
Learning Design is particularly useful for advanced pedagogical approaches that have a structured process, eg:
Inquiry Based Learning, Role Plays, Problem Based Learning
Learning Design focuses on how educators structure activities to foster student learning
LAMS is a leading Learning Design system (OSS) used by thousands of educators in 80+ countries, translated into 28 languages
LAMS can integrate with LMSs such as Sakai
For students, link(s) from course area to the relevant sequence
Lecturer single-sign-on and easy authoring and launching
Tech details: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/Sakai

LAMS Integrated with Sakai

LAMS + Sakai: Learner Sequence launched from Sakai Course page (SSO)

LAMS + Sakai: Instructor Monitoring of Learner Progress through Sequence

Instructor Authoring of New Sequence (inc Branching) to launch for students in Sakai

Sharing Learning Designs
LAMS Community (www.lamscommunity.org)
Community sharing, adaptation and improvement of Open Education Learning Designs
Approximately 4,400 members, 86 countries, 415 shared sequences downloaded/previewed 12,000 times, 4,500 discussion postings
Sequences shared under Creative Commons licenses (usually BY SA NC)

LAMS Community – View of various communities & forums

LAMS Community – Repository Summary

LAMS Community – Detailed view of individual sequence

New LAMS Features (available in LAMS/Sakai integrations)
V2.3 Released in May 2009:
Major speed and stability improvements (375% faster on a quarter of the memory!)
New tools: Assessment, Image Gallery, MindMap, Video Recording and Pixlr (image editing)
& V2.2 had Data Collection, Task List, Wiki, GoogleMaps
New editing options for all tools: LaTeX, Video Recording, Drawing
New Authoring option: “Support” activities
Other features: Instant messaging; Gradebook; Time Graphs
Many others – see: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Roadmap

LAMS 2.3 Assessment Tool (Learner View)

LAMS 2.3 Instant Messaging (Learner View)

LAMS 2.3 Image Gallery (Learner View)

LAMS 2.3 Mindmap (Learner View)

LAMS 2.3 Video Recording (Learner View)

LAMS 2.3 Support Activity (Learner View)

LAMS 2.3 Time Graph (Line Graph)

LAMS 2.3 Time Graph (Pie Chart)

The LAMS Activity Planner
LAMS provides a platform for creating, implementing and sharing advanced pedagogical methods
But does not provide advice on choosing appropriate methods, or provide templates for specific methods
The LAMS Activity Planner is a new layer above LAMS to provide advice on choosing pedagogical methods, and simplified editing of pre-built templates
Initial release will be as a hosted website with free access for individual teachers; future plans yet to be finalised

Selecting from among different pedagogical approaches

Overview of an approach (role play), with links to example & templates

Specific Role Play example, with links to student Preview & simple editor

Specific Role Play example, showing student Preview in pop-up window

Specific Role Play example - Simple one page editor for content in the template

One page editor showing contextual help via “Editing Advice”

One page editor showing Full Author, Export, Save & Preview options

The LAMS Activity Planner
Going further, expert designers can create their own activity planners, with their own categories and advice
And incorporate their own Learning Design templates built in the normal LAMS Authoring environment, but written to suit the layout of the Activity Planner simple one page editor
Goes beyond sharing single Learning Designs to sharing whole activity planners and sets of templates

Creating an Activity Planner – editing a “node” + adding a sequence template

Sakai 3 & LAMS
LAMS will continue to provide single-sign-on integration with Sakai into the future, including Sakai 3
LAMS Activity Planner could offer effective teaching templates for use with Sakai 3 (& 2)
Potential for deeper integration under discussion
Deep tools integration (eg, LAMS/Moodle tools integration)
Explore ICOM data model
Eg, Oracle Beehive integration?

Example of Deep LAMS integration – LAMS & Moodle tools in Authoring

Can even use Outputs from Moodle Tools (eg Quiz) to drive LAMS branching

To try LAMS, sign up at
http://demo.lamscommunity.org/
Further LAMS Information
General information about LAMS http://www.lamsfoundation.org/
Information on LAMS Activity Planner http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/planner/
LAMS Community http://www.lamscommunity.org/

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