EduFeedr — Tool for Open Courses with Blogs

EduFeedr — Tool for Open Courses with Blogs Hans Põldoja, Teemu Leinonen Tallinn University, Aalto University

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(massive) open online courses

Learning content link link and tag link and tag Course wiki and blog link link and tag link link Student blogs RSS

Problem

How to follow and supportlearning activities which cross the borders of different Web 2.0 applications?

Vision

Requirements and limitations• Support for all major blogging platforms using open standards (RSS, Atom, trackback, pingback)• No special plug-ins should be required on the student blogs• Only teacher has an user account in EduFeedr, which allows her to modify the EduFeedr settings• Anyone has read access to aggregated course content

Design methodology

Design methodology• Lightweight prototyping• Scenario-based design• Participatory design sessions• User stories• Paper prototyping

Currentimplementation of EduFeedr

http://www.edufeedr.net

ManyEyes visualization

Downloads• OPML file with blog posts feeds• OPML file with blog comments feeds• vCard file for Address Book• Tab separated file with social network data

Technicalimplementation

Blogs User Crontab initiated aggregation of REQUEST with credentials contentEduFeedr EduSuckrfront-end WSDL / SOAP back-end service RESPONSE with data MySQL / MySQL InnoDB

Development platform• EduFeedr is developed as Elgg plugin• SimplePie PHP library is used for aggregating feeds• JSViz JavaScript library is used for social network visualization• NuSOAP toolkit for PHP

Open source

Current limitations

Current limitations• Comments feed is currently located only for Blogger and WordPress• Linking student posts with the assignments• Linking comments with the participants• Unrelated posts in the course feed• Only recent items are available in the RSS/Atom feeds

Future plans

Participant proﬁle

Connecting blog comments with participants

Connecting blog posts with assignments

Using a nickname

Value for the open education• Directory of open courses• Learners can create their personal learning environments• Can be used as a central component of the learning environment or just as an enrollment tool

Thank You!Hans Põldoja http://www.edufeedr.netResearch AssociateTallinn University, Estonia Follow us: http://blog.edufeedr.orghans.poldoja@tlu.ee Twitter: @EduFeedrhttp://www.hanspoldoja.nethttp://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja

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EduFeedr — Tool for Open Courses with Blogs

by Hans Põldoja on Apr 06, 2011

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