My UOC (3rdannnual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle-East 2010)

MyUOC, a New Solution for Creating Customized Learning Platforms Llorenç Valverde, Magí Almirall, Francesc Santanach, Xavi Aracil, Eva de Lera, Eva Loste

MyUOC
About UOC
Creating MyUOC
MyUOC at present

About UOC

UOC:
Headquarters in Barcelona, Spain
Fully online university (BAs, MAs, PhD)‏
Founded 15 years ago as an online university
47.000 students, 500 f-t faculty, 2000 p-t faculty
Faculty as Mentors
Students as Teachers

UOC’s faculty:
The online environment is their only medium to teach and motivate students
Their “teaching” is asynchronous
The contents they use, evolve

UOC’s student:
There are as many typologies of students as students are in the University
They have different ages, backgrounds, experiences, needs, desires and expectations
They are “ on ” 24/7
They are active participants in the learning process
They are overwhelmed with information

UOC’s needs:
An open source learning environment
An environment that integrates versatile solutions desired by faculty to help enhance learning for the different subjects
A more engaging-to-all -students learning environment to help increase overall satisfaction and motivation to learn (Joy of Learning)
An accessible-to-all environment, anytime, anyplace

UOC’s needs:

Creating MyUOC The new on-line virtual platform

Technical Dilemma: ? Learning Management System?

Technical Dilemma:
LMS is the tip of the iceberg.
Many integration problems.
Many configurations are possible.
Evolution:
product -> LMS 1st generation
framework-> LMS 2ndgeneration
Today:
Many tools available to be used as e-learning tools.

UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma:
Service Oriented Architecture in order to achieve real interoperability
An open source and Lego-like environment connected with each other
Open Knowledge Initiative technology

UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: e-learning tools OKI Bus Services Gateway Common LMS

UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: Architecture metaphor

UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: MM MM Sakai Tools MM MM Moodle Tools Moodle Sakai Moodle Gateway Sakai Gateway Tool 1 Tool n ... Tool 2 Tool 3 OKI Bus

The Affectivity Dilemma: community engaging motivating

The Affectivity Dilemma: Some engaging elements
Choices for everyone (i.e., for faculty to choose which tool is best for their subject, for students to choose how they wish to participate or communicate)
Humanizing interaction (i.e., photos, images)
Having control of what they see on their first screen - 100% “perceived” satisfaction
Innovative and “ cool ” elements (i.e. Mac-style menu bar)
Adding external modules allows students to bring in their lives

UOC’s Solutions to the affectivity dilemma:
Widget container + set of widgets
iGoogle’s standards
iGoogle’s widgets into LMS
(Almost) each UOC’s widget rely on RSS
HOMEPAGE of My UOC. Personalization through a Widget Solution:

UOC’s Solutions to the affectivity dilemma: HOMEPAGE of My UOC. USER’s ACTIONS
Drag & drop widgets
Select a background
Choose, choose, choose
Change colour of widget
Delete what you don’t like
Easily create your own widgets
Personalize, customize
Select visualization type (# items, etc.)
Bring in external widgets (i.e. Gmail, RSS…)
Endless opportunities
Instead of 1 design for everyone we now have as many designs as number of students (47.000). One design does not fit all.

UOC’s Solutions to the affectivity dilemma:

Affectivity evaluation: Up to now...
Universities mainly use questionnaires to assess tools and courses
Generally these surveys do not gather affective data
They use typical overall items such as: ‘Do you think the course is motivating enough? Has the course met your expectations?
Our main objective
To test a methodology that allows us to gather relevant affective information of the user-computer interaction

Affectivity evaluation:

My UOC at present:

MY UOC AT PRESENT
Keeping control over the learning model
Ability to change as we go
Personalization and usability for both faculty and students
Flexibility and opportunities to innovate and explore new learning approaches.
Accessibility
Automatically generation of multiple formats. Versatility of Formats

My UOC challenges:
For us the future in e-learning will be focused on interoperability.
Maintaining and evolving the environment
Continuing UOC's user-centered tradition integrating psychological and consumer research methods into the UCD process
Reaching out to the community so we can all evolve webservices and interoperability together

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My UOC (3rdannnual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle-East 2010)

by Office of Learning Technologies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya on Jan 25, 2010

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