Developing a sustainable, student centered VLE: The OUNL case Henry Hermans Steven Verjans

Topics Choosing and building virtual learning environments: institution centered or user centered PLWE concept Three approaches to bridge the gap between personal environments and managed learning environment OUNL: first steps towards a PLWE

Choosing and building virtual learning environments: institution centered or user centered

PLWE concept

Three approaches to bridge the gap between personal environments and managed learning environment

OUNL: first steps towards a PLWE

Choosing and building learning environments ?

Choosing and building learning environments “ Institution centered approach” VLE has been designed by specialists, is managed by the educational institution, and is occasionally used by teachers and students.

“ Institution centered approach”

VLE has been designed by specialists, is managed by

the educational institution, and is occasionally used by

teachers and students.

Choosing and building learning environments Do we know what students’ requirements are? “ Learners are from Mars, designers are from Venus” (Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat, 2009)

Do we know what students’ requirements are?

“ Learners are from Mars, designers are from Venus”

(Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat, 2009)

Model 1 working environment study environment personal environment

Model 2 working environment study environment personal environment

Model 3 personal, working, studying environment

Design principle for the future OUNL VLE: PLWE Personal Learning and Working Environment Our students should be a able (but don’t have to!) to shape their own learning environment Requires a flexible VLE architecture and use of open standards

Personal Learning and Working Environment

Our students should be a able (but don’t have to!) to shape their own learning environment

Requires a flexible VLE architecture and use of open standards

The fuel of interoperability: RSS YouTube: “RSS in Plain English”

Design principle for the OUNL VLE: PLWE PE MLE WWW

TOPIC 3 Three approaches to bridge the gap between Personal Environment and Managed Learning Environment

Three approaches to bridge the gap between

Personal Environment and

Managed Learning Environment

Precondition Institutional Awareness of WWW trends Different user requirements

Institutional Awareness of

WWW trends

Different user requirements

PE MLE WWW Approach 1 Approach 2 Approach 3

Approach 1: Open up institutional borders Part 1 - Use Web2.0 to make open educational materials available Video’s on YouTube EDU / iTunesU Presentations on Slideshare / Slideboom Public information available through RSS Social bookmarking to increase web presence, but also for educational purposes MLE WWW Approach 1

Part 1 - Use Web2.0 to make open educational materials available

Video’s on YouTube EDU / iTunesU

Presentations on Slideshare / Slideboom

Public information available through RSS

Social bookmarking to increase web presence, but also for educational purposes

Approach 1: Open up institutional borders Part 2 - Establish institutional presence in the relevant social networking sites LinkedIn page for supporting hiring / HRM Official presence on Facebook, Hyves, etc. MLE WWW Approach 1

Part 2 - Establish institutional presence in the relevant social networking sites

LinkedIn page for supporting hiring / HRM

Official presence on Facebook, Hyves, etc.

Approach 1: Open up institutional borders Part 3a – Encourage staff / faculty to open up to open knowledge creation / sharing Link to relevant external knowledge (blogs, social bookmarks, OER, etc.) Active blogging / sharing Partr 3b – Allow and encourage students to co-create a knowledge stream Suggest additional materials Collaborative social bookmarking MLE WWW Approach 1

Part 3a – Encourage staff / faculty to open up to open knowledge creation / sharing

Link to relevant external knowledge (blogs, social bookmarks, OER, etc.)

Active blogging / sharing

Partr 3b – Allow and encourage students to co-create a knowledge stream

Suggest additional materials

Collaborative social bookmarking

Approach 2: Offer personalised information to be included in a student’s PE Personalised RSS-feeds for individual students. Personalised event alerting. Collect thematic information streams and put together semi-personalised pre-set clusters of knowledge Readiness for PE’s (shared iGoogle tabs, public Netvibes pages, etc.) PE MLE Approach 2

Personalised RSS-feeds for individual students.

Personalised event alerting.

Collect thematic information streams and put together semi-personalised pre-set clusters of knowledge

Readiness for PE’s (shared iGoogle tabs, public Netvibes pages, etc.)

Approach 3: Allow students to personalise / tailor their personal workspace within the MLE Make MLE’s open to importing personal knowledge streams (import of rss-feeds, inclusion of external widgets) Offer subscription streams to relevant information clustered by Groups Course Faculty / Theme Allow students to manage an e-portfolio in the institutional MLE. PE MLE Approach 3

Make MLE’s open to importing personal knowledge streams (import of rss-feeds, inclusion of external widgets)

Offer subscription streams to relevant information clustered by

Groups

Course

Faculty / Theme

Allow students to manage an e-portfolio in the institutional MLE.

OUNL’s first steps towards a PLWE Installation of a Program Board Service Development Sensibilization: workshops, presentation, colloquia Drawing up and discussing a list of student centered services Drawing up a roadmap for MLE development: Upgrading/streamlining current MLE, and in parallel Experimental piloting of new services

Installation of a Program Board Service Development

Sensibilization: workshops, presentation, colloquia

Drawing up and discussing a list of student centered services

Drawing up a roadmap for MLE development:

Upgrading/streamlining current MLE, and in parallel

Experimental piloting of new services

Experimental piloting of new services (1/4) MyOU.nl: a personal workspace with networking services

Experimental piloting of new services (2/4) Google Apps iGoogle Mail Docs Chat / Talk Agenda Sites

iGoogle

Mail

Docs

Chat / Talk

Agenda

Sites

Experimental piloting of new services (2/4) Google Apps Calendar: push events to institutional calendars Google Docs: (realtime) online document sharing Campus Program Course Group/ collaboration Person Faculty Events Google Docs Google Calendar

Calendar: push events to institutional calendars

Google Docs: (realtime) online document sharing

Experimental piloting of new services (3/4) Stars & comments

Experimental piloting of new services (4/4) Flexible content delivery (in case eBooks) repository VLE

Thank you for your attention! Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/sverjans/ or http://tinyurl.com/lg9y8b Paper: http://hdl.handle.net/1820/1894 http://celstec.org