This presentation is an overview of the Course Hub, a new platform in development at Middlebury College for creatingaggregating course resources from RSS feeds and connected platforms

1. Course Hub
Adam Franco Alex Chapin
Senior Software Engineer - Principal Curricular
Web Application Technologist
Development

2. Research Findings
many faculty do not create course sites
many faculty are not aware of the platforms available to
them
a significant number of faculty use multiple platforms to
distribute course material and engage students
many students complain of not being able to find course
sites

3. Course Hub: Overview
Basic site for all courses
Listing of online resources for each course
Aggregation of updates many online resources
Dashboard view of activity across all courses
Simple tools for:
adding a syllabus
creating resources in connected platforms
adding links
adding RSS feeds

4. Course Hub site

5. Course Hub Dashboard

6. Research Findings
many faculty do not create course sites
many faculty are not aware of the platforms available to
them
a significant number of faculty use multiple platforms to
distribute course material and engage students
many students complain of not being able to find course
sites

7. Many faculty do not create course sites
Course Hub automatically creates sites for all courses with
basic information including:
course title, description and schedule
instructor name
schedule

8. Many faculty are not aware of the
platforms available to them
Course Hub allows faculty to create resources using
available platforms including:
WordPress
LMS
ERES
...

9. A significant number of faculty use
multiple platforms to distribute course
material and engage students
Course Hub allows faculty to add RSS feeds from other
platforms including:
blogging platforms
wikis
Google sites
any platform that uses RSS

10. Many students complain of not being
able to find course sites
Course Hub shows students list of all the courses they are
taking and aggregates updates from all courses into a single
view
Course hub sites aggregate updates from all resources
created in "connected" platforms

11. Course Hub > Case Studies

12. Case Study > Faculty > Biology

13. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > Updates

14. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > WordPress

15. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > Updates

16. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > Moodle

17. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > Updates

18. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > Resources

19. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > Resources

20. Case Study > BIOL 0323A > WordPress

21. Future work
Personal RSS feed -- one feed for everything
More connectors:
LMS (Moodle or Sakai) for Middlebury
Moodle for MIIS
MediaWiki
Course folders?
Class Email?
MIIS deployment

22. Questions
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