The document discusses the FORGE project which aims to support training and education through an open platform. It motivates the concepts of self-regulated learning and flipped classrooms. It describes how FORGE eases the creation of courses through a store of interactive widgets and content that can interface with FIRE testbeds. It discusses how learning analytics can validate the pedagogical approach and improve the learning experience. It also outlines plans for ongoing collaboration with Cisco and an upcoming opening of the FORGE platform.

1. FIRE in a Book: Supporting training
and education through FORGE
John
Domingue
Knowledge
Media
Ins4tute
The
Open
University,
UK
FORGE
Project
Coordinator

2. Agenda
• Motivation and Objectives
• Concepts and Approach
• Easing life for Educators
• Learning Analytics
• Ongoing Collaboration
• Summary

3. MOTIVATION

4. FIRE Facilities at iMinds in Ghent

5. Lab Class at iMinds in Ghent

6. MOOCS
Mooc Illustration: Adam Simpson

7. PAGE ‹#›
Over
1,000,000
FutureLearn sign-ups
Over
2,200,000
course sign-ups
PROGRESS SINCE LAUNCH
In just over a year, FutureLearn has built a large userbase

8. CONCEPTS AND
APPROACH

9. Self Regulated Learning

10. Flipped Classroom Paradigm

11. iTunes U

12. OU iTunes U Stats
• Open University on iTunes U was launched on
3rd June 2008
• Now 58 iTunes U Courses
• 65,538,000 downloads
• Over 9,015,700 visitors downloaded files
• Currently averaging 87,500 downloads a week
• 449 collections containing 3,485 tracks (1,638
audio, 1,847 video)
• 423 OpenLearn study units as eBooks (ePub),
representing over 5,000 hours of study
• Currently delivering an average of 0.3 TB of
data a week

14. iBook Interactive Demo (ict-forge.eu)

15. EASING LIFE FOR
EDUCATORS

16. FORGEStore Courses

17. FORGEStore Widgets

18. FORGEBox
FORGEBox
Fed4FIRE
Portal
LMS
eBook
Provide
Interactive
content
(i.e. widgets)
Interface via
FIRE APIs
FIRE
Testbed
FIRE
Testbed
FIRE
Testbed

19. FORGE Widgets, Adapters and FIRE Resources
Lab
Course,
(LMS,
iBook)
(3) Interactive
Content (JSON/
XML)
Resource FIRE
Testbed
Control via
specific FIRE
tools and
APIS, e.g.
FRCP/SFA/
SSH
Adapter
Adapter
Adapter
(Implements
specific
API,
eg
OMF,
OML,
SFA/
RSpec,
FRCP)
(2) Request
Content
(JSON/XML)
web
container
Widget
(1) Get widget
Content (HTML5/JS)
Widget
Widget

20. LEARNING ANALYTICS

21. Learning Analytics

22. COLLABORATION

23. Cisco Networking Academy

24. Summary
• ‘FIRE in a book’
• New learning paradigms
• Rich multimedia interactive eBooks
• FIRE interactions embedded
• Easing course creation
• FORGEStore
• FORGEBox architecture
• Learning Analytics
• Validating pedagogical approach
• Improving and personalising
the learning experience
• Collaboration with Cisco
underway

25. Opening the FORGE platform - Coming
Soon!
• Build your own widgets and interactive courses for free!
• Learn by experimenting on real hardware
• Include innovative courses to your institution’s
curriculum
Launch:
end of March
2015
1st cut-off date:
15 May 2015
http://ict-forge.eu/opencall/