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FORGE: BRINGING FIRE AND THE E-LEARNING SPHERES TOGETHER
The document discusses the FORGE project, which aims to connect the communities of FIRE (Federated Inter-networked Research Infrastructures) and e-learning. It does this by developing new learning paradigms using rich multimedia content, a widget store, and the FORGEBox architecture. Benefits to FIRE include increased usage of facilities by learners, sustainability through educational budgets, and improved usability via extensive learning resources. Challenges include requiring always-on infrastructure and potentially high demand from new paradigms.
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- 1. FORGE: BRINGING FIREAND THE E-LEARNING SPHERES TOGETHER John Domingue Knowledge Media Ins4tute The Open University, UK Connec4ng European Innovators to ICT Test Facili4es, 27th June, 2014, Paris
- 2. Agenda • Basic Facts • Motivation and Objectives • Concepts and Approach • Interfacing with FIRE Facilities • Use of Linked Open Data • Courses • Summary
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- 4. Project Fiche • Name:Forging Online Education through FIRE • Dates: 1st October, 2013 – 30th September, 2016 • Duration (Months): 36 • Project Coordinator: John Domingue, OU • Technical Project Manager: Christos Tranoris, UoP • Project website: http://ict-forge.eu/
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- 8. Mo4va4on (2/2) MoocIllustration: Adam Simpson
- 9. http://about.futurelearn.com/blog/ Launched September 2013 29partners – 26 universities Nearly 400,000 course sign- ups Over 200,000 registered users Up to 30,000 learners joining courses this year
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- 12. FORGE Objectives • Studyand develop new processes and approaches to online learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies. • Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE portfolio of facilities and tools. • Introduce the learning community to the concepts of Experimentally Driven Research. • Increase the overall usability and take-up of FIRE facilities through the layering of how-to-use resources over the FIRE platforms. • “Empower every person to get involved and take control” – increasing the accessibility of FIRE to disadvantaged users
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- 18. OU iTunes UStats • Open University on iTunes U was launched on 3rd June 2008 • Now 58 iTunes U Courses • 65,138,000 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
- 20. iBook Interactive Demo(ict-forge.eu)
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- 22. FORGE Core ArchitecturalEntities FIRE Courses Widgets FIRE Adapters
- 23. FORGEBox and FORGEStore • Identified major challenges associated with courses • Need for • A middleware solution to support the hosting of widgets • FIRE adapters • Identified actors and their support usage scenarios • The need for a sharing repository FORGEB x FORGESt re A middleware solution enabling FIRE courses A marketplace for a FORGEBox installation www.forgebox.eu www.forgestore.eu
- 24. FORGEBox FORGEBox Fed4FIRE Portal LMS eBook Provide Interactive content (i.e. widgets) Interface via FIRE APIs FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed
- 25. FORGE Widgets, Adaptersand 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
- 26. Web browser Example: SecureShell/Logging Remote machine FORGEBox Jetty JavaWebApp Web resource Java class proxy ssh widget (html/js) Logviewer widget (html/js) Content / web sockets
- 27. • Hosted currentlyas prototype under www.forgestore.eu • The central point to share FORGE artifacts: • Widgets • FIRE adapters / FORGEBox Services • Interactive courses • Manages FORGE artifacts • Provides a single point for FORGEBox developers • Provides an API for easy access by FORGEBox installations FORGESt re
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- 29. USE OF LINKEDOPEN DATA
- 30. • Vision: well connected graph of open Web data • W3C standards (RDF, SPARQL) to expose data, URIs to interlink datasets ⇒ vast cloud of interconnected datasets • Crossing all sorts of domains Domain Number of datasets Triples % (Out-)Links % Media 25 1,841,852,061 5.82 % 50,440,705 10.01 % Geographic 31 6,145,532,484 19.43 % 35,812,328 7.11 % Government 49 13,315,009,400 42.09 % 19,343,519 3.84 % Publications 87 2,950,720,693 9.33 % 139,925,218 27.76 % Cross-domain 41 4,184,635,715 13.23 % 63,183,065 12.54 % Life sciences 41 3,036,336,004 9.60 % 191,844,090 38.06 % User-generated content 20 134,127,413 0.42 % 3,449,143 0.68 % 295 31,634,213,770 503,998,829 Source: h[p://lod-‐cloud.net/state, September 2011 Linked Open Data
- 34. Uses for LinkedData in FORGE • Courses and course components • Widgets • Experiments • Experimental results • Learning Analytics
- 35. Linked Open Dataand Courses • The FORGE courses are described using Linked Data. • The courses are described with the Resource Description Framework (RDF) language and exposed via a SPARQL Query Language endpoint, allowing users to formulate and run custom SPARQL queries on the FORGE course descriptions. • The main vocabulary used is the MLO (Metadata for Learning Opportunities).
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- 38. First Deployment atUniv of Patras www.forgebox.eu/demo/courses/tcp_congestion.html
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- 40. Summary (1/2) • FORGEaims to connect the communities associated with FIRE and eLearning • Approach is based upon • New learning paradigms • Rich multimedia interactive eBooks • Widget Store • FORGEBox architecture • Linked Open Data
- 41. Summary (2/2) • Benefitsto FIRE include: • Higher take-up of FIRE facilities by learners • Sustainability through the use of educational (vs. research) budgets • Increasing the usability of FIRE through extensive how-to learning resources • Challenges • New learning paradigms require ‘always on’ infrastructure • Potentially new levels of demand • The right combination of FIRE and eLearning technologies could prove revolutionary to both spheres