The presentation of the "Towards Responsive Open Learning Environments: the ROLE Interoperability Framework"-paper on EC-TEL 2011 in Palermo, Italy.

1. http://www.role-project.eu
TOWARDS RESPONSIVE OPEN
LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS:
THE ROLE INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK
Sten Govaerts, Katrien Verbert, Daniel Dahrendorf, Carsten Ullrich,
Manuel Schmidt, Michael Werkle, Arunangsu Chatterjee, Alexander
Nussbaumer, Dominik Renzel, Maren Scheffel, Martin Friedrich, Jose
Luis Santos, Erik Duval, and Effie L-C. Law

2. OVERVIEW
• What are ROLEs?
• The ROLE framework
• Case studies
• Conclusion

3. THE LMS IS DEAD... coined by Scott Leslie & Dan Pontefract
The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Joseph L. Mankiewicz
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/11/the-vlelms-is-d.html

4. THE LMS IS DEAD... coined by Scott Leslie & Dan Pontefract
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/11/the-vlelms-is-d.html

5. THE LMS IS DEAD... coined by Scott Leslie & Dan Pontefract
http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/11/the-vlelms-is-d.html

6. EMPOWERING LEARNERS TO
BUILD THERE OWN PLES...
Responsiveness
• problem: non-open/non-responsive learning
• solution: awareness and self-reflection
Original slide by Ralf Klamma.

7. EMPOWERING LEARNERS TO
BUILD THERE OWN PLES...
Responsiveness
• problem: non-open/non-responsive learning
• solution: awareness and self-reflection
User-centred design
• problem: developed by experts for users
• solution: individually adapted composition of personal learning
environment
Original slide by Ralf Klamma.

8. WIDGETS

9. WIDGETS

10. WIDGETS

11. THE ROLE FRAMEWORK

12. http://www.role-widgetstore.eu
WIDGET STORE

13. http://www.role-widgetstore.eu
WIDGET STORE

14. CONTEXTUALIZED
ATTENTION METADATA
• tracking user interactions
• CAM widget tracks inter-widget
communication
• usage:
• for
personalised
recommendations
• visualizations for self-reflection
& awareness

15. INTER-WIDGET
COMMUNICATION
• enabling interactivity between widgets
• local and remote

16. INTER-WIDGET
COMMUNICATION
• enabling interactivity between widgets
• local and remote

17. INTER-WIDGET
COMMUNICATION
CAM DB
• enabling interactivity between widgets
• local and remote
Internet Not only web...
(XMPP)
MS Word
Visualizations

18. AUTHENTICATION &
AUTHORIZATION
• protect sensitive user data
• widget-to-service: +
• service-to-service: up to developers

19. ROLE SDK
• enables developers to try out the ROLE framework, right
now!
• contains all features discussed and a UI!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/role-project/
http://bit.ly/rolesdk

20. ROLE IN MOODLE

21. ROLE IN MOODLE

22. CASE STUDIES

23. SEARCH

24. FESTO
• LMS (CLIX) extended with widgets
• 25 heterogeneous participants
• evaluation setup:
1. video introduction to the new system
2. period of experimentation
3. questionnaire

25. FESTO
• LMS (CLIX) extended with widgets
• 25 heterogeneous participants
• evaluation setup:
1. video introduction to the new system
2. period of experimentation
3. questionnaire

26. FESTO RESULTS

27. FESTO RESULTS
88% would recommend it to their colleagues
81% agreed that it helps them to be more effective

28. JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
• offers higher education for adults with a full-time job
• early prototype with and CAM tracking
• evaluation setup:
1. task list (ETA 15 mins)
2. questionnaire (in Chinese) (partially from ResQUE)

29. JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY
• offers higher education for adults with a full-time job
• early prototype with and CAM tracking
• evaluation setup:
1. task list (ETA 15 mins)
2. questionnaire (in Chinese) (partially from ResQUE)

30. RESULTS
• ran over 3 weeks, 13 respondents
• results for federated search widget:
• 69% used the federated search widget
• 56% found the recommendations relevant to the course
• 38% wanted to continue using the federated search widget
• PLE results
• 23% found it useful for the course
• 39% found it easy to use, 15% found it navigationally consistent
• 46% were satisfied with the PLE

31. WHY?
• an established LMS augmented with ROLE
brand new system
• cultural differences?
• slowinternet connection
(long loading and querying times)
• In
future: thinkaloud sessions and selective
mouse tracking

32. FUTURE WORK
• integrate
the framework together
with psycho-pedagogical integration
model (PPIM)
• widgetbundles support in the
widget store
• improvements on the ROLE SDK

33. MORE ...
Create your widget
For users and researchers and win 500€!!!
http://www.role-project.eu
http://www.role-widgetstore.eu
http://www.role-showcase.eu
http://www.role-lms.eu
http://graaasp.epfl.ch
http://bit.ly/rolecomp
For developers ROLE SDK
http://sourceforge.net/projects/role-project/
http://bit.ly/rolesdk

34. THANK YOU!
QUESTIONS?
slides will appear on http://www.slideshare.net/stengovaerts