Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs
- 1. Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs Denis Gillet InformationTechnology Based Higher Education andTraining, ITHET 2013 14:30-14:50, Friday, October 11,Antalya,Turkey Paper: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/188534?ln=en
- 2. ‣ From Formal to Informal Formal Teaching … LMS Institutional Learning Management Systems are becoming social Informal Learning … PLE Personal Learning Environments are being recognized 2 Social Learning ROLE 2009-13
- 3. ‣ From Formal to Informal 3 Social Learning PLE in Liferay
- 4. ‣ Personal Learning Environments as aggregators 4 Social Learning
- 5. ‣ Social Media Platform: Enabling the agile creation of dedicated shared spaces for targeted activities 5 Aggregation of Cloud resources with GraaspIt! Audience • Public • Closed • Hidden Roles • Owner • Contributor • Viewer Entities • Resources • Apps • Activity Spaces • People Graasp.epfl.ch
- 6. ‣ From Local to Global Massive Teaching … MOOCs Massive Open Online Courses are offering new opportunities • Rethink content and experience delivery on campus • Make room for hands-on activities and teamwork • Freeze content and reduce variety (limit biodiversity) • Require professional production staff drawing resources 6 STELLAR 2009-12 Social Learning
- 7. ‣ From Local to Global 7 coursera COURSES (444) 4,754,264 Social Learning
- 8. ‣ From Local to Global 8 ATLAS @ CERN Go-Lab 2012-16 Massive Teaching … MOOLs Massive Open Online Labs are bringing back hand-on activities • Massive access to data sets through analysis and visualization tools • Massive experimentation with simulation • Massive access to remote labs thanks to role allocation: Leaders do (manipulate) and followers look (observe) • or selective accessibility: gamification; competition; peer election, peer assessment Social Learning
- 9. ‣ Go-Lab EU Project • Nov 2012 • 4 years • 10M€ • Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School • Objective: Raise interest for and stimulate carriers in STEM using online labs (remote labs • virtual labs • scientific data) • Pedagogical Coordinator: University ofTwente • Technical Coordinator: EPFL 9 STEM Education at School (10-18) Science,Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Technology Online Labs Pedagogy Inquiry Learning Community School Networks Social Learning
- 10. ‣ Connectivist MOOCs • a connectivist course is based on four major types of activity, i.e., Aggregation, Remixing, Repurposing, and Sharing (Kop et al) ➤ as offered by PLE platforms ‣ Typology of MOOC platforms • Continuum • Aggregation & Dissemination: From related actions driven by providers to contributions shared by participants • Coaching & Assessment: From related normative activities supervised by teachers to formative interactions handled collaboratively with peers • Timing & Structuring: From related scaffolds enforced by the platforms to sequences and relations controlled by the participants 10 Social Learning
- 11. ‣ Turning a PLE platform into a cMOOCs platform through Opensocial apps • Requirements elicited in the framework of RESCIF Network of Excellence in Engineering Sciences of the French-speaking countries • Extensions using only Opensocial apps • Peer evaluation support • Creation of quizzes, collection of the answers and analysis • Team building and competence bartering support • Formalization of time-based and topic-based navigation and exploration structures through spaces; • Support of additional metadata through internal tags; • Management of multilingual resources; • Recording, tagging and subtitling of video sequences; • Integration of e-texbook standard documents 11 Social Learning
- 12. ‣ Personal cMOOC on Social Media • Setup by two teachers with complementary expertizes •Populated and evaluated by teachers and students 12 Social Learning
- 13. ‣ Personal cMOOC on Social Media • Setup by two teachers with complementary expertizes •Populated and evaluated by teachers and students 13 Sharing made easy by design thanks to built-in creative commons licenses in public spaces Social Learning
- 15. • This work was partially funded by the European Union in the context of the ROLE (Grant Agreement no. 231396) and Go-Lab projects (Grant Agreement no. 317601) under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D (FP7) and by the Personal Learning Environment (Phase 3) project of the Swiss AAA/SWITCH Program 15 Acknowledgment
- 16. 16 Contact & Links • denis.gillet@epfl.ch • http://react.epfl.ch • http://graasp.epfl.ch • Tutorial: http://graasp.epfl.ch/ #item=asset_3627 • http://www.role-project.eu http://www.role-widgetstore.eu • FP7 • IST • European Union http://www.go-lab-project.eu