Download ppt - Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case - Hermans, H & Verjans, S

Developing a sustainable, student centered VLE:The OUNL case

Henry Hermans

Steven Verjans

PLWE - ICDE - June 2009 p 2

Topics

1. Choosing and building virtual learning environments:institution centered or user centered

2. PLWE concept3. Three approaches to bridge the gap between personal

environments and managed learning environment4. OUNL: first steps towards a PLWE


Choosing and building learning environments

?



“Institution centered approach”

VLE has been designed by specialists, is managed bythe educational institution, and is occasionally used byteachers and students.



Do we know what students’ requirements are?

“Learners are from Mars, designers are from Venus”(Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat, 2009)


Model 1

working

environment

study

environment

personal

environment


Model 2

working

environment

study

environment

personal

environment


Model 3

personal,

working,

studying

environment


Design principle for the future OUNL VLE: PLWE

• Personal Learning and Working Environment

• Our students should be a able (but don’t have to!) to shape their own learning environment

• Requires a flexible VLE architecture and use of open standards


The fuel of interoperability:RSS

YouTube: “RSS in Plain English”


Design principle for the OUNL VLE: PLWE

PE MLE

WWW


TOPIC 3

Three approaches to bridge the gap between

• Personal Environment and

• Managed Learning Environment


Precondition

• Institutional Awareness of

• WWW trends

• Different user requirements


PE MLE

WWW

Approach 1

Approach 2

Approach 3


Approach 1: Open up institutional borders

• Part 1 - Use Web2.0 to make open educational materials available

• Video’s on YouTube EDU / iTunesU

• Presentations on Slideshare / Slideboom

• Public information available through RSS

• Social bookmarking to increase web presence, but also for educational purposes

MLE

WWW

Approach 1







• Part 2 - Establish institutional presence in the relevant social networking sites

• LinkedIn page for supporting hiring / HRM

• Official presence on Facebook, Hyves, etc. MLE

WWW

Approach 1




• Part 3a – Encourage staff / faculty to open up to open knowledge creation / sharing

• Link to relevant external knowledge (blogs, social bookmarks, OER, etc.)

• Active blogging / sharing

• Partr 3b – Allow and encourage students to co-create a knowledge stream

• Suggest additional materials

• Collaborative social bookmarking

MLE

WWW

Approach 1



Approach 2: Offer personalised information to be included in a student’s PE

• Personalised RSS-feeds for individual students.

• Personalised event alerting.

• Collect thematic information streams and put together semi-personalised pre-set clusters of knowledge

• Readiness for PE’s (shared iGoogle tabs, public Netvibes pages, etc.)

PE MLE

Approach 2



Approach 3: Allow students to personalise / tailor their personal workspace within the MLE

• Make MLE’s open to importing personal knowledge streams (import of rss-feeds, inclusion of external widgets)

• Offer subscription streams to relevant information clustered by

• Groups

• Course

• Faculty / Theme

• Allow students to manage an e-portfolio in the institutional MLE.

PE MLE

Approach 3



OUNL’s first steps towards a PLWE

• Installation of a Program Board Service Development

• Sensibilization: workshops, presentation, colloquia

• Drawing up and discussing a list of student centered services

• Drawing up a roadmap for MLE development:

• Upgrading/streamlining current MLE, and in parallel

• Experimental piloting of new services


Experimental piloting of new services (1/4) MyOU.nl: a personal workspace with networking services


Experimental piloting of new services (2/4) Google Apps

•iGoogle•Mail•Docs•Chat / Talk•Agenda•Sites


Experimental piloting of new services (2/4) Google Apps

1. Calendar: push events to institutional calendars

2. Google Docs: (realtime) online document sharing

Campus

Program

Course

Group/

collaboration

Person

Faculty

Events

Google Docs

Google Calendar


Experimental piloting of new services (3/4) Stars & comments


Experimental piloting of new services (4/4) Flexible content delivery (in case eBooks)

repository VLEVLE


Thank you for your attention!

Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/sverjans/ or http://tinyurl.com/lg9y8b

Paper: http://hdl.handle.net/1820/1894

http://celstec.org