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Vance Stevens (English Teacher Coordinator, HCT/CERT Naval College) has prepared the paper at http://diylms.posterous.com/learner-centered-do-it-yourself-learning-mana In order to populate the blog space at http://diylms.posterous.com in preparation for a workshop on this topic given March 7 as a pre-conference workshop at the 2012 TESOL Arabia conference in Dubai In its full form as an article in TESL-EJ, March 2012 Stevens, Vance. (2012). Learner-centered Do-it-yourself Learning Management Systems. TESL-EJ, Volume 15, Number 4, pp. 1-14: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej60/int.pdf. Also at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume15/ej60/ej60int/ There is a 2000+ word extract for the proceeds of the 6th eLearning in Action conference held at the Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technology, UAE, on April 3, 2012 Conference URL: http://194.170.54.16/events/edtechpd2012/index.asp Proceeds: http://shct.hct.ac.ae/events/edtechpd2012/articles/index.asp The paper: http://shct.hct.ac.ae/events/edtechpd2012/articles/DIYLMS.pdf
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Learner-centered do-it-yourself LMS
Vance StevensHCT/ADMC/CERT
presented at the6th eLearning in Action conference at the
Sharjah Higher Colleges of Technologyin Sharjah, UAE: 3 April 2012
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Vance’s presentations are always online
Presentation Portal: http://diylms.posterous.com/
O Proceeds: http://shct.hct.ac.ae/events/edtechpd2012/articles/DIYLMS.pdf
O Longer TESL-EJ article, with references: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej60/int.pdf
O Slides: http://slideshare.net/vances O Recording: http://tinyurl.com/elearn2012vance O Conference URL: http://
194.170.54.16/events/edtechpd2012/index.asp
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Problem / Solution
Teachers expected to O Develop viable
courses quickly O Make use of
available technological resources
O Come under minimal budgets
LMS lets teachersO Set up courses quickly O Populate them with
content, forums, and links to resources
O Accept submission of student work
O Record marks according to specified assessment strategy
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Choices of LMS
Blackboard: proprietary, expensive but effective
Free alternativesO MoodleO Schoology
http://schoology.com
O DIYLMS (do-it-yourself LMS)O Wiki portalO Google Docs and
Etherpad clones for collaboration tasks
O Blogging, to showcase student work
O Back-channel tools such as Twitter, Skype group chat, or Edmodo
O Google Hangout or WiZiQ for live webcam and voice-enabled interaction.
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Why not Moodle or Blackboard?
O Potentially complicated and constraining O Teachers learn just enough to mount coursesO Do not learn advanced features O Result: courses appear redundantly similar
O Pedagogical ramifications to one-stop LMSO LMS manages learning - not course designer.
O Lane (2009) “insidious pedagogy”O Siemens (2004) “‘locked-down, do-it-our-way’
platforms”
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Moodle wall of text
Moodle and Bb can constrain where (and what) users can upload and display
Greg Kessler says Moodle users must break from default templates
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Web 2.0 alternativeDIYLMS is about Web 2.0 alternatives forO Storage of contentO Display of visualizations O Interaction in forumsO Handling submission of student workO Providing appropriate feedbackO Present grade calculations
(e.g. in Google Spreadsheets)
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Wiki layout and flexibility
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
O More intuitively navigable (for both developers and students)O Easy internal linksO Table of contents from H1, H2, etc
headingsO Sidebar with links to other course elementsO Tabs (in Blogger, for example)
DIYLMS: Navigable portals
http://podcastingevo2011.blogspot.com/
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
DIYLMS: Critical optionsO More flexibile in
O Managing who joins / subscribes O Keeping personal backups
O Access to past content and communities of learners often denied users of lock-down LMSO On Siemens’s (2004) wish-list for what is needed
in a learning environment. “Modularized approaches give the instructor or learner (not the administrator or organization) the control to follow the meandering paths of rich learning. Selecting specialized tools to achieve specific tasks, and being able to add them to the learning environment quickly, are critical to rich learning ecologies."
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/learning2gether
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
21st century learning and paradigm shifts - Web 2.0 tools
…O Expose teachers and students to
changing attitudes toward sharing / creating content
O Raise awareness of how social media contributes to collaborative language learning
O Assist movements toward Web 2.0, open source, creative commons …
O Show how educators are eager to share
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Shifting paradigm: willingness to share
O OERsO Models
O MIT (since 2001)O MOOCs (since 2008?)O Stanford open
courses O P2PUO Khan Academy
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
CMS vs LMSO DrupalO NingO MIT
O Bonk, C. 2009, The World is Open, “However, there is typically no instructor at the site to review or grade students’ work.” p. 163
O ProprietaryO BlackboardO Desire to Learn
O Open SourceO MoodleO Sakai
O Wikis, Blogs(my choice … )
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
LMS = CMS + LMO My choices
O PBWorks.com for content storageO Google Docs for student submissions and
feedbackO Posterous, Google Groups, for content and
forumsO Posterous for showcasing student work and for
surprisingly effective forumO Skype group chat for effective blend of
synchronous and asynchronous interactionO WiZiQ, Google Hangout for online
meetings
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Table of contents generated automatically according to H1, H2 etc. headings
Link to Posterous blog showcase
Only most current work and general course info on HOME page
Links to separate pages for previous work, by week
Wiki for NYIT Research Writing
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Wiki for HCT / NCAcademic Composition
Only most current work and general course info on HOME page
Link to Google Docs for revising drafts
Table of contents generated automatically according to H1, H2 etc. headings
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Content and Submissions
O PBWorksO Organize learningO Sidebar for
O Course archivesO LinksO Resources
O Store learning objectsO DocumentsO tutorials
O Google DocsO In class
O Work with students on the fly
O See who’s workingO Outside class
O Easily see new workO Organize
submissions O Copy/paste feedback
AND your objects have URLs
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Posterous for multimedia content and conversation forums
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Skype group chat blends synch and asynch ‘forum’
interaction
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Forum management - affordances of …
O PosterousO Subscribers can be
made contributorsO Links to media become
embedded objectsO Works through Web or
EmailO Post via emailO Any attachment
becomes object in post
O Subscribers notified, can reply to email to comment
O Skype group chatO Add people in your
contacts list to groupO They can withdraw at any
timeO Group appears as
another contactO Members can post
asynchronouslyO Chat is seen when
members log on at any time
O If they are online at the same time, direct conversation occurs
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Synchronous meetings:Google Hangout
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
Synchronous meetings in WiZiQ
Vance Stevens - eLearning in Action conference at the Sharjah HCT April 2012
That’s all,we have time for
folks
but there IS more information at
http://diylms.posterous.com/
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