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My presentation at UXFUL workshop on USAB 2010 Symposium in Klagenfurt
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Learning Flow Management and Semantic Data Exchange between Blog-based Personal
Learning Environments
Vladimir Tomberg, Mart Laanpere, David Lamas
Tallinn University, Estonia
Background
Learning is continuously shifting to the to web
WEB1.0: associated with LMS (Learning Management Systems)
WEB2.0: associated with PLE(Personal Learning Environment)
The Gap
• PLE is free, weakly organized environment• We use it, but we still need some features that
can organize the learning flow, especially for formal learning in a university
Challenge
• How to organize in informal environment:– Formal learning course– Formal assignments– Formal assessment– Tracking of results?
Initial Position
• There are already thousands of teachers’ blogs who uses them for conducting courses
• There are much more of students’ blogs, who used them as learning portfolios
• We choose WordPress as PLE blog platform and tried to organize simple learning scenario
• Our goal is an implementing of a learning flow with smallest or possible no an interference in usual blog’s publishing process
Typical Scenario for Course Flow
1. Teacher organizes a new course in own blog2. The teacher invites students to the course3. The teacher assigns an assignment for the
students4. Students implement the assignment and
submit results5. Teacher assess the submissions of the
students
Question 1. How to identify course?
• Each blog category can be marked (or not) as a course
• Each post in the course can be marked (or not) as an assignment for students
• Students can subscribe to the course by RSS like they can subscribe to blog category (we introduce also much more secure scenario)
Mapping of blog’s and learning concepts
Workflow of Assignment
Problems with Assessment Workflow in Blogs
• It can be organized conventionally, but seems it should be hard to control
• Teacher has no tools for tracking of results of students
Our Solution: LePress
• LePress is experimental plug-in for WordPress that help to organize assessment workflow between blogs
LePress in Layered Architecture
LePress Teacher: Create Course
LePress Teacher: Managing Courses
LePress Teacher: Inviting Students
LePress Teacher: Confirming Registration
LePress Teacher Widget: List of Students
LePress Teacher: Writing Assignment
LePress Teacher Widget: Assignments list
LePress Student: List of assignments
LePress Student Widget
LePress Student: Submitting assignment
LePress Teacher: Managing Assignments
LePress Teacher: Writing Feedback
Enhancing of Blog’s Semantic
• Currently only two semantic tools available in blogs by default: tags and categories
• For getting something better we need to adopt other tools like microformats, RDFa or microdata
• Our previous research (MUPPLE09) shows that microformats are most successful solutions
Exporting Microformats
• Microformats can be exported right from LePress Widget
• hCalendar microformat for course data• hCard for course participants (teacher and
students)
Visual Exporting Microformats’ Data by Google Chrome Michromeformats Extension
Conclusion
• Development of LePress demonstrates:– How learning flow can be automated using the
typical features of blog engines: trackback, categories and sidebar widgets
– How course- and assignment-related semantic data could be distributed in real environment using Microformats