MATRIX ENEA e-Learning Platform Flavio Fontana ENEA – Usability Laboratory (CAMO)

MATRIXMATRIX

ENEA e-Learning PlatformENEA e-Learning Platform

Flavio FontanaFlavio Fontana ENEA – Usability Laboratory (CAMO)ENEA – Usability Laboratory (CAMO)

Dip. Informatica, DI, Univ. La Sapienza RomaDip. Informatica, DI, Univ. La Sapienza Roma

[email protected]@casaccia.enea.it

MATRIX (IV GEN)MATRIX (IV GEN)

http://192.107.92.31/fadivgen2/

ODL (III GEN)ODL (III GEN)http://odl.casaccia.enea.it/http://odl.casaccia.enea.it/

http://192.107.92.31/fadivgen2/

ODLODLOpen Distance LearningOpen Distance Learning

HomepageHomepageFAD IV GENFAD IV GEN

Matrix Global ArchitectureMatrix Global Architecture

• Project: Description of the ENEA e-Learning activities, Project: Description of the ENEA e-Learning activities, ENEA e-Learn Portal; ENEA e-Learn Portal;

• Courses List of the activated courses on Matrix Courses List of the activated courses on Matrix Catalogue: Platform;Catalogue: Platform; • News: More relavant news about the platform, project News: More relavant news about the platform, project

and conferences; and conferences;

• TargetTarget Courses list in relation to user classifications. Courses list in relation to user classifications.

ProjectProject

CoursesCoursesCatalogueCatalogue

Target usersTarget users

TematicsTematics

ServicesServices

Modules of the portalModules of the portal

• Net LessonNet Lesson Synchronouse lessons management;Synchronouse lessons management;

• e-Learning Asynchronouse lessons and courses management;e-Learning Asynchronouse lessons and courses management;

• Multimedia (DB) video repository database (interview, ecc.);Multimedia (DB) video repository database (interview, ecc.);

• News (DB) news management;News (DB) news management;

• Newsletter dissemination by mail of the periodical electronic magazine; Newsletter dissemination by mail of the periodical electronic magazine;

• Services end-user network services and assistance.Services end-user network services and assistance.

SI.A.SI.A.

AREA A

AREA C

AREA B

E-LearningE-LearningOn-line On-line course course exampleexample

The courseThe course

IndiceNavigabile

Ipertesto

Titolo UnitàPersonalizza

Ipertesto

Percorso

BarraNavigazione

Corso e Logo Elementi diNavigazione

Course and Course and user user personalizationpersonalization

PersonalizzaIpertesto

BarraPersonalizzazione

TestoPersonalizzato

Apri FinestraAppunti

Course editorCourse editor

The Authoring tool is an integrated system to manage the contents of the courses. The main functionality are

• Hypertextual visualization• Dynamic index management;• Console management;• Layout;• Technical notes, personalization;• Multimedia;• Documentation.

SI.A.SI.A.Internal Internal structurestructure

Index generator Data

CoursesCourses

Page

FileSystem

DB

Layout

DB

IsNoYes

Custom PageCustom Page

Page

FileSystemFileSystem

SI.A.SI.A.Internal Internal structurestructure

Self-Evaluation Self-Evaluation TestsTests

FrequencesFrequences

QuestionnaireQuestionnaire

Self-Evaluation Self-Evaluation TestsTests

(Radon course)(Radon course)

Course Course accessaccess

User User registrationregistration

UserIDUserIDPasswordPassword

Course Course Minimum Minimum Data SetData Set


Course Course teacherteacher


Course Course contentscontents


ModulesModulesLessonsLessonsUnitsUnits

Course Course contentscontents

(Radon (Radon course)course)

Module 1Module 1Lesson 1Lesson 1Unit 0Unit 0

SI.A.SI.A.Functions:Functions:

TeacherTeacher

StudentStudent

Text Text personalizationpersonalization

Student Student commentscomments

Between Between student and student and teacherteacher

SynchronousSynchronousand and Asynchronous Asynchronous communicationcommunication

User areaUser area

DataDataCoursesCoursesRegistrationRegistration

User areaUser area


User areaUser area


The NetLesson Web Site

NetLesson is online with a specific web site that integrates different functional modules to manage user and lectures data, online video lessons information, the synchronization of video and PowerPoint presentations, online e-learning courses catalogue and the calendar of the real time lessons.

NetLesson Web Site Modules

1. Home page presentation of the project;

2. NetLesson manages synchronous/asynchronous lessons;

3. e-Learning manages asynchronous courses and their MDS;

4. Multimedia manages video repository (interviews, etc.);

5. News manages the news collection;

6. Newsletter manages the dissemination of news and brief articles by e-

mail;

7. Services Network services for the end-users;

8. Project description of the Desire-Net project;

9. Calendar calendar of the internet synchronous lessons;

10. Contacts persons of the Desire-Net organization;

11. Users list of the end-users (organizations and countries).

The calendar for the synchronous lessons has been determined considering the possibility to visualize inside a standard calendar the incoming video lessons.

Users can visualize the video lessons calendar and choose a specific video lesson.

The NetLesson Calendar

NetLesson Modules

NetLesson manages lesson, video, presentation in power-point format and the teacher information. The system visualizes the questions, inserted by the student, towards the teacher.

For each lesson the system shows date, time, title of the lesson and the teacher’s name. In some case is possible to insert a short summary of the lesson contents.

The NetLesson has a search function to find lesson by title and date or name of the lectures.

The system lists the lessons ordered by date.

The video lessons Management

The NetLesson video lessons management has a specific methodology to organize the online streaming and recorded interviews. Each interview is part of a video session and each session is part of a video lesson.

Video lesson

Video SessionsLecturers interviews

The video lessons visualization

Video Lesson

Video Lessons Catalogue

Video session

NetLesson Visual Interface


PresentationArea

NavigationBottons

Video Area

Question Area


Control panel forthe slides

NetLesson Classroom Visual Interface

Video & slide Control panel

Always on top the screen

Hardware & Software Requirements

HARDWARE: PC – Pentium 4, RAM 512 Mb, Video Card SVGA, Video Display 15” – 17”, Resolution: Min. 800x600, optimal 1025x768 or superior;

SOFTWARE: O.S. Windows 98/200x/XP/Vista, Free Real Player (www.real.com), Internet Explorer, FireFox.

INTERNET: connection speed rate 56Kbps or superior (1,4 Mbps).

The Desire-Net project

DEvelopment and Sustainability with International Renewable Energies network, www.desire-net.enea.it

E-Learning in Renewable Energies for managers, designers and operators in Central, East and South East European and South Mediterranean countries.

40 different university countries connected in asynchronous and synchronous mode to participate at the online video lessons.

The project has guaranteed 100 hours of online course in 18 months.

SEE2008 European Award

The European Commission has assigned the prestigious Award SEE “Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign”, for the “Co-operation programs “ category, to the “Desire-Net” project, realized by ENEA in collaboration with UNESCO.

NetLesson and the Virtual World-3D

The video lessons in NetLesson are integrated inside the new 3D interface of Virtual World 3D (VW-3D). The lessons calendar, catalogue, video lessons and PowerPoint presentations can be displayed inside the VW-3D

Conclusions

The users (technical staff and end-users) have successfully used the system everyday with no problems after a mini training session.

Internet connection today offers the possibility to disseminate high quality lectures very accessible system in terms of technology and costs.

The future learning project will use this technology to create multi e-learning points because the teachers and the students are ready to participate to these type of online services.

The users attention index during the video lessons is higher than HTML e-learning courses because the end-users are concentrated to watch the video screen.

The users learning index is lower than the contiguous teaching but the system guarantees the possibility to repeat many times the same experience. To improve these results a tutor can be present in the classroom or connected online (Uteas, E-LEARN2007).

Thank you for your attention

Flavio Fontana - [email protected] D’Arcangelo - [email protected]

Enrico Cosimi - [email protected]

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