Open Symposium on Strategic Collobations for eLearnin Gilbert PaquetteLORNET Scientific DirectorTélé-Université

Starting collaborations in Quebec

Major International Needs and LORNET

Strategic collaborations abroad

Conclusion

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Priorities and orientations

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• Huge demand towards Web-based resources for knowledge and skills acquisition

• Towards a new generation of the Internet: Tackle the exponential growth of available information.

• Flexible learning technologies, accessible anywhere, anytime, in a variety of context

• Knowledge extraction from documents for knowledge management.

• Software agents adaptable to users and their contexts to promote intelligent use of information.

• Maximal use of the capacity of broadband networks for advanced multimedia delivery.

• Seamless technology integration made simple by powerful and versatile assembly systems.

Major International Needs and LORNET11

International Consortia• US: Sakai and UPortal:

– 80 universities (including 4 canadian); Mellon Foundation (2,4

millions $) and 4 millions in-kind; english only • France:

– 4 consortias financed by Éducation Nationale, from 1,2 M euros to 4,5 millions euros.

• Claroline: – started at Université de Louvain, Belgium, 443 organizations in 63

countries; typical open source project; multilingual • Moodle:

– 50 000 individual users in 160 countries; multilingual

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• Governance by a board of University representatives

• Technical joint development team• Open source orientation • Assembly of open source and proprietary

components• An Open Portal Approach instead of tranditinal

LMS and LKMS• Large interest in LORs and Standards• Intellectual Property: a question of recognition

more than retribution

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• All 17 universities or superior schools use some platforms• 44 % of university students have used a platform at least

once étudiants ont interagi avec un ENA dans le cadre de leur formation.

• 9 institutions have developed their own platforms, TELUQ is the only instiutions that used no commercial platform

• Proprietary plaforms are still dominant , use a a few functionalities:– WebCT in 10 institutions

– Claroline (open source ) in 3 institutions

– Learning Space in 2 institutions

– First Class, QuickPlace, Sigal, Moodle each used in 1 institutions

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No more a marginal phenomena• 5 764 complete on-line courses • 12 000 courses use a platform for delivery• 7 929) professors and tutors have and access code to a

platform• 197 524 students have and access code to a platform

Few functionalities are used• Delivery of documents• Communication tools and forums• Little use for course design

New needs expressed: more flexibility in pedagogical models

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• Infrastructure for wired schools, CEGEP and Universities (RISQ)

• Ministry of Education Working Group on Norms and Standards

• LO Repository Project started in 9 universities• PROCENA : towards a common university portal

in Quebec• Concepta: 4 level portal base on DotNetNuke

integrating tools and modules from previous platforms (Explora, Adapweb, Sydife)

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• Focus on real learning object repository projects• Build a multilingual eLearning Warehouse: tools,

documents, components, portal assembly tools• Support provincial collaboration projects • Support networking between provincial

networks of repositories and portals• Need of acoordinating body to fund long term

intiatives in Canada, in collaboration with the provinces

• Support the Globe Project• Dowplay for a while other international

collaboration till we have more to offer (They know what to do, we know what to do)

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Open Symposium on Strategic Collobations for eLearnin Gilbert PaquetteLORNET Scientific DirectorTélé-Université