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This paper presents how platforms initially designed to enable the construction of personal learning environments can help teachers and learners to aggregate their own MOOCs from resources freely available in the Cloud under Creative Commons licenses. Compare to the mainstream MOOC platforms like Coursera or EdX which are basically learning management systems open to external students, the proposed solution offers built-in social media features to boost opportunistic interaction and informal exchanges between students.
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Personal Learning Environments asEnablers for Connectivist MOOCs
Denis Gillet
Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, ITHET 2013
14:30-14:50, Friday, October 11, Antalya, Turkey
Paper: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/188534?ln=en
‣ From Formal to Informal
Formal Teaching
… LMSInstitutional LearningManagement Systems
are becoming social
Informal Learning
… PLEPersonal LearningEnvironments
are being recognized2
Social Learning
ROLE2009-13
‣ From Formal to Informal
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Social Learning
PLE inLiferay
‣ Personal Learning Environments as aggregators
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Social Learning
‣ Social Media Platform: Enabling the agile creationof dedicated shared spaces for targeted activities
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Aggregation of Cloudresources with GraaspIt!
Audience• Public• Closed• Hidden
Roles• Owner• Contributor• Viewer
Entities• Resources• Apps• Activity
Spaces• People
Graasp.epfl.ch
‣ From Local to Global
Massive Teaching
… MOOCsMassive OpenOnline Courses
are offering new opportunities
• Rethink content and experience delivery on campus• Make room for hands-on activities
and teamwork• Freeze content and reduce variety
(limit biodiversity)• Require professional production staff
drawing resources
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STELLAR2009-12
Social Learning
‣ From Local to Global
7coursera
COURSES (444)
4,754,264
Social Learning
‣ From Local to Global
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ATLAS @ CERNGo-Lab 2012-16
Massive Teaching
… MOOLsMassive OpenOnline Labs
are bringing back hand-on activities
• Massive access to data sets through analysis and visualization tools • Massive experimentation with simulation• Massive access to remote labs thanks to
role allocation: Leaders do (manipulate) and followers look (observe)• or selective accessibility: gamification;
competition; peer election, peer assessment
Social Learning
‣ Go-Lab EU Project • Nov 2012 • 4 years • 10M€
• Global Online Science Labs for Inquiry Learning at School
• Objective: Raise interest for and stimulate carriers in STEM using online labs (remote labs • virtual labs • scientific data)
• Pedagogical Coordinator: University of Twente
• Technical Coordinator: EPFL
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STEM Education at School (10-18)Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
TechnologyOnline Labs
PedagogyInquiry Learning
CommunitySchool Networks
Social Learning
‣ Connectivist MOOCs
• a connectivist course is based on four major types of activity, i.e., Aggregation, Remixing, Repurposing, and Sharing (Kop et al) ➤ as offered by PLE platforms
‣ Typology of MOOC platforms • Continuum
• Aggregation & Dissemination: From related actions driven by providers to contributions shared by participants
• Coaching & Assessment: From related normative activities supervised by teachers to formative interactions handled collaboratively with peers
• Timing & Structuring: From related scaffolds enforced by the platforms to sequences and relations controlled by the participants
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Social Learning
‣ Turning a PLE platform into a cMOOCs platform through Opensocial apps
• Requirements elicited in the framework of RESCIF Network of Excellence in Engineering Sciences of the French-speaking countries
• Extensions using only Opensocial apps
• Peer evaluation support
• Creation of quizzes, collection of the answers and analysis
• Team building and competence bartering support
• Formalization of time-based and topic-based navigation and exploration structures through spaces;
• Support of additional metadata through internal tags;
• Management of multilingual resources;
• Recording, tagging and subtitling of video sequences;
• Integration of e-texbook standard documents 11
Social Learning
‣ Personal cMOOC on Social Media
• Setup by two teachers with complementary expertizes
• Populated and evaluated by teachers and students
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Social Learning
‣ Personal cMOOC on Social Media
• Setup by two teachers with complementary expertizes
• Populated and evaluated by teachers and students
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Sharing made easy by design thanks to built-in
creative commons licenses in public spaces
Social Learning
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Social Learning
http://www.emoocs2014.eu
• This work was partially funded by the European Union inthe context of the ROLE (Grant Agreement no. 231396)and Go-Lab projects (Grant Agreement no. 317601) under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the 7th Framework Programme for R&D (FP7)and by the Personal Learning Environment (Phase 3) project of the Swiss AAA/SWITCH Program
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Acknowledgment
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Contact & Links
• http://react.epfl.ch
• http://graasp.epfl.ch
• Tutorial: http://graasp.epfl.ch/#item=asset_3627
• http://www.role-project.euhttp://www.role-widgetstore.eu
• FP7 • IST • European Unionhttp://www.go-lab-project.eu
