LEARNSTREAMING SUPPORT FOR PLN

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LEARN-STREAMING SUPPORT FOR PLN

• O. Casquero (oskar.casquero_at_ehu.es)
• J. Portillo, R. Ovelar, M. Benito, J. Romo
• University of the Basque Country
• Logos Open Conference New Technology Platforms
  for Learning
• 19-20 January 2009, Budapest

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New needs for elearning

• European Space for Higher Education (ESHE)
• individual work together with
• teacher guidance
• collaboration between classmates
• mobility (ECTS)
• So, we need e-learning environments that
• combine social services to support collaborative
  learning
• high personalization that supports individual
  characteristics and learning preferences
• ubiquitous access to apps with a single identity

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LMS inside institutions

• LMS play a major role in institutional learning
• LMS have become more feature-rich over time, but
• our needs in learning resource management and
  user interaction are a lot more
• they were not conceived to keep up with ESHE
• same static learning experience to all learners
• difficult customization
• not federated
• they are course-focused and institution centered
• access to course resources ends when the course
  is finished

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Web 2.0 outside institutions

• And what about Web 2.0 ?
• It is on the cloud
• web services and mashups
• easy customization by selecting the apps that
  appeal to us
• It is based on collaboration between users
• social use of the SW
• the more people use the service, the better
  feedback they get
• It gives a digital identity to the user
• OpenID

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Looking for a new learning environment

• So, we can improve technology-enhanced learning
  if we manage to fit and guide the gradual
  integration of web 2.0 into the institutional
  environment
• But it is by no means easy to manage in the
  jungle
• Adapt web 2.0 opportunities to the institution
• Learn how to work in the cloud within a community
• Manage the volume of data that is generated
• Deal with different identities in different
  services

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iPLE a bridge between the institution and the
Web 2.0

• iPLE (institutional Personal Learning
  Environment)
• A garden where every learner/teacher can use
  the cloud and live in community in an easy and
  secure way
• A window to learning resources and services
• institutional and external services through a
  single access point
• hub to route learning resources on one2one or
  one2many basis
• Controlled by the final user but influenced by
• Other classmates (teachers or students)
• Institution
• Digital identity

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iPLE architecture
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PLN iPLEs as learning units
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Network of Blogs for supporting learn-streaming

• Learn-streaming simply means publishing and
  sharing daily learning activities that constitute
  life-long learning
• Learners and teachers should be able to retain
  their own learn-streaming (evidences of acquired
  competences)
• NoB designed to support learn-streaming storage
• one blog per subject teacher posts / students
  comment
• one blog (e-portfolio) per person (teacher or
  student) automatic retrieval of DLRs (posts,
  comments, images, videos,...)

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• Some social networks are derived from the formal
  learning structure in the institution
• Each person's learning experience is managed
  through a iPLE (a node within a PLN) and thanks
  to syndication, web service APIs and use of
  widgets
• E-portfolios and subject blogs are nodes for a
  network of learning content storage (LMSs,
  repositories)

Learning Social Networks
PLE student 1
PLE student 2
Network of PLEs
PLE teacher
student 1
student 2
subject A
Network of iBlogs
teacher
subject B
Repository
LMS
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Strategy for iPLE prototype deployment

• Widgets
• the glue for integrating services
• Start Page
• iGoogle as the container for the widgets
• iGoogle within Google Apps
• administrator can configure a default iPLE for
  everybody
• Open nature of gadgets allow their placement in
  any container, e.g. Apache Shindig

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Strategy for iPLE prototype deployment

• Single Sign-On
• SAML for institutional services
• simpleSAMLphp easy to install and configure,
  well documented and good support
• institutional OpenID for external services
• In Spain, RedIRIS offers an OpenID SP to RnD
  institutions
• yo.rediris.es/seria/user_at_institution
• Specialized repositories for each type of content
• Flickr, Youtube, Delicious, Scribd,
• Benefit from the ecosystem of satellite services

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Strategy for iPLE prototype deployment

• Network of Blogs
• Requested features
• Content management (posts, comments, images,
  videos)
• Group management
• Feed management (aggregation)
• Streaming
• Selected CMS Drupal
• Wordpress µ Buddypress could be also considered

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LEARN-STREAMING SUPPORT FOR PLN

• O. Casquero (oskar.casquero_at_ehu.es)
• J. Portillo, R. Ovelar, M. Benito, J. Romo
• University of the Basque Country
• Logos Open Conference New Technology Platforms
  for Learning
• 19-20 January 2009, Budapest