Open Source Pilot

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Open Source Pilot

• What is the pilot?
• A community of explorers
• http//ospilot.oln.org
• Created by OLN's Emerging Technologies Committee
• Running through December, 2006
• Whats next?

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Who is involved?

• 44 institutions in Ohio
• Members of OLN

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Activity to date
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Activity to date
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Activity to date

• 795 unique visitors so far in 2006
• 3,048 visits (842 Mb) 364,753 hits (about 504
  added the URL to favorites)
• 9,901 different pages being hit
• 6,310 in Sakai
• 332 in Moodle
• Remainder other
• Average visit is 24 minutes
• Who?
• 92 Windows
• 6 Macintosh
• 0.5 Linux
• Browsers
• IE 66.5
• FF 27.5
• Safari 3.9

• Links to the site are set up at
• mariontech.org
• zanestate.edu
• teachuohio.org
• kent.edu
• oln.org
• bgsu.edu
• clarkstate.edu

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Application update

• uPortal
• continues with release 2.5.1
• Moodle
• release 1.5.2
• Sakai
• release 2.1.2
• OSP
• release 2.1 beta
• now available in the sandbox

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Sandbox

• http//sandbox.oln.org

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Sandbox

• Syracuse Goal Aware Tools

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Sandbox

• Melete (mee lee tay)
• lesson builder tool
• instructors publish learning sequences using a
  rich text editor
• uploading learning objects
• pointing to existing URL resources
• Instructors design content to support facilitated
  learning or managed self-study.
• Lessons can be released automatically based on
  start and stop dates.
• Supports IMS Content Packaging.

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OSP

• Open Source Portfolio Initiative
• http//osportfolio.org
• with emphasis on OSP
• But not training, at least today
• OSP documentation
• http//wiki.osportfolio.org/confluence/display/DOC
  21/Home

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Curricular Goals

• Types of ePortfolios
• Learning or developmental
• Evaluation or assessment
• Showcasing or résumé
• OSP is more curricular than technological

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Owner-centric workflow

• Collect work
• Allows others to review
• Reflect on the work
• Design a presentation
• Publish it as a portfolio
• Introductory video by Indiana University

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OSP is role-based

• Portfolio owner
• Common Interest Group (CIG)
• Coordinator (manager)
• Participant (all involved)
• Evaluator explicit responsibilities
• Reviewer provides comments and guidance
• Program administrator

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OSP is activity-based

• Collect
• Reflect
• Design
• Publish

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Collect

• Form-based or wizard guided process
• Gather data

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Reflect

• Portfolio owner may be asked to reflect
• Evaluator is required to assess
• Reviewer might comment

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Design

• Tools to create a presentation or portfolio
• Incomplete in 2.1

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Publish

• Access control
• Eportfolio account holders
• Email addresses (guests)
• Public
• CD/DVD
• Incomplete in 2.1

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OSP and Sakai

• Embedded as a toolset in Sakai
• Access to Sakai services
• e.g., gathered content resides in Resources
• Release numbers will match at 2.2
• 2.2 on July 15
• 2.2.1 with important bug fixes by early August

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Forms and Wizards

• Forms
• Basic guidance for collecting data
• Wizards
• Series of forms for guidance
• Created by CIG coordinator (or others)

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Matrices

• Structured for longitudinal review
• Portfolio owner adds content to cells according
  to rubric
• Forms guide content placement

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Templates, Layouts and Styles

• Templates
• A stylesheet language that transforms XML from
  one format to another
• XSLT so templates are not created by end-users
• Layouts
• Portfolio design, placement of content
• Styles
• look and feel (a CSS)
• So..we need a library of these!

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OSP Roadmap
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Links for this session

• http//ospilot.oln.org (login required)
• http//sandbox.oln.org (login required)
• http//osportfolio.org
• OSP 2.1 whitepaper
• Handbook of Research on ePortfolios
• Helen Barretts blog on ePortfolios
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• by Eric Raymond
• The Success of Open Source
• by Steven Weber

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Sandbox instance

• http//sandbox.oln.org