Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case - Hermans, H & Verjans, S.
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The document discusses the development of a sustainable, student-centered virtual learning environment (VLE) at OUNL, emphasizing the importance of bridging personal and managed learning environments. It outlines three approaches to enhance personalization and collaboration in the learning process, including opening up institutional borders, offering personalized information, and allowing students to tailor their workspaces. The paper also highlights the initial steps taken by OUNL to implement these strategies and engage students in co-creating their learning experiences.
Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case - Hermans, H & Verjans, S.
- 1. Developing a sustainable, student centered VLE: The OUNL case Henry Hermans Steven Verjans
- 2. Topics Choosing and building virtual learning environments: institution centered or user centered PLWE concept Three approaches to bridge the gap between personal environments and managed learning environment OUNL: first steps towards a PLWE
- 3. Choosing and building learning environments ?
- 4. Choosing and building learning environments “ Institution centered approach” VLE has been designed by specialists, is managed by the educational institution, and is occasionally used by teachers and students.
- 5. Choosing and building learning environments Do we know what students’ requirements are? “ Learners are from Mars, designers are from Venus” (Ayman Moghnieh and Josep Blat, 2009)
- 6. Model 1 working environment study environment personal environment
- 7. Model 2 working environment study environment personal environment
- 8. Model 3 personal, working, studying environment
- 9. Design principle for the future OUNL VLE: PLWE Personal Learning and Working Environment Our students should be a able (but don’t have to!) to shape their own learning environment Requires a flexible VLE architecture and use of open standards
- 10. The fuel of interoperability: RSS YouTube: “RSS in Plain English”
- 11. Design principle for the OUNL VLE: PLWE PE MLE WWW
- 12. TOPIC 3 Three approaches to bridge the gap between Personal Environment and Managed Learning Environment
- 13. Precondition Institutional Awareness of WWW trends Different user requirements
- 14. PE MLE WWW Approach 1 Approach 2 Approach 3
- 15. Approach 1: Open up institutional borders Part 1 - Use Web2.0 to make open educational materials available Video’s on YouTube EDU / iTunesU Presentations on Slideshare / Slideboom Public information available through RSS Social bookmarking to increase web presence, but also for educational purposes MLE WWW Approach 1
- 20. Approach 1: Open up institutional borders Part 2 - Establish institutional presence in the relevant social networking sites LinkedIn page for supporting hiring / HRM Official presence on Facebook, Hyves, etc. MLE WWW Approach 1
- 22. Approach 1: Open up institutional borders Part 3a – Encourage staff / faculty to open up to open knowledge creation / sharing Link to relevant external knowledge (blogs, social bookmarks, OER, etc.) Active blogging / sharing Partr 3b – Allow and encourage students to co-create a knowledge stream Suggest additional materials Collaborative social bookmarking MLE WWW Approach 1
- 24. Approach 2: Offer personalised information to be included in a student’s PE Personalised RSS-feeds for individual students. Personalised event alerting. Collect thematic information streams and put together semi-personalised pre-set clusters of knowledge Readiness for PE’s (shared iGoogle tabs, public Netvibes pages, etc.) PE MLE Approach 2
- 26. Approach 3: Allow students to personalise / tailor their personal workspace within the MLE Make MLE’s open to importing personal knowledge streams (import of rss-feeds, inclusion of external widgets) Offer subscription streams to relevant information clustered by Groups Course Faculty / Theme Allow students to manage an e-portfolio in the institutional MLE. PE MLE Approach 3
- 28. OUNL’s first steps towards a PLWE Installation of a Program Board Service Development Sensibilization: workshops, presentation, colloquia Drawing up and discussing a list of student centered services Drawing up a roadmap for MLE development: Upgrading/streamlining current MLE, and in parallel Experimental piloting of new services
- 29. Experimental piloting of new services (1/4) MyOU.nl: a personal workspace with networking services
- 30. Experimental piloting of new services (2/4) Google Apps iGoogle Mail Docs Chat / Talk Agenda Sites
- 31. Experimental piloting of new services (2/4) Google Apps Calendar: push events to institutional calendars Google Docs: (realtime) online document sharing Campus Program Course Group/ collaboration Person Faculty Events Google Docs Google Calendar
- 32. Experimental piloting of new services (3/4) Stars & comments
- 33. Experimental piloting of new services (4/4) Flexible content delivery (in case eBooks) repository VLE
- 34. Thank you for your attention! Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/sverjans/ or http://tinyurl.com/lg9y8b Paper: http://hdl.handle.net/1820/1894 http://celstec.org