iCamp portfolio of e-learning systems and tools

Co-financed by the European Union

ICAMP PORTFOLIO OF INTEGRATED OPEN

SOURCE E-LEARNING TOOLS AND SYSTEMS

Terje VäljatagaTampere Univ. of Technology, Finland

Mart Laanpere, Mauri KaipainenTallinn Unviersity, Estonia

E-learning landscapes

• Metaphor: learning as journey, packaged tours vs backpackers

• Increasingly heterogeneous landscapes of e-learning systems and tools: mix of institutional, personal, social

• Who will make decisions about selecting the tools, and on what basis?

FP6 IST project iCamp

Objectives: • Pedagogical models• Portfolio of iCampSpace

building blocks• Integrating the building

blocks (interoperability)• Validation trials

Distributed VLE for European higher education, consisting of interoperable open-source systems and tools

Pedagogical model

• Formal higher education setting in Europe 25+

• Focusing on e-learning competencies that are not domain-specific

• Three main areas of challenge: – Scaffolding towards self-directed learning– Cross-cultural collaboration– Social networking

Learning affordances

• Activity system (Engeström, Kuutti)

• Learning Activity Patterns: subjects, artefacts, tools, events

• Affordances: from Gibson to Norman

• Learning affordances of e-learning systems and tools, based on LAP:– Search, retrieval, presentation– Communication– Knowledge creation

iCampFolio

• Web-based selector tool: Java + Plone• Multidimensional Scaling analysis• Soft Ontology: personal perspectives• Set of open-source systems and tools:

– LMS: Moodle, .LRN, IVA…– LOR: EducaNext, SCAM, MINOR, Dspace…– CMS: Plone, Drupal, Joomla…– Publishing: WordPress, Xowiki…– Communication: Gizmo, Vlog, OpenWengo…– Conferencing*: Flashmeeting, Isabel, ViPS…

Welcome to iCamp!

Project’s Web site: www.icamp.euiCampFolio: www.htk.tlu.ee/icamp