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Ian Dolphin - Executive Director - [email protected]
Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Apereo Africa - March 2016
What’s next for Apereo?
Agenda
Apereo: where we are, and how we got there …
An open platform for learning analytics
A Next Generation Digital Learning Environment?
Priorities
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– Apereo Mission
“…to help educational organizations collaborate to foster, develop, and sustain open technologies and innovation to support learning, teaching, and research.”
– The Apereo Foundation is a non-profit [501(c)(3)] registered in New Jersey
Why Open-Source?
Suitability
Cost
Control
Collaborate to innovate
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} ‘Courant Report’
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1 Software and Collaboration in Higher Education - A Study of Open Source Software www.campussource.de/opensource/docs/OOSS_Report.pdf
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Apereo: what we do …… for our software communities & communities of interest
1. Licensing and management of intellectual property
2. Technical & community infrastructure; events, lists etc.
3. Programs; Fellows, Teaching Innovation Awards
4. Banking, Accounting, Administration
5. Incubation; helping develop new communities
Deliberately minimal - we want to save edu money, not remove it!5
Apereo Foundation
Non-profit entity - 501.c.3 (New Jersey)
Membership organization.
Elected Board of Directors (+ small number of appointees)
Around 80 higher ed and commercial members worldwideClose partnership with ESUP-Portail in France. 150 Total.
Constituent communities have significant autonomy- devolve decision making to those closest to the problem
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How we see ourselves …
Series of interrelated communities Key component of a broader network
… part of an answer, not the answer
Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Software Communities
Bedework CAS Karuta Opencast Open Academic Environment Sakai Student Success Plan UniTime uPortal/uMobile Xerte EDexchange POET Learning Analytics Processor OpenDashboard OpenLRS Tsugi Framework
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Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Communities of InterestPurpose Teaching & Learning ePortfolio Learning Analytics
Software Development Internationalisation Accessibility Security Licensing
Geographical South Africa Netherlands Japan Spain (Europe)
Sectoral K12 Federation
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AnalyticsEmerging and complex area of research
Analysing historical aggregate data to identify potential failure/success
Distinction:
Academic Analytics: system or organisation wide data
Learner/ing Analytics: Actionable data about individuals
Needs much greater faculty engagement 10
Continuum
Prediction for intervention - Retention
Prediction for Learning pathways
Present Future
Apereo Learning Analytics Initiative - An Open Learning Analytics Platform
Collection – Standards-based data capture from any potential source using Experience API and/or IMS Caliper/Sensor API
Storage – Single repository for all learning-related data using Learning Record Store (LRS) standard.
Analysis – Flexible Learning Analytics Processor (LAP) that can handle data mining, data processing (ETL), predictive model scoring and reporting.
Communication – Dashboard technology for displaying LAP output.
Action – LAP output can be fed into other systems to trigger alerts, etc.
Learning Record
Storage
Summary and ResultsCommunication
Analysis ResultsAction
Learning Data
Analysis
Learning Activities Collection
Admin Systems
xAPI [Caliper]OpenLRS
LAPOpenDashboard
SSP + Systemsn
LMS/VLE Library?
Academic Video? OER? xAPI
[Caliper]
Financial Aid
Why a platform-based approach?
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Commercial-Proprietary Landscape
Vendors are building capability into products …
…Which then become “the solution”
Closed and proprietary
Products such as the VLE/LMS and SIS don’t “own” analytics
Data required from across education landscape
Library systems, media players…
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Open Platform
Neutral place to gather data
Flexibility and choice for adopters
Jisc Learner Record Store example
Openness enables shared experience, understanding
Open source software, open standards, open algorithms
The future: analytics and learning systems
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Learning Analytics Initiative
Community of interest
Open calls, events, hackathons, dissemination
Open Source Software communities around components
Apereo Incubation Process
Partnership with SoLAR
Adoption: Jisc
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Educause Learning Initiative: Next Generation Digital Learning
Environment
https://www.educause.edu/library/resources/next-generation-digital-learning-environment-ngdle
http://tinyurl.com/hxrtzpp
18"Blind monks examining an elephant", an ukiyo-e print by Hanabusa Itchō
Reality Check
LMS Success
99% US Institutions have at least 1 LMS
85% of Faculty use it
74% say it is a useful tool
83% of students use it
41% Faculty - promote out of classroom activity
15% of institutions plan to change it in 3 yrs 19
Why the Challenge to the LMS
Course-centred
Teacher-centred
Inflexible. Tends to be “one size fits all”.
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Replacement?Key areas from the Educause panel discussions -
Interoperability as a key enabler
Analytics, assessment and advising (LMS largest source of analytics data)
Personalisation
Accessibility (not as an add-on, but designed in)
Different forms of collaboration - not simply “courses”
Participant: NGDLE will include LMS, but go beyond it 21
BUT: Conversation reflecting silos
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Small point about empowerment: Personalisation and Customization
Learning and teaching, or holistic view of academic practice. What about research? (“Research informed teaching” anyone?)
What constitutes learning technology?
Library and electronic resource integration
Collaboration outside the institution/ between institutions
How might we realise the vision?
Technology: I don’t have to channel Dr Chuck, because he’s here …
LTI, tool interoperabilityApp store interoperability
Don’t think of this as a single application
And I’ll leave Dr Chuck to say more about that…
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Critical Role of Open Source
• Keeping market honest. An alternative.
• Interoperability: demonstrators and reference models for open standards
• Will the commercial-proprietary vendors unlock their environments?
• History of LTI
Communities sustain open source
Diverse communities innovate…
• [book covers]
Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Software Communities
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Bedework CAS Karuta Opencast Open Academic Environment Sakai Student Success Plan UniTime uPortal/uMobile Xerte EDexchange POET Learning Analytics Processor OpenDashboard OpenLRS Tsugi Framework
Francisco Osorio - Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/francisco_osorio/ - Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)
Communities of InterestPurpose Teaching & Learning ePortfolio Learning Analytics
Software Development Internationalization Accessibility Security Licensing
Geographical South Africa Netherlands Japan Spain (Europe)
Sectoral K12 Federation
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We are not building a suite
Priorities
Encourage community inter-connection and dialogue
That takes resource. Ultimately funding.
We persuade. We do not mandate. We are not a “top down” organisation.
Membership is one way of contributing.
And there’ll be a focus on this topic at …
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