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…