The future of virtual learning environments:
Beyond Chamilo 2 Prof. dr. Frederik QuestierVrije Universiteit Brussel
Research and Innovation DirectorChamilo Association
Chamilo User Day, 28/03/2011, Brussels
This presentation can be found athttp://questier.com
http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier
Future?
No Future?
My Personal Learning Environment
My teaching environment???
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The best wayto predict the future
is to invent it.
Alan Kay, 1971
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Does your VLE look like thisto the outside world?
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Closed?
➢ The few good reasons for closing an LMS,
are probably the reasons why the LMS is
not dead yet...
➢ Copyright exemptions for education➢ Privacy
➢ for minors➢ for making mistakes➢ for teachers?
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But all the rest should be open!
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Open
➢ Open Source➢ Open Standards➢ Open Courseware➢ (OpenID)
➢ Sharing students and teachers between VLEs➢ + Portability
➢ Enable instutional collaboration
➢ (Open Framework)➢ Sharing apps between VLEs
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These generic repositories in Chamilo 2.0 are nice
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Specialized learning object repositories are nicer!
S. Ternier et al., Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn Query Language, D-Lib Magazine, 2008, Volume 14 Number 1/2, doi:10.1045/january2008-ceri
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Let's avoid the empty box feeling!
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But content is no longer king!
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What is good learning?
Jonassen's Model for (constructive) learning environments
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Learning Analytics
Gephi export,
learning interactions,
R. Carlos, F. Questier
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We all can learn fromLearning Analytics!
➢ The Learning Analytics Cycle, by Doug Clow, http://dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/
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Mobile learning !
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Intelligent wizards
➢ Hello Professor,
Soon your course about Learnometrics starts again. Since last time I found 16 new relevant learning objects created or recommended by your peers. Do you want to review them now?
Your Chamilo wizard
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Feedback, rating
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Social bookmarking,tagging, highlighting, annotating, …
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LMS, VLE → PLE
LCMS → Knowledge Management
Management → Fostering
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Maybe the LMS will be deadwhen we are all cyborgs...
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… till then Chamilo's futurewill be a community effort!
Additional copyright acknowledgements
➢ “Sorry. We're closed” CC-by-nc by Tommaso Galli➢ OPEN, CC-by-nc-sa by Tom Magliery➢ Empty box, CC-by-nc-nd by Mike Bitzenhofer➢ The Learning Analytics Cycle, by Doug Clow
➢ http://dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/➢ Screenshota http://www.chamilo.org/➢ The snowflake effect, CC-by-nc-sa by Erik Duval➢ Cyborg, CC-by-nc-sa by Lainy Voom/LISP➢ Social Network CC-by by Frederik Questier
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Active/Manipulative - Collaborative - Complex - Constructive - Contextualized - Conversational - Intentional - Reflective
Questions? Comments?Questions? Comments?Gracias!Gracias!
See also http://questier.com