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Office of Learning Technologies (UOC) MY UOC.

Office of Learning Technologies (UOC) MY UOC. AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT PROVIDES CHOICES OF TOOLS AND SERVICES TO ALL September 16th, 2009. FLUID 2009. MyCampus, MyUOC. ABOUT OLT CREATING MY UOC MY UOC AT PRESENT. About OLT. OLT MISSION:. UOC ’ s Needs:.

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Office of Learning Technologies (UOC) MY UOC.

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  1. Office of Learning Technologies (UOC) MY UOC. AN ONLINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT THAT PROVIDES CHOICES OF TOOLS AND SERVICES TO ALL September 16th, 2009. FLUID 2009

  2. MyCampus, MyUOC • ABOUT OLT • CREATING MY UOC • MY UOC AT PRESENT

  3. About OLT

  4. OLT MISSION: UOC’s Needs: • to design, develop and deliver a high quality virtual environment • Multidisciplinary team • User Centered Design (UCD) approach • Open source technologies • Incorporating the affective dimension • An open sourcelearning environment • An environment that integrates versatile solutionsdesired by faculty to help enhance learning for the different subjects • A more engaging-to-all learning environment to help increase overall satisfaction and motivation to learn (Joy of Learning) • An accessible-to-all environment, anytime, anyplace Campus 5.0 also known as My UOC

  5. Creating MY UOC, The new on-line virtual platform

  6. Technical Dilemma: ? Learning Management System?

  7. Technical Dilemma: • LMS is the tip of the iceberg. • Many integration problems. • Many configurations are possible. Evolution: • product -> LMS 1st generation • framework-> LMS 2ndgeneration Today: Many tools available to be used as e-learning tools.

  8. UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: • Service Oriented Architecture in order to achieve real interoperability • Open Knowledge Initiative technology • An open source and Lego-like environmentconnected with each other Moodle Modules

  9. UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: e-learning tools OKI Bus Services Gateway Common LMS

  10. UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: Achitecture metaphor

  11. UOC’s Solutions to the technical dilemma: ... Tool 1 Tool 2 Tool 3 Tool n OKI Bus Moodle Gateway Sakai Gateway Moodle Sakai MM MM MM MM Moodle Tools Sakai Tools

  12. The Affectivity Dilemma: engaging motivating community

  13. The Affectivity Dilemma: Some engaging elements • Choices for everyone (i.e., for faculty to choose which tool is best for their subject, for students to choose how they wish to participate or communicate) • Humanizing interaction (i.e., photos, images) • Having control of what they see on their first screen - 100% “perceived” satisfaction • Innovative and “cool” elements (i.e. Mac-style menu bar) • Adding external modules allows students to bring in their lives

  14. UOC’s Solutions to the affectivity dilemma: HOMEPAGE of My UOC. Personalization through a Widget Solution: • Widget container + set of widgets • iGoogle’s standards • iGoogle’s widgets into LMS • Built in custom widgets (HTML), RSS and Twitter • (Almost) each UOC’s widget rely on RSS • Instead of 1 design for everyone we now have as many designs as number of students (47.000). One design does not fit all.

  15. MY UOC AT PRESENT

  16. FEATURES: • Keeping control over the learning model • Ability to change as we go • Personalization for both faculty and students • Flexibility and opportunities to innovate and explore new learning approaches. • Accessibility • Automatically generation of multiple formats. Versatility of Formats • For us the future in e-learning will be focused on interoperability.

  17. CHALLENGES: • Maintaining and evolving the environment • Continuing UOC's user-centered tradition integrating psychological and consumer research methods into the UCD process • Reaching out to the community so we can all evolve webservices and interoperability together

  18. Thank you for your attention!! More information at lt.uoc.edu Office of Learning Technologies UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA (UOC)

  19. About UOC: • Headquarters in Barcelona, Spain • Fully online university (BAs, MAs, PhD)‏ • Founded 15 years ago as an online university • 47.000 students, 500 f-t faculty, 2000 p-t faculty • Faculty as Mentors • Students as Teachers

  20. About UOC’s Faculty: • The online environment is their only medium to teach and motivatestudents • Their “teaching” is asynchronous • The contents they use, evolve

  21. About UOC’s Students: • There are as many typologies of students as students are in the University • They have different ages, backgrounds, experiences, needs, desires and expectations • They are “on” 24/7 • They are active participants in the learning process • They are overwhelmed with information

  22. UOC’s Solutions to the affectivity dilemma: Drag & drop widgets Select a background Choose, choose, choose Change color of widget Delete what you don’t like Easily create your own widgets Personalize, customize Bring external widgets (i.e. Gmail, RSS…) Endless opportunities Select visualization type (# items, etc.)

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