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PILOTING SAKAI IN A MASTER COURSE: DOES IT REALLY WORK?

PILOTING SAKAI IN A MASTER COURSE: DOES IT REALLY WORK?. Dr. Allard Strijker University of Twente, The Netherlands SAKAI CONFERENCE, ATLANTA 5-8 DECEMBER 2006. Overview of the presentation. Personal Background Organization Pilot Expectations Master program Course setup Conclusions.

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PILOTING SAKAI IN A MASTER COURSE: DOES IT REALLY WORK?

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  1. PILOTING SAKAI IN A MASTER COURSE: DOES IT REALLY WORK? Dr. Allard StrijkerUniversity of Twente, The NetherlandsSAKAI CONFERENCE, ATLANTA 5-8 DECEMBER 2006

  2. Overview of the presentation • Personal Background • Organization • Pilot • Expectations • Master program • Course setup • Conclusions

  3. Personal Background • Educational designer / Teacher • Started in 1997 developer Teletop Course Management System • From 2000 focus on research: • Standards for educational technology • Reuse of learning material • Interoperability

  4. University of Twente Campus

  5. Profile of the university • Founded in 1961 • Research University • Entrepreneurial Research University • First (and only) Dutch campus university • Focus on technological developments and their management in the knowledge society

  6. Education • 5 Faculties • 23 Bachelor programmes • 31 Master programmes • Bachelor & Master students: 7357 • PhD’s: 703 • International students: 344 • International PhD’s: 285

  7. Personnel in numbers

  8. Campus Facilities • High speed network (UT) • Wifi on whole campus (largest hotspot in Europe; > 650 AP’s on site + 14 AP’s in Enschede City) • Labs • High pressure • Virtual Reality • Cleanroom • MultifunctionalEducation facilities • Etc.

  9. History – Choice for a CMS Blackboard, eCollege, Moodle, N@tschool aTutor, ANGEL, .LRN, LAMS Sakai, Croquet, WebCT

  10. Teletop Course Environment

  11. What was going on? (1) • 1997: Initial development of TeleTOP in Department of Educational Technology • 2000-now: large-scale use of TeleTOP in all departments • Incl. new, richer releases • 2003: commercial spin-off: TeleTOP BV • 2003: first student portal (developed by students!)

  12. A little bit of history (2) • 2004: lots of activities • open standards (IMS) are emerging, as well as the SCORM; we deliver a discussion paper • we move more and more to J2EE for webapps • students complaints grow and grow (lack of integration, information is out-of-date, inreliable and sometimes not findable) • UT Policy = Campus Blend: all programmes will have f2f and online components (in different mixes)

  13. Pilot - Reasons • With start of Teletop a evaluation period of 4 years was set. • Conclusion of evaluation report made clear a desire for • a services oriented approach • the use of portals • the use of open standards • tailored environment • New educational approaches

  14. Pilot in Master program • Master track Telematics Applications Education and Training (TAET). • Twelve students • Ten weeks runtime • Study load of 140 Hours / 5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System)

  15. Expectations • The best of 10 year CMS experience • High standard of ease of use, web 20 • Educational support • Mobile access • Complete integration of educational standards • Interoperability • Import • Export • Efficient • Effective • Reuse possibilities

  16. Initial Course Setup • Collaborative work on Wiki • Based on TAET Competences and course topics • Problem – Not experienced enough in use of Wiki. • I was unable to track all individual contributions to grade

  17. Final Course Setup • Scientific report as result • 4 assignments • Teacher feedback after first two assignments • Peer review after third assignment • Presentation in last lecture

  18. SAKAI Environment • Project site • Blend of • Classroom sessions • Lectures • Workshops • Student presentations • Resources • publishing course materials • articles • assignments and managing the meetings and doing the assignments

  19. Sakai Course environment

  20. Problems • Inconsistency in buttons, views, functions • A lot of clicking • Relation Assignments, Announcements, Schedule was not clear • Menu behavior was problematic • Students could not always use drop box • Alternative use of email, feedback problems • Students could not find resources

  21. Schedule overview

  22. Schedule event edit

  23. Schedule II

  24. Sakai - Resources

  25. Assignments overview

  26. Sakai - Assignments

  27. Sakai - Assignments

  28. Sakai - Dropbox

  29. Unaddressed Expectations • No real collaboration possibilities • No educational support • No mobile support • No interoperability possibilities • Import • Export • No export possibilities based • Yet 

  30. Conclusion • The basic functionalities work • But in my opinion not for a large audiences • Disappointed • Inconsistency • Interface problems • Menu behavior • Unclear relations between functions such as schedule, announcements, assignments, resources • Technical issues, access students drop box • Inefficient, A lot of clicking

  31. Solutions • Handbook for interface use • Functions • Views • Button names • Good examples • Mac OS • Windows

  32. Thank you! • Questions? • Contact: • Dr. Allard Strijker • A.strijker@utwente.nl • http://users.gw.utwente.nl/strijker

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