ACCU 2010

CLAROLINE educational evolution tools in a context of

distance training

Michel Gendron Université du Québec à Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Annual Conference of Claroline Users (ACCU).

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Plan of the communication

• CLAROLINE UQAR • Educational dimension of the current tools • Suggestions of modifications to be brought to

CLAROLINE basic tools

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• Number of courses on the platform

• Dropped contents (in terms of number of documents, exercises, etc.)

• Number of utilized tools

• Number of developed pedagogical applications

We notice an increase of :

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Total: 510 sites of courses and 92 other sites

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Academic session Number of courses on CLAROLINE UQAR

Autumn 2006 377

Autumn 2007 448

Autumn 2008 480

Autumn 2009 547

Winter 2007 375

Winter 2008 379

Winter 2009 464

Winter 2010 510

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• Student associations

• Library

• Help center for students

• Departments

• Groups of research

• Modules

• Service to students

• Training courses and jobs

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• Announcements • Chat• Documents and links• Group• Exercices• Forums• Learning path• Assignment

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Profile

Addition of the photo

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Announcements – Pedagogical dimension

• a message indicating that a document is added in the site (Reading to be made for the following lesson)

• instructions for a work• a reminder for the preparation for an examination• a message of motivation• Etc.

Reminder : With the tool announcements, the lecturers can display current information to the students and attract their attention to it. For example, the lecturer can remind an approaching deadline, point out new documents online or communicate about an interesting conference. Reminders result from the site www.claroline.net).

Allows the sending of :

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Suggestion for tool modification Announcements

Announcement to selected users : add the pictures of the students.

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Suggestion for tool modification Announcements

• My profile : email address of university would not be modifiable.• The announcement will then go in UQAR mailbox.

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Chat – Pedagogical dimension

• a direct contact in writing with the students.• a discussion which can be saved or read back.

Allows the sending of:

Reminder : Tool of on-line conversation

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Suggestion for tool modification chat

Add the photograph

La date limite est le 25 février à 23 h 59

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Suggestion for tool modification chat

Allow to pass to an audio discussion quickly.

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Documents and links – Pedagogical dimension

• a fast transmission of documents and relevant links, at any time.

Allows the sending of :

Reminder : This tool provides a comprehensive mechanism for organising files (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, PDF, video, audio, etc.) and links that a teacher would like to make available to the students. It is possible to make many directories, and to have directories within directories to enable grouping of files.

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Suggestion for tool modification Documents and links

• Faster traffic (circulation) of a document (or link) in the other one.

• Solution: allow to attend the course under the shape of a plan.

• As opposed to the pedagogical path, circulation would be possible through the content of the tool « Documents and links ».

• Useful to find an information rapidly or to have on overview of a module.

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Activités module 1

Consultez le plan de cours pour connaître les consignes au sujet de la présentation des travaux.

Module 1Vous débutez ce module en créant un portfolio numérique. Vous ferez par ailleurs un bilan de vos compétences. Par la suite, on vous proposera différents exercices pratiques qui seront effectués dans des logiciels variés.

Finalement, vous ferez une réflexion pédagogique portant sur l'utilisation de logiciels dans votre enseignement.

Présentation Power Point

Créez un diaporama qui contiendra dix diapositives. Vous devez présenter une notion (règle, explication, etc.) à des élèves.

Je devrai retrouver, au minimum:

•Deux textes animés (titre, paragraphe…) (animation dans PowerPoint);

•Une animation d'une image (animation dans PowerPoint);

•Une image de la bibliothèque ;

•2 images d'Internet dont une animée;

•Lien externe (vers un site Internet pertinent);

•Une forme automatique;

Module 2 : Scénario pédagogique : utilisation pédagogique de logiciels et de sites Internet éducatifs

Vous remettez ce module dans un seul document Word que vous nommerez votre nom de famille, votre prénom, module 2 SCE10102. Vous devez entrer tout ce que vous allez réaliser (toutes les activités) dans ce fichier.

Dans ce module, il y a de nombreuses recherches

à effectuer sur Internet.

Activité 2-1 Grille d’évaluation de logiciels

éducatifs et de sites Web éducatifs

Cette activité est sommative. Elle est à remettre

dans le portfolio.

À l’aide du réseau Internet, vous devez trouver une

grille d’évaluation de logiciels éducatifs et une

grille d’évaluation de sites Web éducatifs.

Grille d’évaluation de logiciels éducatifs

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Groups – Pedagogical dimension

• The sharing of documents (eg work, search(research), etc.) between the students.

• The exchanges in the forum and the tool discussion of the group.

Allows the sending of :

Reminder : This tool allows course managers to compose sub groups of students from all of the students enrolled in the course. Each group gets its own space and tools reserved for its subselection.

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Suggestion for tool modification Groups

Addition of the picture at the time of the creation of the group.

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The members of the group see photographs.

Suggestion for tool modification Groups

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Exercises – Pedagogical dimension

• The creation of exercises for the beginning of trimestre (level of the students) or before an examination.

• The questions can present an image, a video, an audio sequence, etc.

Allows the sending of :

Reminder : This tool allows you to create online exercises composed of a list of questions. The questions can be of different kinds.

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Suggestion for tool modification Exercises

When all the exercises are succeed , the link " My certificate " appears in the site ( student point of view ).

Mon attestation

Attestation

En tant que responsable du cours SCE10102, j’atteste que vous avez réussi tous les exercices de ce cours sur CLAROLINE.

Michel Gendron

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Suggestion for tool modification Exercices

Get the tool exercises as a clicker. Wireless Internet - laptop.

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Suggestion for tool modification Exercises

All the students answered the questions (tool exercises). Then, the professor clicks “Statistics”!

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Suggestion for tool modification Exercises

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Forums– Pedagogical dimension

• An exchange in writing between the courses.• The suggestion of themes of discussion by the

professor or the student.• To answer a question put by a student, only once.

Allows the sending of :

Reminder : The forums tool allows people to post ideas, opinions, and information in an organized way about the course. Posts are organized in a way that makes it easy for people to find the information they are interested in, but without having to wade through unrelated information.

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Suggestion for tool modification Forums

Add the picture of the person who makes an intervention in a forum.

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Message traité X

Message traité

Suggestion for tool modification Forums

Allow a user to indicate that a message was treated.

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CompilatioCompilatio : Propose solutions of analysis of numeric documents to prevent the plagiarism on Internet.Use this tool in CLAROLINE by clicking Compilatio (in assignment).

Compilatio

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The learning path – Pedagogical dimension

• The creation of linear courses.Allows the sending of :

Reminder : The learning path tool of Claroline allows you to create a complete sequence of learning steps or activities that your learners can follow. The main idea is that you can suggest (or force) your students to read some documents, pass exercises or follow any learning activity that you created yourself in a determined sequence (called « learning path »). For more efficiency, you can structure your learning path in "chapters" or "weeks" for example.

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Suggestion for tool modification The learning path

Add the possibility of creating non-linear courses. Take into account the result to direct the student to an adapted learning path.

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Suggestion for tool modification The learning path

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Suggestion for tool modification The learning path

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Suggestion for tool modification The learning path

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• Allow the professor to transfer a contents (documents, exercises, educational courses) created in a course towards other one of his courses.

• Professors' team develops a contents in a site of course (courses). Afterward, one of the members of the team could transfer the contents or a part of it towards one of his courses.

• Possibility of using Netquiz (allows to build exercises or tests) in the learning path.

• Every student could create a portfolio inside a course or several courses for the same trimestre.

• Creation or import of mind map in CLAROLINE.

Other ideas…

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• Allow the creation of an audio capsule ( Podcast), or video by the professor, inside Claroline. The student could download this capsule directly in Documents and links or by means of a thread RSS.

• Be able to use collaborative tools (as SharePoint).

• Exercise: have a meter to show the time (useful for an examination).

• Improve Wiki (as the version of SharePoint on 2010): it would be so easy to integrate videos and images inside (as a word processor).

Other ideas…

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