Beyond the LMS: OER, PLE and Digital Learning EcosystemsMart Laanpere :: head of the Centre for Educational Technology, Tallinn University, Estonia

A Webinar by OER Sverige, 16 October 2013 :: http://oersverige.se/beyond-the-lms

E-learning strategies in Estonia

Tiger Leapstrategy

Tiger Leap +strategy

1997

Learning Tiger strategy

2003 20062000

E-universityconsortium

2009

LLL strategy2014-2020

2014

Computerisation,internet

ICT integration,competencies

E-learning, OER,ICT innovation

1:1 computing,E-textbooks,Pilot schools

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DUCA

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First e-coursesin WebCT

E-voc.schoolconsortium

ESF-funded programs: OER, e-courses, staff training

FITE strategy

Digital competencesinfrastructure, resources

Institutions consolidated to FITE in 2013

Tiger Leap Foundation (1997-2013, www.tiigrihype.ee): Tiger Trainers, courses, regional training centres Grants: ICT innovation, research, OER, software, portal, repository Programmes: robotics, science, handicraft, animation, coding

EENet.ee (NREN): ISP, virtual hosting (Wordpress, Mediawiki, Joomla, Moodle, Limesurvey, CMSimple, HTML)

Estonian IT Foundation (www.e-ope.ee): Consortia: E-university, E-vocschool Conferences, staff training, newsletters, networking, support Large-scale ESF-funded programmes: OER, repository, LMS hosting

LMS and OER in Estonia WebCT: since 1997 in UT & TLU, national license 2003-2009

VIKO (since 2001, built by CET): 70 schools

IVA (2003-14, built by CET): 28 schools & colleges, 4800 courses

Moodle: One central/national instance: 98 000 users, 5900 courses Tartu University institutional instance: 25 243 users, 2250 courses School instances hosted by EENet HaViKe service

Blogs & wikis: around 1% of teachers use, primary teachers lead

OER repositories: koolielu.ee, www.e-ope.ee/repositoorium

Discussion Where do you keep the largest amount of your self-

developed digital learning resources? Inside LMS (e.g. Moodle) In the institutional repository In the national repository In a global OER repository Scattered around in social media, services etc Elsewhere (specify in chat) I have not developed any digital learning resources

Geels 2002

Mobile communication generations

Moodle servers: global stats

Three generations of TEL systems

Dimension 1.generation 2.generation 3.generation

Software architecture

Educational software Course management systems

Digital Learning Ecosystems

Pedagogical foundation

Bihaviorism Cognitivism Knowledge building, connectivism

Content management

Integrated with code Learning Objects, content packages

Mash-up, remixed, user-generated

Dominant affordances

E-textbook, drill & practice, tests

Sharing LO’s, forum discussions, quiz

Reflections, collab. production, design

Access Computer lab in school

Home computer Everywhere – thanks to mobile devices

Dialectics of TEL system evolution

THESIS: mainstream TEL systems today are LMS (e.g. Moodle)

ANTITHESIS: innovators among academic staff are radically opposing LMS and propose using PLE and social media instead

SYNTHESIS: new quality, taking the best from both worlds. Digital Learning Ecosystem?

Discussion What do you think about claimed generation shift in

TEL systems? There will be no changes, LMS will stay mainstream LMS will change and improve PLE will replace LMS New type of TEL systems will emerge Digital Learning Ecosystems will replace LMS Other (specify in chat)

Digital Learning Ecosystem Ecosystem (biol.) is a community of living organisms

(plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (e.g. air, water, light and soil), interacting as a system. Nutricion cycle, energy flow, self-regulation

DLE is an adaptive socio-technical system consisting of mutually interacting digital agents (tools, services, content used in learning process) and communities of users (learners, facilitators, trainers, developers) together with their social, economical and cultural environment.

Dippler as DLE Core services (digital specimen): BackOffice (BOS wsdl), Wordpress as

PLE, Learning Object Repository, online testing service Questr, institutional client, mobile clients

Secondary services: social media (SlideShare, YouTube), identity management (to come: concept mapping, 6 thinking hats)

User communities: learners, facilitators, administrative staff, software developers

Adaptive: institutions and users can expand and adapt the ecosystem

Self-regulation: users can change affiliation, design learning paths

Learning analytics: annotating with domain-specific categories

Software implementation

Conclusion LMS and OER in Estonia: consolidation vs institutionalisation

Conceptual framework for Digital Learning Ecosystems as the next-generation TEL systems

Illustrated by a case study: design and development of Dippler (Distributed Portfolio-based Personal Learning Ecosystem)

The next steps: enhancing adaptivity and self-regulation of Dippler DLE, pedagogical model, advanced learning analytics

How well does the ecosystem metaphor work for you? It is confusing, does not help I prefer to use familiar vocabulary (LMS, PLE) I like it, DLE captures the main idea of generation

shift beyond LMS I have to think about it