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