Ple icl 2012

Ubiquitous Personal Learning Environment

(UPLE)

Behnam Taraghi

Donnerstag, 27. September 12


http://www.flickr.com/photos/sovietuk/141381675

uLearning = {u-Environment, u-Contents, u-Behaviour, u-Interface, u-Service}




What is a PLE ?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884

According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ...

where content is reused and remixed




http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884

According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ...

according to the student‘s own needs and interests




Why we need a PLE ?


http://www.flickr.com/photos/toru_okada/1377360600

University a closed castle?


http://flickr.com/photos/ben30/160708916/


http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/file/view/swl_ple2.gif (Scott Leslie, PLE Diagram)

But how can we integrate the WWW ...




http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghz/407109888/

and combine it with university‘s services?




The general concept


Technological concept


MashUp Principle - Use of Widgets

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/mashup_2/




Comparable to iGoogle


First Design


Former Workflow

WidgetZone

Dashboard FullScreen

Widget Zoom

Mashup of Widgets


Usability Tests

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rdolishny/2760207306




Personalization in foreground

E.g. own desktop background image, look & feel etc.Different UI structures & themesTotal control of own environment is desired!

Resemblance btw. Real and virtual world

More than one Personal Desktop vs. An unlimited DesktopFree widget arrangement on UIFlexible widget dimensionsDrag & Drop effects vs. simple clicksSharing, collaboration, networking

Ubiquitous PLE

Mobile and desktop views


PLE Concept (What)

Unknown to all test users

PLE Workflow (How)

Not easy to get started withDue to unfamiliar conceptIntroduction, tutorials for novel users strongly recommended

PLE Competences

Self-organizationSelf-cognition….

A Change from Teacher-Controlled to Coaching needed!


http://bentleygsa.org/gmo/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/photo.png

New Conceptual Design: App-like GUI




Text

Main new GUI Elements:Spaces (Personal Desktops)

Space ManagementWidget Store

SettingsDonnerstag, 27. September 12

Space Management


Widget Store


„Slideshare“ Widget (full sized view)


Inter-Widget CommunicatiounCMS widget <=> Exam Planer widget


Inter-Widget CommunicatiounArticle Reader widget <=> Vocabulary Book widget


Mac OS X Dashboard WidgetsWindows 7 Desktop Gadgets

Die Welt der WidgetsEin wichtiger Schritt zur personalisierten Lernumgebung

Ebner M., Taraghi B., Altmann T.

http://www.tugraz.athttp://www.zid.tugraz.athttp://elearning.tugraz.athttp://ple.tugraz.athttp://elearningblog.tugraz.at

Abt. Vernetztes LernenTechnische Universität GrazA-8010 Graz - Steyrergasse 30/ITel: +43 316 873 8540Email: [email protected]

Personal Learning Environment - Graz University of Technology

Next Steps towards Ubiquitousness

Mobile PLENative AppsUbiquitous PLE Desktop widgets


PLE Mobile start page and space view


PLE Mobile widget store


PLE Mobile widget Geolines


PLE widget as native app (widget Calculator)

http://phonegap.com


http://phonegap.com

http://phonegap.com

PLE widget as desktop widgets (widget Hangman)

http://phonegap.com

!


Summary after second launch

- ... more than 4000 registered users

- ... about 30% of active users

- ... observed more activity, resemblance to mobile apps

- ... learners classify their widgets using spaces

- ... widgets can send notifications

- ... Inter-Widget communication actively used.


Top most used widgets out of 75 totally

- consist of university services:- Zid news (>2000), TUGMail (>1000), TUG online (>1000),

Exam planer (>200), TeachCenter (>1000), TUGraz Newsgroups (>1000)

- further top most used 10 widgets- Weather forecast (>200), Culture calendar of Graz (>200),

Google Maps (>200), Widget Development Guide (>100)- following

- dict.leo.org, dict.cc, TU Graz calendar, Facebook- most used widgets vs. most installed widgets- known services are installed mostly- widgets can be embedded now in any environment- PLE statistics are public NOW via a twitter channel

@PLETUGraz


http://www.flickr.com/photos/supersonic_look/1307679752

Recommendation

Integration of more Learning Objects (LO)

Learning Scenarios

Future

Shared PLECollaborative Learning




Graz University of Technology

SOCIAL LEARNINGComputer and Information Services


Behnam Taraghi

http://elearning.tugraz.at

TU Graz Personal Learning Environment

https://my.tugraz.at

Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at

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