The Future of eLearning with Valamis

ICT innoveert Onderwijs, 9.4.2014 Jari Järvelä

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•  Background  •  What  is  Valamis?  •  Valamis  design  goals  •  Future  predic8ons  of  eLearning  for  2014  •  Valamis  and  LMS  differences  

Agenda  

•  eLearning  professional  since  2000  •  Experience  on  eLearning  solu8ons  for  different  learning  needs  and  organisa8ons  

•  Moodle  Cer8fied  Teacher  •  eLearning  plaGorms  used:  

– Moodle,  Blackboard,  WebCT  8mes,  Op8ma,  R5  Genera8on,  Liferay  and  Valamis  

•  Valamis  designer  since  2010  

My Background  

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Background    of  Valamis  

LMS´S BECAME MASSIVE

LMS´S ARE GENERIC ACROSS ORGANISATIONS

NEED FOR NEW APPROACHES FOR ELEARNING

Valamis is a easy to use learning environment on Liferay platform. Combination of LMS with collaborative portal-platform provides out-of-the-box experience for social learning and collaboration. Liferay and Valamis are commercial open source, where the software is free and support is subscription based. Valamis has been used to create scalable Liferay learning environments for large enterprises. Official Valamis pages can be found from: www.valamislearning.com

•  Development  started  in  March  2010  

•  Commercial  open  source  •  First  official  release  in  June  

2013  •  Available  from  Liferay  

Marketplace  •  Total  installa8ons:  2135  •  Liferay  Marketplace  App  

Contest  2013  winner  •  Backed  up  with  a  Valamis  

Partnership  program  

Valamis facts  

The  name  ”Valamis”  comes  from  Eastern  Finland  dialect  meaning  ”completed/ready/done”  

Valamis development goals  

ENTERPRISE GRADE TECHNOLOGY

ADVANCE ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT

TO PROVIDE RICH LEARNING EXPERIENCES

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Top 9 eLearning predictions for 2014  

•  Mobile  Learning  •  Social  learning  and  informal  learning  •  Gamifica8on  and  Game  based  learning  •  HTML  5  •  Rapid  eLearning  development  tools  •  Responsive  eLearning  Design  •  TinCan  API/Experience  Api  •  Learning  analy8cs  •  Video  Based  learning  

Top 9 eLearning predictions for 2014  

Source:  eLearning  industry.  The  Top  9  e-­‐Learning  predic=ons  for  2014.  hCp://elearningindustry.com/top-­‐9-­‐e-­‐learning-­‐predic=ons-­‐for-­‐2014  

Mobility  

Liferay  Sync  Out-­‐of-­‐the-­‐box  responsivity  &  mobile  preview  

Social learning and informal learning  

Top 9 eLearning predictions for 2014  

Tin Can API/Experience API  

Learning analytics  

Social  analy8cs  of  Liferay  

Video based learning  

Liferay  Sync  

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