1. Use of web annotation in an open education environment
José Manuel Rivera López
Product Manager [jrivera@uoc.edu]
Gladys Chacartegui
Project Manager [gchacartegui@uoc.edu]
Learning Technologies Office [http://myway.blogs.uoc.edu]
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) [http://www.uoc.edu]
UOC OCW: [http://ocw.uoc.edu]

2. Introduction 01
Annotation Use Cases 02
Impact in Open Course Ware 03
Evaluated Tools 04
UOCLet 05
New Developments 06
Questions 07

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Introduction 01
UOC
Online institution
Founded in 1995. More than 45.000 students
Headquarters in Barcelona (Spain)
20 graduate and undergraduate degrees in catalan, spanish and
english
Our students: people from 25 to 40 years old; second degrees
& Masters; work and study simultaneously
Continuous evaluation
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Introduction 01
Students receive their text books before the
beginning of the classes
Our students use paper at home and web for
searching
Six different output formats: pdf, HTML, audio,
video, mobipocket and epub
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Annotation Use Cases 02
1 Arrange mistakes
2 Document classification
3 Transcode content
4 Ask questions into the context
5 Help active readers
6 Elaborate collaborative knowledge
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Impact in Open Course Ware 03
Collaborative knowledge allowing a group of people to work
together over the same web page.
Notes, Questions & Answers in context, everytime, everywhere.
Build a personal learning network.
Focus on the main learning issues of a particular subject.
Not just open content, but offer a tool to adapt it to your necessities
and enhance the learning experience.
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Evaluated Tools 04
Diigo
*Teachers of “Introduction to mathematics” invited
students to use the tool as the only way to ask questions
related to the learning content, instead of forums.
*They just install it, not after some efforts, and keep
sending questions to forums as previously.
Wise advices:
*Installation is a painful and unnatural process, the tool
has to be part of the learning material itself
*The tool has to be introduced to students at the very
beginning of the course.
*Two different logons
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UOCLet 05
Connected to the Virtual Campus, sharing users and
passwords.
Allow users to distinguish between the annotations of a
teacher and a classmate.
To operate on any web browser and web page
To allow users to add annotations and comments. All they
will appear together in a summary page.
To assist instructors in their educational tasks through
specific resources, like a help page.
Javascript + PHP and a database connected to the Virtual
Campus
Client is a library in javascript that is injected into the web
page currently showed in the browser
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UOCLet 05
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UOCLet 05
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UOCLet 05
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UOCLet 05
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UOCLet 05
Limited to a few students
Main uses: Ask questions and arrange mistakes.
Similar number of questions sent to forum.
Students have a good impression, but: time and
how to use it?
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New Developments 06
Main goal:
Reduce the workload of teachers & Facilitate the use to students
*No Installation
*Integrated into the Web Material
*Fewer clics
*More adaptation to use cases found
*More attractive and intutive interface
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Questions? 07
José Manuel Rivera López
Product Manager
jrivera@uoc.edu
Gladys Chacartegui
Project Manager
gchacartegui@uoc.edu
Learning Technologies Office
http://myway.blogs.uoc.edu
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
http://www.uoc.edu
UOC OCW
http://ocw.uoc.edu
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