1. MergingLearning Management Systems and Personal LearningEnvironments Miguel Ángel Conde (mconde@usal.es) Francisco J. García (fgarcia@usal.es) María J. Casany (mjcasany@lsi.upc.edu) Marc Alier (marc.alier@upc.edu)

2. Outline Introduction Integration tendencies Integration approach Conclusions GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

3. Outline Introduction Integration tendencies Integration approach Conclusions GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

4. Introduction (I) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

5. The tools used to learn must also evolve VLE as a mean to support and make evolve subjects 100% of theuniversitieshaveanVLE 79,5% of thebigcompanies use thislearningtools VLEdon’t provide the expected benefits GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca Introduction (II)

6. Introduction (III) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

7. Introduction (IV) PLE Student-centered contexts that integrate any tool, service, content involved in eLearning process Learning responsibility will be in the students New tools can be included in the learning process and Lifelong learning will be taken into account VLE can’t be discarded Integration between the VLE and the PLE will be necessary GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

8. Introduction (and V) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

9. Outline Introduction Integration tendencies Integration approach Conclusions GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

10. Integrationtendencies (I) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca Integrationisnotaneasytask Dificultytoincludeinteroperabilitystandars Theintegration of training activities in the PLE are difficult Problems of traceability Single sign-onimplementation Security problems

11. Integrationtendencies (and II) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca 3 posible scenarios No integration Opening the VLE Web services and Interoperability specifications Institutional problems to allow the openness Communication use to be in one specific direction Integration of external tools Problems related to the integration of tools with other tools and contexts The user has no freedom to decide what tools to use There exist several initiatives starting from scratch Second and third scenarios must be mergerd

12. Outline Introduction Integration tendencies Integration approach Conclusions GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

13. Integrationapproach (I) Oursolutionisbasedon Formal orinstitutionalenvironment = VLE = Moodle 2.0 Informal environment = PLE Communicationways Specificationintegration What is a PLE for us Non technological perspective Learning environment focused on the user and customizable, which will combine all the tools, services, opinions, people, resources and activities that are useful in the learning process. This environment should take into account the different training modalities, facilitate lifelong learning and allow the integration of new technologies Technologicalperspective Integration framework that incorporates 2.0 technologies, supports interaction with other learning contexts, facilitates interoperability with other existing systems and provides monitoring systems for learner’s activity. GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

14. IntegrationApproach (II) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

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16. IntegrationApproach (V) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

17. IntegrationApproach (and VI) GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

18. Outline Introduction Integration tendencies Integration approach Conclusions GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

19. Conclusions eLearning must evolve taking the student into account Informal activity must be taken into account PLE can solve this situation, but without replacing the VLE Integration is needed Different integration sceneries Constraints established by the specification Future work, extend the specification GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

20. Acknoledgments ThisworkispartiallysupportedbytheMinistry of Industry, Tourism and Trade of Spain (projectIST-020302-2009-35), theMinistry of Education and Scienceof Spain (project TIN2010-21 695-C02) theDepartmentof Educationof Junta de Castilla y León throughtheprojectGR47 and theUniversity of Salamanca ID11/014 GRIAL – Universidad de Salamanca

21. MergingLearning Management Systems and Personal LearningEnvironments Miguel Ángel Conde (mconde@usal.es) Francisco J. García (fgarcia@usal.es) María J. Casany (mjcasany@lsi.upc.edu) Marc Alier (marc.alier@upc.edu)