2. Tasos who?
“Who Is Engineer” image from zeeshan.info available at http://zeeshan.info/tag/trust-me-im-an-engineer/
→ anastasios.koutoumanos @ gmail.com
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3. Tasos who?
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Degree in Electrical, Telecommunications and
Computers Engineering
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PhD in the Software Engineering domain, focused
on “Advanced Learning Technologies”
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An ongoing shift between a “hacker” and a
researcher ever since...
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So, can you “Trust me, I'm an engineer!” ?
→ anastasios.koutoumanos@gmail.com
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4. What's in a Course?
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Data
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Course description, summary, etc.
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Learning resources
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(Descriptions of) Learning
activities
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…
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And METADATA
From Julià Minguillón, Universitat Oberta de
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Describing data Catalunya, Barcelona, available at
http://edrene.org/seminars/seminar4barcelona.html
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In a way that they can be “classified”
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and “catalogued”, “discovered”, “reused”.
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5. Course Metadata? Why?
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Pro Bono (Publico) ?!
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Cui Bono?
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Bring more learners …
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Build publicity
fro your courses ...
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Your work …
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And Yourself!
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6. OCW search
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“Find OpenCourseWare with OCW Search”
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An independent search engine
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indexes all OCW courses
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11. The agriMoodle concept
Build a fresh Moodle 2 installation bundle, that:
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provides great green/agri- templates and themes
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is linked to interesting green/agri- information
sources
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trainers can use tools to import resources from
relevant repositories
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trainers can easily create and export metadata for
their courses and resources
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learners can benefit from (automatic) references to
useful material, through various widgets
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12. The agriMoodle HUB
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The central
component of the
agriMoodle network!
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A registry of all
agriMoodle instances.
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Holds all metadata
descriptions.
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14. The agriMoodle HUB
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Many more services!
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“Advertise” courses
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Match courses
against user preferences
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Deal with logins centrally
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Provide intuitive statistics
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Export course details (metadata) to relevant portals and
harvesters
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Foster “Communities”
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Push agriMoodle-related notifications (updates, etc.)
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16. Advertise & Promote courses
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Intuitive search
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Enriched metadata
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Faceted Directory
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Ontology – driven
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Quality Controlled
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Pre-defined set of criteria, check, approval
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Community rating
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17. Further Advertise & Promote courses
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Export metadata to other portals
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Through OAI-PMH target
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Or RSS feeds
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Push notifications to social networks
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twitter, facebook, feeds, ...
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Automatic Search-engines optimization
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Do some magic for Google hits!
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Allow for the unforeseen!
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Well-documented API's
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allow for new, third-party applications
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18. “The Hub as a Tub” ™
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Export course and forget!
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Break out of specific
Moodle instance
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Relaunch when needed
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Archive courses with embedded
activities and users' tracking
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19. Analytics
From Greller, W., & Drachsler, H., Turning Learning into Numbers.
Toward a Generic Framework for Learning Analytics. Journal of Educational
Technology & Society.
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20. Analytics
From Greller, W., & Drachsler, H., Turning Learning into Numbers.
Toward a Generic Framework for Learning Analytics. Journal of Educational Technology & Society.
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21. Analytics
from Verbert, K., Manouselis, N., Drachsler, H., and Duval, E.
Dataset-driven Ressearch to Support Learning amd Knowledge Analytics
Journal of Educational Technology & Society.
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22. Community building
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An architecture for collaboration
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Badges / attribution
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Very serious on Access Rights
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23. Get down to Business!
The Competion
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Generic moodle hubs
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MOOCH – Moodle's Open Community Hub
– 255 courses, 13867 linked sites
– http://hub.moodle.org/
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TCEA
– 12 courses, 159 linked sites
– http://moodle.tcea.org/moodle2/moodle/
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MZ Zena (German)
– 20 courses, 185 linked sites
– http://www.mz.jena.de/moodlehub/
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24. Get down to Business!
The Business Plan
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2012 (project initiated on May...)
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4 installations
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8 courses
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2013 (new features are implemented, cont. support)
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15 installations
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40 courses
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2014 (big installations and small @ cloud)
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40 installations
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150 courses
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26. Aggregating agricultural
course descriptions:
The agriMoodle Hub case
anastasios.koutoumanos @ gmail.com
this presentation available at:
w w w.slideshare.net/TasosKoutoumanos
The AgriMoodle Hub concept by Anastasios
Koutoumanos is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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