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Learning Flow Management and Semantic Data Exchange between Blog-based Personal Learning Environments
1. Learning Flow Management and
Semantic Data Exchange between
Blog-based Personal Learning
Environments
Vladimir Tomberg, Mart Laanpere,
David Lamas
Tallinn University, Estonia
5. The Gap
• PLE is free, weakly organized environment
• We use it, but we still need some features that
can organize the learning flow, especially for
formal learning in a university
6. Challenge
• How to organize in informal environment:
– Formal learning course
– Formal assignments
– Formal assessment
– Tracking of results?
7. Initial Position
• There are already thousands of teachers’ blogs
who uses them for conducting courses
• There are much more of students’ blogs, who
used them as learning portfolios
• We choose WordPress as PLE blog platform
and tried to organize simple learning scenario
• Our goal is an implementing of a learning flow
with smallest or possible no an interference in
usual blog’s publishing process
8. Typical Scenario for Course Flow
1. Teacher organizes a new course in own blog
2. The teacher invites students to the course
3. The teacher assigns an assignment for the
students
4. Students implement the assignment and
submit results
5. Teacher assess the submissions of the
students
9. Question 1. How to identify course?
• Each blog category can be marked (or not) as a
course
• Each post in the course can be marked (or not)
as an assignment for students
• Students can subscribe to the course by RSS
like they can subscribe to blog category (we
introduce also much more secure scenario)
12. Problems with Assessment Workflow
in Blogs
• It can be organized conventionally, but seems
it should be hard to control
• Teacher has no tools for tracking of results of
students
13. Our Solution: LePress
• LePress is experimental plug-in for WordPress
that help to organize assessment workflow
between blogs
27. Enhancing of Blog’s Semantic
• Currently only two semantic tools available in
blogs by default: tags and categories
• For getting something better we need to
adopt other tools like microformats, RDFa or
microdata
• Our previous research (MUPPLE09) shows that
microformats are most successful solutions
28. Exporting Microformats
• Microformats can be exported right from
LePress Widget
• hCalendar microformat for course data
• hCard for course participants (teacher and
students)
30. Conclusion
• Development of LePress demonstrates:
– How learning flow can be automated using the
typical features of blog engines: trackback,
categories and sidebar widgets
– How course- and assignment-related semantic
data could be distributed in real environment
using Microformats