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iCamp Collaborative Knowledge building and Sharing for Reshaping European Educational Landscapes Margit Hofer (ZSI), Fridolin Wild (WUW) Co-financed by the European Union Project Vision to become THE Educational Web for Higher


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Co-financed by the European Union

iCamp

Collaborative Knowledge building and Sharing for Reshaping European Educational Landscapes

Margit Hofer (ZSI), Fridolin Wild (WUW)

Project Vision …

… to become THE Educational Web for Higher Education in an Enlarged Europe of 25+

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Research Overview

Pedagogical Models Tools portfolio Interoperability Validation Trials Dissemination & Exploitation

Areas of challenge...

Subject - object relationships

...for the pedagogical model

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Building conceptual tools for performance support Institutional Landscapes

dom ination of ( Learning) Managem ent System s

  • nly som e are
  • pen source

low degrees of interoperability and m any closed system s actors appear as residents all necessary tools are provided by institution

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Personal Landscapes

avant-garde creates m ediated personal ( learning) environm ents use a landscape of preferred tools and services actors appear as nom ads

Augmented Landscapes

individuals use subsets of tools and services provided by institution actors can choose from a grow ing variety of options gradually transcend institutional landscape actors appear as em igrants or im m igrants leave and join institutional landscape for particular purposes

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Heterogeneity of Learning Tools

Occ. No. 20 15 Pure CMS 19 18 Pure Administrative 26 22 Pure Authoring 18 14 Pure LOR 10 10 Pure Assessment 51 32 Pure Collaboration 290 182 Sum 71 146 L(C)MS 15 Moodle + Commercial 29 Moodle + Other 44 Moodle 42 Commercial L(C)MS 44 Self-Developed L(C)MS 47 Open-Source L(C)MS Occ. Tool

by Fridolin Wild and Stefan Sobernig, VUE

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Tools Portfolio

  • Self-Directed Learning

– iLogue: Personal Journal, Learning Contract, & Reflection Tool – ObjectSpot, the iCamp Federated Search – xoWiki – Videowiki

  • Social Networking

– Scuttle: Social Bookmarking – Network Analysis: myDENTITY – Sip.iCamp.eu: Voice over ip

  • Cross-Cultural Collaboration

– Doodle: Organising Meetings – WordPress with FeedBack: Blogging – Feed on Feeds & FeedMoot: Feed Aggregators

Information Retrieval

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Network

Prototype

IVA ViPS Moodle KTU (Artefacts) Moodle AGH (Persons) OAIster CiteBase DOAJ .LRN EducaNext Course Online In preparation: (CiteSeer) (EBSCO) (ProQuest?) (…) Mediator 1 All together significantly more than 10,000,000 artefacts!

Blogging to Share Knowledge?

  • Blogosphere shows a bursty evolution

(Kumar et al., 2003): in scale, community structures, and connectedness

  • 57.5% of authors are pupils & students

(Herring et al., 2004)

  • 70.4% personal journals, clearly less

for filtering & knowledge sharing

  • Schmidt & Mayer (2007):

k-loggers are workers, rarely pupils & students

  • Key Motivations: community building and social

networking (Nardi et al., 2005; Schiano et al.,2004)

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Blogging to Share Knowledge

Now: FeedBack enabled!

iLogue: Record, Contract, Reflect

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Mydentity: Managing Informal Infoflows

Validation

Contextual constraints: accreditation, time schedule, curriculum... language, cultural differences... facilitator’s performance...

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1st trials

  • Semi-structured interviews with facilitators

and students

  • Student and facilitator online survey
  • Communication diary
  • Student assessement schema
  • Analysis of communication archives (Blogs,

emails, MSN chat and videorecording)

Results

  • Careful selection of the ‚right‘ student

participants (heterogenious in level of knowledge, motivation and committment)

  • Equal access to selected tools
  • Systematic training of tool use
  • Moderately stuctured setting with concise

instructions supports SDL approach

  • Inter-cultural vs. Interdisciplinary
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Some research issues for the future

  • Second trials with different users – not

connected with iCamp

  • Economical research (gain high enough to

justify complex and expensive OLE)

  • Technical solution for equal access to tools

Thank you

www.icamp.eu