24. Personal Learning Environment - Graz University of Technology
Next Steps towards Ubiquitousness
Mobile PLE
Native Apps
Ubiquitous PLE Desktop widgets
28. Summary after second launch
- ... more than 4000 registered users
- ... about 30% of active users
- ... observed more activity, resemblance to mobile apps
- ... learners classify their widgets using spaces
- ... widgets can send notifications
- ... Inter-Widget communication actively used.
29. Top most used widgets out of 75 totally
- consist of university services:
Zid news (>2000), TUGMail (>1000), TUG online
(>1000), Exam planer (>200), TeachCenter
(>1000), TUGraz Newsgroups (>1000)
- further top most used 10 widgets
Weather forecast (>200), Culture calendar of Graz
(>200), Google Maps (>200), Widget Development
Guide (>100)
- following
dict.leo.org, dict.cc, TU Graz calendar, Facebook
30. ...
- most used widgets vs. most installed widgets
- known services are installed mostly
- widgets can be embedded now in any environment
- PLE statistics are public NOW via a twitter channel
@PLETUGraz
31. Analysis of widget usage
- @PLETUGraz twitter channel used as data set
- 4000 users over two years
- Data include:
- Users
- Timestamp
- Activity
- Widget
33. Semantic based approach
- used to enrich dataset for further processing in PLE
Analytics Dashboard
- RDF is used for interchange between modules
- LearningContext Ontology used from IntelLEO EU
project
- SPARQL as query labguage
http://www.intelleo.eu/ontologies/learning-context/spec/
39. Analytics Dashboard helps to
- monitor the behavior of individual users
- analyze (un)popular activities => overall users‘ interest
- measure the quality / implicit rating of the widgets
- recommend widgets to users (collaborative filtering)
Future plan
- Apply PLE Analytics for specific courses
- Analyze learner‘s behavior in detail
- Map users‘ monitored actions to their learning results
40. Graz University of Technology
SOCIAL LEARNING
Computer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.at
TU Graz Personal Learning
Environment
https://my.tugraz.at
Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
mebner
Graz University of Technology
41. Graz University of Technology
SOCIAL LEARNING
Computer and Information Services
Graz University of Technology
Martin Ebner
http://elearning.tugraz.at
http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
Slides available at: http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
mebner
TU Graz Personal Learning
Environment https://my.tugraz.at