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The future of
virtual learning
environments:
Beyond Chamilo 2
Prof. dr. Frederik Questier
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Research and Innovation Director
Chamilo Association
Chamilo User Day, 28/03/2011, Brussels

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This presentation can be found at
http://questier.com
http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier

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Futu
r e?

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No
Futu
re?

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My Personal Learning Environment

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My teaching environment???

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The best way
to predict the future
is to invent it.
Alan Kay, 1971
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Does your VLE look like this
to the outside world?
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Closed?
➢ The few good reasons for closing an LMS,
are probably the reasons why the LMS is
not dead yet...
➢ Copyright exemptions for education
➢ Privacy
➢ for minors
➢ for making mistakes
➢ for teachers?
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But all the rest should be open!
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Open
➢ Open Source
➢ Open Standards
➢ Open Courseware
➢ (OpenID)
➢ Sharing students and teachers between VLEs
➢ + Portability
➢ Enable instutional collaboration
➢ (Open Framework)
➢ Sharing apps between VLEs
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These generic repositories in
Chamilo 2.0 are nice
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Specialized learning object
repositories are nicer!
S. Ternier et al., Interoperability for Searching Learning Object Repositories: The ProLearn
Query Language, D-Lib Magazine, 2008, Volume 14 Number 1/2, doi:10.1045/january2008-ceri
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Let's avoid the
empty box feeling!
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But content is no longer king!
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What is good learning?
Jonassen's Model for
(constructive) learning environments
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Learning Analytics
Gephi export,
learning interactions,
R. Carlos, F. Questier
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We all can learn from
Learning Analytics!
➢ The Learning Analytics Cycle, by Doug Clow,
http://dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/
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Mobile learning !
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Intelligent wizards
➢ Hello Professor,
Soon your course about Learnometrics starts
again. Since last time I found 16 new relevant
learning objects created or recommended by
your peers. Do you want to review them now?
Your Chamilo wizard
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Feedback, rating
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Social bookmarking,
tagging, highlighting, annotating, …
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LMS, VLE → PLE
LCMS → Knowledge Management
Management → Fostering
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Maybe the LMS will be dead
when we are all cyborgs...
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… till then Chamilo's future
will be a community effort!
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Additional copyright
acknowledgements
➢ “Sorry. We're closed” CC-by-nc by Tommaso Galli
➢ OPEN, CC-by-nc-sa by Tom Magliery
➢ Empty box, CC-by-nc-nd by Mike Bitzenhofer
➢ The Learning Analytics Cycle, by Doug Clow
➢ http://dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/
➢ Screenshota http://www.chamilo.org/
➢ The snowflake effect, CC-by-nc-sa by Erik Duval
➢ Cyborg, CC-by-nc-sa by Lainy Voom/LISP
➢ Social Network CC-by by Frederik Questier

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Active/Manipulative - Collaborative - Complex - Constructive - Contextualized - Conversational - Intentional - Reflective
Questions? Comments?
Gracias!
See also http://questier.com
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