edulearn atenea upc v2

ATENEA UPC AND THE NEW "Activity

Stream" or "WALL" FEATURE

Jesus Alcober (jesus.alcober @ upc.edu) Oriol Sanchez (oriol.sanchez @ upcnet.es)

Javier Otero (javier.otero @ upcnet.es) Ramon Martí (ramon.marti @ upcnet.es)

July 2012

ATENEA UPC service evolution (2005-2011)

new students,

new ways of communication, new collaboration tools,

new ways to consume information, …

Nowadays, there are …

Informal vs. formal

Personal

Connecting

Collaborating

Real time

Social Learning Teaching to students 2.0

70%

20%

10%

Real life and on-the-job experiences,

tasks and problem solving

Feedback and

observing and

working with

role models

Formal

training

* http://www.princeton.edu/hr/learning/philosophy

How We Learn… *

500 users

142 subjects 6 degrees

In February, 2012…

EETAC – First pilot school in UPC with “Activity Stream” or “Wall”

3 contexts “Activity Stream”

Add message and response

Information shown within the messages

Activity Stream – Home Page

Activity Stream - Course

Activity Stream - Group

Some figures

FEB MAR APR MAY

Total questions 34 149 113 232

Total responses 24 88 110 272

Total subjects 17 37 36 41

Total different users Q/A 34 115 89 124

Total groups 8 29 17 18

25 users

2 subjects 1 degrees

In April, 2012…

EETAC – Second pilot with Twitter and “Activity Stream”

Two ways of “Activity Stream” feed using Twitter

Twitter subject account; i. e. @EETAC_GXPS

hashtags #upc #gxps

from a registered user

Twitter user account set up in user

profile

Twitter hashtags set up in course parameters

Twitter course account set up

in course parameters

Some conclusions

• Several students “discovered” that they could initiate AS this way

• The AS has become the integrating stream of all the information related to the subject

• Partially, this information comes from the public Twitter – where another group of alumni can interact as

well

• The Twitter course account has become a tool to compile all the interesting information on the subject, not only manually – For example , Twitterfeed or ifttt allows to feed

the Twitter account and, hence, the AS with interesting blog entries on the subject

• Twitter has become another learning activity – For example, “twitify” a technical paper or

publish final reports

2.500 academic staff

4.000 subjects

In September 2012…

“Activity Stream” or “Wall” extended to UPC

and …

somupc Concept design

MAX

Subscription

and activity

core

somupc

Organization

systems

mobile

devices

social

networks

organization

systems

Atenea

etc.

personal

services

Twitter

etc.

MAX and SOMUPC Flexible and modular architecture

#thankyouforyourattention

Jesus Alcober (jesus.alcober @ upc.edu)

Oriol Sanchez (oriol.sanchez @ upcnet.es) Javier Otero (javier.otero @ upcnet.es)

Ramon Martí (ramon.marti @ upcnet.es)

July 2012