widening the reflection using opensyllabus and core sakai 2.6
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Widening the reflection using OpenSyllabus and Core Sakai 2.6
Olivier Guillot – Instructional designer – [email protected] Guité – Project Director – [email protected]
Florian Meyer – Instructional designer – [email protected]é Laflamme – Instructional designer – [email protected]
16 June 2010
Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
Québec, Canada
French Speaking University• 39724 students• 5352 professors and
lecturers• 16 faculties and
schools
2 affiliated schools• HEC montreal• École Polytechnique
Denver
Montréal
Context
From WebCT to Sakai : an opportunity to rethink the vision of our VLE
• To enhance the learning and teaching experience• To enlarge the learning and teaching opportunities• To move to open source
Consultation and Needs analysis• User stories • Use case description
Context
Dedicated multidisciplinary Team• 13 people • Coders, Teachers, Instructional designers, Project
manager, Communication advisor, Change manager
Collaboration with HEC-Montreal • For the development of OpenSyllabus
Users and experts Committees
Development plan
WebCT Shutdown
Proof of concept Pilots Deployment
F09 W10 S10 F10 W11 S11 F11 W12 S12 F12 W13
First experiment and pilot
Experiment : march-april 2010• 40 teachers representing the 16 faculties and schools
• They could experiment freely a set of tools (sakai core 2.6 + opensyllabus + sitestat)
• Training workshop• Phone support
Pilot : may-june 2010• 3 courses (2 credited)• 3 teachers and 60 students
Data collection and analysis
Data collection• Surveys pre and post• 6 Focus group• Experiment report
Qualitative analysis• Negative aspects• Positive aspects• Suggestions• Technical bugs• Questions and requests
Teachers’ perception - VLE(20 answers)What do you think of the new VLE ?
Totally agreeSomewhat agreeNeutralSomewhat disagreeTotally disagree
I think the VLE allows me to teach well
I think the VLE facilitates my instructional design
I think the VLE allows me to replicate my former
activities
I think the VLE is user-friendly
I think the VLE is flexible
Students’ perception - VLE(12 answers)What do you think of the new VLE ?
Totally agreeSomewhat agreeNeutralSomewhat disagreeTotally disagree
I think the VLE facilitates my personal learning process
I think the VLE is user-friendly
I think the VLE is efficient
Teachers’ perception - OpenSyllabus(20 answers)What do you think of OpenSyllabus ?
I didn’t use itTotally agreeSomewhat agreeNeutralSomewhat disagreeTotally disagree
I think this tool is relevant to my
teaching
I think this tool allows me to replicate my former tasks
I think this tool is user-friendly
I think this tool is efficient
Students’ perception - OpenSyllabus(12 answers)What do you think of OpenSyllabus ?
I didn’t use itTotally agreeSomewhat agreeNeutralSomewhat disagreeTotally disagree
I think this tool is relevant to my learning
I think this tool is user-friendly
I think this tool is efficient
Teachers’ perception – Test and Quiz(20 answers)
What do you think of the Test and Quiz tool ?
I didn’t use itTotally agreeSomewhat agreeNeutralSomewhat disagreeTotally disagree
I think this tool is relevant to my
teaching
I think this tool allows me to replicate my former tasks
I think this tool is user-friendly
I think this tool is efficient
Students’ perception – Test and Quiz(12 answers)What do you think of the Test and Quiz tool ?
I didn’t use itTotally agreeSomewhat agreeNeutralSomewhat disagreeTotally disagree
I think this tool is relevant to my learning
I think this tool is user-friendly
I think this tool is efficient
Web 2.0 for teaching
(20 answers)
What other web tools do you use for teaching ?
Web 2.0 for learning
(12 answers)
What other web tools do you use for your learning process ?
Web 2.0 for a personal use – Students
(12 answers)
What other web tools do you use for a personal use ?
Recommendations (Teachers and Students)
Improve ergonomics in general• Reduce the number of click• The navigation should be intuitive (more drag and drop)• The wording of the tools are not sufficiently explicit • Comparisons with Facebook and Google come back
regularly• Improving consistency of tools : in particular between
Osyl and other Sakai tools• Encourage exchanges between VLE and external tools
(email, Web 2.0)
Recommendations (Teachers and Students)
Better organize the content and tools• Better identify functional areas of each tool• Make home pages similar to WebCT (with access via
icons)• Structuring content and activities in a hierarchical
fashion• Conditional Access to content
Recommendations (Teachers and Students)
OpenSyllabus: many suggestions to make it evolve• Improved printing functionality• Better integration with other tools in Sakai
• Avoid multiple entries : calendar, assessments information
• More possibility of customization and more flexibility • Automatically feed the syllabus with directory information, fraud
and plagiarism, etc.• Improving the management of citations : ability to add sub
sections and ability to allow multiple styles
Next Steps considering this experiment Opensyllabus
• Better interaction with other sakai tools (entity picker)• Better interaction with other University services (library, official
course description, learning support)• More flexibility (re-organize sections and rubrics)• Possibility for Department to create its own template
Better translation adapted to our specific french canadian context
Harmonization of all the terms among all the tools
Studying the accessibility with the Support Office for Students with Disabilities
Next Steps considering this experiment
Preparing training and support• Training workshops• Personal coaching for teachers• Contextualized User Guide and Help• Screen cast• Best practices models
Progressively selecting the most appropriated tools
Defining the public view of the courses (syllabus and content)
Strengthening the personal learner’s process (portfolio, personal learning environment, etc.)
Defining the lifecycle of courses and profiles
Widening the reflection• What is the right use of OpenSyllabus : a regular interactive syllabus
or the central tool to support the learning path ?• Is it enough learner centered (knowledge construction and competencies
development) ?• Should it replace the Home Page tool ?• Should it support the instructional design and how ?
• What kind of views, other than the actual linear view, could users want with OpenSyllabus ?
• Student could want to see his syllabus organized by date, by content, by competency, by assessment, etc.
• Datas (like events) could be freely presented in a non linear way ; matrices, clusters, etc.
Widening the reflection• With OpenSyllabus the content can be changed anytime, so what
about the contract aspect of the syllabus ?
• How can we enforce the data flow between tools in order to avoid double entries• Should OpenSyllabus collect easily datas from Gradebook, Calendar,
Samigo, etc. or vice-versa ?
• How OpenSyllabus could be integrated within Sakai 3 ?
• Students ask for uniformity while teachers ask for flexibility and customization
• How do we support program management ?