Swiss Academic Special Interest Group on Personal Learning Environments

1. Webinar SIG PLE
Introduction to Graasp
a Personal Learning Environments (PLE) Enabler
Denis Gillet, EPFL
June 20, 2012
http://graasp.epfl.ch

2. Agenda
PLE in Europe
PLE in Switzerland
PLE at EPFL
Introduction to Graasp
Educational Widgets
Case Studies
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3. PLE in Europe
ROLE Integrated Project (2009-2012)
Formal Teaching
… LMS
school-centered
Learning Management Systems
Informal Learning
… PLE
student-centered
Personal Learning Environments
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4. PLE in Europe
Go-Lab Integrated Project (2012-2015)
Educational technologies for science, technology
and maths • 10M€ • 19 partners
Focus on inquiry learning and online laboratories
Inquiry Learning
Spaces as PLE
with scaffolding
Teacher
communities
Classmates
Privacy for kids !
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5. PLE in Switzerland
ROLE EU Project
Definition and validation of sound
Pedagogical framework for self-directed and
informal learning
Technical framework for Open Web 2.0 personal
learning environments (PLE)
AAA/SWITCH (e-Infrastructure for e-Scicence)
Institutional PLE and federated repositories
Design, Implementation, and Validation
Courses, teamwork activities, and soft skills workshops
Interplay between top-down and bottom-up actions
http://elearning.unige.ch/projets/projetsAAA/ple.html
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6. PLE at EPFL
Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
or Serious Social Media Platforms
To support personal learning in higher education
To support teacher and student communities or groups
To support collaborative, informal and social learning
Definitions of PLE
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Any environment or social media platform and
any device exploited by users for learning and
knowledge management purposes
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The Web 2.0 features integrated in institutional
Learning Management Systems
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7. PLE at EPFL
Graasp: Agile aggregator and PLE enabler
http://graasp.epfl.ch
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8. Introduction to Graasp
A dedicated space for anything
Defined, configured, shared and populated by you,
for you and for the audience you choose
Objectives
Forget about system managers
Forget about rigid structures
Shape your learning and research spaces
Aggregate resources from the Web cloud
Be agile in dealing with your resources
Control roles and rights in each space
Get meaningful recommendation
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9. Introduction to Graasp
Graasping the Basics - A Graasp Tutorial
English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lqd9beNdgw
French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaLvq3hsG4
German: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuVdSAe8J0
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10. Introduction to Graasp
Main features
Enforcing dedicated spaces as activity contexts
Spaces are defined, configured, shared and populated by
users, for themselves and for the audience they choose
Graasp: Grasp resources, apps, activity spaces, people
Related actions and relations
Resources:
Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD)
People:
Invite, Inform, Notify, Interact with, Kick out
Entities:
Share, Assess (rate), Link, Tag (SALT)
Organize through drag & drop (clipboard) or inheritance
Search by tags or keywords
Bookmark with GraaspIt!
Inform and be aware through notifications 10

11. Introduction to Graasp
Profile
All my personal spaces, shared with different people and
populate with relevant resources and Web apps 11

12. Introduction to Graasp
Space populated with relevant entities
Click on the grey rectangle to invite people or add resources
(drag and drop from other spaces or the desktop possible)
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13. Introduction to Graasp
GraaspIt !
Copy the bookmarklet
in your bookmark bar
Then go to any Web
site and start to grab
resources which you
will find in your
Graasp clipboard 13

14. Introduction to Graasp
Grab a widget from iGoogle
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?
type=gadgets
or from the ROLE widget
store http://www.role-widgetstore.eu/
Then start to play with it in a
share Graasp space
To see multiple widgets as a
mashup, select the widget view
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15. Educational Widgets
Meta constructionism
With open social and W3C PLE platforms, teachers and
institutions do not have to worry anymore about learning
environments
They can focus on developing lightweight educational
widgets in their academic disciplines
The educational resources are end-user Web services
that can be mashed up
ROLE Widgets and bundles repository
http://www.role-widgetstore.eu/
Tracking and scaffolding
Simulation and games
Embedded content
General purpose project and knowledge management 15

16. Case Study
CUSO Soft skills seminar for PhD candidates (from
Personal Research to Personal Learning Environments)
http://graasp.epfl.ch/#item=space_1804
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17. Case Study
Introduction to Programming (UNIGE)
https://graasp.unige.ch/#item=space_5
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18. Case Study
Introduction to HCI (Tongji - Shanghai) for Web 2.0
participatory design activities
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19. Case Study
... and our SIG PLE Space
http://graasp.epfl.ch/#url=sigple
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20. Contact & Links
• denis.gillet@epfl.ch
• http://react.epfl.ch
• http://graasp.epfl.ch
• http://www.role-project.eu
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