1.
Build your Responsive Open Learning
Environment (ROLE)
Alexander Mikroyannidis – The Open University, UK
Denis Gillet – Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland
Sylvana Kroop – Centre for Social Innovation ZSI, Austria
Daniel Dahrendorf – IMC Information Multimedia Communication AG,
Germany
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2.
The ROLE Widget Competition
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3.
The ROLE Widget Competition
 Bring together the best ideas from the software
developer and the practitioner
 In the first round contribute your specification
of a learning widget
 Winners of the first round have two months to
develop their learning widgets.
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4.
Organisation of the Competition
Competition Announcement
Participants
Detailed feedback
Widget Specification
Support of a ROLE
partner
Winners of the
1st round
Widget Implementation
2nd 1st 3d
Place
Prices
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5.
Timeframe of the Fourth Widget Competition
Announcement of new call Winners Announcement Winners deliver
and start of submissions (Step 1) widgets
28 May 2012 3 August 2012 9 October 2012
May 2012 June 2012 July 2012 August 2012 September 2012 October 2012
Submission Deadline of Winners Announcement
widget specification (Step 2)
29 July 2012 12 October 2012
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6.
„Winners“ of the Third Widget Competition (still running)
Math-Bridge Widget
Allows to search in the e-Learning platform Math-Bridge.
• Lists results for a search query
• Displays the items
Mockup Implementation
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7.
„Winners“ of the Third Widget Competition (still running)
ClassOn Questions (in-Class Live Analytics for aSSessment and OrchestratioN)
A project aimed at improving the current practices in
• formative assessment and
• orchestration
during lab sessions.
Mockup Implementation
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8.
„Winners“ of the Third Widget Competition (still running)
Affective Recommender
Recommends resources based on
• the current affective state of the user and
• the learning objective
Resources will be opened by a third party widget
Mockup Implementation
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9.
3rd ROLE Dev Camp – Winner Widget
http://scottbw.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/creating-write-that-thesis-at-the-role-developer-camp/
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10.
Widget Development
• Focus on a single task
• Give your end user a single functionality
• Own added Value
• Do not create a Widget which requires
a second widget
• Self explanatory interface
• There should be no need for help text or support
Image: Dr Stephen Dann from flickr.com
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11.
Submit a Specification!
http://role-widgetstore.eu
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12.
Activity 3:
Design your widget
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