The document summarizes a presentation given at the Second International Symposium on Educational Information Systems on March 7th, 2014. It discusses the development of TIES (Teaching and Educational Information System), a micronized virtual learning environment (VLE) created by NPO CCC-TIES for use in large-scale online courses (MOOCs). Key points include: - TIES was first developed in 1996 and has evolved through several versions to its current form, with features like micro lectures, e-books, communities, and competency-based education. - Studies show most MOOC students prefer very short (1-2 minute) video lectures and have low completion rates. TIES and its

1. Housei University
The Second International Symposium on
Educational Information Systems
Friday March 7th, 2014
A Micronized VLE for Large Scale
Online Courses
NPO CCC-TIES・Musashi Academy
Seishi Ono

2. TIES Four Founding Members
in Tezukayama University on 1994
The late Dr. Yasuji Kotou
Dr. Koichi Nakajima
Dr. Atuhiro Mukai
Ms. Masumi Hori
Cooperation, Sharing and Disclosure or
Open education
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3. Development of TIES
An award from the
MEXT
HISTORY OF TIES
1996
1998
First
appearance at
Tezukayama
university
1999
TIES v1
Web delivery of
course materials
2010
TIES v2
University
Alliance for TIES
2008
TIES v6
SNS subsystem
2011
TIES v7
Moodle Based
2001
TIES v3
Delivery
for ASP
2004
TIES v5
E-portfolio
subsystem
2013
TIES v8
Delivery for
Distributed operation
TIES v4
Live subsystem
2006
2014NPO CCCTIES
TIES v9 & CHiLOs
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4. Growth of TIES
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5. TIES Blended Learning 2001
Student
Teacher
Contents material
• Course material
• Quiz
• Home waork
Prep
Enrollment
Attend
Lecture using TIES
Home Work
Including video
Class
TIES System

6. About Sankei e-College
Project
“Minna de Daigaku” or
University for everyone
Session
From August 5th to
September 15th, 2008
Organizer
Sankei Shimbun Co., Ltd.
Participants 14 universities
Lectures
33 Courses, 103 videos
Cost
No charge
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7. Participants Universities
明治薬科大学
Meiji Pharmaceutical University
関西学院大学
Kwansei Gakuin University
札幌学院大学
Sapporo Gakuin University
札幌大学
Sapporo University
愛知工科大学
Aichi University of Technology
新潟産業大学
Niigata Sangyo University
創価大学
Soka University
中京大学
Chukyo University
帝塚山大学
Tezukayama University
桃山学院大学
St.Andrew's University
日本福祉大学
Nihon Fukushi University
武蔵大学
Musashi University
名古屋学院大学
Nagoya Gakuin University
愛知学院大学
Aichi Gakuin University
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8. Sankei e-college on 2008

Visitors：33,020

Enrollment：2,274
Top
About
Information
Registration
Special lecture
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9. Sankei e-College Open Online Courses
Language
English reading and writing
Chinese language primer
Spanish language primer
Japanese writings
Economics & management Introduction to economics
European economy
Information science
Medical
Special lecture
International Management
Information Networks
Programing
Artificial intelligence
Organic chemistry
Medical engineering
eTeaching TIES for EDUCAUSE 2007
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11. The Revolution of Mooc
Higher Education 2013-
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12. Online Learning Experiment
“European Economics” at Tezukayama
University in 2005 using TIES
Students made a choice between on-campus or
online course
←On-campus was chosen
by140 students
Learning with a teacher
↓Online was chosen by 60
students
Learning
without a
teacher
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13. Online Education Impact
Online students
One-sided High Achiever
Low
High
Grade
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14. A Similar Finding at Udacity
“…scores for a group of about 200
Stanford students who took a particular
course, along with some 23,000 who
completed it on Udacity, and found that
the top 412 were all online students, with
the best Stanford student coming in at
No. 413.”
Presumably independent of challenge
levels or academic abilities
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15. Characteristic of Learners on LSOCs
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Presence of lurkers
Low completion rate
Nielsen,J ：Participation Inequality: Encouraging More Users to Contribute,
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox,October, 2006,
http://www.careergeekblog.com/2013/06/03/mooc-data-statisitics-views-and-challen/
In most online communities,
90% of users are lurkers who
never contribute
Common challenge of
MOOCs

16. Trait of Lurkers
Learners’ Viewing Time for Lecture Videos
A real experiment with involving 30,000 learners in 2008
probability
Most learners prefer one or
two minute short lectures
Viewing Time(minutes)
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17. Micro VLE on LSOC

Features of micro Virtual Learning
Object(VLE) on Large Scale Online
Courses(LSOC)
» Distributed autonomous micro VLE have an
advantage over large scale VLE
» Preventing cost explosion for combination of
existing ideas
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Features of CHiLO
» E-books or micro VLE
» Mashup of existing ideas at low cost
» Equal relationship between educators and
learners in a community
» One minute micro lectures
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18. Micronized VLE, CHiLOs
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Creative Higher Education Learning Objects
Key Key Key Key
-word -word -word -word
1min
1min
1min
1min
CHiLO
AIF
LMS
LMS
Lectures
Micro lectures such as one-minute nano lectures
CHiLO
LMS
Learning
Contents
Contents
Platform
Books
Micro VLEs using e-books
Badges
User
Authentication
CHiLO
User authentications and issues of certificate
using Academic Identify Federation
Communities
Learning
Application
CHiLO
Personalized learning using ubiquitous
environment

19. Micro VLE Using E-Book
Download
LMS
Learning Community
Lecture Video

20. CHiLO Books and CHiLO Badges
CHiLO Books
LMS using e-Book
LMS
LMS
LMS
Common
Authentication Platform
CHiLO badges
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21. CHiLO Communities
Learning
connoisseur
Learning
connoisseur
Learning
connoisseur
Learning
connoisseur
Learning
connoisseur
Personalization
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22. Competency-based education on CHiLOs
E-book library according to
capability
Acquisition of badges
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Certification
Online learning
Course
A
Credit
Course
B
Peer-to-peer
Course
C
Forms of writing
Market statistics
Recruiting
Qualifications

23. The Block Diagram of CHiLOs’ Implement
http://chilos.jp
Distribute
Under
development
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iPad/iPhone/Android
Device
Learning Contents
one-minute nano lectures
CHiLO
Lectures
Contents Platform
iBooks / EPUB
CHiLO
Books
API Control Layer
Learning Application
CHiLO
LMS
CHiLO
Badges
Moodle
Quiz module
Quiz module
Open Badge
User Authentication
Canvas
Quiz module
Communities
Safe Badge
SNS
Open Badge
Sakai
Individual
SNS
AIF(GakuNin)
OAuth
Facebook

24. An Issue of Course Management Systems
School
Curriculum
Learning
connoisseur
Course
Course by
Teacher
Enroll
Enroll
Learning
connoisseur
Enroll
Student
at Class
Learning
connoisseur
Learning
connoisseur
Learning
connoisseur
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