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Engaging with Learners
Putting portability back into Portfolios
www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/ RSCs – Stimulating and supporting innovation in learning
MAXOS - Overview
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Engaging with LearnersThomas RochfordE:Learning Advisor, Infrastructure, RSC Eastern
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Portable Learning : Rationale
The rationale– There are still some places without internet connections
• Prisons• Airplanes• Village Halls• Rural/Remote areas• Stables?
– Mobile Internet can be expensive/slow– Demonstration purposes– Testbed for development
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Portable Learning : Tools
The tools– Moodle: Delivering the content
– Maxos: Developing the content
– Mahara: Organising the learner’s portfolio
– MoMo: For mobile use
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Portable Learning : Case-Study 1
What do these have in common
Paston College,North WalshamNorfolk700 FTE Students100 FTE Staff
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Portable Learning : Case-Study 1
The Problem– Significant minority of children had no access to
computer or Internet
The Solution– Wm. Paston’s foundation grant used to buy ASUS
netbooks– Students without Internet Access provided with Moodle
on a stick
An Issue– Problems synchronising Moodle on a Stick with Server
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Portable Learning: Mahara on a Stick
Problems– Until version 1.1. released in the middle of 2009, it was
not portable to Windows environments
Windows Implementation Issues– Difficulties with mySQL (Collation UTF-8)– Post-installation tweaking (Session cookie not working)
But ….– It can be done
However….– Do users actually like Mahara?
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Portable Learning : Case-Study 2
Students at Otley College talk about Mahara
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Portable Learning: Mahara
Features– Manageable Filestore– Blogging Tool. External blogs can be included via RSS– Provides ‘social networking’ in educational context.– Shareable Resumés– Document academic, career and personal goals– Uploaded resources (‘Artefacts’) can be organised in shareable
‘Views’– ‘Groups’ enable users to build communities of practice and
facilitate team work– Highly customisable interface– Can be linked to Moodle
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Portable Learning : MAXOS
What is MAXOS?– MAXOS enables you to run Moodle, Xerte and Mahara
on a USB stick, without Internet access
How do you get MAXOS?– http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/RSC_files/technical/maxos/MAXOS_150.zip
– Unzip into a new folder on your desktop
– Copy contents of this new folder onto the root of a USB Stick.
– Free at this event!
Instruction– http://www.rsc-eastern.ac.uk/RSC_files/technical/maxos/index.html
– Contact your local RSC or RSC-Eastern for details of XERTE training events
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Portable Learning : Group Tasks
Hands On– Hands-on Xerte Toolkits - Try it– Hands-on Mahara – Try it– Mobile Moodle – http://www.ilite.co.za/mlearn
username ‘mary’; password ‘password’
Discussion– Is there a future for Portable Learning; and if so where?– What would you expect from a portable e:Portfolio
Questions/Feedback
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Portable Learning : Starting MAXOS
Insert the USB stick in a windows machine– Make sure Skype is turned off– Click on ‘startup.bat’– IMPORTANT – Close the Command Shell window before
removing the stick. Xerte users
– Click on Xerte
– Select the Introduction or any other file to start trialling.
Mahara users– Click on Mahara– Login as admin/mahara. – You should find some images in your folder. Add more from
Internet, create a ‘View’, set some personal targets etc.