Post on 16-Jul-2015
Transforming Education through FORGE
Prof. John Domingue Director Designate, Knowledge Media Ins;tute
The Open University, UK
FORGE Project Coordinator
http://ict-forge.eu/
MOTIVATION
Throughout the history of education there has been an insidious link between quality and exclusivity in education... the good tidings is that technology has shown that it can break that insidious link once and for all. Sir John Daniel, UNESCO (Open University Vice Chancellor, 1994-2000)
Introduction to FIRE
3D-Live
SUNRISE
http://www.ict-fire.eu/home/fire-testbeds.html
iMinds iLab.t Virtual Wall
MOOCS
Mooc Illustration: Adam Simpson
Over
1,000,000 FutureLearn sign-ups
Over
2,200,000 course sign-ups
PROGRESS SINCE LAUNCH In just over a year, FutureLearn has built a large userbase
BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
Project Fiche • Name: Forging Online Education through FIRE • Dates: 1st October, 2013 – 30th September, 2016 • Duration (Months): 36 • Project Coordinator: John Domingue, OU • Technical Project Manager: Christos Tranoris, UoP • Project website: http://ict-forge.eu/
Consor;um
OBJECTIVES
Anytime/Anyplace Learning
Overall Goal
FutureLearn Student Types
APPROACH
Self Regulated Learning
Flipped Classroom Paradigm
iTunes U
OU iTunes U Stats • Open University on iTunes U was launched on
3rd June 2008• Now 58 iTunes U Courses • 68,138,000 downloads• Over 9,015,700 visitors downloaded files• Currently averaging 87,500 downloads a week• 449 collections containing 3,485 tracks (1,638
audio, 1,847 video) • 423 OpenLearn study units as eBooks (ePub),
representing over 5,000 hours of study• Currently delivering an average of 0.3 TB of
data a week
Cisco Networking Academy
FORGE ELEMENTS
Specify course requirements
Educa;onal objec;ves
Dates / Schedule
Number of learners
Loca;on and connec;vity
Devices (PCs, laptops,
tablets)
Learning Management
System Language
Iden;fy FIRE facility
Iden;fy FIRE experimenta;on
tools
Open FIRE account
Pre FORGE Course Preparation
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
FORGE Widgets, Adapters and FIRE Resources
Lab Course, (LMS, iBook)
(3) InteractiveContent (JSON/XML)
Resource FIRETestbed
Control via specific FIRE
tools and APIS, e.g.
FRCP/SFA/SSHAdapter Adapter Adapter
(Implements specific API, eg OMF, OML, SFA/
RSpec, FRCP)
(2) RequestContent
(JSON/XML)
web container
Widget
(1) Get widgetContent (HTML5/JS)
Widget Widget
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Adding a New Widget (1/2)
Adding a New Widget
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
FORGEStore Widgets
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
FIRE Adapters in FORGEStore
Ssh2web adapter
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
FORGEStore Courses
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
FORGEBox
FORGEBox
Fed4FIRE Portal LMS
eBook
Provide Interactive content(i.e. widgets)
Interface viaFIRE APIs
FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Iden;fy required widgets
Iden;fy required FIRE adapters
Educa;onal content
Create widgets
Import widgets from FORGEStore
Create adapters
Import adapters from FORGEStore
Create course content
Import from FORGEStore
Develop Course in FORGEBox
Export in SCORM or ePub
Deploy Course
Validate / Test course
Import to LMS or eBook
Reserve FIRE resources
Evaluate Course
FORGE Supported Activities
Learning Analytics
OPEN CALL
Opening the FORGE platform • Build your own interactive course for free!
• Exploit FIRE facilities for educational purposes • Deploy courses on FORGE platform or other
educational platform
Types of proposals
Educator/ Learner
• Deploy an exis;ng FORGE course (as-‐is)
• Transform a tradi;onal course into an experiment-‐driven one
• Design a new FORGE lab course
• Extend an exis;ng FORGE course
• Create interac;ve educa;onal material (eBook)
Developer
• Develop new widgets and/or FIRE adapters
Provider
• Offer a testbed for remote experimenta;on
+ any combina+on of the above!
SUMMARY
Cisco Endorsement Cisco see the FIRE/FORGE iBook implementation of the Cisco Academy Packet Tracer platform as a significant strategic development. ….……While we currently reach over a million students using packet tracer, the potential for the iPad and possibly HTML5 brings a new and very exciting dimension.
Nuno Guarda, Head of Corporate Affairs for the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Deployment at Univ of Patras www.forgebox.eu/demo/courses/tcp_congestion.html
Summary (1/2) • FORGE aims transform higher
education • Making world class experimental
facilities accessible to anyone/anytime /anywhere
• Approach is based upon • New learning paradigms • Rich multimedia interactive eBooks • ForgeStore • FORGEBox architecture
Summary (2/2) • We have an Open Call • We will support you in the use of
FORGE technologies and methods • See afternoon’s workshop for more
details