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FORGE: BRINGING FIRE AND THE E-LEARNING SPHERES TOGETHER
John Domingue Knowledge Media Ins4tute The Open University, UK
Connec4ng European Innovators to ICT Test Facili4es, 27th June, 2014, Paris
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Agenda • Basic Facts • Motivation and Objectives • Concepts and Approach • Interfacing with FIRE Facilities • Use of Linked Open Data • Courses • Summary
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BASIC FACTS
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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/
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Consor4um
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MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
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Mo4va4on (1/2)
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Mo4va4on (2/2)
Mooc Illustration: Adam Simpson
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http://about.futurelearn.com/blog/
Launched September 2013
29 partners – 26 universities
Nearly 400,000 course sign-ups
Over 200,000 registered users
Up to 30,000 learners joining courses this year
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FutureLearn Student Types
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Overall Goal
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FORGE Objectives • Study and develop new processes and approaches to
online learning based on the integration of FIRE facilities and eLearning technologies.
• Inject into the higher education learning sphere the FIRE portfolio of facilities and tools.
• Introduce the learning community to the concepts of Experimentally Driven Research.
• Increase the overall usability and take-up of FIRE facilities through the layering of how-to-use resources over the FIRE platforms.
• “Empower every person to get involved and take control” – increasing the accessibility of FIRE to disadvantaged users
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CONCEPTS AND APPROACH
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FORGE Approach
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Self Regulated Learning
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Flipped Classroom Paradigm
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iTunes U
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OU iTunes U Stats • Open University on iTunes U was launched on
3rd June 2008 • Now 58 iTunes U Courses • 65,138,000 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
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iBook Interactive Demo (ict-forge.eu)
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INTERFACING WITH FIRE FACILITIES
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FORGE Core Architectural Entities
FIRE Courses Widgets FIRE Adapters
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FORGEBox and FORGEStore • Identified major challenges associated with courses • Need for
• A middleware solution to support the hosting of widgets • FIRE adapters
• Identified actors and their support usage scenarios • The need for a sharing repository
FORGEB x FORGESt re A middleware solution enabling FIRE courses
A marketplace for a FORGEBox installation
www.forgebox.eu www.forgestore.eu
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FORGEBox
FORGEBox
Fed4FIRE Portal LMS
eBook
Provide Interactive content (i.e. widgets)
Interface via FIRE APIs
FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed
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FORGE Widgets, Adapters and FIRE Resources
Lab Course, (LMS, iBook)
(3) Interactive Content (JSON/XML)
Resource FIRE Testbed
Control via specific FIRE
tools and APIS, e.g.
FRCP/SFA/SSH Adapter
Adapter Adapter
(Implements specific API, eg OMF, OML, SFA/ RSpec, FRCP)
(2) Request Content (JSON/
XML)
web container
Widget
(1) Get widget Content (HTML5/JS)
Widget Widget
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Web browser
Example: Secure Shell/Logging
Remote machine
FORGEBox
Jetty JavaWebApp
Web resource
Java class
proxy
ssh widget (html/js)
Logviewer widget
(html/js)
Content / web sockets
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• Hosted currently as prototype under www.forgestore.eu
• The central point to share FORGE artifacts: • Widgets • FIRE adapters / FORGEBox Services • Interactive courses
• Manages FORGE artifacts • Provides a single point for FORGEBox
developers • Provides an API for easy access by
FORGEBox installations
FORGESt re
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FORGEStore
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USE OF LINKED OPEN DATA
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• Vision: well connected graph of open Web data
• W3C standards (RDF, SPARQL) to expose data, URIs to interlink datasets
⇒ vast cloud of interconnected datasets
• Crossing all sorts of domains
Domain Number of datasets Triples % (Out-)Links %
Media 25 1,841,852,061 5.82 % 50,440,705 10.01 %
Geographic 31 6,145,532,484 19.43 % 35,812,328 7.11 %
Government 49 13,315,009,400 42.09 % 19,343,519 3.84 %
Publications 87 2,950,720,693 9.33 % 139,925,218 27.76 %
Cross-domain 41 4,184,635,715 13.23 % 63,183,065 12.54 %
Life sciences 41 3,036,336,004 9.60 % 191,844,090 38.06 %
User-generated content
20 134,127,413 0.42 % 3,449,143 0.68 %
295 31,634,213,770 503,998,829 Source: h[p://lod-‐cloud.net/state, September 2011
Linked Open Data
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Uses for Linked Data in FORGE • Courses and course components • Widgets • Experiments • Experimental results • Learning Analytics
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Linked Open Data and Courses • The FORGE courses are described using Linked Data. • The courses are described with the Resource Description
Framework (RDF) language and exposed via a SPARQL Query Language endpoint, allowing users to formulate and run custom SPARQL queries on the FORGE course descriptions.
• The main vocabulary used is the MLO (Metadata for Learning Opportunities).
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Learning Analytics
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COURSES
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First Deployment at Univ of Patras www.forgebox.eu/demo/courses/tcp_congestion.html
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Cisco Networking Academy
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Summary (1/2) • FORGE aims to connect the
communities associated with FIRE and eLearning
• Approach is based upon • New learning paradigms • Rich multimedia interactive eBooks • Widget Store • FORGEBox architecture • Linked Open Data
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Summary (2/2) • Benefits to FIRE include:
• Higher take-up of FIRE facilities by learners
• Sustainability through the use of educational (vs. research) budgets
• Increasing the usability of FIRE through extensive how-to learning resources
• Challenges • New learning paradigms require
‘always on’ infrastructure • Potentially new levels of demand
• The right combination of FIRE and eLearning technologies could prove revolutionary to both spheres