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

Mooc Illustration: Adam Simpson

1,000,000 FutureLearn sign-ups

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

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

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

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

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Adding a New Widget (1/2)

Adding a New Widget

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

FORGEStore Widgets

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

FIRE Adapters in FORGEStore

Ssh2web adapter

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

FORGEStore Courses

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

FORGEBox

Fed4FIRE Portal LMS

Provide Interactive content(i.e. widgets)

Interface viaFIRE APIs

FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed FIRE Testbed

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

Educa;onal content

Create widgets

Create adapters

Deploy Course

Evaluate Course

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

Transforming Education through FORGE

Technology

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