edufeedr — tool for open courses with blogs
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Presentation at ITK 2011 conference, 7 April 2011, Hämeenlinna, Finland.TRANSCRIPT
EduFeedr — Tool for Open Courses with Blogs
Hans Põldoja, Teemu LeinonenTallinn University, Aalto University
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(massive) open online courses
Learning content
Student blogs
Course wiki and bloglink and tag
link and tag
link
link
RSS
link
link and tag
link
Problem
How to follow and support learning activities which cross the borders of different Web
2.0 applications?
Vision
Requirements and limitations
• Support for all major blogging platforms using open standards (RSS, Atom, trackback, pingback)
• No special plug-ins should be required on the student blogs
• Only teacher has an user account in EduFeedr, which allows her to modify the EduFeedr settings
• Anyone has read access to aggregated course content
Design methodology
Design methodology
• Lightweight prototyping
• Scenario-based design
• Participatory design sessions
• User stories
• Paper prototyping
Current implementation of
EduFeedr
ManyEyes visualization
Downloads
• OPML file with blog posts feeds
• OPML file with blog comments feeds
• vCard file for Address Book
• Tab separated file with social network data
Current limitations
Current limitations
• Comments feed is currently located only for Blogger and WordPress
• Linking student posts with the assignments
• Linking comments with the participants
• Unrelated posts in the course feed
• Only recent items are available in the RSS/Atom feeds
Future plans
Participant profile
Connecting blog comments with participants
Connecting blog posts with assignments
Using a nickname
Value for the open education
• Directory of open courses
• Learners can create their personal learning environments
• Can be used as a central component of the learning environment or just as an enrollment tool
Thank You!
Hans Põldoja
Research Associate
Tallinn University, Estonia
http://www.hanspoldoja.net
http://www.slideshare.net/hanspoldoja
http://www.edufeedr.net
Follow us:
http://blog.edufeedr.org
Twitter: @EduFeedr