social features in a domain-specific portal about e-learning
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Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
Ramón Ovelar Beltrán, Oskar Casquero Oyarzabal, Manuel Benito Gómez
Virtual Campus – University of the Basque Country
GIEL – ELIT Research Group
EDEN 09 – Gdansk
A brief introduction
► Definition of a new strategy for Pulsar (http://pulsar.ehu.es), a domain-specific portal devoted to the dissemination of news trends and best practices in the field of e-learning
► Description of the procedure followed for moving from an editorial model to a new approach introducing social features
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
Raise awareness of technologies affordances
Build a collection of relevant resources
A gateway to information
about e-learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
All these services are giving shape to new mechanisms for filtering and selecting the
information we consume where
personal networks and community play
an important role
WEB 2.0, API MICROCONTENT,
SYNDICATION,
BARRIERS FOR PARTICIPATION ARE LOWERING
A NEW ATTITUDE:
DIGITAL NATIVES
SOCIAL NETWORKSEMERGE IN THE WEB
ARENA
ONLINE IDENTITY
COMMUNITY: A SOCIAL GATEKEEPER
SOCIAL NETWORKS
BLOGS, WIKIS, BROADBAND…
SOCIAL MEDIA
USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC)
WEB 2.0 SOCIAL NETWORKS
SOCIAL MEDIA
UGC
TRANSFORMING THEMATIC PORTALS INTO
SOCIAL INFORMATION HUBS
A CLOUD OF WEB SERVICES
TOOLS THAT USERS SHOULD
FIND IN A 2.0 PORTAL
RSS FEEDS AGGREGATION APIs
PROFILES OPEN SOCIAL
TAGSRATINGS COMMENTS
¿MODERATION? LIFESTREAM
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
Getting the community into
the process
¿Why users would
contribute?
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
Users need to feel it as useful for
themselves, but also that making a
contribution is worth it, because they are effectively helping their colleagues.
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
Implementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning EDEN 09 – Gdansk
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
► User-generated content and institutional content will be side by side► Mixed authentication system that can be linked to an institutional authentication
systems (LDAP) but offers non-university users the possibility to participate► Two possibilities for users’ contributions: direct contributions (like a recommended
link with a description) and advanced aggregator. These contributions will be tagged by authors (folksonomy)
► A rating system for content and other popularity rankings ► Affordances for sharing and keeping content in external platforms, by shortcut to
social media sites, mail ► A community board displaying users’ contributions, where different tabs will enable
users to check them by popularity, time of submission, tags…► A profile displaying personal information about users but also their last contributions,
in a set of blocks: internal contributions, external contributions, comments…► A social network enabling to set relations with other users, that will also be
displayed in their profiles. A friends’ feed is created with the contributions of these users and will be displayed in a tab included in users' profile
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
► Selection of an open-course CMS Joomla Wordpress Drupal
► Criteria Features Engagement of the community
► Selected tool: Drupal 5 and a set of community contributed modules Best scores for social features and flexible aggregation
► Contributed Modules used (non-exhaustive list) I18n (translation) Views Content Creation Kit (CCK) LDAP FeedAPI
Buddylist Activity Bio Profile
► Issues and challenges A hard work is needed to foster participation and
to build a community (and to maintain it!!!) ¿Do faculties are ready for such information
management tools? ¿Will we be able to grow organically and adapt
our Pulsar features to our users’ likes and dislikes?
Trackability, indicators and data processing
EDEN 09 – GdanskImplementation of Social Features in a Domain-Specific Portal about e-Learning
Ramón Ovelar – Manuel Benito Oskar Casquero
Virtual Campus – University of the Basque CountryGIEL – ELIT Research Group