Elearning OpenMinded Extending ILIAS to Open Learning Environments

E-learning Open-Minded Extending ILIAS to Open Learning Environments ILIAS Conference Budapest November 13, 2009 Sabine Piribauer, via donau Anton Edtmeier, FH Steyr EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission

Agenda • Company Profiles – via donau – FH Steyr • Project Overview EWITA • Didactical Concept – Course of action – Target group-based approach – Live demonstration • LMS ILIAS – Open Content • European Content Repository • Preview EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 2

via donau is. . . • . . . the Austrian national waterway operator • . . . owned by the Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology • . . . responsible for 351 km of the Danube waterway Waterway administration & maintenance Development of inland navigation Traffic management EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 3

Sites via donau 260 employees EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 4

FH Oberösterreich – Campus Steyr Anton Edtmeier e. Learning Coordinator, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, School of Management - Steyr • 10 Bachelor and Master degree courses (ca. 1200 students) • ILIAS LMS since 2004 • ca. 700 ILIAS - courses/term • EWIT/EWITA-Project: – partner for e. Learning requirements; setup, customizing of ILIAS-LMS – user-group: study degree course ‚International Logistics Management‘ EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 5

PROJECT OVERVIEW EWITA European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 6

Short Facts • Proposed in the 1 st call of the Marco Polo-II Programme of the European Commission – Common Learning Action • Project Duration: 01/06/2008 – 31/05/2010 • Builds on the results of predecessor project e. WIT – 1 st version of European Concept (didactical framework) – Prototype INe. S for the Danube region (based on ILIAS) • 9 Partners: via donau (AT), Imagination (AT), SPB (NL), EIA (int), FH Steyr (AT), Imagination (AT), PBV (BE), Ceronav (RO), ROC Zeeland (NL), Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa (DE) • 36 Participants within Industrial and Educational User Forums EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 7

Industrial and Educational User Forum • Partners from the industry and schools signed a letter of commitment • Support of the conception of the e-learning platforms – by participating the particular workshops – by testing the e-learning platforms – by giving feedback • Use of e-learning platforms for education and training • Lobbying and promotion of the e-learning platforms EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 8

Components of EWITA European Content Repository INe. S Danube INe. S RMS LMS ILIAS – Open Content Didactical Concept Heterogeneous Target Group EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 9

DIDACTICAL CONCEPT EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 10

Course of Action 1. Experiences from the predecessor project e. WIT and it‘s e. Learning platform INe. S – Inland Navigation e. Learning System EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 11

7 Topics 3 Levels EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission = 21 Courses 12

Access • Registration at www. ines. info – Free of charge for all interested • Access to the beginners’ courses of all 7 learning topics – Higher levels can be reached by passing tests • Creation of individual “learning groups” – Educational institutions: Integration of INe. S in tuition – Practitioners: On-the-Job-Training EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 13

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Course of Action 1. Experiences from the predecessor project e. WIT and it‘s e. Learning platform INe. S – Inland Navigation e. Learning System 2. Identification of expectations and requirements of potential user groups • User Forum Workshops • Questionnaires EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 21

User Forum Workshop • Participants: – Educational Institutions – Practitioners • Structure of Workshop – Initial Phase Welcome, Introduction e. WIT/EWITA, Role of User Forums, Introduction INe. S – Group Phase Evaluation of INe. S with a checklist (topics, preparation of topics, pictures, animations, complexity, learning path, design, missing content) EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 22

Results • Overall positive feedback • Next to English further languages are missing • Restricted access to higher levels is a domineering over the user • Introduction course (teaser) with only basic content is missing • A lot of topics available, but only a small amount adressable during tuition • Additional topics • Certification welcome EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 23

Impressions EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 24

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Identification of Content • Questionnaire for members of User Forums – ‚old‘ INe. S content – Rating topics from 3 – very important to 0 – not important EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 28

Identification of Content • Result of questionnaire was a rating of topics for the target groups: – dark gray topics are very important, – light gray topics are important and – white topics are not important for the specific target group EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 29

Course of Action 1. Experiences from the predecessor project e. WIT and it‘s e. Learning platform INe. S – Inland Navigation e. Learning System 2. Identification of expectations and requirements of potential user groups • User Forum Workshops • Questionnaires 3. Definition of the didactical framework for the INe. S platforms EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 30

Target group-based Approach EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 31

Live Presentation Basic Course EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 33

LMS ILIAS – Open Content EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 34

EWITA - Open Content • provision of Learning. Modules/SCORM-Modules on 2(+) ILIAS ‚INe. S‘- platforms INe. S-Rhein-Maas-Schelde INe. S-Danube EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 35

EWITA - Open Content Access to content beyond ILIAS-LMS: • other LMS Personal Learning Environments: • Individual collection of tools and (web) services to support formal and informal learning (Blogs, e. Portfolio, …) EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 36

EWITA – Open Content further requirements: • making content available for usage outside ILIAS – LMS • search for content on all ‚ines‘-platforms • searchable for Metadata harvester • exchange content for re-use/re-authoring for project partners EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 37

European Content Repository EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 38

EWITA – Content Repository INe. S-Rhein-Maas-Schelde INe. S-Danube EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 39

Content Repository • Content Repository: general term used for digital archives • Different applications and functions (depending on the kind of object): – Publishing server (documents, scientific papers, libraries) – Image database – Collections, museum – e. Learning content EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 40

Content Repository • Publish: – Export Metadata from LMS to Content Repository – Store Metadata according LOM Standard including Copyright Information • Retrieve: – full text search and customized search as well as browsing of content repository in various categories • Re-use: – pre-view of content and download for re-authoring EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 41

Content Repository for EWITA • using existing Repositories (Take. Shape. Share, …) – free available, avoid double registrations • using ILIAS as Content Repository – missing interface for metadata harvester (OAI-PMH) • FEDORA (open source software) – SWITCH-LOR (suisse national federation of repository systems) – University of Vienna („Phaidra“) • Dspace (open source software) EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 42

Fedora Commons Repository Software • Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture • developed at Cornell University (Open Source) • Digital objects, relationships and behaviors (services) • Core Repository service with defined APIs • Supporting services and applications – OAI-MPH EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 43

EWITA Content Repository Layout INe. S-RMS, INe. S-Danube (ILIAS-LMS) Content Repository, based on Fedora Export-adapter: export metadata from ILIAS to CR Educational institutions, Learners , . . search for learning content Metada harvesting (OAI-PMH) EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission other content repository 44

Preview INe. S-Danube for countries in Danube region: • Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, Project NELI • Cooperation-Network for logistics and nautical education focusing on Inland Waterway Transport in the Danube corridor supported by innovative solutions • EU - South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme (SEE) • 15 Institutions from 8 countries • April 2009 – March 2012 • www. neliproject. eu EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 45

Contact Sabine Piribauer via donau – Österreichische Wasserstraßen-Gesellschaft mb. H A-1220 Wien, Donau-City-Straße 1 Tel +43 50 4321 1405, Fax +43 50 4321 1050 sabine. piribauer@via-donau. org, www. via-donau. org Anton Edtmeier Fachhochschule Oberösterreich – Campus Steyr A-4400 Steyr, Wehrgrabengasse 1– 3 Tel +43 7252 884 3060, Fax +43 7252 884 3499 anton. edtmeier@fh-steyr. at, www. fh-ooe. at www. ewita. info EWITA - European Web Platforms and Training Concepts for Intermodal and Inland Waterway Transport funded in the Marco Polo II Programme of the European Commission 46