DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS …

1 IMCL & ICBL 2017 DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS AND ONE GOAL (an improvisation from a managerial point of view!) Ana Pavani Member IEEE LAMBDA/CCPA Pontif cia Universidade Cat lica do Rio de Janeiro Brazil Thessaloniki, Greece A traditional view of the university Brick and Mortar Classrooms Halls Libraries Laboratories Auditoria Offices Dorms Cafeteria .. Contents Books Journals Maps Manuals Theses Dissertations Monographs .. Players Students Instructors Researchers TAs Lab technicians Administrative staff.

2 Goals Create Disseminate Enhance the learning process A current view of the university with the same goals! Players Students Instructors Researchers TAs Lab technicians Administrative staff Content experts Instructional designers Web designers IT support team .. ICCT Supported Infrastructure added to brick & mortar LMS Learning Management Systems Classrooms Virtualrooms Remote Labs (an environment for students, instructors and TAs) Chats Discussion forums Bulletin boards Mailing lists Scheduling Agenda.

3 Information, Communication and Computational Technologies. Froyd, 2012. IR Institutional Repositories (to manage contents) RL Remote Labs (the equipment + software) General purpose numeric solution software products (MATLAB , Maple , SciLab , ) Specific numeric solution software products (CircuitLab , LTSpice, Cadence , LabView ..) Networks Administrative systems .. Digital contents added to traditional collections eBooks Online journals Hypermedia learning objects Simulator learning objects Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality objects Games Apps Online tests Online maps Online manuals.

4 A personal view of ICCT suported learning ICCT supported learning must integrate the DIFFERENT aspects of the life at the university so that students and instructors can seamlessly migrate among SOLUTIONS to best suit their needs. The integration is to be provided by the university with the necessary technological solution(s) and team. Hardware, software and peopleware. Kelmanson, 199x An initial assumption: Learning Environment + Digital Library This combination is universal for all areas of learning not only to S&T When students are far from the university, they may want to access text books, references, articles, etc Contents that are in a library may be used by anyone and not only the students in a class Contents on a digital library (IR) have only one instance Courses can point to contents instead of storing them on folders no replications!

5 New or revised editions are updated only once New or revised editions in a library become accessible to all users at the same time Is this the only solution? Surely not!! There are DIFFERENT types of SOLUTIONS to choose from: On-premise LMSs an institutional installation of Moodle is an example SaaS LMSs software as a service to be hired from a vendor Cloud-hosted LMSs similar than the SaaS but with wider services Each institution must define the best solution according to its profile. There are many LMS SOLUTIONS some examples: Moodle ( ) is the most popular and widely used open source solution Blackboard ( ) is a commercial and widely used solution Canvas ( ) is a commercial cloud-based product There are many IR SOLUTIONS some examples.

6 DSpace ( ) is the most popular and widely used open source solution Eprints ( ) is the oldest and a very used open source solution Digital Commons ( ) is a hosted commercial solution developed at UC Berkeley Each institution must define the best solution according to its profile. Can two open source SOLUTIONS be integrated? Yes! Some one must decide to do it The original SOLUTIONS will be lost and a new product will have to be supported Going back to The Maxwell System is An Institutional Repository (IR) A Learning Management System (LMS) As an IR it manages.

7 All courseware for the LMS they are items of a digital collection and course independent A collection of 4 interactive books A small collection of Research Data (13 data sets) A collection of scholarly communication with over 16K items (ETDs, monographs, articles, journals, etc) Registered at the Brazilian Patent Office # 990003015 on Nov 19, 1999. As an IR it: Is compliant with DCMES (ISO 15836) Is an OAI-PMH data provider Assigns DOIs to ETDs, monographs, senior projects, data sets, articles, numbers and journals As an LMS it: Is compliant with PUC-Rio administrative system Offers three learning environments: Classroom (to support face-to-face courses), Virtualroom (for b- and e-learning) and Remote Lab Has the functions of traditional LMSs.

8 Activities scheduling, agenda, chat, discussion forums, mailing list, bulletin board, mini CV, photos, etc Offers administrative functions to instructors grades, resources usage, etc Was integrated with SciLab to offer students online simulations designed and implemented by faculty and interns Allows online tests to be performed (MathML was implemented to allow expressions to be used) Started in 2016! All functions did not come at the same time: 1995 first item of the courseware collection (Z Transform) From 1995 to 1999 enhancement of the functionality 1999 registered at the Brazilian Patent 2000 the ETD (Electronic Theses and Dissertations) collection was launched 2001 PUC-Rio helped found and joined the Brazilian union catalog of ETDs 2002 the OAI-PMH Protocol for Metadata Harvesting was implemented 2003 PUC-Rio joined NDLTD the international union catalog of ETDs 2003 Revista escrita (journal in literature)

9 Started being published 2006 interactive books started 2009 accessible to the blind and visually impaired was launched 2011 series publications and El trica On-line started 2011 - first on-line extension courses 2013 additional series of courseware started preparing 2014 blended-learning (b-learning) added to support traditional courses 2015 integration with SciLab to offer online simulation from the system 2015 first data sets made available 2015 PUC-Rio joined CrossRef and DOIs started being assigned 2016 VISIR (a Remote Lab) was integrated to the system 2016 a special shortcut was added to access OER Open Educational Resources available on the IR ( ) Where can we find OER?

10 Some examples of OER in S&T: AGORA Ayuda a la Gesti n de Objectos Reutilizables de Aprendizage ( ) ARIADNE Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Networks for Europe ( ) BIOE International Database of Educational Objects ( ) Coursera ( ) edX ( ) Fondation unit Universit Num rique Ing nierie et Technologie ( ) NSDL National Science Digital Library ( ) MERLOT Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching ( ) MOOC T cnico de Lisboa ( ) OpenStax CNX ( )