iple on google apps

A DESIGN OF A POSTGRADUATE COURSE ON GOOGLE APPS BASED ON AN INSTITUTIONAL PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (IPLE)

Victoria Marín and Bárbara de Benito

Grupo de Tecnología Educativa

Universitat de les Illes Balears

THE PLE CONFERENCE 2011Workshop ‘Challenges of Designing and Evaluating Usability and User Experience for PLEs (U2X-4-PLE)’

INTRODUCTION

Experience in a postgraduate course in educational technology

Environment on

Research project One of its lines of research: relevance of PLEs in

lifelong learning

BACKGROUND

PLE: collection of tools, data sources, connections and experiences of activities

iPLE: institutional scope

MeMeTEKA (University of Basque Country)

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THE EXPERIENCE (I)

Research questions How does an iPLE interact with personal

knowledge management? Can an iPLE facilitate the personal organization of

the students’ knowledge? Which methodologies are more appropriate for

the integrated use of an iPLE in a LMS? How does the use of an iPLE modify the didactical

interactions? What is the teacher's role in the use of an iPLE? What are the pedagogical principles that new open

environments might follow?

THE EXPERIENCE (II)

THE EXPERIENCE (III)

Some words about the initial iPLE

ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES

Screenshots of the personal desktop

Statistics about the frequency of visits, devices to access, browsers, and time of performance

Interviews with students

OUTLOOK

This experience is part from a collection of iPLE studies carried out by our group.

We expect to obtain valid and relevant data for research in educational technology related to PLE.

Victoria Marínvictoria.marin@uib.es

GTE home page: http://gte.uib.es

Is it possible to isolate the impact of usability from the impact of content quality (or potentially other factors) on learning efficacy? Why?

If yes, how?

DISCUSSION…

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