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Deliverable 6.3

Final Dissemination Activities Report

Author(s): Evangelia Triantafyllou (AAU)

Emmanouil Xylakis (AAU)

Editor(s): Olga Timcenko (AAU)

Responsible Organisation: AAU

Version-Status: V1 FINAL

Submission date: 31/12/2018

Dissemination level: PU

Disclaimer:

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

D6.3 Final Dissemination Activities Report

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Deliverable factsheet

Project Number: 562236-EPP-1-2015-1-EL-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD

Project Acronym: PBL3.0

Project Title: Integrating Learning Analytics and Semantics in Problem Based Learning

Title of Deliverable: D6.3 – Final Dissemination Activities Report

Work package: WP6 – Dissemination and Exploitation

Due date according to contract: 31/12/2018

Editor(s): Olga Timcenko (AAU)

Contributor(s): All partners

Reviewer(s): UAH

Approved by: All Partners

Abstract: This report presents a final overview of all dissemination activities conducted during the whole project. Analytical information is provided regarding overall dissemination achievements, stakeholders reached and awareness created as well as each partner’s involvement and contribution to the dissemination activities.

Keyword List: Dissemination, dissemination activities, dissemination events, paper dissemination


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Consortium

Role Name Short Name Country

1. Coordinator, academic

partner

University of Macedonia UOM Greece

2. Technology enhanced

learning expert

Open University of the Netherlands OUNL Netherlands

3. PBL expert Aalborg University AAU Denmark

4. Semantic and Learning

analytics expert

University of Alcala UAH Spain

5. IT partner BOC BOC Austria

Disclaimer:



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Table of Contents

DELIVERABLE FACTSHEET ........................................................................................................................ 2

CONSORTIUM ......................................................................................................................................... 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................................................................................................... 4

LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................................... 5

LIST OF TABLES........................................................................................................................................ 6

REVISION HISTORY .................................................................................................................................. 7

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ......................................................................................................................... 8

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................ 9

1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 10

1.1 SCOPE 10

1.2 AUDIENCE 10

1.3 STRUCTURE 10

2 DISSEMINATION EFFORTS EVALUATION FOR THE FIRST HALF OF THE PROJECT ............................ 11

2.1 FIRST HALF ACCOMPLISHMENTS 11

2.2 FOCUS ON DISSEMINATION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS IN THE SECOND HALF 11

3 DISSEMINATION ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................... 15

3.1 EVENTS 16

3.2 PUBLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC MEDIA 22

3.3 WEBSITES 23

3.3.1 Project Website 23

3.3.2 Partners’ websites 27

3.4 SOCIAL NETWORKS 33

3.4.1 Twitter 33

3.4.2 Facebook 34

3.4.3 LinkedIn 36

3.4.4 Facebook group of the Aalborg UNESCO Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering

Education 37

3.5 NEWSLETTER 37

3.6 OTHER DISSEMINATION 40

4 DISSEMINATION MATERIAL .......................................................................................................... 41

4.1 PAPER DISSEMINATION 41

5 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................. 42


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List of Figures FIGURE 1: SOCIAL NETWORKS DISSEMINATION STRATEGY ................................................................................ 12 FIGURE 2: PART OF THE KEY COMMUNITIES FOLLOWED .................................................................................... 13 FIGURE 3: PART OF PROJECTS FOLLOWED ......................................................................................................... 13 FIGURE 4: A SAMPLE OF ARTICLES FOR THE SOCIAL NETWORK STRATEGY .......................................................... 14 FIGURE 5: EXHIBITION BOOTH AT THE 82ND THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FAIR (BY UOM) ........................... 19 FIGURE 6: PRESENTATION FOR THE DANISH LA NETWORK (BY AAU) ............................................................... 20 FIGURE 7: STAND AT BOC STRATEGIC PARTNER MEETING (LEFT) AND POSTER PRESENTATION AT ECEL 2018

(RIGHT, BY AAU) ................................................................................................................................... 20 FIGURE 8: POSTER PRESENTATION AT THE NORDIC LASI 2018 (BY AAU) ......................................................... 21 FIGURE 9: PRESENTATION AT SEFI 2018 (LEFT, BY AAU) AND SPAIN LASI 2018 (RIGHT, BY UAH) .................. 21 FIGURE 10: PRESENTATION AT TEEM 2018 (BY UAH) ..................................................................................... 22 FIGURE 11. AUDIENCE OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT WEBSITE ............................................................................. 24 FIGURE 12. OVERVIEW OF WEBSITE ANALYTICS................................................................................................ 25 FIGURE 13. ACQUISITION OVERVIEW ON PROJECT WEBSITE ............................................................................... 26 FIGURE 14. PAGE VIEWS ON PROJECT WEBSITE ................................................................................................. 27 FIGURE 15. PRESS RELEASE BY OUNL ON THEIR INSTITUTE’S BLOG WEBSITE .................................................... 28 FIGURE 16. PROJECT PRESENTATION ON UOM’S WEBSITE................................................................................. 28 FIGURE 17. PROJECT PRESENTATION ON AAU’S WEBSITE ................................................................................. 29 FIGURE 18: PROJECT PRESENTATION ON BOC’S WEBSITE.................................................................................. 30 FIGURE 19: PBL 3.0 DEVELOPMENT SPACE ON ADOXX.ORG ............................................................................ 31 FIGURE 20: PROJECT PRESENTATION AT UAH HOMEPAGE - NOVEMBER 2018 .................................................... 32 FIGURE 21. PROJECT TWITTER PAGE ................................................................................................................ 33 FIGURE 22. TWITTER ACCOUNT ACTIVITY ........................................................................................................ 34 FIGURE 23. TWITTER ACCOUNT ANALYTICS...................................................................................................... 34 FIGURE 24. PROJECT FACEBOOK PAGE ............................................................................................................. 35 FIGURE 25. FACEBOOK PAGE ANALYTICS ......................................................................................................... 36 FIGURE 26: POST IN THE FACEBOOK GROUP OF AALBORG UNESCO CENTER FOR PBL - JUNE 2018 ..................... 37 FIGURE 27. PROJECT NEWSLETTER .................................................................................................................. 39 FIGURE 28. NOTE SENT TO THE DANISH MINISTER OF EDUCATION MENTIONING PBL3.0 – IN DANISH ................ 40


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List of Tables TABLE 1. LIST OF EXTERNAL EVENTS WHERE THE PROJECT WAS REPRESENTED .................................................. 16 TABLE 2. NUMBER OF PEOPLE TARGETED PER DISSEMINATION EVENT ............................................................... 19 TABLE 3. SOCIAL NETWORKS COVERAGE OF THE PROJECT ................................................................................. 36 TABLE 4. NUMBER OF PEOPLE TARGETED BY PAPER DISSEMINATION ................................................................. 41


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Revision History

Version Date Revised by Reason

V01 30/06/2017 –

20/12/2018

AAU / ALL Gathering of feedback from partners

V1 22/12/2018 AAU Final version ready for submission

Statement of originality:

This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both.

Disclaimer:



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List of Abbreviations

The following table presents the acronyms used in the deliverable in alphabetical order.

Abbreviation Description

LA Learning Analytics

LS Learning Semantics

M Month

PBL Problem Based Learning

WP Work Package


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Executive Summary

The overall aim of the PBL3.0 project is to enhance Problem Based Learning (PBL) with Learning

Analytics (LA) and Learning Semantics (LS) in order to produce a new educational paradigm and pilot

it to produce relevant policy recommendations.

The aim of WP6 is twofold. Firstly, to create awareness on the project and disseminate its progress

and results to the appropriate stakeholders including policy makers, market players and

researchers/academics from the targeted sectors. Secondly, to prepare the ground for the result’s

exploitation after the project end, i.e. open and free distribution of project results to the market

including the ICT industry, the public sector and the academic community.

This report describes the dissemination activities carried out during the project, including

information on, amongst others the websites developed, the social networks accounts established

and how they have been used. The PBL3.0 consortium has been successful according to the

dissemination plan for all the planned activities, and disseminated the project results at international

conferences and symposia, organized workshops and webinars, and reached out to both the PBL and

the LA community. PBL3.0 managed to establish a presence at important social networks, and after a

social networks strategy was designed and implemented, the project became more active in these

media and reached a wider public. The consortium has been attending events as put forward in our

dissemination plan in order to establish contacts with the target groups defined initially. Finally, the

consortium focused on reaching relevant projects and consortia, in order to establish collaboration

networks with our target groups that will continue existing after the end of the project.


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1 Introduction

The aim of this section is to introduce the background of the work pursued within Task 6.2

“Dissemination activities repot”. The scope and the objective that the current document has set out

to achieve are presented in sub-section 1.1. The intended audience for this document is described in

sub-section 1.2 while sub-section 1.3 outlines the structure of the rest of the document.

1.1 Scope

The present document is the Deliverable 6.3 “Final Dissemination activities report” (henceforth

referred to as D6.3) of the PBL3.0 project. The main objective of D6.3 is to present a final overview

of all dissemination activities conducted during the whole project. Analytical information is provided

regarding overall dissemination achievements, stakeholders reached and awareness created as well

as each partner’s involvement and contribution to the dissemination. Furthermore, the report

discusses a social networks dissemination strategy that the consortium undertook in order to reach a

wider audience and improve dissemination through these media.

1.2 Audience

The intended audience for this document is the PBL3.0 consortium, the European Commission, and

the public interested in this project.

1.3 Structure

The structure of the document is as follows:

Section 2 presents the evaluation of the dissemination of the first half of the project and the

social networks campaign that was followed for improving dissemination in such media

during the second half.

Section 3 presents the dissemination activities, such as events, publications, posts on

electronic media, which were carried out during the project.

Section 4 presents how the dissemination material was used during the project.

Section 5 concludes the document by drawing a final evaluation of the dissemination

strategy during this project.


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2 Dissemination efforts evaluation for the first half of the project

2.1 First half accomplishments

At the start of the project, as no results were available, the communication strategy focused on

raising project awareness among the stakeholders community. Then, as first project results became

available, dissemination of project outputs started and lasted until the end of the project period.

As part of the dissemination and exploitation strategy, the project consortium considered especially

important to begin the information gathering process in the early stages of the project (from M1).

This allowed time for actively engaging users and finding ways of generating a feeling of ownership

amongst those people and groups to whom we wished to disseminate and make an impact. During

the first half of the dissemination period, the consortium had already presented the project in 16

events (see Table 1), which demonstrates the consortium’s serious intention to disseminate the

project activities.

During the first half of the project, the consortium has also established its dissemination channels

through a website, a Facebook page, and a Twitter account. In the first half of the project, the

consortium focused on producing results, so there was less focus on the visibility of the project in

these channels. In the second half of the project, the consortium decided to put extra focus on

increasing the visibility of the project on social networks. Therefore, the consortium’s focus during

the second half of the project was to:

- be more active on Facebook, Twitter and the webpage

- deliver content on certain channels such as Vimeo, Slideshare, etc

- maintaining good relationships with the target groups

Regarding the delivery of content on Vimeo, Slideshare etc., the consortium decided that this was

not necessary, since we used the Twitter account for disseminating content. In order to achieve the

first aim, a social network strategy was developed and implemented. This strategy is presented in

the next section.

2.2 Focus on dissemination on social networks in the second half

Initially, the project created accounts in Twitter and Facebook in order to disseminate the project

results in social networks. The two accounts were connected, so that every post on the Twitter

account was automatically published on the Facebook account too. Moreover, the following

agreements were made within the consortium in order to increase the visibility of the project on

these networks. Since not all partners had a Facebook account, we decided to focus on Twitter,

where all partners were active. Besides this, partners adopted the following decisions:

- All partners should aim at producing at least one tweet per week about the project

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- All partners should use the hashtag #pbl30 for single shot activities (e.g. travel,

conference, presentation)

- Every tweet that mentions the project (@PBL3_project_eu or #pbl30) is retweeted

and also distributed on Facebook by all partners, whenever possible.

Regarding the project website, we added a link to the project Twitter and Facebook account, and in

order to make it look more “interactive”, we added a notification section on the webpage that

shows the project’s Twitter account feed. Finally, in order to increase the number of visitors on the

webpage, we agreed that every time the project is mentioned on Twitter or Facebook, a backlink to

the website would be included.

In order to be more active on these accounts, we decided to develop a strategy for creating a

continuous cycle of: selecting social media networks (phase 1), identifying and engaging with the

target audience (phase 2), create content to distribute on social media (phase 3), and distribute this

content (as a campaign with a limited scope – phase 4). When the campaign ends, evaluate

engagement and impact, and start a new cycle of the aforementioned phases (Figure 1).

Figure 1: Social networks dissemination strategy

The strategy was put into action in the end of 2017. At that stage, we decided that the two social

network accounts were sufficient, so we did not create any additional account (phase 1 in the

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Regarding phase 2, the consortium performed a community analysis in order to find projects/key

players to follow and increase its network. We looked in the Erasmus+ repository for finding related

projects, in other Twitter and Facebook accounts, and all partners contributed with knowledge from

their own network. Figure 2 shows a part of the relevant communities identified, and Figure 3 some

of the relevant projects. The project social media accounts followed all key

communities/projects/individual users identified during this analysis. The repository of target

audience was updated throughout the duration of the project by analysing the audience that

reacted or was engaged with the project posts on social networks.

Figure 2: Part of the key communities followed

Figure 3: Part of projects followed

For the phase 3, we extracted parts of the project deliverables that were suitable for posting on

social networks (e.g. figures, graphs, etc.) and created separate posts for each of them. Moreover, all

partners contributed with content related to the methodology and the theme of the project,

resulting in a repository of content to be posted regularly on the social networks. We aimed at

posting at least once per week until the end of the project, and our campaigns lasted for about one

week.

While the strategy was running an assessment of the popularity gained from each of the posts

resulted in discovering the most popular themes within the field. The topics discovered were the

following: educational technology, learning analytics, educational data, problem–based learning,

MOOCs, personalised learning, machine learning in education, and flipped classrooms. Articles

related to the above were therefore posted regularly on our accounts. Figure 4 depicts a sample of

such articles. Moreover, during the evaluation phase new groups and communities were discovered

and followed. Section 3.4 presents the number of users followed, and number of users that followed

the project back on our social network accounts.


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Figure 4: A sample of articles for the social network strategy


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3 Dissemination Activities

At the start of the project, as no results were available, the communication strategy focused on

raising project awareness among the stakeholders community. Then, as first project results became

available, dissemination of project outputs started and lasted until the end of the project period.

As far as dissemination is concerned, the consortium performed the following dissemination

activities:

16 presentations, 3 keynote speeches, 1 invited speech, 2 booths, 3 posters, and 1 panel

discussion at international conferences/symposia

Organization of one workshop during an international summer school

presentations at international workshops

presentations at meetings where relevant stakeholders participated

1 presentation at an international education fair

1 presentation during a webinar

1 exhibition booth at a learning festival

Publication of four scientific papers at international conferences

Participation in two summer schools

Moreover, the following dissemination channels were used:

The project’s website

A Twitter account

A Facebook page

Dissemination material (project logo, leaflet, poster)

In the following, we present more information on dissemination activities and use of other

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3.1 Events

The consortium of this project participated at several types of events organized by the project

and/or third-parties in order to dialogue and network with potential users. Already regular and

widely attended events are unique opportunities to reach and meet targeted communities. The

partners used them to disseminate key results. A list of events where the project was represented

since its official launch on January 1st, 2016 is shown in Table 1. Table 2 presents the number of

people targeted per dissemination event.

Table 1. List of external events where the project was represented

Type

(Conference,

Workshop,

etc)

Name Contribution Date

Conference WELTEN TELI Conference Presentation 18/03/ 2016, Heerlen, NL

Conference 24th International IEEE EDUCON

Conference in Abu Dhabi (United

Arabic Emirates)

Keynote 11-13/04/2016, Abu Dhabi,

United Arabic Emirates

Conference Open Education Global

Conference 2016

Presentation 12-14/04/2016, Krakow, Poland

Conference 11th Laeringsfestivalen

Conference

Presentation 09-10/05/2016, Trondheim,

Norway

Conference 25th European EDEN Conference

in Budapest (Hungary)

Presentation 15-18/06/2016, Budapest,

Hungary

Conference 1st International Lensky Education

Forum

Keynote 15-18/08/2016, Yakutsk, Republic

of Sacha, Russian Federation

Conference UNESCO-IITE Conference Presentation 05-06/09/2016, St. Petersburg,

Russian Federation

Conference 18TH BOC STRATEGIC PARTNER

MEETING

Booth 8-9/9/2016, Vienna, Austria

Conference The 11th European Conference on

Technology Enhanced Learning

(EC-TEL)

Presentation at

Workshop

13 -16/09/2016, Lyon, France

Conference Online Educa Berlin (OEB) 2016 Presentation and Panel

participation

01-02/12/2016, Berlin, Germany

Conference Digital Risks - Digital Chances Presentation 13/12/2016, Sittard, The

Netherlands

Conference OE Global 2017 Presentation 07-10/03/2017, Cape Town,


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South Africa

Conference IEEE EDUCON 2017 Presentation 25-28/04/2017, Athens, Greece

Conference ICALT 2017 Presentation 03/07/2017, Timisoara, Romania

Conference EARLI 2017 Presentation 02/09/2017, Tampere, Finland

Conference iTED Congress Invited speech 21/11/2017, Madrid, Spain

Conference Seamless Learning Conference Poster 08/06/2018, Maastricht, NL

Conference 19TH BOC STRATEGIC PARTNER

MEETING

Booth 13-14/09/2018, Vienna, Austria

Conference 2018 SEFI 46th Annual Conference of

the European Society for Engineering

Education

Presentation 17-21 /9/2018, Copenhagen,

Denmark

Conference 7th International Research

Symposium on PBL 2018

Presentation 19-21/10/2018, Beijing, China

Conference (TEEM'18) Sixth Edition

Technological Ecosystems for

Enhancing Multiculturality

Presentation 24-26/10/ 2018, Salamanca,

Spain

Conference 17th European Conference in E-

Learning

Poster/Presentation 1-2/11/2018, Athens, Greece

Conference 2nd MoodleMoot Greece Conference

Presentation 29 November 2018, Athens, Greece

Fair Annual Moscow International

Education Fair

Presentation 14-15/04/2016, Moscow, Russian

Federation

Fair 82nd Thessaloniki International

Fair

Exhibition Booth 09-17/09/2017, Thessaloniki,

Greece

Festival Denmark’s Learning Festival 2016 Exhibition Booth 15-16/03/2016, Copenhagen, DK

Meeting DUEL-network meeting (Network

for e-learning at Danish

Universities)

Presentation 24/03/2016, Copenhagen, DK

Meeting Danish Learning Analytics Network Presentation 30/10/2018 , Copenhagen,

Denmark

Meeting Transnational meeting of the

Erasmus+ Digital Skills Accelerator

project

Presentation 27-28/11/2018, Lisburn, UK

Summer

Institute

Spain LASI 2018 Presentation 18-19/6/2018, Leon, Spain

Summer Nordic LASI 2018 Poster/Presentation 30/08/2018, Copenhagen, DK


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Institute

Summer

School

12th Joint European Summer

School on Technology Enhanced

Learning

Workshop:

“Integrating LA with

PBL”

18-25/06/2016, Tallinn, Estonia

Symposium Open Education (on occasion of

the 10th Anniversary of the

eLearning Faculty of the Korean

National Open University)

Keynote 12/05/2017, Seoul, South Korea

Webinar Open Education Week webinar Presentation 7-11/03/ 2016

Workshop LAEP/LACE Expert Learning

Analytics Workshop: The

implications and opportunities of

learning analytics for European

educational policy

Presentation 15-16/03/2016, Amsterdam, NL

Workshop IEEE EDUCON 2017

3rd OMI-LAB WORKSHOP Teaching

Conceptual Modelling

Presentation 25-28/04/2017, Athens, Greece

Workshop The Future of Learning and

Libraries (organized by Hogeschool

Zuid)

Invited speech 19/05/2017, Heerlen, The

Netherlands

AAU Internal

Event

AAU Teaching Day Presentation 03/05/2017, Copenhagen, DK

AAU internal workshop

Meeting on the digitization of

studies: PBL and the flipped

semester

Presentation 08/12/2017, Copenhagen DK


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Table 2. Number of people targeted per dissemination event1

Country code: DK

Country code: ____

Country code: ____

Country code: AT

International

Workshop / Seminar

50 150

Bilateral meeting with people outside

the partnership

60 10

Webinar 100

Thematic / Cluster conference

3100

Other: Fair 620 5000

Other: Festival/Teaching

day

200

TOTAL NUMBER 260 670 8360 = 9290

Figures 5 – 10 depict some of the events where the project was disseminated by the partners.

Figure 5: Exhibition booth at the 82nd Thessaloniki International Fair (by UOM)

1 In the interim dissemination report (D6.2), the total number of participants was reported for fairs

and festivals. For the final report, we have corrected these numbers by reporting approximate numbers of participants who visited the booths or attended the presentations.


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Figure 6: Presentation for the Danish LA Network (by AAU)

Figure 7: Stand at BOC Strategic Partner meeting (left) and Poster presentation at ECEL 2018 (right, by AAU)


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Figure 8: Poster presentation at the Nordic LASI 2018 (by AAU)

Figure 9: Presentation at SEFI 2018 (left, by AAU) and Spain LASI 2018 (right, by UAH)


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Figure 10: Presentation at TEEM 2018 (by UAH)

3.2 Publications in scientific media

During the whole period of the project, the consortium published 4 full papers and 2 poster papers,

which presented the project results to the scientific community. These can be referenced as follows:

Zotou M, Tambouris E, Triantafyllou E, Timcenko O, Kofoed L, Stracke C, Riviou K, García Barriocanal

E, Utz W, Martos P, Tarabanis K. (2016). PBL3.0: Integrating Learning Analytics and Semantics in

Problem-Based Learning. Paper presented at The 11th European Conference on Technology

Enhanced Learning, Lyon, France..

Barriocanal, E. G., Sicilia, M. A., Sánchez-Alonso, S., & Cuadrado, J. J. (2018, October). Agile methods

as problem-based learning designs: setting and assessment. In Proceedings of the Sixth International

Conference on Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality (pp. 339-346). ACM press.

Triantafyllou, E., Xylakis, E., Zotou, M., Tambouris, E., & Tarabanis, K. (2018). Applying Learning

Analytics in Problem-Based Learning Engineering Semester Projects. In SEFI annual Conference 2018.

Triantafyllou, E., Xylakis, E., Nilsson, N. C., & Timcenko, O. (2018). Employing learning analytics for

monitoring student learning pathways during Problem-Based Learning group work: a novel

approach. In 7 th International Research Symposium on PBL (p. 542).

Triantafyllou, E., Xylakis, E., Zotou, M., Tambouris, E., & Tarabanis, K. (2018). PBL3. 0: Integrating

Learning Analytics and Semantics in Problem-Based Learning. In Learning Analytics Summer

Institutes (LASI) Nordic 2018.


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Stracke, C. M. (2018). The new paradigm for Problem-based learning with Learning Analytics PBL3.0, In Seamless Learning Conference 2018.

3.3 Websites

3.3.1 Project Website

The project website went online in M3, was regularly updated, and it can be accessed through

http://pbl3-project.eu/. The website contains:

A list of the work package deliverables and milestones of the project

Project news

Info on the consortium partners

Promotional material

The events consortium members participated in.

Contact information

The website has been extended during the second half of the project by including links to:

The final version of all available project deliverables

The Twitter and Facebook accounts of the project

The project’s Twitter account feed

The website statistics as collected by Google analytics are shown in Figure 11, Figure 12, Figure 13,

and Figure 14.

http://pbl3-project.eu/


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Figure 11. Audience overview of the project website


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Figure 12. Overview of website analytics


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Figure 13. Acquisition overview on project website


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Figure 14. Page views on project website

3.3.2 Partners’ websites

In an effort to attract attention to the project, OUNL (Figure 15), UOM (Figure 16), AAU (Figure 17),

and BOC (Figure 18 and Figure 19) announced the initiation of the project on their posting channels.


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Figure 15. Press release by OUNL on their institute’s blog website

Figure 16. Project presentation on UOM’s website


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Figure 17. Project presentation on AAU’s website


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Figure 18: Project presentation on BOC’s website


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Figure 19: PBL 3.0 Development Space on ADOxx.org

The University of Alcala (UAH) mentioned the project on its home page along with an article on the

project results during the 9th plenary project meeting in Alcala (Figure 20).


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Figure 20: Project presentation at UAH homepage - November 2018


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3.4 Social Networks

3.4.1 Twitter

The project employed a Twitter account (@PBL3_project_eu), which posted 270 tweets (Figure 21).

During the second half of the project, the consortium disseminated project results and other

interesting articles on Twitter in order to increase the visibility of the project. The social network

strategy aimed also at the same goal and there was a clear improvement on the activity on this

dissemination channel compared to the first half of the project.

Figure 21. Project Twitter page

The Twitter account activity and analytics for the last 28 days are shown in Figure 22 and Figure 23.


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Figure 22. Twitter account activity

Figure 23. Twitter account analytics

3.4.2 Facebook

The project has also used a Facebook page in order to reach a wider audience. The Facebook page is

shown in Figure 24. Figure 25 shows some analytics on the Facebook page, while Table 3 shows the

social networks coverage of the project.


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Figure 24. Project Facebook page


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Figure 25. Facebook page analytics

Table 3. Social networks coverage of the project

Total number Main countries

involved

International

Number of Facebook

followers

165 DK-GR

Number of Tweets 270 EU

3.4.3 LinkedIn

Towards the end of the project, the consortium decided to establish a LinkedIn group with the aim

to reach professionals and in an attempt to maintain the discussion on LA for PBL after the end of

the project. At the time being, there are 22 members in this group.


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3.4.4 Facebook group of the Aalborg UNESCO Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education

The project has been also presented with a post in the Facebook group of the Aalborg UNESCO

Centre for Problem Based Learning in Engineering Education in June 2018 (Figure 26). The

consortium had an open communication channel with this group throughout the duration of the

project.

Figure 26: Post in the Facebook group of Aalborg Unesco Center for PBL - June 2018

3.5 Newsletter

During the 7th plenary meeting that took place in May 2018, it was decided to enhance our

dissemination activity by a newsletter. The purpose of the newsletter was to inform project

followers of the latest activities in the project, but also to attract new ones. Figure 27 presents the

newsletter that covered was distributed by email to the contacts of all partners (also mailing lists

with thousands of members).


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Figure 27. Project Newsletter


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3.6 Other dissemination

After the presentation of the project for the Danish LA network, the PBL3.0 project was included in a

note on the use of LA in Denmark prepared by the Danish Accreditation Institute and sent to the

Danish Minister of Education (Figure 28).

Figure 28. Note sent to the Danish Minister of Education mentioning PBL3.0 – in Danish


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4 Dissemination Material

4.1 Paper dissemination

During physical meetings and other dissemination events, the consortium has distributed project

leaflets and used project posters. In order to calculate the number of people targeted in these

events, we used rough numbers based on the participation information provided by the organizers

of the events. Table 4 indicates the number of people targeted by the dissemination of the project

results/products/outputs through paper dissemination. For the countries where numbers are

missing, we could not estimate these numbers.

Table 4. Number of people targeted by paper dissemination

Country code:

GR

Country code:

DK

Country code:

NL

Country code:

ES

Country code:

AT

Within the partnership 100

Outside the

partnership

3000 7300 85 243 620

TOTAL NUMBER 3000 7400 85 243 620


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5 Conclusion

In this report, we gave an overview of the dissemination activities carried out during the project. The

PBL3.0 consortium has been very active presenting the project in external events, balancing

activities within the partners, and producing scientific publications on the project results. Moreover,

the consortium managed to establish a presence at important social networks and improved its

activity on these media for reaching a wider public during the second half of the project. The

consortium focused on improving all the issues raised during the interim evaluation and therefore

developed and implemented a social network strategy to improve dissemination activity on those

media. The results show that this strategy was successful.

The dissemination activities performed during the project made sure that the project is well known

now at the target groups as defined in the project application. Moreover, we reached out to various

relevant communities, such as the Danish LA Network, other Erasmus+ projects, and key individuals

on social networks.

deliverable 6.3 final dissemination activities...

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