campus libre

Campus Libre

an analysis of a flexible environment

Isabelle Quentn - RMLL juillet 2011

Campus Libre: a project of EducOOo.org

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The goal of EducOOo

Is to link the Open Office Project with the Educational World :

• To create a community of teachers who use EducOOo's suites

• To provide a sharing space of pedagogical resources

• To provide a technological environment for blended-learning


Plan presentation

The context of Campus Libre creation

The need to (re)think educational systems during the next decade

The functionalities of Campus libre

A free and flexible environment based on Chamilo (open source e-learning and collaborative platform)

What do teachers do or don't do on Campus Libre ?

And tomorrow …


The educational system reform: some points of convergence

• The necessity for learners to develop new skills

– To manage in a connected world

– To manage with the mass of information

– To solve complex problems

• The necessity for countries to reduce public deficit

• The rise of blended-learning

(Christensen, 2010; Horn & Staker, 2011) Isabelle Quentn - RMLL juillet 2011

The need of personalizationDifferent ways of learning : Gadner (2006) listed 8 intelligence forms :

– Linguistic : the ability to think in words (Walt Whitman)

– Logical-mathematical : the ability to calculate and quantify (Albert Einstein)

– Spatial : The ability to think in 3 dimensional ways (Franck Lloyd Wright)

– Bodily-kinesthetic : The ability to manipulate objects (Michael Jordan)

– Musical : The ability to distinguish and create melodies (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

– Interpersonal : the ability to understand and interact with others (Mother Teresa)

– Intrapersonal : the ability to construct an accurate self-perception (Sigmund Freud)

– Naturalist : the ability to observe patterns in nature (Rachel Carson)


What does Campus Libre look like ?

A flexible environnent


All teachers can subscribe to Campus Libre, whatever:-The level of teaching-The subject of teaching


An example


To share multimedia's artifacts:

To build a glossary:


To interact with others (newsgroup and chat)

And to collaborate (wiki), to evaluate (survey), to plan project, etc...

Teachers can also visualize some indicators like :The time spent on courses by each studentThe progress of working of each studentThe degree of student participation

And teachers can receive an automatic alert if some students have been non active


What do teachers do on Campus Libre ?

• There are 144 teachers registered: 24 of them have created at least 1 course (17 %)

• There are 92 courses hosted on Campus Libre

– Subjects : disciplinary courses, computing sciences, tutorials on EducOOo.org software, etc…

– 609 pedagogical resources, 100 newgroups and 268,817 clicks


What do the actve registered teachers do?


Most of registered teachers only use Campus Libre to share pedagogical resources

About the invisible


Methodology : - An online survey- Directly posted to invisible registered members- 11 answers (9 %)

The frequency of visits :

What do Campus Libre represent for the invisible members ?

- Most of the teachers only see Campus Libre as a pooling space- 3 of them seem not to understand what is Campus Libre


Nb %

A pooling space 5 46 %

A practcal space 1 9 %

Open source value 2 18 %

Don't know 3 27 %

Total 11 100 %

What are the reasons for not participating ?Nb % obtained on

CL% obtained by

Preece & al.

Others have already answered or posted before me 3 27 % 8.1 %

I have nothing to add to what has already been published 0 0 % 9.6 %

Reading comments or publicatons is enough 2 18 % 23.1 %

I dare not 1 9 % 12.3 %

I haven’t had tme to understand the rules 3 27 % 12.9 %

I wish to remain anonymous 0 0 % 6.6 %

I tried to publish but I could not 0 0 % 3.4 %

I never had the intenton to partcipate 2 18 % 5.8 %

There is no obligaton to publish 2 18 % 9.4 %

Postng does not bring me anything 0 0 % 4.8 %

I do not recognize myself in this community 3 27 % 3.2 %

Total 16 100 % 100 %

Conclusion

For the inactve members

We need to :

•Explain what is the purpose of Campus Libre

•Clarify the rules

•Keep them on stage by giving regular informaton

For the actve members

We need to :

•Create and share some scenarii of using

•Improve the indexing of resources


Establishment of the Campus Libre Team to work :

Thank you !


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