future of elearning with valamis
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Presentation made by Jari Järvelä about the Liferay plugin Valamis which turns a Liferay portal into an eLearning platform. He talks about the advantages that Valamis has on traditional LMS and what we can expect in 2014,TRANSCRIPT
FUTURE OF ELEARNING WITH VALAMIS
FUTURE CLASSROOM LAB, 20.2.2014
JARI JÄRVELÄ, ARCUSYS
AGENDA
• Background • What is Valamis? • Valamis design goals • Future predictions of eLearning for 2014 • Valamis and LMS differences
MY BACKGROUND
• eLearning professional since 2000 • Experience on eLearning solutions for
different learning needs and organisations
• Moodle Certified Teacher • eLearning platforms used:
– Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT times, Optima, R5 Generation, Liferay and Valamis
• Valamis designer since 2010
85 SPECIALISTS
THE STORY… WHAT IS VALAMIS?
LMS´S BECAME MASSIVE
LMS´S ARE GENERIC ACCROSS ORGANISATIONS
NEED FOR NEW APPROACHES FOR ELEARNING
Valamis is a easy to use learning environment on Liferay platform. Combination of LMS with collaborative portal-platform provides out-of-the-box experience for social learning and collaboration. Liferay and Valamis are commercial open source, where the software is free and support is subscription based. Valamis has been used to create scalable Liferay learning environments for large enterprises. Official Valamis pages can be found from: www.valamislearning.com
VALAMIS FACTS
• Development started in March 2010 • Commercial open source • First official release in June 2013 • Available from Liferay Marketplace
– Total Downloads: 1810
• Liferay Marketplace App Contest 2013 winner
• Backed up with a Valamis Partnership program The name ”Valamis” comes from
Eastern Finland dialect meaning ”completed/ready/done”
VALAMIS DEVELOPMENT GOALS
ADVANCE ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT
TO PROVIDE RICH LEARNING EXPERIENCES
ENTERPRISE GRADE TECHNOLOGY
RELEASE EARLY, RELEASE OFTEN
PORTAL FEATURES
Liferay portal
Tailorability
Highly integratable
Flexibility
Scalability Modularity
Cost-‐effecAveness
Enterprise level
development plaCorm
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VALAMIS AND TRADITIONAL LMS´S
Tradi&onal LMS (Moodle, Blackboard, Saba, etc…)
Valamis
Packaged soFware – everything is included in the system
Modular, also ability to use modules also outside the system, Liferay Markeplace
Focused on online courses – other opAons as well, but does not scale that well
Learning in different contexts, tailored for different pedagogical processes, informal learning
Fits extremely well for course based online learning, relaAvely cheap to take
into use
Fits well for course based online learning, but there is other opAons as well – costs for taking into use higher
Costs for tailoring – high, limited opAons Costs for tailoring – low, works as an user interface layer as well
Standalone soluAon Built on portal plaCorm
TOP 9 ELEARNING PREDICTIONS FOR
2014
THE TOP 9 E-LEARNING PREDICTIONS FOR 2014
1. Mobile Learning 2. Social learning and informal learning 3. Gamification and Game based learning 4. HTML 5 5. Rapid eLearning development tools 6. Responsive eLearning Design 7. TinCan API/Experience Api 8. Learning analytics 9. Video Based learning Source: eLearning industry. The Top 9 e-‐Learning predic=ons for 2014. hCp://elearningindustry.com/top-‐9-‐e-‐learning-‐predic=ons-‐for-‐2014
MOBILITY AND RESPONSIVE DESIGN
Liferay Sync Out-‐of-‐the-‐box responsivity & mobile preview
SOCIAL LEARNING AND INFORMAL LEARNING
GAMIFICATION AND GAME BASED LEARNING
RAPID ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS & TIN CAN API
LEARNING ANALYTICS
Social analyAcs of Liferay
VIDEO BASED LEARNING
Liferay Sync
MORE HANDS-ON INFO ON THE DEMO SESSION
QUESTIONS?
WE ARE…
ME OLEMME