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Ideal solution
This is where we dream about the ideal solution: one versatile platform containing all media that allows students to co-create the course material with the professors and where students can easily communicate with each other on top of the course. Have a look at the COCOON proposal for more information on our vision and the learning benefits such an environment could generate.
Overall, our goal is to reduce the distance between:
- fragments of the course material
- various courses
- the course and the conversation about the course
- pioneers at the UGent (Community of Practice)
- students and fellow-students (learning community)
- students and professors (learning community)
- student feedback and course improvement (co-creation + speed of feedback)
- the course and society
- the UGent and future students
- the UGent and future collaborators
- software and hardware (slides on a mobile device)
Here is a list of the big goals we have in mind that apply to the open webslides, but also to the Jupyter notebook courses and the annotation project.
Open-source mindset
- New mind set for the students (attitudeswitch) in which open is the default: open education, open data, open science. Ideally, open source should be a deal-maker or deal-breaker.
- We have great tools to develop and debug software, why don't we collectively debug courses too?
Co-creation in a learning community
- Courses are no longer a one-way story.
- Students co-create the course and boost each other's learning experience.
- The best teachers learn from their students.
- Course material is no longer a closed off phenomenon, but a portal to society at large.
- Feedback from society quickly reaches the course material (course material is validated and completed in an international context): increased quality and visibility
Technology that aids learning
- Cause a mini-revolution in course materials at the UGent.
- Group assignments get the structure they deserve.
- Integrated course material at the center of the conversation.
- By disconnecting content from layout, a course and the slides could be two sides of the same coin, making the course material truly integrated.
Evidence-based education
- The learning experience of the students is measurable and we can move towards evidence-based education. We are a research institution, right? So this is a logical step!
We could use an illustrator to help visualize this part because a full-fledged version of this technology is currently lacking.
Dare to debate
- annotations can be private or public
- annotations can be made anonymously
Start a conversation
- users can respond to each other's public annotations
- users are notified when their annotations is responded to
- unread annotations are highlighted in the margin of the text and thus automatically draw the attention
Structure the conversation
- annotations can be labeled (e.g., open question, answered question, added material, suggestion for course correction, course notes)
- annotations have their own URL so you can easily link to them
- annotations can be voted on or liked
Filter out what matters
- because the annotations have a lot of metadata we can customize views (e.g. side stream)
- in a separate view, annotations can be listed according to e.g., date, number of responses, number of likes, number of times read.
- users can use multiple filters (e.g., show no annotations, only show my own annotations, only show the annotations made by a specific person (e.g. the professor), only show the unread annotations, only show the personally tagged annotations)
Why this project?
How to implement?
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