EILE

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• EILE The Enhanced individualized
• learning environment for identity

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EILE Purposes 1

• The Enhanced Individualized Learning Environment
  (EILE) is aimed to provide the learning frame in
  which tutor and student can interact across the
  barriers of time and distance, in order to
  support and guide the student in the
  individualized learning required by the
  educational process.
• EILE valorizes the postulates of the current
  learning approaches (constructivist and
  socio-cultural), that propose knowledge
  construction by interaction with the information
  and the social environment. E-learning favors
  theoretical knowledge construction and limits
  psychomotor skill formation, which represent a
  strong inconvenient in the technical disciplines.
  This difficulty is diminished by the VR tools,
  which offer multi-sensorial information and allow
  object manipulation and activity simulation in
  the VR environment.

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EILE Purposes 2

• EILE will be dedicated to endorse the
  asynchronous learning part, without
  time-constraints, also untied to space or
  mobility restrictions distance-learning and
  ubiquitous (mobile) m-learning, respectively.
• EILE provides each student and tutor with a
  tailored panel to identify the students
  learning needs and the adequate adjustments and
  to assure an efficient progress of each student.
• EILE also provides each student with access to
  the VR-LRC needed to learn to the fullness of
  their individual ability.

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EILE Development

• Actions in the development of the EILE
• The choosing of Moodle as base platform
• Customizing the look-and-feel of Moodle
• Creating a personalized theme for the project, in
  accordance with the projects website
• Incorporating into the personalized design the
  graphical and text elements required for Minerva
  projects
• Research regarding the possibility of creating a
  Tailored Panel in Moodle
• Research on the API (Application Programming
  Interface) offered by Moodle to the developers
• Developing the Tailored Panel as a block element
  of Moodle.

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Why choosing Moodle for the EILE?

• The EILE is based on Moodle LMS
• Moodle is the new standard in the LMS world
• it is an Open Source software package
• over 36,094 instances in more than 196 countries
• is hosting a total of 1,554,459 courses for more
  than 15,617,065 users
• speaks more than 70 languages
• it is used by thousands of universities
  world-wide
• most of the partners in the Identity project
  already use Moodle.

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Screen capture of EILE
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The Tailored Panel 1

• The EILE offers to the Tutors and Students a
  Tailored Panel a tool for identifying the
  students needs and allowing a good and efficient
  way of communication between the student and the
  tutor
• The Tailored Panel has 3 faces
• one for the student the Student panel
• one for the tutor the Tutor panel
• one for the administrator of the EILE the Admin
  panel.

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The Tailored Panel 2

• Tutor panel includes the following major
  functions
• module-course information
• student assistance
• student progress reports
• best practice guide
• resources (VR-LRC) access.
• Student panel includes the following major
  functions
• learning information
• progress information
• best practice guide
• resources (VR-LRC) access
• contacts (tutors, students, administrative desk).
  

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The Tailored Panel 3
Tutor name
Objectives Pre-requests Milestones Reports
description

• learning information
• -Course 1
• Course 2

• Student assistance
• -student 1
• student 2

Adding new resources for students
VR-LRC
Best practice guide
Recommendations concerning reports preparation

• Student progress reports
• -student 1 report 1, 2.
• student 2

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Tailored panel development 1

• Moodle allows the developer to write its own
  blocks panels
• The PHP code its placed in a file in the
  blocks folder of Moodle than the block is
  recognized by the platform
• Moodle offers many API functions for extracting
  the information contained by the system about the
  teachers, the students and the courses

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Tailored panel development 2
The list of courses the logged Teacher tutors
Documents concerning the elaboration of reports
for evaluation. Section Misc contains documents
regarding general guidelines.
Integration with the VR-LRC
The list of reports from students the tutor
will be able to grade them
Un-answered questions from the students
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Tailored panel development 3
List of existing courses
The student uploads reports for the tutor to
grade
Integration with the VR-LRC
Documents concerning the elaboration of reports
for evaluation
The student can ask questions to the courses
tutors in which he is enrolled
List of contacts contains a static part with
the contact data of general interest (like the
administrative desk) and a contact for enrolments
in courses.
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Tailored panel development 4

• The Admin panel will allow the administrator to
  add the static contact data.
• Status of development
• The tailored panel its in development and will
  be ready on the 15th of January 2008.

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Proposal of the integration between theTailored
Panel and the VR-LRC

• The steps for importing a SCORM ZIP file into
  Moodle
• the user searches in the VR-LRC the file he wants
  and downloads it onto the users hard drive
• the user adds an activity of type SCORM to its
  course, providing for upload the ZIP file.
• We propose to define and develop, together with
  DIBE, a mechanism of searching/browsing the
  VR-LRC and importing the SCORM ZIP files directly
  into the Moodle platform, all through the
  tailored panel.

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VR-LRC integration
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Activities for all the partners

• Each partner must insert at least one
  course/course module into the EILE until the 15th
  of February 2008
• Also, each course must use some resources from
  the VR-LRC
• The EILE will be used to teach some courses in
  the 2nd semester
• A guide for working with courses in the EILE will
  be provided.

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