WP6. Demonstration Organized showcases, workshops, and public appearances D 6.2 Report

Dissemination strategy To stimulate adoption of Social Semantic Web (SSW) technologies and the OP4L approach To gather feedback for the additional validation of the pedagogical assumptions and further improvement of the supporting services.

Dissemination strategy establishment and maintenance online presence on the Web - different social media dissemination within institutions of the project partners; publication of research results in journals and conferences; organization and development of Web presentations, demos, and videos that demonstrate the research results achieved; presentations and showcases at conferences and exhibitions; organization of workshops; networking with other research groups and projects.

Presentations and showcases Universities and Conferences 1/ –IEEE International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference, September 2011, Portorož, special session on Online Presence for Learning, organized by Matjaž Debevc (UM team). –INFOFEST, presented the project and the activities conducted, Budva, October 2-7th, 2011 –Moodle Moot, December, FOS, Project coordinator invited - session on integration with other platforms, December 2011 –19th International Conference on Computers in Education, Chiang Mai, spread the OP4L idea and results to the Asia-Pacific region, December 2011

Presentations and showcases Universities and Conferences 2/ –IT 2012 Conference, Special sessions about EU Projects, a demonstration of the OP4L prototype; Representation was organized for students’ representatives; UNIM received the invitation for the IT2013, 2012, February 27, –The Université de Lorraine, OP4L project presented, March 2012 –SIRIKT 2012, held on UM, Paper “Online Presence in Education”, March 21-24, 2012, –International Conference for Informatics and Information Technology (CIIT 2012) in Bitola, Macedonia - Paper,,Online Presence for Learning’’, April 19-22, 2012 –CIUEN Conference, Lyon, FOS, invited speaker Social Semantic Web as a Novel e-Education Platform, April 2012

Presentations and showcases Universities and Conferences 3/ –UHP - Monique Grandbastien, invited panelist on Emerging Web Technologies workshop, presented OP4L results April 2012, –University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg (Fachhochschule Salzburg) – students presentation –Technics and Informatics in Education Conference (TIO 2012), Paper Using social networks to improve collaboration in learning environments & Short demonstration June 2012, –(Upcoming) RecSys 2012 workshop in Saarbrücken, September 2012 –(Upcoming) TICE 2012 conference, Lyon, December 2012.

Presentations and showcases Universities and Conferences 4/ –(Upcoming) “Usability of Personalized Learning Environment”, (UM&FOS team) the IEEE International Conference ERK 2012, in September 2012, Portorož –(Upcoming) “The Effects of Using Social Media as a Communication Tool in Collaborative Learning”, E- Internationalization for Collaborative Learning (EICL) to be held in October 2012 in Crimea –(Upcoming) “Motivational Support for Collaborative Learning in Online Learning Environment”, Conference on Education in the Information Society (VIVID 2012) in October 12th, 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia (UM team)

Presentations given at workplaces Application Case 4 – FOS: –Applying the OP4L approach to workplace learning in terms of self-directed and collaborative “getting to know about new things” and “deepening one’s knowledge about existing things”. A presentation of OP4L services has been organized to employees of National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and Institute of Demography (ID), Belgrade, Serbia,

Workshops and networking with other research groups Social Learning group from the Graz University of Technology. December 2011, - Consider all possibilities to start collaboration on the PLEs in the near future Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Department of Knowledge Technologies) - online presence ontology raised a special interest and was seen as a possible field of future collaboration UHP - The personal data modeled and used in the OP4L project will be revisited in new framework together people from LORIA and researchers from human sciences labs about “digital identity”. Tempus project “Enhancing the quality of distance learning at Western Balkan higher education institutions”, - To increase the effectiveness and quality of DL by applying OP4L services. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), Department MTEC. The concept of Online Presence, was seen as a possible solution for future project collaboration with institutions from Switzerland.

Appearances in TV programs National TV Network of Serbia Prof. Vladan Devedzic, Network’s TV show about the TEL perspectives t, September 2011 Serbian Local TV station Galaxy 32, Čačak, Serbia TV Show “Summer semester” about research and education themes and application cases, March 2012, Atlas TV network in Montenegro, Prof. Vladan Devedzic, Ivana Ognjanovic, and Ramo Sendelj, December 2011, Broadcasted several times.

Contacts with student organizations FOS team has presented the project to their local student organization The UKIM-FEEIT - presentation of the project to the students at the Human-Computer Interaction class; a group of students was involved in the project and formed the second group from UKIM-FEEIT involved in project evaluation UM team has presented the OP4L project to students in the field of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Some of students have decided to participate in project testing. Members of IEEE student branch section of Slovenia have been reached at two conferences.

Networking with several important issues are recognized in OP4L and that overlap and can contribute to each other extensive talks on possibilities how to increase the effectiveness and quality of DL by applying OP4L services are performed during the eLearning conference in Belgrade in September 29, 2011, both project teams were present and took active discussion

Networking with OP4L services can be successfully included in the current practice of using distance learning in higher education OP4L services can significantly increase the collaboration and cooperation of students, thus having direct impact on the effectiveness of learning processes

Include FB module in accredited distance learning study programs - Moodle online courses will promote inclusion of OP4L services to support accessibility for all (students with disability) developed Guidelines for the implementation of DL study programs at the university level, containing section for student collaboration: OP4L services are suggested to be incorporated in online courses to enhance collaboration is developing online course for e-tutors, and OP4L services could be implemented BADEN – Balkan distance education network to promote and offer OP4L services