1. e-Hoop Learning Platform Functionalities Prof. Michalis Xenos Dr. Lefteris Kozanidis Eleni Chatzidaki, MSc Hellenic Open University (HOU) “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015

2. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 The blind men and the elephant

3. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 What is e-Hoop?

4. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Unified approach to eLearning: A new educational approach Inserts a new educational approach – Design and create the educational content – Using diagnostic tools for learning abilities/preferences – Categorize learning material with educational type tags – Concerning the different interactivity types of the educational content

5. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Unified approach to eLearning: An ICT educational tool Design and develop a useful educational ICT tool – Extend open source platforms – Design and develop the algorithm Learning Object Sequencer – Develop a useful back-end control panel for educators – Create a fun and creatively learning environment for students

6. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Decision making, design & development

7. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 An overview of e-Hoop: ICT perspective Extended research of e-learning environments Define the specifications of the e-Hoop learning platform Selection of the appropriate technologies (software & hardware) Design the e-Hoop learning environment Implementation of the platform Development of Learning Object Sequencer

8. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015

9. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 System Architecture E-Hoop Platform Back-End Front-End Learning Object Repository Learner’s Profile 9 Admin’s view Educator’s view Learner’s View

10. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 E-Hoop (Front-end)

11. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 E-Hoop database (Back-end) Guru Database e-Hoop database Learners’ Profiling Extensions of the Guru main Database LO to Learners’ Profile Mapping Learning Object Repository

12. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Technical Background of the system

13. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Platform Settings Joomla CMS is used as a base for the administrator control panel in order to manage the content and the users of the learning platform. Guru LMS is used in order to manage the educational content and the users and an extended version of it will be available via LOS.

14. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Why using Joomla? Joomla is an open source, Programmers have the opportunity to develop new components, modules and plugins, Has a huge community of developers, Allows customization, Provides a useful admin tool to manage the content, Is a popular Content Management System with many available components and modules, Accessibility (W3C), Easy to use the administrator control panel, Scalable platform (PHP, MySQL) 14

15. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Why using Guru? Guru is an open source LMS with a huge support community and users, Includes as many as it needs from a LMS tool, Needs few resources concerning server, databases, Allow programmers to make changes inside the source code, Provides many templates for the learning material, Includes a library which store various media types, Useful and simply environment for educators 15

16. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 The added value of e-Hoop unified approach An alternative pedagogical aspect, Diagnostic tools for learning abilities, LOS algorithm for delivery the content, Combination of open source software, Provide a useful tool for educators, Allows customization or/and future extensions. 16

17. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 How assessment process is taking place in e-Hoop?

18. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Diagnostic tools – Profiling the user Self-Declaration MAPS VARK Honey/Mumford Learning Styles

19. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 e-Hoop sample content design e-Hoop 4 th Meeting Patras, Greece 11-12/11/2014 19 Course CategoriesCourseModuleLearning Object Courses Hierarchy : Greek History Greek War of Independence Greek Persian War The Battle of Plataea The Battle of Marathon The Ionian Revolt The Main Battle

20. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Prepare Educational material for all possible users

21. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Sample Content Development – LO cases: Text and images Images with explanation in text format (emphasis on images) Video with images and audio explanation Video with images and text explanation Multiple choice questions (quizzes) – Support all partners languages e-Hoop 4 th Meeting Patras, Greece 11-12/11/2014 21

22. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Sample e-Hoop content Example: e-Hoop 4 th Meeting Patras, Greece 11-12/11/2014 22 Text and images Subtitled video

23. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Different templates are available in e-Hoop learning platform

24. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Learning Object Templates The “Media Library” Different Learning Object Templates are available for educators Templates include different types of learning material Presentation by using different types of views, i.e. visualizations only, text only and all combinations. 24

25. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Lessons: Different types of LO Case: Media & Text

26. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Lessons: Different types of LO Text, Audio, Video

27. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Quizzes

28. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Learning Object Tags Educational type tags: – Talking book – Audio Recording – Large Print – Amplified Speech – Sign Language Video – Lip Reading Video – Subtitled Video – Special Structure – Multimedia Type of interactivity: – Theoretical – Hands-on – Demonstration – Educational game

29. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Educator view – adding tags

30. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Educational tags & Type of interactivity

31. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Users’ group correlate with type of LO Blind Talking book Audio recording Visually impaired Talking book Audio recording Large screen Blind Talking book Audio recording Visually impaired Talking book Audio recording Large screen ADHD Talking book Audio recording Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Demonstration ADHD Talking book Audio recording Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Demonstration Learning disability Talking book Audio recording Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Demonstration Learning disability Talking book Audio recording Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Demonstration Dyslexia Talking book Audio recording Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Demonstration Dyslexia Talking book Audio recording Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Demonstration Deaf Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Hearing impaired Deaf Large screen Subtitled video Multimedia Hearing impaired Visual Preference Adaptable for V Aural Preference Adaptable for A Mixed Visual Aural Preference Adaptable for AV Visual Preference Adaptable for V Aural Preference Adaptable for A Mixed Visual Aural Preference Adaptable for AV

32. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 The Learning Object Sequencer (LOS) Algorithm functionality 1.The core algorithm of the e-Hoop learning – platform 2.Chooses the most appropriate view of a learning object for a student according to his learning preferences 3.It uses a scoring function that depends on 1.Annotation of educational material 1.Educational type tags 2.Type of interactivity tags 2.Student type Preference tags

33. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 LOS architecture Function : Select the appropriate education material per Learner Input: 1.Current User Profile (via diagnostic tools) 2.Existing Learning Material 3.Learner to Type Descriptor (of LO) Mapping 4.Learning Progress Output: filtered LO sequence 33 e-Hoop 4 th Meeting Patras, Greece 11-12/11/2014

34. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 e-Hoop sample content design 34 The templates for creating Learning Objects – are stored at the back end repository - “Media Library”. Course Categories CourseModuleLearning Object Courses Hierarchy : Greek History Greek War of Independence Greek Persian Wars The Battle of Plataea The Battle of Marathon The Ionian Revolt The Main Battle

35. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Learning Object Tags Educational type tags: – Talking book – Audio Recording – Large Print – Amplified Speech – Sign Language Video – Lip Reading Video – Subtitled Video – Special Structure – Multimedia Type of interactivity: – Theoretical – Hands-on – Demonstration – Educational game

36. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Educator view – adding tags

37. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 LOS algorithm functionality

38. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 The algorithm Select all possible learning objects from lesson Choose only the learning objects of the desired language Score all learning objects taking into consideration user Preference Choose the Learning object with maximum score

39. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Greek Persian war Selection of the appropriate educational material by LOS: An example of Greek History course Persian Invasion Ionian revolt Audio RecordingLarge printVideoSign language video Appropriate selection of LO

40. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Student view

41. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Student view The functionality of e-Hoop LOS algorithm is totally invisible for a Student Student Just Connects to System – Answers some profiling questions [ only 1 st time] – Chooses the desired lesson The LOS algorithm chooses which of the available views bests fits his learning preference

42. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Which is the added value of e- Hoop platform? Mapping of users’ profiles with the appropriate educational content, Integration of various evaluation tools concerning users’ learning abilities, The develop of LOS, a plugin which select and present the appropriate educational content for the students, Provide a helpful tool for educators, Allows customization or/and future extensions. 42

43. “Unified approach to eLearning: Making education more inclusive through ICT” Filoxenia Conference Center, Nicosia, Cyprus 12/11/2015 Thank you! Contact: Web site: http://quality.eap.gr