Hi all,
I finished my thesis some months ago but never thought before about sharing it with the Moodle community in a place like this.
So anyway, here it is. I hope someone find it useful and/or interesting!
http://e-spacio.uned.es/fez/eserv.php?pid=tesisuned:IngInf-Ltorre&dsID=Documento.pdf
Luis, hi
struggling to open the doc here...any chance of a new link....is it possible to have an English version too.
I very much look forward to reading it!
cheers,
Dawn
Luis, hi
got the doc and skimmed through with the pace of a cheetah!
Thanks ever so much for sharing this and congratulations.
I think it is worth celebrating the key messages in the work...and yes going to attempt to do that here.
With teacher's hat on then, in other words, looking at it from that angle.
The work offers a structured framework for creating web experimentation portals involving tools that can create virtual research labs-creating portals based on LMS (Moodle, in this instance).
Four issues identifed in the lit in relation with LMSs per se.
-reusability
-interoperability
-collaborative activity
-and convergence
The work offers a solution for easy integration between VRLs and Moodle in terms of reusability and collaborative issues
Four Moodle plug-ins came out of the work, in order to reach the goal of presenting a framework that offers the architecture, tools and procedure for creating web experimentation portals with collab virtual and remote labs in 'an easy way'.
EJSApp
-one click deployment of VRLs into Moodle
-Block plug-in that supports cloud storage: data shared online on the LMS server= flexibility for students to access their work
-Collab sessions synchronous collab VRLs deployed into LMS (Moodle) in conjunction with 'online user' and 'messages' features (built in blocks)
-Inter-operability use with third party apps, so between simulations managed in Moodle by EJSApp and third party moodle plug-ins
AND THOSE FOUR PLUGINS SUPPORT A VARIETY OF LEARNING PEDAGOGIES
Future: to create a repository plug in for EJS apps.
Phew!Now shared with community......shout if I have it wrong!
Dawn
Hello Dawn,
I'm glad you could finally get the document and had the opportunity to read it.
Thank you very much for your comments. You didn't have it wrong.
Now, the repository plugin for EJS apps is already done and we published it a few months ago. You can find it here: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=repository_osp
Cheers,
Luis,
I omitted the reason why I was able to do a speedy read-through! Extremely well written account, very accessible.
Congrats on following through with the work.
Next-publish eh...be a shame not to, you have a sound methodology.
cheers,
Dawn