1. ATENEA UPC
AND THE NEW "Activity
Stream" or "WALL" FEATURE
Jesus Alcober (jesus.alcober @ upc.edu)
Oriol Sanchez (oriol.sanchez @ upcnet.es)
Javier Otero (javier.otero @ upcnet.es)
Ramon Martí (ramon.marti @ upcnet.es)
July 2012

2. ATENEA UPC service evolution
(2005-2011)

3. Nowadays, there are …
new students,
new ways of communication,
new collaboration tools,
new ways to
consume information, …

4. Social Learning
Teaching to students 2.0
How We Learn… *
Informal vs. formal
Feedback and
observing and
20% working with
Personal
role models
70% Connecting
Formal
10% training
Collaborating
Real life and on-the-job experiences, Real time
tasks and problem solving
* http://www.princeton.edu/hr/learning/philosophy

5. In February, 2012…
EETAC – First pilot school in UPC
with “Activity Stream” or “Wall”
500 users
142 subjects
6 degrees

6. 3 contexts “Activity Stream”

7. Add message and response

8. Information shown within the
messages

9. Activity Stream – Home Page

10. Activity Stream - Course

11. Activity Stream - Group

12. Some figures
FEB MAR APR MAY
Total questions 34 149 113 232
Total responses 24 88 110 272
Total subjects 17 37 36 41
Total different users Q/A 34 115 89 124
Total groups 8 29 17 18

13. In April, 2012…
EETAC – Second pilot
with Twitter and “Activity Stream”
25 users
2 subjects
1 degrees

14. Two ways of “Activity Stream” feed using Twitter
Twitter
hashtags set
up in course
parameters
Twitter subject
account; i. e. hashtags #upc
@EETAC_GXPS #gxps
from a registered
user
Twitter course
account set up Twitter user
in course account set
parameters up in user
profile

15. Some conclusions
• Several students “discovered” that they
could initiate AS this way
• The AS has become the integrating stream
of all the information related to the subject
• Partially, this information comes from the
public Twitter
– where another group of alumni can interact as
well
• The Twitter course account has become a
tool to compile all the interesting
information on the subject, not only
manually
– For example , Twitterfeed or ifttt allows to feed
the Twitter account and, hence, the AS with
interesting blog entries on the subject
• Twitter has become another learning activity
– For example, “twitify” a technical paper or
publish final reports

16. In September 2012…
“Activity Stream” or “Wall” extended to UPC
2.500 academic staff
4.000 subjects
and …

17. MAX and SOMUPC
Flexible and modular architecture
organization
somupc
systems MAX
Atenea
Subscription Organization
etc.
and activity systems
core
personal mobile
services devices
Twitter social
etc. networks
somupc
Concept design

18. #thankyouforyourattention
Jesus Alcober (jesus.alcober @ upc.edu)
Oriol Sanchez (oriol.sanchez @ upcnet.es)
Javier Otero (javier.otero @ upcnet.es)
Ramon Martí (ramon.marti @ upcnet.es)
July 2012