Presentation made by Jari Järvelä about the Liferay plugin Valamis which turns a Liferay portal into an eLearning platform. He talks about the advantages that Valamis has on traditional LMS and what we can expect in 2014,

1. FUTURE OF ELEARNING
WITH VALAMIS
FUTURE CLASSROOM LAB, 20.2.2014
JARI JÄRVELÄ, ARCUSYS

2. AGENDA
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Background
What is Valamis?
Valamis design goals
Future predictions of eLearning for 2014
Valamis and LMS differences

3. MY BACKGROUND
• eLearning professional since 2000
• Experience on eLearning solutions for
different learning needs and
organisations
• Moodle Certified Teacher
• eLearning platforms used:
– Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT times,
Optima, R5 Generation, Liferay and
Valamis
• Valamis designer since 2010

4. 85
SPECIALISTS

5. THE STORY…
WHAT IS VALAMIS?

6. LMS´S BECAME MASSIVE

7. LMS´S ARE GENERIC ACCROSS
ORGANISATIONS

8. NEED FOR NEW APPROACHES FOR
ELEARNING

9. Valamis is a easy to use learning environment on Liferay platform. Combination
of LMS with collaborative portal-platform provides out-of-the-box experience for
social learning and collaboration.
Liferay and Valamis are commercial open source, where the software is free and
support is subscription based.
Valamis has been used to create scalable Liferay learning environments for large
enterprises.
Official Valamis pages can be found from: www.valamislearning.com

10. VALAMIS FACTS
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Development started in March 2010
Commercial open source
First official release in June 2013
Available from Liferay Marketplace
– Total Downloads: 1810
• Liferay Marketplace App Contest 2013
winner
• Backed up with a Valamis Partnership
program
The
name
”Valamis”
comes
from
Eastern
Finland
dialect
meaning
”completed/ready/done”

11. VALAMIS
DEVELOPMENT GOALS

12. ADVANCE ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT

13. TO PROVIDE RICH LEARNING
EXPERIENCES

14. ENTERPRISE GRADE TECHNOLOGY

15. RELEASE EARLY,
RELEASE OFTEN

16. PORTAL FEATURES

17. Tailorability
Enterprise
level
development
plaCorm
Cost-­‐
effecAveness
Highly
integratable
Liferay
portal
Modularity
Scalability
Flexibility

18. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VALAMIS
AND TRADITIONAL LMS´S
Tradi&onal
LMS
(Moodle,
Blackboard,
Valamis
Saba,
etc…)
Packaged
soFware
–
everything
is
Modular,
also
ability
to
use
modules
also
included
in
the
system
outside
the
system,
Liferay
Markeplace
Focused
on
online
courses
–
other
opAons
Learning
in
different
contexts,
tailored
for
as
well,
but
does
not
scale
that
well
different
pedagogical
processes,
informal
learning
Fits
extremely
well
for
course
based
Fits
well
for
course
based
online
learning,
online
learning,
relaAvely
cheap
to
take
but
there
is
other
opAons
as
well
–
costs
into
use
for
taking
into
use
higher
Costs
for
tailoring
–
high,
limited
opAons
Costs
for
tailoring
–
low,
works
as
an
user
interface
layer
as
well
Standalone
soluAon
Built
on
portal
plaCorm

19. TOP 9 ELEARNING
PREDICTIONS FOR
2014

20. THE TOP 9 E-LEARNING PREDICTIONS
FOR 2014
1.
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9.
Mobile Learning
Social learning and informal learning
Gamification and Game based learning
HTML 5
Rapid eLearning development tools
Responsive eLearning Design
TinCan API/Experience Api
Learning analytics
Video Based learning
Source:
eLearning
industry.
The
Top
9
e-­‐Learning
predic=ons
for
2014.
hCp://elearningindustry.com/top-­‐9-­‐e-­‐learning-­‐predic=ons-­‐for-­‐2014

21. MOBILITY AND RESPONSIVE DESIGN
Out-­‐of-­‐the-­‐box
responsivity
&
mobile
preview
Liferay
Sync

22. SOCIAL LEARNING AND INFORMAL
LEARNING

23. GAMIFICATION AND GAME BASED
LEARNING

24. RAPID ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
& TIN CAN API

26. LEARNING ANALYTICS
Social
analyAcs
of
Liferay

27. VIDEO BASED LEARNING
Liferay
Sync

28. MORE HANDS-ON INFO ON THE DEMO
SESSION

29. QUESTIONS?

30. WE ARE…

31. ME OLEMME