Steve and I talk about the concept of PLEs, which includes physical and virtual spaces and tools. We also show how increasingly the institutional learning environment is opening up with project such as Bboogle and Google/Moodle integration. We final present our vision of how things may be and infact we can see some examples of such learning environments already (Sakai 3.0 OAE, Canvas) that can be classed a Open and Cloud based learning environments.

1. Cloud Learning EnvironmentsGoogle Apps for education UK user group – Feb 2011 Manish Malik, Uni. of Portsmouth, U.K. Steve Wheeler, Uni. Of Plymouth, U.K.

2. Overview of talk Personal Web Tools (PWTs) Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) BB, Moodle and Sakai GApps within Faculty of Technology, Portsmouth Survey results Google and VLEs BB9.0 , Moodle 2.0, Instructure (Canvas LMS) How things may look in future – Pure CLE? Q &A

3. PWTs, PLEs and PLNs Personal Learning Network Personal Learning Environment Personal Web Tools

4. Personal Web Tools Generating Content cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2009 Sharing Content Organising Content

5. Personal Web Tools Generating Content Communication –no walled gardens cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2009 Sharing Content Organising Content

6. Personal Web Tools Generating Content Blog Mashup cc Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2009 E-portfolio Wiki Tagging Sharing Content Organising Content

7. CMS or VLE? VLE/LMS/CMS? Personal Learning Network Personal Learning Environment Personal Web Tools

8. BB9/Moodle 2.0 Google Integration Personal Learning Network VLE/LMS/CMS Personal Learning Environment Personal Web Tools

9. Bboogle:Motivation ‘Why Google Apps in Blackboard? To leverage the collaboration features offered by Google Apps To provide data sharing capabilities in Google Apps not implemented in Blackboard. To allow students to see class activities integrated into their personal calendars. To offer wiki features via Google Sites To model an approach to sharing that is common in many scholarly communities To offer instructors an easy means of providing information that integrates seamlessly into the students’ information environment’ (Sourcehttp://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/bboogle/docman/?subdir=200 )

10. Moodle:Google Moodlerooms and Google have worked together to build a state of the art integration. The 1.0 version of the integration provides: 1. Moodle users are automatically created in Google Apps (Google Docs, Calendar, and Gmail). 2. When you log in to Moodle, you are automatically logged in to Google Apps. 3. A Gmail block in Moodle displays your latest Gmail messages when you login to the Moodle Front Page. 4. A Google Apps block on the Moodle Front Page displays links to your Google Start Page, Google Docs, Google Calendar and Gmail. 5. A Google Widget shows a link to Moodle on the Google side. Source: http://code.google.com/p/moodle-google/

11. GApps for Edu=PWTs? Personal Learning Network VLE/LMS/CMS Personal Learning Environment GApps =PWTs?

12. GApps for Education:Faculty of Technology, UoP, A Survey 64% student respondents happy to use the new domain/email. They check their mails on Gmail (Uni one) instead of forwarding to Gmail (own account). Student like it as they can keep all Uni mail in one place. 32% using one or more Gapp tools to reach out to their PLNs. 16% using the tools at PWTs, the other 16% using the tools with their academics. Demand for more academics to use GApps noted in the survey. 19% use it for non-academic use. 73 respondents – however low response rate was noted.

13. So from… Personal Learning Network VLE/LMS/CMS Personal Learning Environment GApps =PWTs?

14. To this…Future of VLE? Personal Learning Network Personal Learning Environment Cloud based Open Learning Environments

15. Canvas, Sakai 3.0 or GApps based VLE? Canvas – Quick look Sakai 3.0 - Every thing is Content – Open Academic Environment – FB like feel – PLE / PLN - ILE Assignment Handler – Gapps – Quick look.

16. MetaphoriCLE “When there is a new environment, for example barren rock, a few pioneer species, such as lichens begin to grow.” – CMS as the Pioneers. “The acid from these decomposes some rock particles, and their own death creates a coarse soil. This is suitable for mosses, which require little soil” – PWTs making inroads into CMS. “In turn these decompose to enrich and deepen the soil, until it is suitable for some grasses to grow. The process ends with the establishment of a stable, climax community.” – Dawn of CLE or Open VLEs? From Martin Weller’s Blog http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2010/07/succession-and-the-art-of-stretching-a-metaphor.html#comments

17. Thanks for listening Now your turn to speak! Questions?