Since 2006, Paris Descartes University has been using Elgg, an open source social networking platform, as a tool for all faculty members and students called Carnets2 Descartes. Carnets2 is used for any activity: from teaching and research to non-academic activities. Students learn how to manage their digital identity and to advertise their skills at the university level and also openly. Student articles and documents can be browsed and reviewed by any faculty members as a first move to social learning. An Elgg module has also been developed for mentoring student training. Carnets2 will soon be open to alumni. Carnets2 has been defined by the University President as a strategic tool for building a strong academic membership and strengthening the bonds between faculty, students and alumni. The next steps will be to develop better interaction / integration between Carnets2 and uPortal / Moodle.
3. Université
Paris
Descartes
Health and Human Sciences
10 Colleges, Institutes, Schools and Departments
38,000 students
2,180 faculty
2,150 academic and library staff
109 Master’s degrees
11,000 degrees granted every year
200 PhD granted every year
1,300 researchers
82 research labs
4. Université
Paris
Descartes
Management
Biomedecine
Maths & Computer Sci.
Human & Social Sciences
Medecine
Pharmacy
Psychology
Sports
Odontology
Law – Economics
6. Agenda
1 Definitions (3)*!
2 Carnets2 Descartes (19)*!
3 Social network and communication strategy (5)*!
4 Social network in the Information System (9)*!
* (slides number)
7. 1
Defini9ons
Nodes (individuals or organizations) which are tied
by one or more specific types of interdependency!
Web 2.0 : users creating and sharing information!
Huge number on networks on Internet!
Ref : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
9. Famous
examples
Since when ?!
> 20 years
news:
irc:
gopher:
A well-known social network!
JASIG
Jasig.org - newsletters - blogs - mailing lists !
10. 2
Carnets2
Descartes
Born 2006 in the “ICT for Ed” (TICE) Service!
Strong editorial strategy!
Evolution is user feedback centered!
Carnets2 are based on the Social Network Open
Source Elgg platform
11. From
RenéD.blogs
to
Carnets2
Descartes
Start 2006 : blogs farm
License degree
hGp://blogs.univ-‐paris5.fr
« Webmaster & Community Manager »
2007 – 2008
First educational applications and enhancement
of the community production
2008 – 2010
Collaborative diary
April 2010 – December 2010
hGp://carnets.parisdescartes.fr
Beta test of a social ecosystem
anuary 2011
J
The official University Social Network
13. Paris
Descartes
Social
Network
Publications (blogs, events, bookmarks) and
personal pages of all the actors within the university!
14. Academic
life
Thematic groups : associations, research, teaching
A friendly collaborative space for sharing and working!
15. A
dedicated
blog
space
:
MundiVox
International student blogs : foreigners in Paris ;
Parisians abroad
Following the mobility of students!
16. Research
work
display
Create a group for research labs
Share scientific news
Announce seminars and conferences
Broadcast calls to papers!
17. Towards
professional
networks
Participate, share, comment, recommend, answer
Prepare your employability by displaying your skills!
18. Building
blocs
Profils
Groups
Contacts
Articles
Doxuments
Bookmarks
RSS
Tags
Comments
Recommendations
feeds
19. Create
a
professional
digital
iden9ty
Enhance practice, skills and professional project
Build a public page by aggregating contents!
20. A
personal
page
A do-it-yourself page!
A minima : a profil!
WIDGETS : OpenSocial / RSS!
Carnets2 internal contents !
Academic contents!
Contents from RSS feeds!
Goal : to value ones skills!
21. A
profil
(demo)
Fields filled by oneself (except Name and Firstname)!
All informations displays are filtered via access lists!
24. Groups
The creator manages the group!
Public, restricted or private views of all objects!
A group identity page!
Publication tools and collaborative work!
28. The
success
Key
?
Find a Community Manager !!
! !
Responsible for the editorial line!
A moderator, not a censor!
Collects the users needs!
Member of the project steering board!
29. 3
Social
Network
and
communica9on
strategy
Impact on society!
Individual / corporate!
The fearsome social network : !
31. Social
Network,
pedagogy
and
employability
Manage the progress in the learning : diary!
Validate skills according to standards : !
! competence skills / training objectives!
Develop skills and experience: !
! Social Learning : mentored internship!
! Employment search !
32. Students
&
Carnets2
A challenge for training and support to digital uses
and legal concepts :!
To show themselves without interfering = active
digital identity!
Learn to manage their digital traces!
Responsible for their own articles, comments!
33. Strategy
Carnets2 has been defined by the University
President as a strategic tool for building a strong
academic membership and strengthening the bonds
between faculty, students, alumni and partners. !
34. 4
Social
Network
in
the
Informa9on
System
The Network is not another Web application!
New actors! !
Informations and process flux : !
! RSS / portlets / widgets!
Files & Groups management!
35. Not
another
Web
applica9on
The social network is a platform such as the portal
or the LMS!
Elgg is a true development framework!
36. Cartography
Faculty!
Staff!
Students!
Alumni!
Public!
SOCIAL
WEB
SITE
LMS
PORTAL
NETWORK
Services = Web apps
CAS
LDAP
Enteprise
Media
MS
STUDENT
HR
DMS
IS
IS
37. New
actors
Alumni!
Guests (companies, HR, …)!
University clusters => Identity federation!
Internship tutors!
Jury members!
…!
38. Alumni
Problem : !
The alumni leave University and the IS. They
loose control of their page and their products in
the Social Network.
How to reactivate their access and for what
services? Legal Issues!
The cheater syndrome : easy account reactivation
39. Flows
et
process
The skills ePortfolio as an example
Widget!
SOCIAL
PORTAL
NETWORK
Students! Students!
Alumni! Tutors!
Public! Councellors!
40. My
two
dreams
as
a
user
Where and how do I save : !
! my personal files ? !
! my academic documents ? !
! my educational contents ?!
Where and how do I create or get my groups ?!
41. Files
management
User space!
Enterprise Document MS (Nuxeo)!
Media repository (Media2)!
A unified interface for uploading in Carnets2 and
Moodle ? !
42. Groups
management
Need to synchronize groups creation !
and modification :!
! !
! Portal (ENT)!
! Social network (Carnets2)!
! LMS!
! Enterprise Document MS (Nuxeo)!
! Media repository (Media2)!
! …!
! !
Grouper ? FIFER ? !
43. References
elgg.org / elgg.fr communities!
Journées Numériques 2011 (in French !) !
! #JNUM11 !
! April 7 et 8, podcast soon available!
tutoJRES 15 (more technical)!
! 2011 March, 23 mars!
44. Thanks
to
the
staff
Sophie
Mahéo
Carnets2
Community
Manager
Yann
Sallou
Carnets2
Lead
Developer