FUTURE OF ELEARNING WITH VALAMIS

FUTURE CLASSROOM LAB, 20.2.2014

JARI JÄRVELÄ, ARCUSYS

AGENDA

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

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

85 SPECIALISTS

THE STORY… WHAT IS VALAMIS?

LMS´S BECAME MASSIVE

LMS´S ARE GENERIC ACCROSS ORGANISATIONS

NEED FOR NEW APPROACHES FOR ELEARNING

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

VALAMIS FACTS

•  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”  

VALAMIS DEVELOPMENT GOALS

ADVANCE ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT

TO PROVIDE RICH LEARNING EXPERIENCES

ENTERPRISE GRADE TECHNOLOGY

RELEASE EARLY, RELEASE OFTEN

PORTAL FEATURES

Liferay  portal  

Tailorability  

Highly  integratable  

Flexibility  

Scalability  Modularity  

Cost-­‐effecAveness  

Enterprise  level  

development  plaCorm  

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VALAMIS AND TRADITIONAL LMS´S

Tradi&onal  LMS  (Moodle,  Blackboard,  Saba,  etc…)  

Valamis  

Packaged  soFware  –  everything  is  included  in  the  system  

Modular,  also  ability  to  use  modules  also  outside  the  system,  Liferay  Markeplace  

Focused  on  online  courses  –  other  opAons  as  well,  but  does  not  scale  that  well    

Learning  in  different  contexts,  tailored  for  different  pedagogical  processes,  informal  learning  

Fits  extremely  well  for  course  based  online  learning,  relaAvely  cheap  to  take  

into  use  

Fits  well  for  course  based  online  learning,  but  there  is  other  opAons  as  well  –  costs  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  

TOP 9 ELEARNING PREDICTIONS FOR

2014

THE TOP 9 E-LEARNING PREDICTIONS FOR 2014

1.  Mobile Learning 2.  Social learning and informal learning 3.  Gamification and Game based learning 4.  HTML 5 5.  Rapid eLearning development tools 6.  Responsive eLearning Design 7.  TinCan API/Experience Api 8.  Learning analytics 9.  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  

MOBILITY AND RESPONSIVE DESIGN

Liferay  Sync  Out-­‐of-­‐the-­‐box  responsivity  &  mobile  preview  

SOCIAL LEARNING AND INFORMAL LEARNING

GAMIFICATION AND GAME BASED LEARNING

RAPID ELEARNING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS & TIN CAN API

LEARNING ANALYTICS

Social  analyAcs  of  Liferay  

VIDEO BASED LEARNING

Liferay  Sync  

MORE HANDS-ON INFO ON THE DEMO SESSION

QUESTIONS?

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