Meetings

Nancy, France, Feb 15-16, 2011 - kick-off meeting

The kick-off meeting had to be postponed for several months due to the delay in the payment of the first installment. Since the funding organization insisted on keeping the project starting and ending dates in spite of the delay, electronic communication and teleconferencing was used during the first 5 months for communication and in order to keep up with the scheduled project activities. The partners have agreed to keep the meetings' schedule as suggested in the proposal, and to move the "missed" kick-off meeting in Belgrade, Serbia (originally scheduled for Sep 2010) to a future date, when the project activities create a need for it.

The topics discussed during the meeting were:

• online presence & context-aware learning – general idea and state-of-the-art
• online presence & context-aware learning – ideas and scenarios for further development
• project management issues
• ideas worth implementing (brainstorming session)
• partners' responsibilities in each WP
• To-Do list for the next 3 months

A detailed Gantt chart with all the project activities was adopted by all partners.

Presentations

• Online Presence for Learning – project background
• University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Maribor, Slovenia

Skopje, FYRM, May 30-31, 2011 - working meeting

The working meeting in Skopje was scheduled to coincide roughly with the completion of the first phase of prototype development, so that demonstrations and discussions could be conducted. In addition, several deliverables have been completed in between and have been presented and discussed. Specifically, the topics discussed during the meeting were:

• project snapshot (current status) – activities, communication, participation, and administration
  • D1.1 - presentation, discussion, lessons learned
  • D1.2 - presentation, discussion, lessons learned
  • D1.3 - presentation, discussion, lessons learned
  • D2.1 - presentation, discussion, lessons learned
  • D3.1 - presentation, discussion, lessons learned
  • D3.2 - presentation, discussion, lessons learned
• prototype development
• project management issues
• partners' responsibilities in each WP
• To-Do list for the next 3 months

Presentations

• D 1.1: Social Semantic Web technologies and tools and their educational applications
• D 1.2  Personal Learning Environments – underlying pedagogical approaches and initial experience
• D 1.3  The role of online presence in online learning environments
• D 2.1  Pedagogical Framework
• D 3.1  ICT Models in OP4L
• D 3.2  Recommendation of relevant learning resources
• Conditional_S-AHP_and_Learning_Environment_ppt.pptx

Portoroz, Slovenia, September 20-21, 2011 - working meeting

The working meeting in Portoroz was scheduled to coincide with the Twentieth IEEE International Electrotechnical and Computer Science Conference (ERK 2011). It has been suggested by the partner from Slovenia (University of Maribor), who was involved with the conference organization, and who took care of using the conference for a suitable dissemination of the project results. Since the interim report has been submitted to DLR meanwhile, the meeting in Portoroz was also an opportunity to make an overview of the activities in the firste reporting period, as well as to carefully plan the forthcoming activities. Specifically, the topics discussed during the meeting were:

• project snapshot (current status) – activities, communication, participation, and administration
  • D4.1, prototype software, demonstrtion and discussion: DEPTHS PLE integrated with the chosen social software tools (Facebook, Twitter)
  • D4.2, description of the prototype software (presentations given at ERK 2011, see below)
• WP4, task T4.4, prototype evaluation at partners' institututions
• WP5, full-scale development
• WP6, demonstration
• WP7, dissemination
• partners' responsibilities in each WP
• project management issues
• To-Do list for the next 3 months

Presentations given at ERK 2011

• V. Devedzic - TEL Research Projects (invited paper)
• I. Ognjanovic, R. Sendelj - Making judgments and decisions about relevant learning resources
• Z. Jeremic, N. Milikic, J. Jovanovićc, F. Radulovic, M. Brkovic, V. Devedzic - OP4L Online Presence Enabled Personal Learning Environments
• N. Milikic, F. Radulovic, V. Devedzic - Infrastructure for Exchanging Online Presence Data in Learning Applications
• I. Kozuh, M. Debevc - Usability and Flexibility of Web Services for Older Users
• V. Damjanovic et al. - Semantic Enhancement: Key to Massive and Heterogeneous Data Pools

Presentation related to dissemination plan

• OP4L project dissemination

Salzburg, SRFG, December 05-06, 2011 – working meeting

The working meeting in Salzburg was scheduled in a way to cover specifically organized event called “Meetup: Online Presence for the PLEs”, in addition to the discussions around the project development and particular managerial issues. The topics discussed during the meeting include the following:

1.       DEPTHS/OP4L prototype evaluation: current state and future steps

• FOS: Pre-evaluation performed; Full evaluation is planned by the end Feb 2012
• UKIM: 20 students involved in evaluation; the first meeting with the students is planned to happen in  the second week in December
• Maribor: evaluation is planned to be done in March2012 – approx. 100 students; 
• UNIM: summer semester; approx. 20 students;  
• UHP: ask for preparing tutorial for students ;

2.       Recommendation algorithms:  two directions in implementation: (a) regression algorithm (observe students activities based on existing data, e.g. one working day), (b) recommendation based on requirements (AHP algorithms) (both planned to be implemented in March 2012)

3.       Other scenarios for learning/recommendation:  integration of Twitter (not yet done);  

4.       Responsibilities for the implementation: Facebook (TFC), Foursquare (UNIM , end of January 2012), Twitter; integration of existing Moodle msg systems into recommendation system (by using the same module (TFC); 

5.       OP4L demo sessions:

• tutorial at ICCE2011 (Thailand) was well accepted;
• UKIM will participate to the conf in Bitola;
• SIR ICT in Mart 2012 (paper recently submitted) (Kranska Gora);
• UNIM presentation at the conf in Zabljak will be in Feb 2012;
• ICALT 2012 - short paper or poster
• WWW 2012: two workshops
• ICL 2012: http://www.icl-conference.org/icl2012/DL: 14 May 2012
• SRFG – send information about dissemination of the OP4L at the course 3ASWS (Uni. Of Applied Science, Salzburg)

6.       DEPTHS demo added to the OP4L project website

7.       C4LPT: learning repository --- still not contacted

8.       Ines Kozuh (Slovenia) presented “Evaluation for the OP4L project” – SUMI: software usability measurement inventory – measures user satisfaction (global, efficiency, affect, helpfulness, control, learnability) (81-item instruments, 7-point Liker scales) (ppt slides)

9.       Status of Deliverables and future steps:

• D5.1 (Software: to finalize the DEPTHS) (DL: end of Feb)
• D5.2: Document describing the major points of the implementation work and major findings of the conducted evaluation  (DL: end of Feb)
• D6.2 Reports from the organized showcases and workshops (end of Sept. 2012)

10.   NOTE (UHP): Funding – to check whether the OP4L can use funding after the of the July 2012

11.   Next OP4L meeting will take place in Cacak, Serbia (TFC): 11/12 April 2012

12.   The OP4L meeting in Montenegro (UNIM): Bar, approx. 20 of June 2012

Meetup “Online Presence for the PLEs” (05^th of December, 12:30-17:30)

Two colleagues from the Social Learning group at the Graz University of Technology, Martin Ebner and Behnam Taraghi, joined us for this event to represent their PLE called “My TU Graz”: http://ple.tugraz.at/index.php/users/index?ref=wall

Afterwards, Zoran Jeremic (FOS) represented PLE developed at the FOS, called DEPTHS: http://learningdesignpatterns.org/depths/

The discussion was about the future steps planned to affect both PLEs. Sandra Schön (our third guest from SRFG, former e-Learning group) suggested the concept of ad-hoc networks (Open University the Netherlands). Behnam (Graz) suggested the Role project: http://role-showcase.eu/ - Role’s chat widgets and recommendation algorithms. Thus, UNIM presented their recommendation approach, while UHP presented recently published work onregression algorithms which are using Kalman filters to observe user behavior within a particular time (e.g. one day of use). University of Graz (Social Learning group) and the members of the OP4L project agreed to watch on each other’s activities and find a way to start real collaboration in the future.

Presentations

• Evaluation for the OP4L project
• Automatic tracking and control for web recommendation

Cacak, Technical faculty, March 19-20, 2012 – working meeting

The working meeting in Cacak was organized as a regular project meeting to discuss the project status and particular managerial issues. The topics discussed during the meeting include the following:

1.      OP4L software evaluation: current state and results

a.       FOS: Full evaluation is performed from December 2011 - February 2012 (presentation attached)

b.       UHP: Demonstration and evaluation survey results
http://prezi.com/i191dbazrgma/op4l-evaluation-some-results-from-nancy/?auth_key=cca4a557645e29868557e6f411dbca0f56bac04e

c.       UKIM: 22 students, on-going evaluation, methodology presented, will be finished till the end of March (presentation attached).

d.      UM: Evaluation will be done at May.

e.      UNIM: Evaluation is planned for June and September with another adaptation algorithm implemented

2.      Status of Deliverables: WP5 finished, yet still some evaluation to be finished and result processed.
D5.2: Document describing the major points of the implementation work and major findings of the conducted evaluation – to be finished

3.      Demonstration and dissemination activities:

UKIM – UKIM University conference April 2012, ICTAkt Conference Ohrid, beginning of September.
UM - Kranjska Gora conference, end of March 2012,
TFC – TV Čačak regional science programme March 2012, TIO conference June 2012, Čačak
UHP – Nancy, IT and social tools April 26, 2012, several days event
UNIM – IT conference in Zabljak, February 2012, Infofest Montenegro, end of September
UKIM - presentation to HCI students / end of April

4.      Deliverables - future steps: To-Do till June 25/26, 2012:

a.      D5.2 Major points of the implementation work and major findings of the conducted evaluation (at UKIM in June, at UM in May, UNIM in June)

b.      D6.1 (Application cases)

c.       D6.2 Reports from the organized showcases and workshops ( deadline end of September 2012) – each partner should send one page of performed disseminations till June 20.

d.      D7.2: Project’s profile on social media tools and services  - to promote and do some updates

e.      Some software modifications, fixing bugs, and problems, adaptation for Slovenian evaluation to meet specific requirements.

f.        Activities concerning evaluation results processing, preparing journal papers...

5.      Project management issues:
To check the dates when the final report has to be finished, short discussion on final report and money issues. Not sure what are Consumables and supplies expenses.

6.       Next OP4L meeting will take place in Montenegro (UNIM): 25/26 June 2012 .