Current version of iCampFolio

First prototype of the iCampFolio consists of three views:

• the Tools view comprising a list of names of building blocks covered by the iCampFolio. For each of these, affordances are stored with the respective numerical value.

• the Affordances view consists of an initial list of affordances with a description.

• the Ontology view displaying the selection status of building blocks based on chosen affordances. The ontology view can be used as a selector tool enabling prior exploration of different building blocks, which have been added to the portfolio of tools beforehand according to different pre-determined numerical values as affordances. The values reflect the building blocks‘ capabilities to support these affordances.

The applications of iCampFolio are twofold: it can be used as the basis for instructional design by facilitators and learners in different e-learning setting in new learning landscapes, and it could support the software designers with the knowledge for developing the learning software towards the formation of the flexible selectable interoperable sets of tools for different learning challenges in iCamp Space.

Information for programmers

iCampFolio is an open source product (released under LGPL license) that can be downloaded here. iCampFolio is a Plone Content Management System extension product, where Plone CMS runs on Zope. iCampFolio consists of two main components: Zope product that has been built to enable the usage of Plone framework and full integration with Plone and Java applet used for the visual ontology-enabled side. It is possible to disengage the iCampFolio applet from Plone and integrate it with other database applications.

iCampFolio object is a folderish content-type that is able to store two additional types of objects. The main object types are called Tools (e-learning systems and tools). Users of the portal with manager or administrator permissions can add new tools. Another object types are called Affordances. Affordances are used for evaluating the Tools. Affordances can also be added by members with manager or administrator privileges.

The system is using numerical values of the dynamic parameters in order to build an Ontology view, where each Tool (or User or Tools and Users, dependent on the chosen view) is represented as a dot on the square-shape Screen. The location of each Tool is calculated with Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) algorithm, so that two Tools with similar sets of affordance values are displayed next to each other while the most different pair of tools will be moved as far from each other as possible.

Detailed information about iCampFolio is available in D2.2.