[Openmind 2012] A survey system for monitoring university teaching quality by Jari Järvelä (Partner & Vice President, Arcusys)

Openmind 2012 / Open Knowledge Festival 2012
http://okfestival.org/open-source-software/

Transcript

1. Arcusys Oy
   A survey system for monitoring university teaching quality
   OK Festival 19.9.2012
   www.arcusys.com
   

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2. Arcusys Oy
   • IT-Service company
   • Established in 2003
   • Personnel over 50 IT-professionals
   • Company provides services for public and
   private sector
   • Arcusys has specialised in open source portal
   solutions and software development
   • Arcusys offices are located in Joensuu,
   Helsinki and Petrozavodsk
   

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3. Arcusys technologies and partnerships
   • Liferay Value Added Reseller
   • Intalio Gold Partner
   • Vaadin Solution Partner
   – Training partner
   • ZeroTurnAround Solution Partner
   – Training partner
   • Oracle Java Certified architects and
   developers
   • TOGAF 9 certificate
   

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4. • Arcusys open source
   philosphy:
   ”Responsible open source software
   business through leadership and
   innovation”
   

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5. Open source and Arcusys
   • Arcusys have been focused on open source since 2006
   • Company´s solutions are built using open source platforms
   • Open source is central to Arcusys business
   • Keeping promises given to clients - we deliver what we promise
   • Reusing and sharing software components and solutions
   • Genuine participation and contributions for the open source
   community
   • Activity in open source communities is also a business opportunity
   – Visibility of the company and it's expertise
   – New marketing channels
   

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6. Collaboration and contributions for open source
   community
   • Arcusys makes contributions for Liferay open source community
   – Source code and modules shared to community
   • With exception of client spesific solutions
   – Contributions available via GitHub (www.github.com/arcusys)
   – In future contributions via Liferay Marketplace
   • Arcusys is an active Liferay Community member
   – Arcusys has founded the Liferay Community Project ”Project
   Learn”
   

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7. Project Learn – a Liferay Community Project
   • Liferay Community projects are community driven open source
   development projects around the Liferay Platform
   • Project Learn develops portlets and tools for Liferay to support
   educational and eLearning uses of the platform
   • Arcusys contributions:
   – SCORM player portlet
   – SCORM Quiz portlet
   – SCORM Gradebook portlet
   • Portlets are currently available as an open source
   – Delivery via Liferay Marketplace
   

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8. CASE: University of Helsinki Feedback
   System
   

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9. CASE: University of Helsinki Feedback System
   • Background and need for the feedback system development:
   – University of Helsinki has collected quality metrics of
   university teaching over five years
   – Data collection has been university wide, collected using web
   forms
   – Data were manually transferred to spreadsheets and
   research software manually
   → tremendous amount of work
   → loss of data
   – An automatised system handling the entire feedback process
   were needed
   

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10. CASE: University of Helsinki Feedback System
    • The acquisition/public tendering process:
    – The acquisition process started in autumn 2011
    – No out-of-the-box system available to suit the needs
    • ie. interactive feedback
    – Arcusys was selected as the developer for the system
    • Technology:
    – The system development were done on the Open
    Source Liferay Portal Platform
    – The UI were created using the Vaadin Framework
    

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11. CASE: University of Helsinki Feedback System
    • Solution features and tools
    – Questionnaire editor with drag-and-drop UI
    – Questionnaire sending via integration to student
    information system
    – Progress reporting for monitoring the amount of
    students responded to questionnaires
    – Reporting with visualisations
    

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12. DEMO
    

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13. Open source benefits for the survey system
    development
    • Cost effectiviness – no licencing fees
    • Basic functionalities available from the Liferay platform
    • Ease to tailor the solution for spesific client needs
    • More options and approaches availabe for development
    needs:
    – Solution models
    – Libraries
    – Software components
    • Support and answers for spesific challenges easily available
    from the community
    • Ease to tailor the solution to future needs
    

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14. Further plans for the survey system
    • Currently the system is in data security audition process
    • The system will be taken into use by the autumn 2012
    • The system have been gained a lot of positive feedback and
    interest among the focus groups
    • Cooperation contract with University of Helsinki
    – Sharing the results with universities and polytechnics
    in Finland
    • Expanding the survey system potential outside the original
    scope
    • Sharing the survey tool via Liferay Marketplace
    – The survey solution/technology
    – Helsinki University quality model
    

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15. THANK YOU!
    Jari Järvelä
    Vice President, Learning
    Solutions
    jari.jarvela@arcusys.fi
    Twitter @jarijarvela
    

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