Sara'Roegiersmaerlant'be, K'U'Leuven Galatea www'galatea'be

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Galatea Course Platform(www.galatea.be)
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Overview

• Platform for Arts and Humanities education
• Galatea images, text, communication
• Workflow for teachers and students
• Future improvements

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Goals of Galatea

• Improving image-centred (arts) education at
  university
• Tool for open and problem-led learning

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Galatea offers

• N opportunity to make available large quantities
  of visual material
• gt2 easy-to-use tool for creating course
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• communicational infrastructure for Open and
  Distance Learning

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Main players

• Administrator and assistant administrators
• Teachers
• Students
• Guests

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Administrator

• User management
• Help

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Lecturers
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• Upload images / video
• Add comments
• Make slideshows

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• Create pages
• Add text and images
• Modular course structure

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• Chat
• Guide forum discussion

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Students
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• Browse slideshows
• Zoom images
• View video

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• Use course map
• Browse course
• Complete exercises

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• Exchange views on Chat and forum
• Publish findings on forum

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Future

• Connecting Galatea content to other databases
  and platforms
• More and better tools for students

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1. Effacing borders

• STRUCTURAL
• Integrate other image databases
• Integrate Tikiwiki groupware (open source)
• Re-use content through ARIADNE knowledge pool
• Integrate LDAP authentication and authorization

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2. Empowering Students

• FUNCTIONAL
• Integration of video and audio analysis tools
• Students become authors
• Wiki
• Group weblog (Blog)
• Image galleries
• Upload files

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Invitation

• Register as a guest (FREE)
• www.galatea.be
• Interested in co-operation or exchange of views?
• Sara.roegiers_at_maerlant.be