NaaS for Education
NaaS is a complete ecosystem designed to facilitate the reuse of digital content in education. Thanks to a specific production engineering, you will be able to develop, manage, integrate your nuggets in educational platforms and control their pedagogical use.
Overview
NaaS is an ecosystem based on various essential components. First, the Digital Nuggets Factory is a methodology supporting the design of nuggets and their implementation with the NaaS-Author tool. This tool offers the means to edit nuggets based on H5P technology and manage versions and share the creation between several people. It is the gateway to the NaaS server, which stores and distributes Nuggets in a very efficient and scalable way. They are dynamically integrated into all kinds of digital learning platforms such as Moodle or any other LMS, or even handcrafted platforms such as Micro-Learning. Learning analytics will feed the consumer platform in such a way as to provide adaptive education.
Learners are using nuggets through various EdTech platforms and in different educational situations.
Experts & professors supported by instructional designers invest in ADN and reuse it in many educational situations.
ADN stands for "Aerospace Digital Nuggets": it is a decontextualized micro-content aimed at pedagogical performances and optimizing re-utilization across various pedagogical use cases and platforms. It implements a chunk of knowledge covering a specific notion in less than 30mn.
It may be used individually, e.g., through a Microlearning platform, or as a primary component for a more extensive training program in a Learning Management System like Moodle.
Nuggets are covering a single learning objective that must be covered in less than 30 minutes. This leads to content that is short to learn and short to produce.
ADNs are decontextualized contents without reference to time or prerequisites (i.e., which may exist but are not explicitly expressed in the content other than by metadata).
ADNs are pedagogical inputs to more extensive courses or learning experiences. It also includes exercises or quizzes to enhance learner motivation.
Standardized learning traces (with xAPI) are collected in compliance with the GDPR. It offers adaptive tracking and training perspectives.
ADNs are implemented with the Nuggets as a Service paradigm. This allows a fully instrumented approach with no copy of the information, easy management, and access control.
Using the NaaS ecosystem ensures powerful but simple integration and diffusion access control over many learning platforms. It leads to possible reuse in various pedagogical situations.
Thanks to the underlying H5P opensource and extensible technology, the nuggets are fully interactive and responsive. All this can be achieved with no coding.
ADNs are documented with metadata (e.g., title, author(s), keywords, etc.) for easy management and retrieval.
The ISAE Group's vocation is to unite schools in the aerospace engineering field under a standard banner. This platform is a joint effort to build an aerospace micro-learning repository.
Nuggets can be integrated into eLearning courses or MOOCs, by the way of any LMS that implements the LTI standard (Learning Tools Interoperability). We also develop a plugin for Moodle software easing the nugget integration.
IDEA Team members contributing to UNIVERSEH
The NaaS ecosystem is developed by the IDEA team (Innovative Digital Education for Aerospace) of ISAE-SUPAERO.
The development team thanks all the members of the UNIVERSEH European project and, in particular, the Pedagogy Working group for their support and suggestions.
NaaS and its ecosystem is an original idea developped by the IDEA teams in ISAE-SUPAERO.
