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Towards Responsive Open Learning Environments: The ROLE Interoperability Framework

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Towards Ubiquitous Learning (EC-TEL 2011)

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In recent years, research on mash-up technologies for learning environments has gained interest. The overall goal is to enrich or replace traditional learning management systems (LMS) with mash-ups of widgets and services that can be easily combined and configured to fit the learner needs. This paper presents the implemented prototype of the ROLE interoperability framework and a business and an educational case study. The framework provides a common technical infrastructure to assemble widgets and services in Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Evaluation results indicate that the perceived usefulness and usability is high for one case study in which a mature LMS was enriched with ROLE technology. In the second case study, an early mash-up prototype was deployed. The usefulness and usability of this early prototype were rated low, but the case study provides interesting insights for further research and development.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, B-3001, Leuven, Belgium

    Sten Govaerts, Katrien Verbert, Jose Luis Santos & Erik Duval

  2. imc information multimedia communication AG, Altenkesseler Str. 17/D3, 66115, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Daniel Dahrendorf

  3. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, 200050, Shanghai, China

    Carsten Ullrich

  4. Festo Lernzentrum Saar GmbH, Obere Kaiserstraße 301, 66386, St. Ingbert, Germany

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  5. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK

    Arunangsu Chatterjee & Effie L-C. Law

  6. Lehrstuhl Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstraße 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Dominik Renzel

  7. Knowledge Management Institute, Graz University of Technology, Brückenkopfgasse 1, A-8010, Graz, Austria

    Alexander Nussbaumer

  8. Schloss Birlinghoven, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Maren Scheffel & Martin Friedrich

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Govaerts, S. et al. (2011). Towards Responsive Open Learning Environments: The ROLE Interoperability Framework. In: Kloos, C.D., Gillet, D., Crespo García, R.M., Wild, F., Wolpers, M. (eds) Towards Ubiquitous Learning. EC-TEL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23985-4_11

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