MashUps: Towards Future Personal Learning Environments

Mixing Content and Endless Collaboration Mashups: Towards Future Personal Learning Environments ( Andreas Auinger , Martin Ebner, Dietmar Nedbal, Andreas Holzinger) Andreas Auinger Department for e-Business, School of Management Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences Steyr, Austria

Motivation
Ubiquitious and pervasive use of new media and the web dominates
Social life
Working environment
Teaching and learning behavior (Chen & Kinshuk et al.)
Web turns into community of loosely connected participants
sharing knowledge and educational interests and
communicate and collaborate on the “Web 2.0”/in the Enterprise 2.0, and
turn into prosumers on market of freely available content and collaboration tools.
Major web services have opened their systems to outside use
Implementation of public APIs and data sources
 resulting in Web 2.0/Enterprise 2.0 MashUps

Contribution of Mashups to E-learning 2.0
Bringing social networks into the classroom
Enrich traditional Learning Management Systems
Potential to integrate communication and collaboration features from the Web 2.0
Facebook, MySpace, WordPress, Technorati, Twitter etc.
Freely available context-relevant interaction services
Wikipedia, Google Maps, YouTube etc

Mashups
Mashups
Concept and technology for merging
Content, services, applications and social contributions
Mashups fit between content and social layers:
APIs (Web-Services)
Interfaces (RSS, WS, XML,..)
Content (un/-structured data)
Source: Grasser, Palfrey 2007

Most important Web-Mashup APIs
ProgrammableWeb.com

Mashup Styles
Server-side Mashups

Mashup Styles
Client-side Mashups

Mashup Creation Tools
Mashup Editors for
Server-side: Yahoo Pipes, MS Popfly, Google Mashup Editor
Client-side: iGoogle, Oosah
Free available tools are
(+) Applicability
(+) Ease of use
(+) Reusability and extensibility
(-) Performance and scalability
(-) Security and Quality
(-) Flexibility for different interfaces
Enhancement: Enterprise Mashups
Using enhanced Mashup Environments or program them individually at the server-side

Enterprise Mashups – Schematic Idea
RIA: Rich Internet Application
Consumers, Learners, Enterprises

E-Learning 2.0 Usecase: Graz University of Technology, Austria examination results Results of online survey Context relevant RSS feeds Context relevant Blog Rating of blog entries

Create Personal Mashup using Web Parts Add E-Learning Action Microsoft Office SharePoint with Learning Kit

Create Assignment Web Part

Distribute Assignment to other Learners

Grade Assignments

Integrate Assignment to PLE

Individualize/Organize PLE Web Parts

Interconnect Web Part Contents/Lists

Uasecase: SharePoint Mashup University of Applied Sciences Announcements Assignments Course Management Learning Plan Individual Course List Calendar Blog Search Videos from YouTube Individual external and internal Links SharePoint Menu Towards a Personal Learning Environment using Microsoft Office SharePoint with Learning Kit

Findings
Online lectures can easily be enhanced by using Mashup technology
Role of lecturer will turn
from content producer to content facilitator
Mashup-able LMS are central for
Structuring and supporting learning activities
Facilitating out-of-the-box assembling of individual Personal Learning Environments creating learner-individual content and collaboration entries
Outlook:
Next generation of learning applications will change from rigid content distribution to personal content aggregation

Thank you for your attention! Prof. (FH) Dr. Andreas Auinger Vice-Dean for Research and Development School of Management Upper Austria University of Applied Science Steyr, Austria [email_address] http://www.fh-ooe.at/campus-steyr

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