Personal Learning Environment for Higher Education - A MashUp Based Widget Concept

Personal Learning Environment for Higher Education: A Mashup Based Widget Concept
Behnam Taraghi , Martin Ebner, Sandra Schaffert

Special Track “Mashups for Learning” (MASHL2009)
International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL), Villach, Austria
Social Learning Computer and Information Services Graz University of Technology

What is a PLE ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancleaver/2441359074 According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ... a future learning environment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skippytpe/256929499 According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ... not an institutional or coporate application but a learning center

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884 According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ... where content is reused and remixed

http://www.flickr.com/photos/alysser/2011022884 According to Stephen Downes a PLE is ... according to the student‘s own needs and interests

Why we need a PLE ?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/toru_okada/1377360600 University a closed castle?

http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/file/view/swl_ple2.gif ( Scott Leslie, PLE Diagram) But how can we integrate the WWW ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ghz/407109888/ and combine it with university‘s services?

The general concept

Issues to consider
Focus on individual needs , preferences of users
Future VLE
Recommendations but not automatic personalization
Individuality of the interface
Learning and Information environment
Flexibility destroys design

Technological concept

Widget
Follow a W3C Widget Specification
IST Palette Project and TenCompetence
„ Widgets are full-fledged client-side applications that are authored using Web standards. They are typically downloaded and installed on a client machine or device where they typically run as stand-alone applications outside a Web browser“ Defintion of W3C

widget widget widget Client-side application logic (JavaScript) Widget Update JS Call Web Server Controller PHP Classes and Actions Model Database MashUp Principle - Use of Widgets XHR Request Response HTTP Request Response JSONP Request Response Remote Web Server Remote Web Server

Java FX „ JavaFX is a rich client platform for building cross-device applications and content. Designed to enable easy creation and deployment of RIAs with immersive media and content, the JavaFX platform ensures that RIAs look and behave consistently across diverse form factors and devices . “ http://javafx.com/docs/gettingstarted/javafx/

First Working Prototype

Prototype

Performance issues Minimize all CSS and JS Using GZIP compression Reduce #requests Caching

s Next Steps
Roll Out of the Prototype
Implementing Useful Widgets
Special focus on learning objects
Apply HTML 5 features
Recommendations for different learning resources
Mobile widgets

SOCIAL LEARNING Computer and Information Services Graz University of Technology Behnam Taraghi http://elearning.tugraz.at http://tugll. tugraz .at /96874/ Join us in Graz - http://www.iunig.at

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Personal Learning Environment for Higher Education - A MashUp Based Widget Concept

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