The document discusses the integration of web 2.0 tools and mashups into personal learning environments (PLEs), highlighting the impact of social media and collaboration technologies on education. It emphasizes the potential of these mashups to enhance traditional learning systems by allowing personalized content creation and improved communication among learners and educators. The future of learning applications is envisioned to shift from content distribution to personalized content aggregation, transforming the role of educators from content producers to facilitators.

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Most important Web-Mashup APIs ProgrammableWeb.com

6. Mashup Styles Server-side Mashups

7. Mashup Styles Client-side Mashups

8. 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

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

10. 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

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

12. Create Assignment Web Part

13. Distribute Assignment to other Learners

14. Grade Assignments

15. Integrate Assignment to PLE

16. Individualize/Organize PLE Web Parts

17. Interconnect Web Part Contents/Lists

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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