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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

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

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

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

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<ul><li>Most important Web-Mashup APIs </li></ul>ProgrammableWeb.com

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Mashup Styles <ul><li>Server-side Mashups </li></ul>

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Mashup Styles <ul><li>Client-side Mashups </li></ul>

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

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Enterprise Mashups – Schematic Idea <ul><ul><li>RIA: Rich Internet Application </li></ul></ul>Consumers, Learners, Enterprises

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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

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

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Create Assignment Web Part

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Distribute Assignment to other Learners

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Grade Assignments

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Integrate Assignment to PLE

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Individualize/Organize PLE Web Parts

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Interconnect Web Part Contents/Lists

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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

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

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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