Abstract
Personalization is seen as the key approach to handle the plethora of
information in today’s knowledge-based society. It is expected that personalized
teaching and learning will address the needs of the learners more efficiently.
The education of the future will change by the influence of Web 2.0
contents and the steadily increasing amount of data. This means that the students
of tomorrow will regularly have to deal with sharing and merging contents
from different sources. Therefore, mashup technology will become a very
important means to focus on individual learning needs and to personalize the
access to particular information. The following article describes the challenges
of Personal Learning Environments at higher education institutions. In the first
section, the concept of Personal Learning Environments is presented, while the
second section discusses the new challenges that arise for learning with the help
of Personal Learning Environments. The third section of the article describes
the technical background of Personal Learning Environments and the widget
standard in general. In section four, a first prototype of a personal learning environment
will be presented, which is integrated into the Technical University of
Graz. A detailed description of the available widgets for the prototype, along
with a first expert evaluation, will be provided. Finally, the conclusion of the
article will sum up the main points of this paper and present the plans for future
research together with the prospective developments.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 Dec 2011 |
Keywords
- MUPPLE
- Personal Learning Environment
- formal education
- university level
- recommender system
- widgets
- technical architecture
- distributed learning environments