Moodle Wave: Reinventing the VLE using Widget technologies

Scott Wilson; Paul Sharples; Kris Popat; Dai Griffiths

Moodle Wave: Reinventing the VLE using Widget technologies

Scott Wilson, Paul Sharples, Kris Popat, Dai Griffiths

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Abstract

Can widget technologies revolutionize the VLE and challenge the dominant design of elearning? The authors describe an experimental implementation of the Moodle VLE using the W3C Widget specification and Google Wave Gadget API to replace existing core features. This raises four challenges; (1) By replacing most of the functionality of the VLE with simple reusable applications, the core functionality and design of the VLE is challenged; (2) by allowing these applications to be extracted and used in personal learning environments, the hegemony of the institutional system is challenged; (3) by conducting learning activities in small discrete applications, the model of student tracking is challenged; (4) synchronous, live updating applications challenges the model of user behaviour for the VLE

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mash-Up Personal Learninig Environments
Subtitle of host publication	MUPPLE'09
Editors	Fridolin Wild, Marco Kalz, Matthias Palmér, Daniel Müller
Place of Publication	Saarbrücken
Publisher	IMC AG
Pages	47-58
Volume	506
Publication status	Published - 29 Sept 2009
Event	4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning: Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines - Nice, France Duration: 29 Sept 2009 → 2 Oct 2009 Conference number: 4

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Conference	4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
Abbreviated title	EC-TEL 2009
Country/Territory	France
City	Nice
Period	29/09/09 → 2/10/09

Keywords

widget
Wookie
VLE
Wave
mashup
Personal Learning Environment

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Moodle Wave: Reinventing the VLE using Widget technologies. / Wilson, Scott; Sharples, Paul; Popat, Kris et al.
Mash-Up Personal Learninig Environments: MUPPLE'09. ed. / Fridolin Wild; Marco Kalz; Matthias Palmér; Daniel Müller. Vol. 506 Saarbrücken: IMC AG, 2009. p. 47-58.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Article in proceeding › Academic › peer-review

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