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First steps towards an integration of a Personal Learning Environment at university level
Ebner, M., Schön, S., Taraghi, B., Drachsler, H., & Tsang, P. (2011). First steps towards an integration of a Personal Learning Environment at university level. In R. Kwan et al. (Eds.), ICT 2011, CCIS 177 (pp. 22â36), Springer-Verlag Berlin: Heidelberg 2011.Personalization is seen as the key approach to handle the plethora of
information in todayâs 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.NeLLL AlterEg
The role of social networks in studentsâ learning experiences
The aim of this research is to investigate the role of social networks in computer science education. The Internet shows great potential for enhancing collaboration between people and the role of social software has become increasingly relevant in recent years. This research focuses on analyzing the role that social networks play in studentsâ learning experiences. The construction of studentsâ social networks, the evolution of these networks, and their effects on the studentsâ learning experience in a university environment are examined
Participatory Transformations
Learning, in its many forms, from the classroom to independent study, is being transformed by new practices emerging around Internet use. Conversation, participation and community have become watchwords for the processes of learning promised by the Internet and accomplished via technologies such as bulletin boards, wikis, blogs, social software and repositories, devices such as laptops, cell phones and digital cameras, and infrastructures of internet connection, telephone, wireless and broadband. This chapter discusses the impact of emergent, participatory trends on education. In learning and teaching participatory trends harbinge a radical transformation in who learns from whom, where, under what circumstances, and for what and whose purpose. They bring changes in where we find information, who we learn from, how learning progresses, and how we contribute to our learning and the learning of others. These trends indicate a transformation to "ubiquitous learning" ??? a continuous anytime, anywhere, anyone contribution and retrieval of learning materials and advice on and through the Internet and its technologies, niches and social spaces.not peer reviewe
Library Portal 2.0: The Social Research Management System
Library 2.0 (L2) has been discussed in depth in library circles in recent years. This article looks at L2 initiatives and technology implementation with regard to L2 and proposes a reboot, repositioning the library portal as a Social Research Management System (SRMS). This SRMS adheres to the L2 principles of purposeful, user-driven, library services. The SRMS is envisioned as the center of academic research and activity at universities, not as a peripheral tool. Creating a new generation library portal (the SRMS) is a group endeavor, thus by utilizing both on-campus and peer resources, the realization of the faceted, modularized, SRMS can come to fruition
Personalised Universalism in the Age of Algorithms
In this chapter, I address a complex relationship in linking the principles of universalism and personalisation as a tension of considerable importance in contemporary media use. The paradoxical aspects of this relationship are especially evident when treated in the light of ideal types and praxis in legacy public service broadcasting (PSB) and digital public service media (PSM). The relationship is viewed from five angles, culminating in discussion about the materiality produced by shifting technologies in the digital environment and its bearing on the ideological concept of public service in media. The author introduces a new orientation for PSM: personalised enlightenment.Go to the full book to find a version of this chapter tagged for accessibility
Performative Recommendation: Diversifying Content via Strategic Incentives
The primary goal in recommendation is to suggest relevant content to users,
but optimizing for accuracy often results in recommendations that lack
diversity. To remedy this, conventional approaches such as re-ranking improve
diversity by presenting more diverse items. Here we argue that to promote
inherent and prolonged diversity, the system must encourage its creation.
Towards this, we harness the performative nature of recommendation, and show
how learning can incentivize strategic content creators to create diverse
content. Our approach relies on a novel form of regularization that anticipates
strategic changes to content, and penalizes for content homogeneity. We provide
analytic and empirical results that demonstrate when and how diversity can be
incentivized, and experimentally demonstrate the utility of our approach on
synthetic and semi-synthetic data
Credibility of Health Information and Digital Media: New Perspectives and Implications for Youth
Part of the Volume on Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility. This chapter considers the role of Web technologies on the availability and consumption of health information. It argues that young people are largely unfamiliar with trusted health sources online, making credibility particularly germane when considering this type of information. The author suggests that networked digital media allow for humans and technologies act as "apomediaries" that can be used to steer consumers to high quality health information, thereby empowering health information seekers of all ages
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