ID3.24 - Updated design for release 6.0 of the TENCompetence software

Vogten, H., Martens, H., Heyenrath, S., Lemmers, R., Alberts, J., Finders, A., & Schaeps, L. (2009). ID3.24 - Updated design for release 6.0 of the TENCompetence software. TENCompetence.Describes the software architecture of release 6.0 of the PCM, the final release of the project, to developers that need to use, extend or change the PCM server. The views from the 4+1 approach by Kruchten are used to describe the software architecture.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

Connect The Dots! Reflection Tool 2.0

Rajagopal, K., Schaeps, L., & Finders, A. (2012). Connect The Dots Reflection Tool. [Software]. Available under the GNU LGPL licence version 3 or higher.The Connect The Dots! Reflection Tool can be used by individuals to build and articulate their personal knowledge on a domain. The tool can also be used by communities or a group of people to capture their shared understanding of a domain of common interest. At this moment, the tool is implemented as a set of portlets for the Liferay 6 EE (version 6 SP2) portal. Sources can be downloaded from the code repository of the Open Universiteit at Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/openu

Connect The Dots! Reflection Tool Visualisations

Rajagopal, K., Schaeps, L., Finders, A., & Van der Vegt, W. (2013). Connect The Dots Reflection Tool Visualisations. [Software]. Available under the GNU LGPL licence version 3 or higher.The Connect The Dots! Reflection Tool can be used by individuals to build and articulate their personal knowledge on a domain. The tool can also be used by communities or a group of people to capture their shared understanding of a domain of common interest. In this release tags are obtained through the Scoop.it API. Various visualisations are available on this data. At this moment, the tool is implemented as a set of portlets for the Liferay 6 EE (version 6 SP2) portal. Sources are maintained in the code repository of the Open Universiteit at Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/openu

TENCompetence release 5.0

The 5.0 release of TENCompetence includes: - revised competence model services - new portfolio service - integration with Liferay and three portlets - competence map editor - portfolio portlet - search portlet This version corresponds with the Brahmaputra release of TENCompetence (see http://dev.tencompetence.org/trac). Available under the three clause BSD licence, Copyright TENCompetence Foundation.This is the 5.0 release of the TENCompetence service infrastructure. First version adopted to integrate with Liferay.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

OpenU 1.0

Alberts, J., Finders, A., Martens, H., Obreza, M., Schaeps, L., Slootmaker, A., Slot, W., Storm, J., Ternier, S., Van der Vegt, W., & Vogten, H. (2012). OpenU (Version 1.0) [Software]. Heerlen, The Netherlands: Open Universiteit. Available under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL3).OpenU is the educational innovation environment of the Open Universiteit with the aim to provide a unique, well-functioning personal digital learning and working environment that supports people through their career for all their needs of knowledge. In OpenU new educational services are developed and tested with real users. OpenU is in use for the master Learning Sciences and by the Computer Science department. The environment is implemented as a set of portlets for the Liferay 6 EE (version 6 SP2) portal. This is the 1.0 release of the OpenU software platform. Development is ongoing

Assessing the Learning Path Specification: a Pragmatic Quality Approach

Janssen, J., Berlanga, A. J., Heyenrath, S., Martens, H., Vogten, H., Finders, A., Herder, E., Hermans, H., Melero Gallardo, J., Schaeps, L., & Koper, R. (2010). Assessing the Learning Path Specification: a Pragmatic Quality Approach. Journal of Universal Computer Science, 16(21), 3191-3209.Finding suitable ways to achieve particular learning goals is not an easy task, both in initial education and lifelong learning. To facilitate selection, personalisation and navigation of learning paths we propose to describe learning paths in a formal and uniform way by means of a learning path specification. This paper explains the rationale behind the Learning Path Specification. Based on a framework developed for the evaluation of the specification the paper describes a study that was carried out to establish pragmatic quality, i.e. whether stakeholders can understand and use the specification. The paper explores the relationship between the concepts pragmatic quality, usability, and desirability, and distinguishes first-order and second-order pragmatic quality, relating it to different stakeholders: software developers and end-users. First-order pragmatic quality of the Learning Path Specification was evaluated during the process of developing a tool that describes learning paths according to the specification: the Learning Path Editor. Second-order pragmatic quality was evaluated through workshop sessions with end-users involving some hands-on experiences with this tool. The paper describes adaptations made to the specification in the process of developing the Editor. End-user evaluations were quite positive, leading to one more adaptation.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org

Learning Path Editor

This software is open source and is distributed under the three clause BSD licence, Copyright TENCompetence Foundation.The Learning Path Editor is a tool which enables to describe learning paths in line with the learning path specification which was developed in the TENCompetence Integrated Project (WP7). The Editor is part of release 6.0 of the TENCompetence integrated software.The work on this publication has been sponsored by the TENCompetence Integrated Project that is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme, priority IST/Technology Enhanced Learning. Contract 027087 [http://www.tencompetence.org