USING MULTILINGUAL ANALYTICS TO EXPLORE THE USAGE OF A LEARNING PORTAL IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Learning analytics is a domain constantly evolving throughout the last years, due to the acknowledgement of its importance. Learning analytics may be applied in a variety of different cases but their role in understanding the multilingual requirements of users of learning portals is of an outstanding significance. As the adaptation of existing portals in multilingual environments is a cost and time-consuming aspect of the development of a portal, the outcomes of learning analytics may provide the requirements on which further multilingual services of a portal will be built, ensuring their efficiency. This paper aims to identify and interpret the behavior of users from developing countries in a multilingual learning portal using the log files of the portal by applying the methodology defined in a previous work by Stoitsis et al. (2012). The paper also aims to identify the aspects which should be further studied by future related works, by focusing on specific regions and countries, which exhibit special interest for further adaptation of the portal to additional multilingual environments

Online Web portal of competence-based training opportunities for Organic Agriculture

A number of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools such as web portals, learning portals and course management platforms have been developed and used in order to support EU-funded research and training projects in the area of Organic Agriculture (OA). This tools transfer the technological infrastructure needed in order to facilitate specific tasks, such as the organization of educational, research and information content, like the competences, learning opportunities, certificates and vocational opportunities. This paper presents the case of the CerOrganic Web portal (http://portal.cerorganic.eu), which is used for providing access to resources related to vocational education and training in the context of OA

CAPSELLA D3.4 Online Service for bottom-up requirements elicitation

<p>This deliverable presents the instruments used to record user needs and challenges.</p

Innovation in the teaching of sustainable development in Europe: the case of ISLE Erasmus Network

Sustainable Development (SD) is one of the most widely used terms during the last years. It is a multidisciplinary concept, which applies mostly to life sciences but is not limited to them. Even though the short survey conducted by the authors revealed that there are only a few cases of Higher Educational Institutes (HEIs) around Europe that provide programs dedicated to SD, it is obvious that there is a constant raise in the need for implementing courses related to SD in existing programs. This paper discusses the case study of I.S.L.E., an Erasmus Academic Network, which aims to use the existing knowledge and tools in the context of teaching sustainable development topics in Universities and HEIs around Europe as a basis, and elaborate further by introducing an innovative approach towards the improvement of teaching SD in HEIs, based on the current needs as they are identified by the actions of the Network.The work presented in this paper has been funded with support by the European Commission, and more specifically the Erasmus Academic Network “I.S.L.E network: Innovation in the teaching of Sustainable Development in Life sciences in Europe” (14194177267-LLP-1-2010-1-FR-ERASMUSENWA) of the Erasmus Programme

CAPSELLA D5.3 Enhanced CIARD RING with CAPSELLA data sets & global map of challenges & ideas for solutions 1

<p>This software deliverable presents the deployment of the online catalogues of challenges, needed data sources, ideas/prototypes of solutions and voting mechanisms.</p

CAPSELLA D3.1 Methodology for Requirements Elicitation

<p>This deliverable describes (a) the expected outcomes and (b) the steps of a methodology for elicitation of requirements from the users’ communities that will be identified in the context of the CAPSELLA project and could be supported<br> by technology-supported solutions enhanced by collective intelligence knowledge sources and open data sets.</p

Federating natural history museums in natural Europe

Summarization: An impressive abundance of high quality scientific content about Earth’s biodiversity and natural history available in Natural History Museums (NHMs) around Europe remains largely unexploited due to a number of barriers, such as: the lack of interconnection and interoperability between the management systems used by museums, the lack of centralized access through a European point of reference like Europeana, and the inadequacy of the current metadata and content organization. To cope with these problems, the Natural Europe project offers a coordinated solution at European level. Cultural heritage content is collected from six Natural History Museums around Europe into a federation of European Natural History Digital Libraries that is directly connected with Europeana.eu. This paper presents the Natural Europe Cultural Digital Libraries Federation infrastructure consisting of: (a) The Natural Europe Cultural Environment (NECE), i.e. the infrastructure and toolset deployed on each NHM allowing their curators to publish, semantically describe, manage and disseminate the Cultural Heritage Objects (CHOs) they contribute to the project, and (b) the Natural Europe Cultural Heritage Infrastructure (NECHI) interconnecting NHM digital libraries and further exposing their metadata records to Europeana.eu.Παρουσιάστηκε στο: 7th Metadata Semantics and Research Conference (MTSR) 201