| mupple |
Description |
In the last years the discussion about electronic learning environments has changed
fundamentally. Based on the advancement of personal publishing tools and social software
the barriers have been lifted to participate in discussions and to build an individual
professional identity on the web.
As a side effect, this has also influenced the discussion about learning environments
in technology-enhanced learning. While the improvement of institutional learning management
systems was some years ago still the state-of-the art in recent times this discussion
has been expanded towards an individual perspective on learning platforms called ‘personal
learning environments’ (PLE).
Technically, this shift has been accompanied by new (‘mash-up’) technologies that
empower end-users to actively build, modify, and maintain their environments.
The research work at the OU’s Knowledge Media institute (KMi) on MUPPLE thereby is
one of the European epicenters of innovation. Just recently, KMi has been prized by
the Mozilla Foundation with a special award for the work on an early prototype.
In project supported from the donation funds of the Open University, key researcher
Fridolin Wild teamed up with Marco Kalz from the Open University of the Netherlands
and Matthias Palmer from Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology to create a guest
lecture series with international experts in the field on this topic. |
