ACIS Keynote - Supporting Professional Communities in the Next Web

I had the pleasure to give a keynote at the PWM Wissenstag Social Enterprise @ I-KNOW 2013 in Graz, Austria on September 4, 2013. Also I demoed the ROLE Sandbox and our new DireWolf Framework for distributing web user interfaces on different devices. Here are the slides.

 

Supporting Professional Communities in the Next Web from Ralf Klamma

If you are interested in the demos. They are available on the web.

• Realtime Interwidget Communication with the ROLE SDK: http://role-sandbox.eu/spaces/iwc
• DireWolf - Distributing Web Interfaces on Multiple Devices: http://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/cms/projects/the-xmpp-experience/direwolf

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ACIS Presentation - DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications

Dejan Kovachev from the ACIS group at RWTH Aachen University gave a presentation on "DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications" at the ICWE 2013 in Aalborg, Denmark. More information and the demo instructions can be found at our DireWolf web page.

DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications from Dejan Kovachev

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ACIS Poster - DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications Poster

DireWolf - Distributing and Migrating User Interfaces for Widget-based Web Applications Poster from Nicolaescu Petru

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New video: How you can benefit from the ROLE project

The FESTO colleagues from the ROLE project produced this videos taking some interviews with ROLE partners.

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The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure - ROLE Presentation at EC-TEL 2012

In the frame of the ROLE project I gave this presentation on "The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure" at the EC-TEL 2012 in Saarbrücken Germany, on September 21, 2012.


  Abstract. In this paper, we first reflect on the limitations of applying traditional requirements engineering (RE) approaches to the development of a large-scale PLE infrastructure, which is precisely the aim of a technology-enhanced learn-ing project called ROLE. The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) ap-proach has been proposed as an appropriate alternative. Early SRE prototypes based on an agent- and goal-oriented conceptual model conceived across a five-staged requirement lifecycle (elicitation, negotiation, selection, development and feedback) were implemented. We report results of preliminary evaluation and lessons learnt. Several relevant issues have been identified, including the lack of a consensual understanding of key concepts, lurking within Community of Practices (CoP), and cultural differences. Possible solutions are proposed to address the issues such as templates, mandatory voting, and prioritization model

The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure from Ralf Klamma

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An Embeddable Dashboard for Widget-Based Visual Analytics on Scientific Communities

Michael Derntl from my ACIS group (Advanced Community Information Systems) gave a presentation on "An Embeddable Dashboard for Widget-Based Visual Analytics on Scientific Communities" at the I-KNOW 2012 in Graz, Austria. The presentation reports results from the ongoing TELMAP project. But it is also a contribution to the discussion on learning or research dashboards. At least it reports on some already finished research.

Michael Derntl, Stephan Erdtmann, Ralf Klamma: An Embeddable Dashboard for Widget-Based Visual Analytics on Scientific Communities, in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, I-KNOW '12. ACM Press (2012)

The web hosts massive amounts of data about scientific communities, for instance in bibliographic databases, research project databases, and more recently on the social web. These data sets provide key information on the activities and artifacts relevant to the community. Due to the scattered nature and sheer size of Web 2.0 data sets it is currently difficult for stakeholders to comprehensively and to smoothlessly monitor key indicators hidden in that data. To address this issue, we developed an embeddable, personalizable dashboard, which can be populated with widgets that visualize the results of arbitrary queries over relational databases in real time. As a pilot case the dashboard was deployed at LearningFrontiers.eu, a service and support portal for the European Technology-Enhanced Learning community, to provide access to pre-configured visualizations of queries over their data sources. Community stakeholders evaluated the dashboard and generally responded positively in regard to its usability and usefulness. From a technical perspective the main advantage of the proposed dashboard infrastructure is the simple and seamless integration with a community's existing data sources and web portals.

The work in this paper is based on earlier work by Dominik Renzel from my ACIS group on widget-based dashboards. I gave a presentation last year on this topic. The work was done mostly in the context of the ROLE EU project. A SDK has been developed to support developer.

An Embeddable Dashboard for Widget-Based Visual Analytics on Scientific Communities from Michael Derntl

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ROLE Widget Store Screencast

The ROLE Widget Store is the central repository for self-regulated learning widget developed by the ROLE project. For the creation and deployment of personal learning environments widget and widget bundles can be directly embedded in many widget container technologies based on OpenSocial.

 

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ROLE Technologies - Possible Contributions to Apache Rave

Dominik is giving a ROLE presentation at the Apache Hackathon in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The presentation is about possible contributions of ROLE to Apache Rave, in particular the inter-widget communication and the space concept.

ROLE Technologies – A possible contribution to Apache Rave?

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4th ROLE Widget Competition: submission is now open!

The ROLE project opens the 4th competition on the development of widget specifications and widgets useful for self-regulated learning. The first round has already started on May 28th: now you have two month to submit your specification of a learning widget! The winners of the first round will be announced on August 3rd and will be sponsored by ROLE to develop the widgets. Winners of the first round will each receive an iPad after the specifications are implemented! The winner of the second (widget development) round will be announced on October 12th!

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Start: 28 May 2012

Submission Deadline (Widget Specifications): 29 July 2012 

Winners Announcement (Round 1): 03 August 2012 

Submission Deadline (Widgets): 07 October 2012 

Winner Announcement (Round 2): 12 October 2012

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE SEE: http://www.role-project.eu/WidgetCompetition

For any questions regarding the ROLE Widget Competition please contact:

Ms. Diana Dikke diana.dikke@im-c.de

Mr. Alexander Mikroyannidis a.mikroyannidis@open.ac.uk

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ROLE Dev8eD Workshop: How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK

Dominik and Sten did a ROLE widget development workshop at the Dev8Ed in Birmingham, UK, this week. The workshop is very similar to the workshop at the JTEL Summer School 2012 in Estoril, Portugal.

Dev8eD is a new FREE event for developers, educational technologists and users working throughout education on the development of tools, widgets, apps and resources aimed at staff in education and enhancing the student learning experience. It will include training sessions led by experts, lightning presentations and developer challenges. So tell your managers it will be two days of hard work! Confirmed sessions will include:

• Understanding and implementing the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability specification

• Exploring and sharing tool for learning design through a number of design challenges

• Widget store: Sharing widgets and tools to help you design, build and publish your own widgets

• Mashing coursedata xcri -cap feeds

• Human Computation related to teaching and learning

• PublishOER project strand on working with academic OER developers and education publishers

How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK

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The ROLE projects invites you to join us at our next workshop on how to create a widgets for responsive open learning environments. The ws will take place in the context of the PLE conference 2012, July 11-13 in Aveiro, Portugal. Please see here for more info: http://rolews.fit.fraunhofer.de/

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JTEL Summer School 2012: Personalized Support for Self-regulated Learning

Here are the slides from the workshop on "Personalized Support for Self-regulated Learning" Alexander Nussbaumer, Milos and me did at the JTEL Summer School 2012 in Estoril, Portugal. In this workshop we let the students design widget for learning bundles. The workshop is one of the many ROLE workshops at the Summer School. Materials can be downloaded from this website.

Personalised Support for Self-Regulated Learning at JTEL 2012

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JTEL Summer School 2012: How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK

Dominik, Dejan and me did a workshop on the ROLE SDK at the JTEL Summer School 2012 in Estoril, Portugal. Despite, the high number of participants all who stayed until the end manage to do their own learrning widget with the SDK. You can download the ROLE SDK and run your own experiments with learning widgets.  Materials and results of the workshops can be reviewed here.

How to Build & Develop Responsive Open Learning Environments with the ROLE SDK

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