... today we recorded the last podcast (for now) -- and all talks will be available shortly! Looking at all episodes I must say: I am a bit proud :). We brought together a set of excellent researchers to give a lecture on a focused topic about PLEs each. Watch it and let us know if you like it! We'll keep you posted when today's recording goes online!

Within this talk, a new (small) theory of learning with technology will be presented, which is grounded in methodical culturalism and activity theory. The theory boils down to grounding the development of rich professional competence in sharing language through social interaction, mediated by tools. One model of putting this into practice is in using natural language processing tools to capture conceptual knowledge from learners’ communicative exchange, complemented... Read full post

Scott Wilson will give a talk about Widgets and Mashups for Personal and Institutional Technologies:
Smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, in-car systems, games consoles, interactive whiteboards: the range and sophistication of Internet-enabled devices that users are working and learning with has expanded dramatically in recent years, and when discussing personal and institutional technologies we now mean a whole range of form factors and features, some of which did not... Read full post

Inter-widget communication is one of the foundations for achieving flexibility and interactivity in widget-based environments, and therefore in MUP/PLEs. In this talk, systems for inter-widget communication in Web applications will be discussed. A software architectural approach is used to provide a practical design space for describing properties of and requirements for inter-widget communication. This design space is then used for describing several existing inter-widget communication... Read full post

This talk outlines an approach for mapping what various systems have to offer with respect to the MUPPLE perspective. The mapping is based on a wide range of features that can be supported by a system or not. Similar features are grouped into dimensions, like screen, data, social and runtime dimensions, to provide a better overview of strengths and weaknesses. The talk will present how a few representative systems compare visualised as spider diagrams.The replay of this lecture will be soon... Read full post

This talk will introduce the approach of "partial semantic interoperability" to help widgets communicate and understand each other. An important requirement of the approach is how it scales to the current situation with hundreds of thousands of available widgets. Another important requirement is to not put a cap on innovation by limiting what can be communicated. A demo will illustrate how the widget communication can be used in a learning scenario.The replay of this lecture will be soon... Read full post

In this talk, underlying social media models will be discussed. Their potential to understand the interaction processes, to implement recommendation and to enforce trust will be illustrated. A special focus will be placed on capturing context in personal learning and knowledge management. An example showing how the 4A model proposed by EPFL supports the design and the implementation of PLE in Graaasp (http://graaasp.epfl.ch) will be presented.The replay of the lecture series will be soon... Read full post

This is the trailer of the MUPPLE lecture series:
 

 
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The trailer was made in cooperation with the Sound and Vision department of the Open University. Produced by Alba Madriz in cooperation with Studio 43.