Title: ELeGI as enabling architecture for e-learning 2.0

Authors: Matteo Gaeta, Sergio Miranda, Pierluigi Ritrovato

Addresses: DIIMA – Department of Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy. ' DIIMA – Department of Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy. ' CRMPA – Centre of Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics and DIIMA – Department of Information Engineering and Applied Mathematics, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy

Abstract: Web 2.0 is supposed to be the second generation of internet-based services – such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools and folksonomies – that let people collaborate and share information online in a previously unavailable way. Currently, many leading enterprises have a strong interest in Web 2.0 and on the impact that it can have on traditional web-based applications such as e-learning, namely, e-learning 2.0. This paper analyses what the European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) project could provide to e-learning 2.0, in terms of its vision of learning, processes, methodologies and technologies. Our preliminary investigations have raised up which results obtained in the ELeGI project can give support to e-learning 2.0 and improve some of its typical aspects and processes.

Keywords: technology-enhanced learning; Web 2.0; grid architecture; semantic grid; personalisation; e-learning 2.0; online learning; internet; learning grid infrastructure.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2008.020666

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2008 Vol.4 No.2/3, pp.259 - 271

Published online: 08 Oct 2008 *

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