Title: Contributions to a public e-learning platform: infrastructure; architecture; frameworks; tools

Authors: Ambjorn Naeve, Mikael Nilsson, Matthias Palmer, Fredrik Paulsson

Addresses: Knowledge Management Research (KMR) group, Centre for User Oriented Information Technology Design (CID), Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm 100 44, Sweden. ' Knowledge Management Research (KMR) group, Centre for User Oriented Information Technology Design (CID), Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm 100 44, Sweden. ' Knowledge Management Research (KMR) group, Centre for User Oriented Information Technology Design (CID), Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm 100 44, Sweden. ' Knowledge Management Research (KMR) group, Centre for User Oriented Information Technology Design (CID), Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science (NADA), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm 100 44, Sweden

Abstract: Life long, flexible, collaborative, and personalised learning are words that are being increasingly used, whenever education is discussed and designed. They express new and important demands on learning architectures, both with regard to pedagogy, organisation and technology. Traditional learning architectures are based on teacher-centric and curriculum-oriented ||knowledge-push||. In this paper, we present an infrastructure, an architecture and a number of frameworks and tools that support learner-centric and interest-oriented ||knowledge-pull||. We see them as a contribution to a Public e-Learning Platform, which can achieve true interoperability based on open source and open international ICT standards.

Keywords: e-learning; semantic web; conceptual web; electronic portfolios; peer-to-peer; interoperability; learning architectures; open source; online learning; information retrieval; learning resources; metadata; collaborative learning; reflective learning; customised learning; knowledge management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLT.2005.006522

International Journal of Learning Technology, 2005 Vol.1 No.3, pp.352 - 381

Published online: 18 Mar 2005 *

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