Title: Meaningful access: policy, management and orchestration

Authors: Ioan Rosca, Val Rosca

Addresses: LICEF, Teleuniversity of Montreal, 100 Sherbrooke West, Montreal H2X 3P2, Canada. ' Amazon Development Centre, Iasi, Sfantu Lazar, nr. 37, Iasi, 700049, Romania

Abstract: Access management for learning communities requires a unified theory, sustaining the implementation of instructional policies, for |social networks|. The management method we have reached is based on the integration of content-rich resources in |operations| that model/control the access of those seeking to learn something by using them, with or without assistance. Activities may be sequenced emergently or planned, using scenarios (or |functions| – a biological metaphor). The proposed formula offers multiple facilitations: guiding, sequencing, coordination, matching, tracing etc. The gradual concretisation of operational elements (human and machine interprets/executors) can rely on technical, semantic and administrative indexing and on the |metafunctions| mechanism.

Keywords: access management; learning communities; meaningful access; policy management; interfaced operations; orchestrating functions; procedural aggregation; coordination tools; component concretisation rules; evolving scenarios; explanatory cooperation; software engineering; social networks; resource repositories; pedagogical resources.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2008.020179

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 2008 Vol.2 No.3, pp.247 - 266

Published online: 07 Sep 2008 *

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