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标题：Cloud Services, Interoperability and Analytics within a ROLE-enabled Personal Learning Environment
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作者：Rocael Hernandez Rizzardini ; Byron H. Linares ; Alexander Mikroyannidis 等
期刊名称：Journal of Universal Computer Science
印刷版ISSN：0948-6968
出版年度：2013
卷号：19
期号：14
页码：2054-2074
出版社：Graz University of Technology and Know-Center
摘要：The ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning Environments, EU 7th Framework Programme, grant agreement no.: 231396, 2009-2013) was focused on the next generation of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). A ROLE PLE is a bundle of interoperating widgets - often realised as cloud services - used for teaching and learning. In this paper, we first describe the creation of new ROLE widgets and widget bundles at Galileo University, Guatemala, within a cloud-based infrastructure. We introduce an initial architecture for cloud interoperability services including the means for collecting interaction data as needed for learning analytics. Furthermore, we describe the newly implemented widgets, namely a social networking tool, a mind-mapping tool and an online document editor, as well as the modification of existing widgets. The newly created and modified widgets have been combined in two different bundles that have been evaluated in two web-based courses at Galileo University, with participants from three different Latin-American countries. We measured emotional aspects, motivation, usability and attitudes towards the environment. The results demonstrated the readiness of cloud-based education solutions, and how ROLE can bring together such an environment from a PLE perspective.