MUPPLE08

I'm back from a 3 weeks holiday in lovely Tunisia. My first post after this break will be to announce the call for participation and the programme for the interesting MUPPLE08 Workshop where I'm member of the programme committee.

PROGRAMME:

09:00 Welcome Message & Keynote (t.b.a.)

09:40 Felix Mödritscher, Fridolin Wild, Steinn Sigurdarson:
Language Design for a Personal Learning Environment Design
Language (Long Paper)

10:10 Juan I. Asensio-Perez, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo,
Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, Eduardo Gomez-Sanchez,
Eloy D. Villasclaras-Fernandez: Adding mash-up based tailorability
to VLEs for scripted Collaborative Learning (Short Paper)

10:30 Luis de la Fuente Valentín, Derick Leony, Abelardo Pardo,
Carlos Delgado Kloos: Mashups in Learning Design: pushing the flexibility
envelope (Long Paper)

- 10 min break -

11:10 Scott Wilson, Paul Sharples, Dai Griffiths:
Distributing education services to personal and institutional systems
using Widgets (Long Paper)

11:40 Stéphane Sire, Alain Vagner: Increasing Widgets Interoperability at the
Portal Level (Short Paper)

12:00 Oskar Casquero, Javier Portillo, Ramón Ovelar, Jesús Romo, Manuel Benito:
iGoogle and gadgets as a platform for integrating institutional and external
services (Short Paper)

12:20 Evgeny Bogdanov, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy El Helou, Denis Gillet:
Social Software Modeling and Mashup based on Actors, Activities and Assets
(Short Paper)

- lunch break -

13:30 Hannes Ebner, Matthias Palmer:
A Mashup-friendly Resource and Metadata Management Framework (Long Paper)

14:00 Ahmet Soylu, Selahattin Kuru, Fridolin Wild, Felix Mödritscher:
A Learning Object Harvesting Model and a Sample Application (Long Paper)

14:30 Riina Vuorikari:
A case study on teachers’ use of social tagging tools to create collections of
resources - and how to consolidate them (Short Paper)

- 10 min break -

15:00 Sebastian Weber, Ludger Thomas, Eric Ras:
Investigating the Suitability of Mashups for Informal Learning and Personal
Knowledge Management (Long Paper)

15:30 Graham Attwell: Maturing learning: Mash up Personal Learning Environments
(Long Paper)

- 10 min break -

16:10 Problem Sharing: Future Challenges (open discussion)

17:00 end (s.t.)

Google as a Long Tail Filter - Part 2

Having introduced the philosophies behind Google ranking in a previous post, Amit Singhal continues his explanation of how Google ranking works by giving an overview of the technologies behind their ranking system. Here are the points he stressed in his explanation:

- Understanding pages
- Understanding queries
- Understanding users

The Future of Online Learning - Ten Years On

Via George Siemens.

A presentation by Stephen Downes about the future of online learning. Slides are available here.
I do agree with Stephen in many points he raised and especially that the learner has to be put at the center and that Personal Learning Environments will replace Learning Management Systems.

John McCain Hates Me and Many of You

Via Doug Cornelius.



McCain: “Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information.”

Google as a Long Tail Filter

A post by Amit Singhal introducing the core ranking team at Google. According to Amit, the philosophies behind Google ranking include:

1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No manual intervention.