ROLE
ROLE Software Development Kit
The ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) project provides technology to support teachers in developing open personal learning environments for their students. It centers on self-regulated learning so as to promote independent learners who can plan their learning process, search for resources, and reflect on their progress.
The ROLE infrastructure, including this Software Development Kit (SDK) enables a learner-centred Personal Learning Environment (PLE) that will empower the user for true lifelong learning across institutional boundaries, integrating learning with other parts of the learner’s social life.
Self Regulated Learning (SRL): Introductory Course
This 3-hour introductory course concentrates on Self Regulated Learning (SRL), a process by which learners determine their individual goals. SRL aims to enable students to be in comand of their own learning process, and has often has a positive effect on personal motivation and improving learning achievements.
This course has been produced by the Responsive Open Learning Environments (ROLE) project, which provides tools and services to build technology-enhanced learning environments based on individual learner needs and preferences.
The first ROLE Widget Enchantment
Join the competition – create a widget – win a prize!
The ROLE project has opened an iterative competition on the development of widgets to enchant users and learner communities. Developers benefit from the wide range of the project’s test beds and receive valuable feedback as well as access to future market winning technologies. The winner will receive a prize worth 500€, e.g. a webpad, a smartphone or the entrance fee to exclusive events!
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 15 July, 2011
Winner announcement: 31 July, 2011
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Responsive Open Learning Environments
ROLE’s cross-disciplinary innovative approaches deliver and test prototypes of highly responsive digital learning environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and individualisation. ROLE follows an open approach thereby offering all interested parties to participate in this major endeavour.
ROLE’s stakeholders range from learners to teachers, from employers to education service providers and learning material vendors, from university to further-education organisations. Their needs are continuously integrated into ROLE, thereby ensuring that significant benefits arise for the learners, their communities, employers, TEL developers and society in general.
Learning is a highly individual experience. Therefore, ROLE enables learners to create and their personal learning environment, and thus their individual learning experience. The ROLE approach offers adaptivity and personalisation specifically in terms of the contents and services that comprise the entire learning environment and its functionalities. This approach permits individualisation of the components, tools, and functionalities of a digital learning environment. Learning environment services can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components and functionalities while addressing the needs of the learners as well as of the organisations accrediting and/or certifying the learning activities. This approach empowers learners themselves to generate new tools and functionalities according to their needs, and can help them to establish a livelier and personally more meaningful learning context and learning experience. At the same time, organisations are able to control and stir the assembly of the learning environments to ensure the acceptability of the learning activities and outcomes.
First results are available through the ROLE showcase, available at http://www.role-showcase.eu/ . Here, successful tools and learning environments are provided to exemplify how ROLE can be successfully employed in all stages of life-long learning after leaving high school. Furthermore, learners, teachers and organisations testify about their successful use of the ROLE approach in various learning scenarios. ROLE’s generic framework uses an open source approach, interoperable across software systems and technology. Hence, any tool created by an individual is available from a pool of services and tools to all learners via the internet, no matter which learning environment, operating system or device they use or subject matter they learn. A highly active community is continuously promoting new results, ideas and approaches. Join us at the LinkedIn ROLE group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/1590487
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