Web2Learn a Internet como Aprendizagem

PHP Simple Login Script (Procedural)

2012-01-03T17:53:00.000Z

StellarNet.eu : The Network for Technology Enhanced Learning

2011-03-28T09:05:00.000Z

StellarNet.eu : The Network for Technology Enhanced Learning

Web 2.0 Summit 09: Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly, "A Con

2010-11-11T11:38:00.000Z

E assessment tic

2010-05-18T17:47:00.001Z

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Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties

2010-04-15T23:14:00.000Z

Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties: "

Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google, is studying what sorts of relationships people have online. His latest piece, Designing for Social Interaction: Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties shows how people mostly use social networks to map their life, not create a whole new online one:

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“But the reality is, social networks rarely add to our number of connections. We’ve already met almost all the people we’re connected to on social networks. We’re already connected to these people offline. Social networks simply make the connections visible. For example, we often connect with old school friends, and catch up over a couple of wall posts. But rarely do we continue the conversation once we’ve connected, and over time we forget that the connections exist. In fact, Facebook users often have no interactions with up to 50% of their connections.1 When we study how people are interacting on social networks, we see that most interactions are with a very small subset of the people we’re connected to.

The average number of friends on Facebook is 130, and many users have many more. Yet despite having hundreds of friends, most people on Facebook only interact regularly with 4 to 7 people, and for 90% of Facebook users, 20% of their friends account for 70% of all interactions. We also see this with phone usage. We have hundreds of people in our phone contacts, yet 80% of phone calls are made to the same 4 people. We know dozens of people who use Skype, yet 80% of Skype calls are made to 2 people. Even when people play computer games online, they mostly play with people they know offline.”

This is important data, as it grounds the social interaction/UX designer in the reality that most people aren’t doing anything crazy online, they’re mostly cultivating and managing the relationships they had offline.

Paul then digs deep into what he calls temporary ties, those people we meet only quickly for some relatively important reason. I really like temporary ties as an extension of strong and weak ties because it suggests clear use cases to design for. When designing for those situations in which two people want to interact but have never met, you need a reputation framework and a way for people to provide feedback to each other. This helps people make a fast decision about whether or not to interact with their temporary tie.

Also check out Paul’s IASummit talk: Bridging the Gap between our online and offline lives

Plataformas de criação de jogos

2010-04-13T08:25:00.003Z

Existem muitas ferramentas de criação de jogos, além do Flash ou do Java. Recentemente descobri o unity e o silverlight que em conjunto com o flex permitem construir aplicações ricas para a internet (RIA). Um site interessante de acompanhar é o http://riapt.org

Encriptação de mensagens

2010-02-11T12:52:00.007Z

A encriptação de dados, é muito simples, porém pouco utilizada. Deixo aqui duas pequenas notas sobre os procedimentos a efectuar.

1) A maneira mais simples será utilizar o Outlook para esse efeito. Para encriptar mensagens podem utilizar o tutorial existente no sitio da Microsoft.

Existe um video muito interessante que explica melhor a forma de encriptar o e-mail

Ver video

É possível ainda o envio de mensagens encriptadas usando Simp Lite da Secway.

Mas existem inumeras outras formas.

Petição REGRA DOS 95 (Idade+anos de serviço)

2010-02-11T10:12:00.000Z

Petição REGRA DOS 95 (Idade+anos de serviço)

2009-11-13T14:55:00.001Z

Student/Advisor Relationship

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One presentation for teachers about Web 2.0

2009-09-12T01:53:00.001Z

A Teacher's Guide To Web 2.0 at School

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A change in my Blog

2009-07-04T16:40:00.005Z

Este Blog é um conjunto de peças soltas que sendo inicialmente um agregador de noticias e pensamentos em torno do meu trabalho de investigação conducente ao doutoramento em Redes Sociais e Aprendizagem evoluiu para uma vertente mais tranversal e pessoal. Provavelmente os posts, ou entradas, apenas fazem sentido para mim, mas claro está um Blog é mesmo isso, um conjunto de entradas pessoais de partilha pública. Nesta época de rápida mudança devo confessar que demoro algum tempo para assimilar e compreender o potencial das ferramentas emergentes. Algumas de facto mudaram e continuam a mudar a minha forma de estar perante um computador. A primeira mudança foi em 1993 com o Netscape, mas só mais tarde fui capaz de integrar nas minhas práticas de vida. A segunda foi o e-mail. De facto ainda me lembro em 1994 quando pretendia falar com um professor tinha de ser pessoal, senão não dava. Mas o professor Raul Moreira Vidal foi a pessoa que proferiu um comentário, que certamente já não se lembra, à porta da secretaria do DEEC na FEUP da Rua dos Bragas mudou a minha prática de vida. A terceira foi o ADSL que não me lembro quando foi talvez no ano 2000 em que revolucionou a minha utilização massiva da Internet. A quarta sim foi a mais determinante foi o Google que hoje uso para tudo, de facto é um verdadeiro canivete suiço.... Dai para a frente o número de ferramentas explodiu. A que achei fascinante no dia que o papa Bento XVI foi eleito, no ano 2005, estava em Tuebingen e percebi a importância das redes sociais e decidi nesse dia ( Abril de 2005) investigar mais sobre a utilização destas ferramentas na educação, a minha ârea de trabalho e prazer. Sim eu sou um dos professores que tem prazer em lidar com jovens. Bom neste momento percebi o real uso do Blog, demorou mas ainda uso muitas ferramentas que considero que ainda não dislumbrei a real dimensão da sua utilidade. Neste momento ando numa de integração. Palavra fascinante, que em conjunto com a interoperabilidade e adaptação compõem as palavras chave do meu trabalho de investigação que comecei a escrever. Bem haja a todos os meus amigos e colegas que interagem comigo e me permitem compreender a utilização destas ferramentas digitais.

Um plágio com gosto

2009-07-04T16:29:00.003Z

Um amigo e camarada escreveu uma crónica num jornal que julgo não ser de expressão digital pelo que a transcrevo a seguir, neste post por concordar em 100% o que o meu amigo Manuel Martins escreveu. Bem haja a todas as pessoas que não andam distraidas.

" PEDRA SOBRE PEDRA

“Nós morremos quando desaparecem

as últimas pessoas que ouviram falar de nós”.

(António Lobo Antunes)

l. A poucos meses das eleições autárquicas, deixem salientar em nome da minha consciência cívica (também partidária), o exemplo do Presidente Pereira Júnior, que é um dos homens bons de Paredes de Coura e que vai avançar para a última candidatura autárquica que a actual Lei permite. É um autarca exemplar, de trato modesto e grande simplicidade, mas com a capacidade de “entesouramento” do silêncio que as terras de Coura lhe dão para poder ser ponderadamente eficaz. É um líder capaz de encontrar soluções, indicar caminhos e fomentar entendimentos.

Estou certo que os Courenses saberão, uma vez mais, ser reconhecidos para com este autarca exemplar e para com um homem de elevado perfil cívico e moral.

2. A funcionária do Posto de Turismo de Paredes de Coura, é um exemplo da pessoa certa no lugar certo - pela dedicação e pelo amor que revela à sua terra que muito bem sabe divulgar.

Com disponibilidade e solicitude, ela divulga o que consegue catalogar e recolher, dá a conhecer (sem infantilizar) tudo o que sabe aos “turistas” que visitam as terras de Coura, com simpatia - é a cultura do linho, é a disponibilidade para mostrar o seu bem organizado arquivo sobre Aquilino Ribeiro, etc., etc., que a tornam a par do seu profissionalismo, da sua simpatia e da sua dedicação, uma “imagem de marca”, distinta,dos courenses que ela ali representa, em relação a todos os que nos visitam e que com ela contactam.

3. Eu sei, em escala diferente, quanto pode ter custado a Sócrates passar uma noite eleitoral no Jardim das Oliveiras, com os ombros carregados com estes resultados eleitorais que deve ter entendido serem um atentado eleitoral contra si e contra o PS.

Penso também que os mesmos não são justos, mas em democracia os eleitores têm sempre razão.

Depois de dois primeiros anos de uma excelente governação logo se seguiu uma crise económica e financeira sem memória recente que, teve como consequência principal, o desemprego que “disparou”. Simultaneamente a aplicação de medidas estruturais mal explicadas e que não “envolveram” os agentes que as devem aplicar, são certamente as causas principais destes resultados eleitorais. Mas também é preciso ver mais longe para perceber outras causas do que aconteceu - a ausência atempada de uma mais que necessária remodelação governamental profunda; a oficialização da cultura do silêncio (um Partido que se feche em si morre por si) que tem vindo a ser imposta aos mais lúcidos militantes do PS, “glorificada” no último congresso; o anúncio para o próximo programa eleitoral do PS, ipsis verbis, da questão do casamento dos homossexuais em vez de um novo contrato de união civil; o permitir a acumulação de candidaturas autárquicas (simultaneamente) com candidaturas à Assembleia da República (como já aconteceu nas europeias); a não transmissão da verdade dos factos e da dimensão da crise de forma clara; o não mandar calar os ministros que insistem no exagero de vender estatísticas e ilusões; o não perceber que os portugueses questionavam não só esta forma de fazer política, como a falta de humildade expressa por figuras principais como José Lello, ao considerar estas eleições “a feijões” (dixit. DN, 11 de Junho).

É também necessário, no PS e no Governo, um combate sem tréguas pela honestidade, um combate contra a decadência moral e cívica, pela recompensa ao mérito. O Governo do PS deve saber que em momentos de crise económica o abaixamento de critérios morais no exercício de funções públicas só pode ser combatido pelo bom exemplo que é sempre a chave para um esforço colectivo da recuperação do país – e neste aspecto, salvaguardando sempre a presunção da inocência a que todos têm direito, nem tudo tem estado bem com a crónica lentidão da justiça, ou pela cobertura dada a comportamentos de determinados “actores”, ou o ter colocado o cabeça de lista à Europa a atirar pedras ao vizinho do lado, esquecendo-se que o PS tem telhados de vidro ainda à espera de serem “protegidos” pela verdade legal.

Penso que Sócrates e o PS ainda têm condições e tempo para dar a volta a estes resultados para bem dos Portugueses, embora também saiba que a memória em política é sempre muito curta – e já poucos se lembram da herança recebida do Governo do PSD!

Mas Sócrates, com a motivação invulgar e a coragem que tem demonstrado possuir, está talvez, melhor do que ninguém, em condições de liderar um governo que continue as reformas e combata a crise e o desemprego com elevado sentido social, tomando decisões e opções estratégicas fundamentais, que permitam inverter a situação existente. E se assim acontecer será a primeira vez com mérito que um Partido que perde as eleições europeias ganha de seguida as legislativas.

Se o PS quiser ser verdadeiro, voltará a ser respeitado, mesmo nestes tempos difíceis.

5. O Presidente da República, Cavaco Silva, corrigiu um erro que cometeu enquanto primeiro-ministro, ao homenagear no Dia de Portugal o capitão de Abril, Salgueiro Maia.

Em 1988, o então primeiro ministro Cavaco Silva não atribuiu a Salgueiro Maia uma pensão, que foi pedida por esse “capitão de Abril” pelos “serviços excepcionais e relevantes prestados ao país” aquando da sua participação no 25 de Abril, e da qual não obteve resposta.

A falta de resposta veio a público três anos depois, quando Cavaco Silva concordou com a atribuição de pensões a 2 ex-inspectores da Pide.

Foi então António Guterres, em 1995 como primeiro-ministro que atribuiu, já a título póstumo, uma “pensão de sangue” à viúva.

A correcção destes erros de percurso é saudável para a democracia portuguesa – podem até servir de exemplo a outros detentores de cargos públicos.

Igualmente importante foi o facto de, no dia seguinte às eleições europeias, o mesmo Presidente da República ter decidido vetar as alterações à Lei do financiamento partidário, aprovadas no Parlamento com um único voto contra, do Deputado do PS António José Seguro.

Manuel Martins

Noticias de Coura – Julho/2009"

Seminário OpenSocial

2009-06-17T16:14:00.001Z

Primeira parte do seminário realizado no ISTEC-PORTO 2009

Seminário OpenSocial

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Joint TEL Summer School 2009

2009-06-15T12:24:00.002Z

I attended this year the smmer school which was held at Terchová in Slovakia.
The Presentations: are available and soon other place to follow.

Recommender Systems in TEL

2009-06-15T12:20:00.001Z

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Apresentação Redes Sociais: Hi5

2009-05-11T15:00:00.005Z

Integrado na semana da TI na Escola Secundária de Gondomar, amanhã irei falar sobre as redes sociais, em particular o Hi5, as suas vantagens, mas igualmente os seus perigos e ameaças.

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Redes Sociais

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Mybrute

2009-04-28T09:43:00.001Z

O jogo em que os alunos podem kickar no professor

http://mikok.mybrute.com/cellule

O telemóvel, o terço dos jovens

2009-01-21T16:02:00.003Z

Durante uma das muitas aulas que lecciono na escola secundária de Gondomar constatei que os jovens alunos neste século XXI ostentam o telemóvel numa devoção intensa, como se de um terço se tratasse. Os pai-nossos foram substituídos pelas sms e as avé-marias pelos jogos on-line.
Será então o telemóvel um instrumento de penitência e devoção a um distinto Deus, que os orienta nestes momentos conturbados da nossa sociedade? Sinceramente os meus alunos não vêm esta evidência clarividente. Mas o acto de enviar mensagens de facto assemelha-se ao acto de rezar. Prolongando esta analogia quais seriam então os quatro mistérios desta nova devoção?
Com a ajuda dos meus alunos encontrei-os!
Os mistérios gozosos: são as fotos das miúdas, as mensagens da namorada e os vídeos tirados nas aulas;
Os mistérios gloriosos são os resultados desportivos, conhecer novas pessoas e os mp3das suas bandas músicais;
Os mistérios luminosos são os vídeos ou fotos interessantes de partilhar, os tarifários com muitos sms e chamadas gratuitas para os seus pares;
Os mistérios dolorosos também existem são quando perdem o seu telemóvel ou quando está sem bateria…..
Não obstante a simplicidade desta analogia uma verdade se impõe. Os jovens hoje em dia dispõem de instrumentos tecnológicos que modificam os valores humanos e sociais da nossa realidade quotidiana.

Social Network Sites increase happyness

2009-01-10T00:39:00.001Z

HandHeld Learning

2009-01-10T00:24:00.002Z

Derek Robertson @ HandheldLearning Conference08

2009-01-10T00:18:00.000Z

FaceTag: Integrating Bottom-up and Top-down Classification in a Social Tagging System

2008-12-18T17:03:00.001Z

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New SpringWidget

2008-11-25T18:10:00.001Z

Visit the Widget Gallery

Hi5 CodeLab

2008-11-24T15:12:00.001Z

Hi5 Opensocial Code Lab Presentation

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hi5 and opensocial

2008-11-24T10:04:00.001Z

Javapolis GWT Gadget OpenSocial

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Javapolis GWT Gadget OpenSocial

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Uma mensagem de conforto

2008-11-10T15:13:00.003Z

Nesta fase de dúvidas e desconforto que muitos professores e pais se encontram podem encontrar um momento de tranquilidade e calma nestes dias agitados.

Emigrantes ou nativos digitais?

2008-07-16T17:07:00.002Z

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Conferences

2008-02-11T16:54:00.003Z

Up coming conferences

Eden annual conference which will be held at Lisbon on 11-14 of June 2008

Web 2.0 meeting which be held at Braga, Portugal on 10 October 2008

Past ( call for papers) Conferences

I-SEMANTICS 2008
NILE2008

Future VLE - The Visual Version

2008-02-04T17:27:00.001Z

Recent findings

2008-02-04T17:03:00.000Z

To track the Web:

Alexa
Compete

Social Networks

Meetro
Twitter

Web Tools
Xobni

Why the Web is...

2008-02-04T12:19:00.000Z

The web is an interesting place.
I think interesting is not the right word. It should be amazing or at least surprisingly.
Why the web is amazing? you might ask.

Well, I first met it in 1993, with the appearance of Mosaic and since then it has always surprised me.
In fact today I even do research on it.

But let’s go on with more concrete issues.

After I graduated in 1995 in Engineering I started to work with youngsters.
They too found the Web an amazing place.
Their reasons are different from mine and this is the first reason for why the Web is. That is, the Web is our reflection, it gives us what we are looking for and like the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of the electron, it is impossible to know everything and find everything on it, even if you try to download it, you will just have one static "picture".
This is the second reason: it is dynamic and evolves.
We hear about Web 2.0 and new features like Blogs, Chats, Forums, Wikis, they all provide interaction and social features. Yes the Web now is Social.

Going in this direction Tim Berners Lee in his Blog posted about changing WWW to GGG :)
Tim's Blog
But before going into more detail about GGG, let's see other reasons why the Web is amazing.
Another reason is related to its global usage: work, hobbies, shops,... information available at a distance of a click.
Recently i found in Techlearning.com a teacher's blog. She has a post quite interesting about web tools usage in her teacher's work.

I recommend visiting it and trying some tools like:Blogger, Digg,Feedburner, Show Me Widget , Netvibes, Google Reader , Twitter , Newsmap , Del.icio.us, Camtasia, Ning.

That's why the Web is amazing and keeps beeing amazing every day...

Conferences 2008

2008-02-04T10:36:00.000Z

* Eventseer.net web site/
* VeWAel
* EDEN Annual Conference 2008, Lisbon

My Social Network

2008-01-14T16:33:00.001Z

I am now using Social Networks. It is exactly what i was looking for.
Please visit and join in : esgondomar Social Network

The Holly Graal

2008-01-14T16:31:00.000Z

Yes i found one real candidate for the holly graal..
The Ning web site and it's free, awesome dude

See my Guestbook!

2008-01-08T11:33:00.001Z

Social Network Portability

2007-12-06T00:08:00.000Z

And now my hot interesting subject!!!

Portability with social networks, maybe the FOAF open standard (Friend-of-Friend).
This issues are quite new to me. But it seems quite interesting to use in my own context. Import a learner profile with is own hi5 network...
I have found an interesting workshop.. mediamatic about portability and also a blog which references these issues:
Google groups

Or even in microformats seems worth read it carefully.
Maybe tomorrow...

Web 3.0

2007-12-05T23:05:00.000Z

Go beyond Web 2.0!!

In a few years the participation paradigm that Web 2.0 lays on will give way to what Tim Berners Lee has already called GGG as to Giant Global Graph in his blog Tim's blog

But what we expect to be Web 3.0?

http://web3next.blogspot.com/
Well it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL and giving more. Tim Berners Lee compares with what WWW was about giving information, and now is going to be about social. The data in a FOAF file can be read by other applications. Photo-sharing, travel sites, sites which accept your input because you are a part of the graph.
It is about connections and sharing ourselves rather our pages...

ELearning INFO

2007-10-15T21:24:00.000Z

Info

IADIS MCCSIS E-Learning

2007-10-15T21:18:00.000Z

http://www.elearning-conf.org/
Amsterdam, Netherlands

22 - 25 July 2008

Call for papers
Submission Deadline: 25 February 2008

Sloodle Virtual Environment Learning System

2007-07-21T00:13:00.000Z

Today i found Sloodle, an interesting tool. It seems it is under development, but i am interested in trying.

It is a hybrid system that uses/merges two concepts: Moodle a LMS system with Second Life a virtual multi-user environment. That is what i really was looking for.

Because of that i have created my avatar at SL.
Name, well it is: Ideia falta, which in portuguese means an ideia is missing

EU Conference eLearning Lisboa 2007

2007-07-18T23:29:00.000Z

On 15th-16th October Lisbon will held this elearning conference integrated in the Portuguese Presidency of the EU.

This will be very important, in my opinion, and it is confirmed the presence of Marc Rosenberg, expert in the world of e-learning, knowledge management and performance improvement.

EU Conference url

See you there

Why Social interaction and Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) are important issues on my research?

2007-04-04T21:47:00.000Z

This question pops up on my mind very often and I must give a coherent answer in order to put behind my back any doubts for their importance.

First of all one’s must agree our society is changing drastically and we cannot put aside the technology impact, out of our schools . In fact in one hand, many teachers are already experienced, with their classes, the social web usage, namely creating Foruns, Wikis, or even personal blogs to improve their learning activities. On the other hand many institutions have their learning platforms, based on Moodle or Blackboard for instances, and many school teachers’ are using it, with interesting results.

Going a step further some technological solutions, namely Wise or Co-Lab, based on inquiry learning environments provides interesting solutions for CAL, or Computer Assisted Learning. Moreover the scripting usage in, for instances the COLLAGE IMS-LD tool from U. Valladolid- Spain, or the concept grid script with patterns referenced recently by Dillenbourg, P, from EPFL-Swiss, shows to us, again interesting approaches to CAL.

But I feel something is lacking because I still believe all these systems and others fail in one or another point.

If we consider the chats usage, with say the AIM or MSN, we feel these tools are interesting, though they are not often used for collaborative learning activities. Myself, as a teacher, I have experienced with my students that on a one-to-one basis the chat is very useful to get closer the teacher to the student, but when I use it as a room place, well the group effect rules, and any learning activity is very difficult to happen. Of course there are other times the chat rooms work just fine.

The differences between synchronous and asynchronous social tools, say for instances chats and forums are huge, but I am more interested on the first ones. I think the spontaneous of online systems are very interesting. I compare it to my real classes. Even with a detailed planning, we never know how the class will evolve before hand. That’s what I think is magic in giving classes and helping students with their learning.

Therefore how can we use synchronous environments to improve the learning activities even outside the class?

It was not on purpose I reached the end of my answer with another question. At least I clarified my ideas, and you must agree that social interactions with CAL are definitively important issues for a learning environment. Now I have another dilemma, for using a synchronously collaborative learning tool in an effective manner. Of course the outcome of it can be placed afterwards on a Forun, but the time condition, of having everybody present at the same time and motivating the students and at the same time focusing in the learning activities are real difficulties. Well I will continue later on ….

Folksonomy

2007-03-28T22:29:00.000Z

This new buzzword is very related to my research work. In fact by definition, available on wiki, folksnonomys are used to categorize Web Pages and other web content using ended labels called tags. This simple semantic approach is an interesting solution for my structuring knowledge problem. Maybe to simple, but yet an interesting approach. Of course the folksonomy term may occur in other contexts as well, but the process of tagging is considered very useful for searching, discovering, and navigating over time. Moreover a well-developed folksonomy is ideally accessible as a shared vocabulary that is both originated by, and familiar to, its primary users. In a web community the tagging sharing is rather interesting concept, where by sharing user-generated content they reach a common level of knowledge.

Trail Fire

2007-03-28T22:01:00.000Z

As usual the Web 2.0 Show brought another interesting technology solution, which after hearing the podcast seemed very promising and the people involved what are doing . Well the concept is, based on a social collection of bookmarks; provide a trail of web sites, which can be posted. The interesting aspect is the filter usage, where users could read the posts on every side. Is works as a top layer where we can read the other users comments. The sites remain intact, but for the trailfire users it seems as if they are posted on the web site.

Existing Learner Models

2007-03-28T04:04:00.000Z

In a recent study1) I came up with a nice way to classify different learner models:

Existing Learner Models

PAPI Learner: describes learner information for communication among cooperating systems. It has six categories

IMS LIP covers information similar to that found in a person’s CV, focusing more on the learner’s history and learning experience. This is due to the fact that LIP was developed to model the lifelong records of learners’ achievement and to transfer their records between institutions. Learner’s information in LIP is presented in eleven categories

eduPerson is a specification released jointly by Internet2 (www.internet2.edu) and Educause (www.educause.edu). Similar to PAPI and IMS LIP, eduPerson was designed to facilitate communication between higher education institutions, in particular to move information about people between US universities . The information covered by this standard is similar to the one found in an employee information system, as most of the elements hold data about the person and the organization they are a member of. Since its main purpose is exchanging data, the descriptions provided are very detailed comparing to other standards. eduPerson associates learner information with forty-three elements classified in two categories

Dolog LP is a learner profile suggested by Dolog et al that uses RDF (www.w3.org/TR/rdfprimer/) and learner ontologies to enable semantically enhanced learning systems to provide personalisation services. It takes advantage of the flexibility of RDF in encoding user profiles to include attributes from multiple schema, and the ability to add more attributes as necessary depending on how it will be used. Since the aim of Dolog LP is to provide personalisation services, the model was based on the combination of PAPI and IMS LIP. It describes a learner in five categories

FOAF is an RDF vocabulary that provides a set of properties and classes to describe people, documents and organizations. It was developed for building communities and social groupings. FOAF distinguishes five categories for describing a person:

Moreover the same paper compares all these five learning models based on a specified taxonomy

1)Towards a Semantic Modeling of Learners for Social Networks

Asma Ounnas, Ilaria Liccardi, Hugh C Davis, David E Millard, and Su A White, presented at AH06

http://www.win.tue.nl/SW-EL/2006/camera-ready/01-AsmaOunas.pdf

Web 2 Learn

2007-03-28T00:47:00.000Z

The major task in a research PhD programme is the difficulty in tracking all the research flows around a particular topic. In fact even the definition of the topic is itself a daunting task. Well at least this task I have completed because now, after several months of thoughts, I have my Topic.
My research area is Web Based Learning Environments. Of course it is a very wide area, and in order to narrow it, I chose the Instructional Design on adaptive learning environments. That is I am more interested in developing a learning platform, which differentiate users with personalization and profiling properties.

Moreover, I am deeply interested in the new web technologies, namely the so called web 2.0, with the associated e-learning 2.0. This brings a new social dimension, especially the social bookmarking and social networking, which in my point of view will have an interesting usage in learning scenarios. In fact the argumentation theory, from the educational field, will be interesting to analyze using this approach. Another interesting theory, which can support my claims, is the Conectivism theory, presented by George Siemens, and I will be pleased to make my proof of concept based on his explanations to the new learning approaches.

Well my research is just giving it's first steps, but I am sure whatever my conclusions in the end might be, the research itself and the time thinking consumption on these interesting matters is worthy enough.