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MLE Development Team Information Services and Systems De Montfort University mle.dmu.ac.uk

Explore the journey of building a personalised learning environment at De Montfort University, including technical feasibility, user preferences, and cost-benefit analysis, using uPortal 2.0 development tools. Discover benefits, challenges, and implementation insights.

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MLE Development Team Information Services and Systems De Montfort University mle.dmu.ac.uk

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  1. Ian Bloor (Promotion/Dissemination) Jason Ferguson (Software Developer) MLE Development Team Information Services and Systems De Montfort University http://mle.dmu.ac.uk

  2. September 2000 - August 2002 JISC 7/99 Project: Building MLEs in HE • Develop an integrated, personalised learning environment for learners at DMU. • Technical feasibility ? • User preferences and requirements ? • Costs and Benefits ? • Disseminate findings to the HE Community. • Exploitation

  3. September 2002 - • Operational service • Transfer to ISAS • 3 year Development Plan • with VLE, Meta-Directory • Continued dissemination to FE/HE

  4. MLE • Aiming to provide a learner-centred view of the University’s information systems and learning systems • MLE development: • Providing seamless, personalised, secure access to separate data sources • Modelling academic processes • Working towards greater integration of systems

  5. MLE Development Tools Selection criteria • Flexibility • Control • Scalability Initially chose: Java, In-house development

  6. Reasons for Choosing uPortal 2.0 • It does what we want! • Developer community • Training • Add-ons • Credibility: • examples of successful implementations • VLE vendors interested in developing links

  7. HTML Pages Tomcat CSS Presentation XSLT uPortal Database uPortal Personalisation LDAP uPortal Channels Business Logic Firewall RSS Feeds XML Documents Databases (Postgres) Data Broker Admin. Databases

  8. Benefits of working with uPortal • Separation of presentation and business logic • Standard format/process for building and and adding channels - enables division of labour • Easy to do standard Portal tasks, e.g. set personal preferences, bookmarks • Confidence

  9. Issues • Skills required: Java, XML, XSLT • Implementation of SSL

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