GRAPPLE

1. Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment GRAPPLE Lucia Oneto R&D Project Manager l.oneto@giuntilabs.com TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante Slide 1

2. EU Project Area STREP project, VII FP, ICT-2007.4.1 “Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning” Partners TechnischeUniversiteit Eindhoven(NL), Open Universiteit Nederland(NL), Leibniz Universität Hannover L3S Research Center (DE) , TechnischeUniversiteit Delft (NL), VrijeUniversiteitBrussel (BE), University of Warkick (UK), University of Lugano(CH), Universität Graz(DE), Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DE), The Provost, Fellows and Scholars of the holy and undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin (IE), Université catholique de Louvain (BE), The Chancellor, Master, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge (UK), Giunti LabsS.r.l. (IT), IMC Information Multimedia Communication AG (DE), ATOS Origin Sociedad Anonima Española (ES). Objectives The main goal of GRAPPLE is to design and develop a personalized and adaptive Technology Enhanced Learning environment that integrates with major Learning Management Systems using a service-oriented framework approach. The key to creating a responsive learning environment that motivates, engages and inspires learners, and through this leads to better learning results, is personalization, which is achieved through adaptive learning technology. Start / End February 2008 / January 2011. http://www.grapple-project.org/ TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

3. Adaptive Learning Environment & existing LMSs Adaptive Learning Environment Service oriented framework Single Sign On facility (SSO) Providing communication channels User modeling facilities User Profile exchange facilities • Adaptation of page content on User Profile • pre-knowledge • prerequisites • preferences • Adaptation of page content on device • Adaptation of testing tools • Collaborative filtering of resources • Adaptive guidance Manage user Manage enrollments into courses Administrative workflow management Delivery of learning materials Assessment and evaluations Portfolio management TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

4. Adaptive Learning Environment functionality • GRAPPLE Adaptive Learning Environment • Core engine able to provide to the learner adaptive courses: the adaptation is based on the pre-knowledge, course prerequisites, user’s preferences and device used. • GRAPPLE User Model Framework • In charge to manage, store and provide all the shared User Model information. Core user model ontology, conflicting information reconciliation, issues of privacy and trustiness, user model representation to allow student to reflect on his own knowledge. TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

5. Adaptive Learning Environment functionality • GRAPPLE Authoring Tool • Used by the authors and instructional designers to create an adaptive course (based on the user profile): • DM: Domain model, authoring VR Learning Materials and Adaptive Simulations • CRT : Conceptual Relation Types • CAM : Conceptual Adaptation Model. • GRAPPLE VISualization • Available to learners, tutors and teachers to monitor the progress of the class(es) or of the single learner. TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

6. Application Areas • Life Long Learning / Continuous Education • Adaptive Course Material • Virtual Reality • Adaptive Simulation. TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

7. Possible exploitation of TENCompetence results (I) • TenCompetence provides a series of tools such as Personal Development Planner, Personal Competence Manager, LearnWeb 2.0, TenTube. • Considerable input for the GRAPPLE User Model Framework in terms of user knowledge/goal model. TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

8. Possible exploitation of TENCompetence results (II) • TenCompetence provides the Learning Path Editor for the creation of the learning paths. • Significant synergy between the Learning Design tools and the GRAPPLE Adaptive Learning Environment and Authoring Tool. • Possible integration of the adaptive courses in the learning paths: great added-value to the TenCompetence suite with the user profiling, device adaptation and semantic approach introduced by the GRAPPLE solution. TenCompetence event/Sestri Levante

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