Design considerations for an ELeGI Portal. / Allison, Colin; Michaelson, Rosa.
Towards the learning grid: advances in human learning services. ed. / Pierluigi Ritrovato; Colin Allison; Stefano A. Cerri; Theo Dimitrakos; Matteo Gaeta; Saverio Salerno. IOS Press, 2005. p. 129-135 (Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications; 127).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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T1 - Design considerations for an ELeGI Portal
A1 - Allison,Colin
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AU - Allison,Colin
AU - Michaelson,Rosa
PB - IOS Press
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - ELeGI, the European Learning Grid Infrastructure, has the ambitious goal of fostering effective learning and knowledge construction through the dynamic provision of service-based contextualised and personalised learning environments. The success of this venture will depend to a considerable extent on the usability of such environments, and their usability in turn will depend on a successful strategy for the dynamic integration and maintenance of sets of services. The concept of the portal is therefore of considerable interest, as it is often portrayed as a means whereby a user can access an integrated set of related information and services. This paper reviews the portal concept with a view to its suitability as a design basis for enabling technology that will address usability concerns. The paper proceeds by summarising the usability requirements of learning environments, reviewing some of the ideas currently associated with different types of portals (enterprise portals, institutional portals, user-centric portals, Grid portals), and concludes by deriving a taxonomy of portal characteristics against which the usability requirements of ELeGI can be assessed.
AB - ELeGI, the European Learning Grid Infrastructure, has the ambitious goal of fostering effective learning and knowledge construction through the dynamic provision of service-based contextualised and personalised learning environments. The success of this venture will depend to a considerable extent on the usability of such environments, and their usability in turn will depend on a successful strategy for the dynamic integration and maintenance of sets of services. The concept of the portal is therefore of considerable interest, as it is often portrayed as a means whereby a user can access an integrated set of related information and services. This paper reviews the portal concept with a view to its suitability as a design basis for enabling technology that will address usability concerns. The paper proceeds by summarising the usability requirements of learning environments, reviewing some of the ideas currently associated with different types of portals (enterprise portals, institutional portals, user-centric portals, Grid portals), and concludes by deriving a taxonomy of portal characteristics against which the usability requirements of ELeGI can be assessed.
KW - Learning grids
KW - Learning environments
KW - User adaptivity
KW - Grid technologies
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SN - 9781586035341
BT - Towards the learning grid: advances in human learning services
T2 - Towards the learning grid: advances in human learning services
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T3 - Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications
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SP - 129
EP - 135
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