ROLE

Overview

ROLE's cross-disciplinary innovations will deliver and test prototypes of highly responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation. Our work also advances the state-of-the-art in human resource management, self-regulated and social learning, psycho-pedagogical theories of adaptive education and educational psychology, service composition and orchestration, and the use of ICT in lifelong learning. Significant benefits arise for learners, their communities, employers, TEL developers and society.

ROLE offers adaptivity and personalization in terms of (1) content and navigation and (2) the entire learning environment and its functionalities. This approach permits individualization of the components, tools, and functionalities of a learning environment, and their adjustment or replacement by existing web-based software tools. Learning environment elements can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components and functionalities, which can be adapted by lone learners or collaborating learners to meet their own needs and to enhance the effectiveness of their learning. This empowers each user to generate new tools and functions according to their needs, and can help them to establish a livelier and personally more meaningful learning context and learning experience.

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, and which subject matter they learn.

The consortium consists of world-renowned experts covering all required pedagogical and technical competencies. Respective activities have been defined to bring the results of ROLE to the targeted international markets in higher education and corporate training.

Examples for videos produced by ROLE

ROLE Community

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ROLE implements an extensive community outreach programme to involve as many researcher, developer and user communities as possible world-wide. ROLE strives to stimulate these communities to open up closed learning environments by providing respective learning services, we understand the programme as a cornerstone of the project. It is therefore deeply anchored in the proposed R & D process. We use Web 2.0 means like the LinkedIn group to facilitate the communication and collaboration among the diverse communities. In ROLE we target decentralized ways of learning, more suited to a Web 2.0 point of view, in which each learner can select her own learning tools, choose her own learning tasks and explore different learning practices. ROLE facilitates large communities which will be studied from a joint personal learning and Web 2.0 point of view. The overwhelming complexity of solutions to every imaginable combination requires us to ask the ROLE communities for help and support in designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating upcoming ROLE solutions.

Research Topics

• Personal Learning Environments
• Social Software and Web 2.0
• Social Requirements Engineering within large communities
• Social Network Analysis

Publications

2013

• Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma

  From Micro to Macro: Analyzing Activity in the ROLE Sandbox

  Published in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, LAK'13, Leuven, Belgium, April 8-12, 2013

2012

• Alexander Nussbaumer, Milos Kravcik, Dietrich Albert

  Supporting Self-Reflection in Personal Learning Environments Through User Feedback

  Published in M. Kravcik, O.C. Santos, J.G. Boticario, D. Perez-Marin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE), held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP2012), Montreal, Canada, July 17th, 2012. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

• Elvira Popescu, Ling Qi, Ralf Klamma, Howard Leung, Marcus Specht

  Advances in Web-based Learning - ICWL 2012

  Published in Proceedings 11th International Conference, Sinaia, Romania, September 2-4, 2012, LNCS Vol. 7558

• Alexander Nussbaumer, Maren Scheffel, Katja Niemann, Milos Kravcik, Dietrich Albert

  Detecting and Reflecting Learning Activities in Personal Learning Environments

  Published in Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Technology-Enhanced Learning (#artel12) held in conjunction with EC-TEL 2012, Saarbrucken (Germany)

• Effie L-C. Law, Arunangsu Chatterjee, Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma

  The Social Requirements Engineering (SRE) Approach to Developing a Large-Scale Personal Learning Environment Infrastructure

  Published in A. Ravenscroft et al. (Eds.): 21st Century Learning for 21st Century Skills - 7th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany, LNCS vol. 7563, pp. 194-207, Springer Verlag (2012)

• Alexander Nussbaumer, Marcel Berthold, Daniel Dahrendorf, Hans-Christian Schmitz, Milos Kravcik, Dietrich Albert

  A Mashup Recommender for Creating Personal Learning Environments

  Published in E. Popescu et al. (Eds.): ICWL 2012, LNCS 7558, pp. 79–88, 2012. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 (Best Paper Award)

• Dominik Renzel, Patrick Schlebusch, Ralf Klamma

  Today's Top "RESTful'' Services and Why They Are Not RESTful

  Published in X. Sean Wang, Isabel Cruz, Alex Delis, Guangyan Huang (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7651 - Web Information Systems Engineering - WISE 2012 13th International Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings

• Milos Kravcik, Olga C. Santos, Jesus G. Boticario, Diana Perez-Marin

  2nd Workshop on Personalization Approaches for Learning Environments (PALE 2012)

  Published in M. Kravcik, O.C. Santos, J.G. Boticario, D. Perez-Marin (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments (PALE), held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP2012), Montreal, Canada, July 17th, 2012. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, ISSN 1613-0073.

• Olga C. Santos, Milos Kravcik, Diana Perez-Marin

  Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments

  Published in L. Ardissono and T. Kuflik (Eds.): UMAP 2011 Workshops, LNCS 7138, pp. 117–121, 2012. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012

• Milos Kravcik, Ralf Klamma

  Supporting Self-Regulation by Personal Learning Environments

  Published in Proc. ICALT 2012, 12th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.

• Anna Hannemann, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke

  Soziale Interaktion in Open-Source-Communitys

  Published in Open Source - Konzepte, Risiken, Trends, Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik, HMD 283, 49. Jahrgang, Februar 2012

2011

• Milos Kravcik, Ralf Klamma

  On Psychological Aspects of Learning Environments Design

  Published in Proc. EC-TEL 2011, 6th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, 20-23 September, Palermo, Italy, pp. 436–441, Springer.

• Manh Pham, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke

  Development of Computer Science Disciplines - A Social Network Analysis Approach

  Published in Springer Journal on Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 1(4): 321-340, 2011

• Howard Leung, Elvira Popescu, Yiwei Cao, Rynson Lau, Wolfgang Nejdl

  Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2011

  Published in Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, Hong Kong, December 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 7048

• Martin Friedrich, Martin Wolpers, Ruimin Shen, Carsten Ullrich, Ralf Klamma, Dominik Renzel, Anja Richert, Bodo von der Heiden

  Early Results of Experiments with Responsive Open Learning Environments

  Published in Journal of Universal Computer Science (j-jucs), Springer, 17(3):451-471, 2011

• Milos Kravcik, Ralf Klamma, Zinayida Petrushyna

  How can Psychology inform the Design of Learning Experiences?

  Published in Proc. ICALT 2011, 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.

• Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke, Anna Hannemann, Dominik Renzel

  Der Bazar der Anforderungen - Open Innovation in emergenten Communities

  Published in Informatik-Spektrum Volume 34(2):178-191, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, DOI 10.1007/s00287-010-0516-5

• Julian Krenge, Zinayida Petrushyna, Milos Kravcik, Ralf Klamma

  Identification of Learning Goals in Forum-based Communities

  Published in Proc. ICALT 2011, 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.

• Zinayida Petrushyna, Milos Kravcik, Ralf Klamma

  Learning Analytics for Communities of Lifelong Learners: a Forum Case

  Published in Proc. ICALT 2011, 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies.

• Manh Pham, Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, Matthias Jarke

  A Clustering Approach for Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Using Social Network Analysis

  Published in Journal of Universal Computer Science (j-jucs), Springer, 17(4):583-604,2011

• Xiangfeng Luo, Yiwei Cao, Bo Yang, Jianxun Liu, Feiyue Ye

  New Horizons in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2010 Workshops: STEG, CICW, WGLBWS, and IWKDEWL

  Published in Revised Selected Papers, Shanghai, China, December 7-11, 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, Vol. 6537, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20539-2

• Diana Perez-Marin, Milos Kravcik, Olga C. Santos

  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Personalization Approaches in Learning Environments

  Published in Held in conjunction with the 19th User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization conference (UMAP 2011), Girona, Spain, July 15, 2011.

2010

• Zinayida Petrushyna, Ralf Klamma, Milos Kravcik

  Designing During Use: Modeling of Communities of Practice

  Published in In Proceedings 4th 2010 IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (IEEE DEST 2010), Dubai, U.A.E.

• Ralf Klamma

  Emerging Research Topics in Social Learning

  Published in Dirckinck-Holmfeld, L., Hodgson, V., Jones, C., de Laat, M., McConnell, D. & Ryberg, T. (eds.): Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Networked Learning 2010, Aalborg, Denmark, pp. 224-231

• Dejan Kovachev, Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao

  Mobile Community Cloud Computing: Emerges and Evolves

  Published in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM'10), May 23-26, 2010, Kansas City, MO, USA. pp. 393 - 395

• Dominik Renzel, Christina Höbelt, Daniel Dahrendorf, Martin Friedrich, Dr. Felix Mödritscher, Dr. Katrien Verbert, Sten Govaerts, Matthias Palmér, Evgeny Bogdanov

  Collaborative Development of a PLE for Language Learning

  Published in International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Vol 5 (2010), Special Issue: ICL2009 – MashUps for Learning

• Ralf Klamma, Zinayida Petrushyna

  Pattern-Based Competence Management: On the Gap between Intentions and Reality

  Published in 11th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2010, St. Etienne, France, October 11-13, 2010, Proceedings, pp. 364-371 Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 336,

• Ralf Klamma, R. W. H. Lau, Shu-Ching Chen, Q. Li, Ishfaq Ahmad, Jianmin Zhao

  3rd IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (U-Media)

• Martin Ebner, Ralf Klamma, Sandra Schaffert

  Mashups for Learning - Editorial

  Published in Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), Volume 5, Special Issue: "ICL2009 - MashUps for Learning"

• Yiwei Cao, Dejan Kovachev, Ralf Klamma, Rynson Lau

  Enhancing Personal Learning Environments by Context-Aware Tagging

  Published in Proceedings of ICWL 2010 - Advances in Web-Based Learning, LNCS Vol 6483, 2010, 11-20

• Felix Mödritscher, Zinayida Petrushyna, Effie L-C. Law

  Utilising Pattern Repositories for Capturing and Sharing PLE Practices in Networked Communities

  Published in In Proceeding of 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies, 1–3 September 2010, Messe Congress Graz, Austria

• Zinayida Petrushyna

  Self-modeling and Self-reflection of E-learning communities

  Published in In Proceeding of Doctoral Consortium at 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2010)

• M. Wolpers, Martin Friedrich, Ruimin Shen, Carsten Ullrich, Ralf Klamma, Dominik Renzel

  Early Experiences with Responsive Open Learning Environments

  Published in Proceeding of the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (I-KNOW 2010), 1-3 September, 2010, Graz, Austria

• Dominik Renzel, Yiwei Cao, Michael Lottko, Ralf Klamma

  Collaborative Video Annotation for Multimedia Sharing between Experts and Amateurs

  Published in Anna Carreras, Jaime Delgado, Xavier Maroñas, Víctor Rodríguez (Eds.): Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Interoperable Social Multimedia Applications (WISMA-2010), CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-583 Barcelona, Spain, May 19-20, 2010, 7-14.

• Marc Spaniol, Quing Li, Ralf Klamma, R. W. H. Lau

  Advanced in Web-based Learning - Guest Editorial Preface for Special Issue

  Published in International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (JDET), April-June 2010, Vol. 8, No. 3

• Yiwei Cao, Dominik Renzel, Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, Michael Lottko, Georgios Toubekis, Michael Jansen

  Well-balanced Usability & Annotation Complexity in Interactive Video Semantization

  Published in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2010)

• Dejan Kovachev, Ralf Klamma

  A Cloud Multimedia Platform

  Published in Anna Carreras, Jaime Delgado, Xavier Maroñas, Víctor Rodríguez (Eds.): Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Interoperable Social Multimedia Applications (WISMA-2010), CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol-583 Barcelona, Spain, May 19-20, 2010, 61-64.

2009

• Ralf Klamma, Marc Spaniol, Matthias Jarke

  Knowledge multimedia processes in technology enhanced learning

  Published in Proceedings of the first ACM international workshop on Multimedia technologies for distance learning (MTDL'09 ), October 23-23, 2009, Beijing, China, ACM, New York, NY, USA, 77-86

• Marc Spaniol, Q. Li, Ralf Klamma, R. W. H. Lau

  Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009

  Published in 8th International Conference, Aachen, Germany, August 2009 Proceedings, LNCS 5686, Springer

• Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma, Yiwei Cao, Dejan Kovachev

  Virtual Campfire - Collaborative Multimedia Semantization with Mobile Social Software

  Published in Ralf Klamma, Harald Kosch, Matthias Lux and Florian Stegmaier (Eds.): Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies (SeMuDaTe'09), CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 539, Graz, Austria, December, 2009

• Yiwei Cao, Ralf Klamma, Y. Gao, R. W. H. Lau, Matthias Jarke

  A Web 2.0 Personal Learning Environment for Classical Chinese Poetry

  Published in Advances in Web Based Learning - ICWL 2009, 8th International Conference, Aachen, Germany, August 2009 Proceedings, LNCS 5686, Springer, pp.98-107

• Dominik Renzel, Ralf Klamma

  Semantic Monitoring and Analyzing Context-aware Collaborative Multimedia Services

  Published in Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, 14-16 September 2009 / Berkeley, CA, USA