Title
Services, Semantics, and Standards: Elements of a Learning Grid Infrastructure
Abstract
There has been considerable political pressure and much hope invested in the use of communication and information technologies to provide wider access to education, while improving quality and reducing costs. Unfortunately, many of the responses to the challenge of these aspirations have consisted of simple Web technology-driven products, which have failed to progress effective learning. In this paper we outline the characteristics and pedagogical goals of a learning paradigm that is used to drive the technical requirements, rather than being constrained by what is easily achieved in XHTML. We identify and explain the key roles played by services, semantics, and standards in meeting pedagogical goals of novel learning situations, and illustrate with some scenarios that build bridges between traditional learning contexts and future possibilities. Crucially, we explain why we have adopted Grid technologies in the European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) research program.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1080/08839510500234271
APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
information technology
Educational technology,Research program,Computer science,Information technology,Knowledge management,Synchronous learning,XHTML,Politics,Grid,Semantics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19.0
9-10
0883-9514
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.95
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Colin Allison122239.51
stefano a cerri2721143.64
Pierluigi Ritrovato341554.50
angelo gaeta414015.70
Matteo Gaeta573568.48