Kaleidoscope

The Learning GRID SIG will Organise the IWT-GA Demo in the context of the Second Kaleidoscope Symposium to be held in Berlin from 26 to 27 November 2007. See the program here.

The Learning GRID SIG will Organise the Workshop "International Workshop on Collaborative System Design and Applications" in Rio de Janeiro inside ISDA 2007 (October 22-24, 2007). See the program here.

The Learning GRID SIG Organised the Workshop "Ontologies and Semantic Web Services for Intelligent Distributed Educational Systems" in Marina del Rey, California, inside AIED 2007 (July 9-13, 2007). All papers and presentations are available in the workshop section of this site.

Welcome to Learning GRID Special Interest Group of Kaleidoscope

GRID technologies are rising as the next generation of Internet by defining a new powerful computing paradigm by analogy to the electric Power Grid. In this vision, a customer of the GRID can use his or her private workplace (Workstation, PC, UMTS phone, etc.) to invoke any application from a remote system, use the system best suited for executing that particular application, access data securely and consistently, exploit multiple systems to complete complex tasks in an economical manner or to solve large problems that exceed the capacity of any single system on the GRID.

About us

The interest of the technology enhanced learning world in GRID technologies is increasing. In fact they promise to provide the right answers to the needs rising from the emerging ubiquitous and contextualized learning and to contribute to the overcoming of the hydraulic view of e-learning that considers it as a simple information transfer from the teacher to the student. Nevertheless there is a lot of open issues that need to be solved in order to exploit such technologies for effective human learning such as:

the definition of new learning paradigms based on experiential, collaborative and contextualized approaches to exploit GRID technologies for addressing heterogeneous interoperability issues;

the use and the extension of GRID technology for implementing Virtual Organisations to support the new emerging learning scenarios (collaborative virtual learning communities);

the definition of evaluation models and strategies able to assess the efficacy and the effectiveness of GRID based learning models and systems.

The purpose of this SIG is to give an answer to these questions both in relation to GRID but also, at a grater extent, to service-based distributed computing environments. The final goal is to contribute to the achievement of a breakthrough in European (e-)learning and training practices through the definition and affirmation of the concept of learning services and their deployment through GRID technologies.