ROLE - Responsive Open Learning Environments
The Vision of ROLE is to empower learners to build their own responsive learning environment, which supports them to be aware of their own learning process and to reflect this process. ROLE should be user-centred in the way that an individually adapted composition of the learners’ own learning environments will be made possible. To this end and infrastructure will be provided which can easily be used by learners. ROLE's generic framework uses an open source approach, interoperable across software systems and technology, as well as extendible with new learning tools. Hence any tool created by an individual is available from a pool of services and tools to all learners via the internet.
Five objectives outline the goals of the project:
- supporting the individual assembly of accessible learning services, tools and resources in responsive open learning environments (ROLE)
- researching and developing a psycho-pedagogically sound framework for supporting the individual composition of learning services in ROLE
- creating new engineering methodologies to enable significant contributions to ROLE from learner and developer communities from outside the project consortium
- developing and sustaining an evaluation methodology to systematically demonstrate the effectiveness of different ROLE in test-beds focused on the transition of learners
- exploiting and disseminating the ROLE results to wider communities and markets
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. Visit us at LinkedIn Group ROLE and become a member of our community.
The ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments) project is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (ICT-2007, Challenge 4, Call 3, Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning) as Integrative Project (IP). It has started in February 2009 and will last for four years. The project is coordinated by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Germany (FHG-FIT, Martin Wolpers) and vice-coordinated by RWTH Aachen (Ralf Klamma). The consortium consists of sixteen partners from seven countries (twelve research partners and four industry partners).
Working area of TUG team:
The aim of the TUG team is to develop a psycho-pedagogical integration model towards supporting learning (domain knowledge and domain skills) by facilitating the concept of personalised self-regulated learning. Furthermore self-regulated learning skills of learners should be developed and enhanced. Considering the fact that ROLE will consist of a (large) number of learning tools (and content and peers) of which the learner can make use, the aim is to provide support to the learner in building a learning environment and learning with this environment in a psychologically and pedagogically meaningful way. By the help of the implementation of a psycho-pedagogical integration model in ROLE it should be made easier for the learner to learn effectively and the learner should also learn how to learn. For this reason the TUG team will also support the development of the ROLE infrastructure by contributing tools and strategies which ware related to the psycho-pedagogical model. Furthermore the TUG team has responsibilities for and contributes to the requirements analysis and evaluation of the project.
TUG Team
Prof. Dietrich Albert
Alexander Nussbaumer
Marcel Berthold
Christina Eder
Cord Hockemeyer
Project Homepage & Links
The ROLE Schowcase Platform
The Software developed in ROLE can be tried out on the ROLE Showcase Platform.
On this Web site our learning applications and solutions can be tried out and added to your own Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Access data and explanation for the usage are available on the Website.
The ROLE Consortium
Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik (FIT), Germany
RWTH Aachen University (RWTH), Germany
Graz University of Technology (TUG), Austria
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.LEUVEN), Belgium
University of Koblenz-Landau (UNI KO-LD), Germany
Uppsala University (UU), Sweden
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
University of Leicester (ULEIC), UK
Open University UK (OU), UK
Vienna University of Economics & Business Administr.(WW), Austria
Festo Lernzentrum (FESTO), Germany
Information Multimedia Communication AG (IMC), Germany
The British Institute for Learning and Development (BILD), UK
E-Learning Lab of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), China
Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Austria
U&I Learning NV (UIL), Belgium