Next Generation PLE Infrastructure 2010

Responsive Open Learning Environment [ROLE]: Next Generation PLE Infrastructure
A Satellite event of PLE Conference
Barcelona, Spain
7th July 2010
(a follow-on one-hour workshop to be held on 8th July 2010)

Lifelong learning plays an ever-increasingly important role in our society. New work challenges entail employees to cope flexibly with rapidly changing business requirements. Similarly, employers need to consider hugely diversified backgrounds of their employees in addressing the issue of further education. Hence, new technologies, concepts and approaches are required for the continuous training of workforce. The EU-Project ROLE (Responsive Open Learning Environments; http://www.role-project.eu/) tackles these challenges through a simple, effective paradigm of relieving learners from the burden of a "one size fits all" learning environment. Specifically, ROLE develops an infrastructure that enables learners to construct their own learning environment according to their personal as well as contextual needs such as accreditation and corporate goals.

The goal of this half-day workshop is twofold:

• To share the ROLE visions we have conceived and the conceptual as well as practical approaches (i.e. models and prototypes) we have hitherto adopted to address these visions;

• To invite feedback from the wider PLE community on the existing ROLE work to further refine our visions and approaches;

The half-day workshop is open to all participants of the PLE Conference.

A follow-on one-hour workshop is to be held on 8th July 2010.

Looking forward to seeing you in this exciting event!

Your ROLE team