TY - CHAP A1 - Kiy, Alexander A1 - Lucke, Ulrike A1 - Zoerner, Dietmar T1 - An adaptive personal learning environment architecture T2 - Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science N2 - Institutions are facing the challenge to integrate legacy systems with steadily growing new ones, using different technologies and interaction patterns. With the demand of offering the best potential of all systems, several not matching systems including their functions have to be aggregated and offered in a useable way. This paper presents an adaptive, generalizable and self-organized Personal Learning Environment (PLE) framework with the potential to integrate several heterogeneous services using a service-oriented architecture. First, a general overview over the field is given, followed by the description of the core components of the PLE framework. A prototypical implementation is presented. Finally, it’s shown how the PLE framework can be dynamically adapted to a changing system environment, reflecting experiences from first user studies. KW - Service-oriented architecture KW - Personal Learning Environment KW - University Service Bus Y1 - 2014 SN - 978-3-319-04890-1 VL - 2014 IS - 8350 SP - 60 EP - 71 PB - Springer ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kiy, Alexander A1 - Geßner, Hendrik A1 - Lucke, Ulrike A1 - Grünewald, Franka T1 - A Hybrid and Modular Framework for Mobile Campus Applications T2 - i-com N2 - Mobile devices and associated applications (apps) are an indispensable part of daily life and provide access to important information anytime and anywhere. However, the availability of university-wide services in the mobile sector is still poor. If they exist they usually result from individual activities of students and teachers. Mobile applications can have an essential impact on the improvement of students’ self-organization as well as on the design and enhancement of specific learning scenarios, though. This article introduces a mobile campus app framework, which integrates central campus services and decentralized learning applications. An analysis of strengths and weaknesses of different approaches is presented to summarize and evaluate them in terms of requirements, development, maintenance and operation. The article discusses the underlying service-oriented architecture that allows transferring the campus app to other universities or institutions at reasonable cost. It concludes with a presentation of the results as well as ongoing discussions and future work KW - Mobile Campus Application KW - Hybrid App KW - Framework KW - Service-oriented Architecture Y1 - 2015 UR - http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/icom.2015.14.issue-1/icom-2015-0016/icom-2015-0016.xml U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/icom-2015-0016 SN - 2196-6826 VL - 2015 IS - 14 SP - 63 EP - 73 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kiy, Alexander A1 - Grünwald, Franka A1 - Weise, Matthias A1 - Lucke, Ulrike T1 - Facilitating portfolio-driven learning in a personal learning environment T2 - 3rd Workshop on Technology-Enhanced Formative Assessment, TEFA 2016; CEUR Workshop Proceedings N2 - In universities, diverse tools and software systems exist that each facilitates a different teaching and learning scenario. A deviating approach is taken by Personal Learning Environments (PLE) that aim to provide a common platform. Considering e-portfolios as an integral part of PLEs, especially portfolio-based learning and assessment have to be supported. Therefore, the concept of a PLE is developed further by enabling the products of different software systems to be integrated in portfolio pages and finally submitted for feedback and assessment. It is further elaborated how the PLE approach is used to support the continuous formative assessment within portfolio-based learning scenarios. Y1 - 2016 UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85021883746&partnerID=MN8TOARS SN - 1613-0073 VL - 1850 SP - 45 EP - 52 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kiy, Alexander A1 - List, Christoph A1 - Lucke, Ulrike T1 - A virtual environment and infrastructure to ensure future readiness of Computer Centers T2 - European Journal of Higher Education IT N2 - The ongoing digitalization leads to a need of continuous change of ICT (Information and Communi-cation Technology) in all university domains and therefore affects all stakeholders in this arena. More and more ICT components, systems and tools occur and have to be integrated into the existing processes and infrastructure of the institutions. These tasks include the transfer of resources and information across multiple ICT systems. By using so-called virtual environments for domains of re-search, education, learning and work, the performance of daily tasks can be aided. Based on a user requirement analysis different short- and long-term objectives were identified and are tackled now in the context of a federal research project. In order to be prepared for the ongoing digitalization, new systems have to be provided. Both, a service-oriented infrastructure and a related web-based virtual learning environment constitute the platform Campus.UP and creates the necessary basis to be ready for future challenges. The current focus lies on e-portfolio work, hence we will present a related focus group evaluation. The results indicate a tremendous need to extend the possibilities of sharing resources across system boundaries, in order to enable a comfortable participation of exter-nal cooperating parties and to clarify the focus of each connected system. The introduction of such an infrastructure implies far-reaching changes for traditional data centers. Therefore, the challenges and risks of faculty conducting innovation projects for the ICT organization are taken as a starting point to stimulate a discussion, how data centers can utilize projects to be ready for the future needs. We are confident that Campus.UP will provide the basis for ensuring the persistent transfer of innovation to the ICT organization and thus will contribute to tackle the future challenges of digitalization. Y1 - 2017 UR - http://www.eunis.org/erai/2017-1/ SN - 2519-1764 VL - 2017 IS - 1 ER -