Learning as a Service: A Web-Based Learning Framework for Communities of Professionals on the Web 2.0 Export

@incollection{citeulike:2649821, abstract = {With the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies, web-based learning is shifting to new learning community driven requirements. While the success of web-based learning (still) requires a careful selection of appropriate communication/collaboration tools, the underlying software methodology is shifting from (passive) content consumption towards (active) content creation. Even more, the professionals' socio-cultural background influences the attitude towards the collaberatively created learning contents. Thus, successful web-based learning community hosting for professionals depends on a comprehensive cross-media support such as capabilities to share drawings, animations, pictures, digital videos, texts etc. among users. In this paper, we present the ” Learning As a Service” (LAS) framework. LAS is an approach supporting web-based learning for professionals on the Web 2.0. It employs advanced multimedia technologies in order to promote a wide range of web-based learning community information systems for interdisciplinary, intercultural as well as intergenerational learning. We present a set of services on the basis of LAS showing best practices for various application scenarios.}, author = {Spaniol, Marc and Klamma, Ralf and Cao, Yiwei}, citeulike-article-id = {2649821}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_15}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_15}, journal = {Advances in Web Based Learning – ICWL 2007}, keywords = {c\_sapproject, e\_learning, pedagogy, web20}, pages = {160--173}, posted-at = {2009-10-12 12:29:39}, priority = {2}, title = {Learning as a Service: A Web-Based Learning Framework for Communities of Professionals on the Web 2.0}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_15}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2649821 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2649821 N2 - With the advent of the Web 2.0 technologies, web-based learning is shifting to new learning community driven requirements. While the success of web-based learning (still) requires a careful selection of appropriate communication/collaboration tools, the underlying software methodology is shifting from (passive) content consumption towards (active) content creation. Even more, the professionals’ socio-cultural background influences the attitude towards the collaberatively created learning contents. Thus, successful web-based learning community hosting for professionals depends on a comprehensive cross-media support such as capabilities to share drawings, animations, pictures, digital videos, texts etc. among users. In this paper, we present the “Learning As a Service” (LAS) framework. LAS is an approach supporting web-based learning for professionals on the Web 2.0. It employs advanced multimedia technologies in order to promote a wide range of web-based learning community information systems for interdisciplinary, intercultural as well as intergenerational learning. We present a set of services on the basis of LAS showing best practices for various application scenarios. JF - Advances in Web Based Learning – ICWL 2007 EP - 173 TI - Learning as a Service: A Web-Based Learning Framework for Communities of Professionals on the Web 2.0 SP - 160 KW - c_sapproject KW - e_learning KW - pedagogy KW - web20 AU - Spaniol, Marc AU - Klamma, Ralf AU - Cao, Yiwei PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78139-4_15 ER -