The vision and goal of the project is to produce a distributed learning web infrastructure, which will facilitate greater flexibility and functionality at all levels of university teaching. This will enable knowledge and learning materials to be constantly restructured and remodeled, and so can be individually accessed as and when they are needed. The utilization of distributed, web-based learning materials and collaborative project work allows students to create their own individual timetable and supports independent and autonomous study. Basic technologies such as repositories and metadata, intelligent hypermedia systems, and communication design are the main focus of the project. The exchange of distributed learning materials within the peer-to-peer network is a further important element, as are the intelligent indexing and personalized learning materials search functions. The PADLR project is divided into three modules: infrastructure and intelligent services, server and client side tools, shared and personalized access to educational media. The module ‘infrastructure and intelligent services’ deals with peer-to-peer networks of learning materials. It concentrates on the development of suitable metadata and protocols for the exchange of learning materials in distributed collections of information worldwide, intelligent indexing of learning materials, and personalized query and search algorithms for distributed collections of learning materials. The module ‘server and client side tools’ focuses on modular learning environments and modular material collections, as well as tools for video/audio capturing und annotation using metadata. The module ‘shared and personalized access to educational media’ concentrates on the creation of personalized content, interfaces, and help systems. Their aim is to develop basic principles for personalized ‘courselets’ in several fields. Further areas of interest are the integration of the courselets into innovative curricula and the issue of copyright within networked collections of learning materials.

Wissensmanagement,AIFB Insitut,Universität Karlsruhe

Schmitz, Christoph

Learning Lab Lower Saxony (bmb+f)

http://www.learninglab.de/padlr/index.html