JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 17(9): 1222-1240, doi: 10.3217/jucs-017-09-1222
Opening Learning Management Systems to Personal Learning Environments
expand article infoFrancisco J. García-Peñalvo‡, Miguel Á. Conde‡, Marc Alier Forment§, María J. Casany|
‡ University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain§ UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona-Tech, Barcelona, Spain| Polytechnic University of Catalonia - UPC, Barcelona, Spain

Corresponding author: Francisco García-Peñalvo ( fgarcia@usal.es )

© Francisco García-Peñalvo, Miguel Conde, Marc Forment, María Casany.
This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.
Citation: García-Peñalvo FJ, Conde MÁ, Forment MA, Casany MJ (2011) Opening Learning Management Systems to Personal Learning Environments. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 17(9): 1222-1240. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-017-09-1222
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Abstract
New ICT technologies are continuously introducing changes in the way in which society generates, shares and access information. This is changing what society expects and requires of education. eLearning is acting as a vector of this change, introducing pervasive transformations in and out of the classroom. But with Learning Management Systems (LMS) users have reached a plateau of productivity and stability. At the same time outside the walled garden of the LMS new transformative tools, services and ways of learning are already in use, within the PLE and PLN paradigms. The stability and maturity of the LMS may become yet another resistance factor working against the introduction of innovations. New tools and trends cannot be ignored, and this is the reason why learning platforms should become open and flexible environments. In the course of this article the reasons for this change and how it may be addressed will be discussed, together with a proposal for architecture based on Moodle.
Keywords
Personal Learning Environment, Learning Management System, Moodle 2.0, eLearning, SOA, widgets