Towards Collaborative Learning via Shared Artefacts over the Grid

Cornelia Boldyreff (1) , Phyo Kyaw (1) , Janet Lavery (1) , David Nutter (1) , Stephen Rank (1)

1 Research Institute for Software Evolution

The Web is the most pervasive collaborative technology in widespread use today; and its use to support eLearning has been highly successful. There are many web-based Virtual Learning Environments such as WebCT, FirstClass, and BlackBoard as well as associated web-based Managed Learning Environments. In the future, the Grid promises to provide an extremely powerful infrastructure allowing both learners and teachers to collaborate in various learning contexts and to share learning materials, learning processes, learning systems, and experiences. This position paper addresses the role of support for sharing artefacts in distributed systems such as the Grid. An analogy is made between collaborative software development and collaborative learning with the goal of gaining insights into the requisite support for artefact sharing within the eLearning community.

Keywords: learning grids; e-learning; grid technologies; shared artefacts

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Cornelia Boldyreff, Phyo Kyaw, Janet Lavery, David Nutter, Stephen Rank. Towards Collaborative Learning via Shared Artefacts over the Grid. 1st LEGE-WG International Workshop on Educational Models for GRID Based Services, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland. pp.5. ⟨hal-00190449⟩