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Research Groups![]() e-LearningSchooling and learning have long been regarded as the primary means by which societies evolve. In fact, there are underlying assumptions within our country's political circles that lifelong learning is paramount for
In The e-Learning Research Group's work addresses these multiple aspects of learning with activities falling within two main categories (broadly stated, e-Learning is about adapting technologies to enhance learning outcomes):
Within the first category, the Group's activities and competencies revolve around learning objects, repositories, specifications and standards for meta-data, quality metrics and evaluation, workflow and process enhancements, digital rights management, interoperability of learning resources / systems, learning resource management for enhanced discoverability / retrieval and automation processes. In the second category, the Group's focus revolves around human aspects to knowledge building through the development of technologies to support evolving social paradigms (for instance, transforming tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge through social networking shifts and technologies). This can involve building the shortest learning paths for learners to change knowledge states while adapting the learning experience to learner needs, preferences and patterns. Means used to enable such an approach include collaborative filtering, knowledge sharing / communities / mapping, user profiling for learning environment adaptation, collaboration tools / technologies and gaming / simulations for learning. Learning is not just about information gathering, but also about filtering, contextualizing, analyzing and internalizing. Historically, technological frameworks have failed to properly address this (modelling themselves after traditional educational frameworks), so future activities of the Group and its partners will focus on the development of technological frameworks to enable new and emerging "learning paradigms." Additional InformationResearch ContactDr. Andrew Reddick Business ContactGeorges Corriveau |
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