GRAPPLE - Generic Responsive Adaptive Personalized Learning Environment

Funding: European Commission,  Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), Information Society Technologies (IST), STREP project.

Project leader: Prof. dr. Paul De Bra, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUe)

Period: 3 years: 1 February  2008 - 31 January 2011

Project Web Site: http://www.grapple-project.org/

Motivation 

A number or research prototypes of adptive technology-enhanced learning systems were built, and mostly used only for demonstration purposes. However, to date the use of adptive technology in learning applications remains very limited.

Description

The GRAPPLE project is aimed at changing that by gringing adaptive technologies to the masses. This is done by integrating an adaptive educational environment with major learning management systems. The GRAPPLE project aims at delivering to learners a technology-enhanced learning (TEL) environment that guides them through a life-long learning experience, automatically adapting to personal preferences, prior knowledge, skills and competences, learning goals and the personal or social context in which the learning takes place.

My contribution

I'm the local (Lugano) coordinator of the project and scientific responsable for the activities held in Lugano. In particular, I'm involved in the following tasks:

Publications (see publications page for pdf files)

P20 Mazzola Luca, Mazza Riccardo. GVIS: A Facility for Adaptively Mashing Up and Representing Open Learner Models. In: Martin Wolpers, Paul A. Kirschner, Maren Scheffel, Stefanie Lindstaedt and Vania Dimitrova (eds.). Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 28 - October 1, 2010. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. LNCS 6383, 2010. pp. 554-559. ISBN: 978-3-642-16019-6. (poster paper).
P17 Mazzola Luca, Eynard Davide, Mazza Riccardo. GVIS: a framework for graphical mashups of heterogeneous sources to support data interpretation. In: 3rd Conference on Human System Interactions, 2010. HSI '10. pp. 578-584. ISBN: 978-1-4244-7560-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HSI.2010.5514511.
P16 Luca Mazzola, Riccardo Mazza. GVIS: an integrating infrastructure for adaptively mashing up user data from different sources. In: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualisation. London. 26-29 July 2009. pp. 68-72. IEEE, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-7695-4165-5. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IV.2010.19
P15 Luca Mazzola, Riccardo Mazza: An infrastructure for creating graphical indicators of the learner profile by mashing up different sources. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2010) 26-28 May 2010. pp. 329-332. ACM New York, NY, USA (2010). ISBN: ISBN:978-1-4503-0076-6. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1842993.1843053
P14 Luca Mazzola, Riccardo Mazza. Supporting Learners in Adaptive Learning Environments through the Enhancement of the Student Model. In: Julie A. Jacko (ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Interacting in Various Application Domains, 13th International Conference, HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, 2009. pp. 166-175. ISBN: 978-3-642-02582-2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02583-9_19.
P13 Luca Mazzola, Riccardo Mazza. Supporting Learners in Adaptive Learning Environments through the Enhancement of the Student Model. In: Julie A. Jacko (ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Interacting in Various Application Domains, 13th International Conference, HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009, Proceedings, Part IV. Springer, 2009. pp. 166-175. ISBN: 978-3-642-02582-2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02583-9_19.

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