ECL Projects

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ECL Projects
S. Stojanov ECL, University of Plovdiv
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CBT eLearning
Just-in-time/at-work-place/ customized/on-demand
process of learning
Time/place/content predeterminated learning
Ontology-based annotation of learning materials,
common-shared-meaning, machine-processable
metadata
Through the Internet, education will become
learner- and goal-oriented rather than
faculty-centered Lesser, Klein, MIT
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Projects overview
DeLC
eLSE
eLPortal
BULCHINO
TestPortal
CBRFramework
eSArchitecture
COMMERCE
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Confirmations

• eSArchitecture Research fund 2004
• eLPortal Research fund 2005
• CBRFramework Research fund 2005
• BULCHINO Research fund 2005
• DeLC Fund Stimulation of research activities
  in the Bulgarian universities
• COMMERCE - Fund Stimulation of research
  activities in the Bulgarian universities
• eLSE - Fund Stimulation of research activities
  in the Bulgarian universities
• TestPortal - Fund Information Society

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Projects relationships
DeLC
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Projects relationships
Infrastructure
eLSE
CBRFramework
Architecture
COMMERCE
DeLC
BULCHINO
eSArchitecture
TestPortal
eLPortal
Content
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Establishment of eLearning Center (DeLC)

• Main objectives
• Transformation of the ECL to Distributed
  eLearning Center (DeLC)
• Creation of organizational and technological
  infrastructure of the center
• Activities
• Upgrade and extension of the actual hardware
  configuration
• Development of the first object-component
  client/server version of the infrastructure
  (COMMERCE)
• Re-engineering of the object-component oriented
  version to agent-based version (eSArchitecture)

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5 Models

• Infrastructural model
• eServices model
• eLearning node model
• Cluster model
• Extended eLearning node model (University of
  Limerick) 3-layered architecture
• InfoStationCenter
• InfoStations
• Mobile Devices

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Customer-oriented model and architecture for
mobile eLearning services (COMMERCE)

• Main objectives
• Improving student access to on-line educational
  resources through advanced wireless systems
• anytime, anyplace, anyhow access to the
  desirable eLearning content independently of
  time, place and pace
• Base for m-Learning EU FP5 ANWIRE Project
• Activities
• Development of a model and system architecture
  for the provision of mobile services within a
  University campus
• Access virtually from any device (both stationary
  or mobile) currently in users possession

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E-Services based architectures

• Main objectives
• Multi-layered e-services based architectures
• Agent/e-service communication
• DAML-S (OWL-S) protocol
• Semantic Web
• Activities
• Prototype applications
• eLearning
• BULCHINO

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CBR Platform for Management of Knowledge Based on
Ontologies

• Main objective
• Development of a flexible and extendible
  CBR-based platform for knowledge management and
  knowledge processing
• Activities
• UML modeling of an architectural framework
• Implementation of the framework
• Development of an intelligent e-service
• Prototype applications
• eLearning
• tourism

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Intelligent Web-based Catalogue for the Bulgarian
Cultural Heritage (BULCHINO)

• Main objectives
• E-services oriented infrastructure
• Modeling of the e-content, compliant with the
  arising standard for electronic presentation of
  cultural objects (CCO)
• Activities
• Prototype applications
• eLearning
• eCommerce
• Intuitive and user-friendly interface

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CCO Record

• Example
• for a monastery complex in Bulgaria
• Rila Monastery
• Cloisters
• Church of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin
• Dome
• Façade
• Tower of Hrelio

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Intelligent eLearning Portal fir the Secondary
School in Bulgaria (eLPortal)

• Main objectives
• 9-layered portal architecture
• SCORM-compliant eLearning content and services
• Education clusters (DeLC)
• Activities
• Prototype applications
• 3 eLearning Nodes
• 1 eLearning Cluster
• eLearning packages

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eLearning Infrastructure and e-content for
Software Engineering Education (eLSE)

• Main objectives
• A system infrastructure for eLearning and
  distance learning in software engineering
• Methodology for creation of e-content in SE
  best practices
• SCORM-compliant e-content
• Integration of eLSE in DeLC infrastructure

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Intelligent Portal for Education

• Main objectives - specialization of the eLPortal
  for the Bulgarian language education. The
  following modules will be integrated
• Automatic spelling checking module
• Thesaurus (synonym suggestion) module
• Text categorization module
• Automated question answering module
• Test collection for Bulgarian grammar

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Expected outcomes

• Publications (with contract citation)
• Important for the annual reports in the Ministry
  of education
• Models, tools,
• Prototypes

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HR

• Staff
• PhD Students
• Undergraduate Students (final year projects)
• External consultants

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Finance breakdown (first year)

• 50 - HW
• 30 - Publications, Conferences, Workshops
• 10 - SW, Literature,
• 10 - University of Plovdiv