GPS mission is a new app on the iPhone and a web based application. It says the world is your playground, you have an online mission editor with which you can edit the mission flow, bonus items users can collect, define photo tasks, and edit other details. You have direct access to the map and can connect these things to locations. This is quite similar to what we worked on some years ago in the Remote Access to Field Trip Project (Beside the Videconferenceing things). Nice interface on the iPhone, well used combination of gaming location based services and multi interface stuff.
You can share and distribute your missions with others. Try it out! Soon you can play some of my mission in Bonn if you come to visit ;-)
Recently a new article appeared I have written together with Daniel Burgos about modelling adaptive learning support with IMS-LD:
Abstract: The paper describes a classification system for adaptive methods developed in the area of adaptive educational hypermedia based on four dimensions: What components of the educational system are adapted? To what features of the user and the current context does the system adapt? Why does the system adapt? How does the system get the necessary information? Based on this taxonomy several classical methods of adaptive educational hypermedia are classified. In a second step the paper gives an overview of key features in IMS-LD for implementing adaptive educational methods and gives some examples. In the last section the work is integrated and IMS-LD features are identified which can be used for the four dimensions of the classification system.
The new MACE project website is online now. We used Joomla for the page and I like the design realized by the MACE partners. Check out www.mace-project.eu if you are interested in learning objects, federated object repositories, architecture and design, and new things you can do with metadata .
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