Title : 
Widgets to Support the Concept of an Adaptable Personal Learning Environment
         
        
            Author : 
Pearson, Elaine ; Gkatzidou, Voula ; Green, Steve
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Accessibility Res. Centre, Teesside Univ., Middlesbrough, UK
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
There is a growing acceptance of the need to move beyond the concept of the traditional virtual learning environment towards a Personal Learning Environment. This paper presents an approach to personalised development of learning applications tp support disabled students. Supported by a community of practice, we produced bespoke open source widgets freely available for use and adaptation by the wider community.
         
        
            Keywords : 
computer aided instruction; handicapped aids; public domain software; teaching; virtual reality; adaptable personal learning environment; disabled students; open source widgets; personal learning environment; personalised development; virtual learning environment; Browsers; Communities; Conferences; Education; Prototypes; Software; Testing; accessibility; adaptable; community of practice; e-learning; personal learning environment;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Athens, GA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-61284-209-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
2161-3761
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICALT.2011.178