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and collecting relevant literature, summarizing
related work, and elaborating the paper. On the
other hand, reviewers only need to check the
collected literature and comment on the state-of-
the-art section and the paper. In our example, they
use the commenting features of a Wiki in order
to give feedback on the paper.
Activity patterns can already include specific
URLs to the paper or the state-of-the-art section,
if a generic action should be executed within a
tool (e.g. create a new Wiki page) or a learner
intends to share concrete artefacts. Patterns, how-
ever, can also consist of URLs with placeholders
in order to allow for URL-based instantiation
linking to personal artefacts. For instance, the
URL to the paper ('http://teldev.wu-wien.ac.at/
xowiki/paper') might be changed to 'http://teldev.
wu-wien.ac.at/xowiki/%%path_to_paper%%' for
hiding details of personal learning experiences
on sharing them. As typical for Wiki systems,
XoWiki would request the user to create any new
page when calling its URL for the first time(s).
Utilizing the activity patterns is easy. A user
simply can derive an activity by switching to the
tab 'activity patterns' in the navigational area (on
the left-hand side right below the user's 'activity
space'). Here, the patterns are ranked according
to the usage frequency (left-hand side of Figure
11); the most frequently used are listed on the start
page of MUPPLE (right-hand side of Figure 11).
From there, they can be instantiated with a single
click. In our scenario, the co-authors and review-
ers who have been invited by the main author can
derive an activity from the pre-defined patterns
(if they do prefer the mash-up personal learning
environment to using the individual tools directly).
Next to this explicit way of sharing learning
experiences with other users, MUPPLE provides
facilities for implicit good practice sharing which
is based on automated analysis of MUPPLE
pages and recommendation services, which will
be explained in the following. Concluding this
first part about good practice sharing, it has to be
noted that users control what they really share
with others and, on the other hand, that they also
have full control over what they reuse from others.
In any case, good practice sharing is an important
concept for initializing meaningful learning sce-
narios and, therefore, for attracting new users to
MUPPLE.
Besides collaboration in learning networks and
learner-driven good practice sharing, the bottom-
up approach of MUPPLE also supports person-
alized learning beyond traditional adaptation
concepts. Basically, a mash-up personal learning
environment serves as the interface to a network of
actors, artefacts, and activities. Learner-controlled
and system-driven personalization of learning
takes place not only in a specific system and ac-
cording to a pre-defined, accurate user model but
Figure 10. Role-based patterns for the activity 'Collaborative Paper Writing'
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