Commentary on: McCalla, G. (2004). The Ecological Approach to the Design of E-Learning Environments

• Main Authors: Leonie Ramondt, Tom Smith, Pete Bradshaw
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ubiquity Press 2004-05-01
• Series: Journal of Interactive Media in Education
• Subjects: ecological approach; semantic web; learning object repositories; learner modeling; collaborative filtering; data mining; clustering
• Online Access: https://jime.open.ac.uk/articles/81
• ISSN: 1365-893X

Abstract: Gord McCalla's paper describes the development of a user-centred system that links and accrues individual learners' profiles, usage and ratings data to learning objects. This allows algorithms to identify and recommend those learning objects that are best tailored to a learner's purpose and learning style. He uses the concept of the "ecological web" as a metaphor for the evolutionary journey (birth, growth and death) of online learning objects from the moment that they are added, through their useful life as a resource, to their deletion once obsolete. Paper: <a class="rev paper" href="/2004/7/mccalla">McCalla, G. (2004). The Ecological Approach to the Design of E- Learning Environments</a> Editors: Terry Anderson and Denise Whitelock.