A Personalised Mobile Learning Environment using MetaSearch agents and Cloud PKM

Discussion Paper

By Daniel Chun

Apr 17, 2010

Agent 3

User with MSISDN # sends inquiry of a word, an idea, or a string of words to a GWeg. <tag1>,<tag2>,<tag3>

<tag1><tag2>, SAVE

M-Learning by inquiry

Agent 2

Agent 1 Agent N

<Results of Inquiry> arrived as SMS or URL

Web 2.0 mashups

PLE/VLE/MLE Environment with Cloud PKM Apps

Classification

Ontology engine

User definedMeta Search Profile

Personalised Mobile Learning Environment using MetaSearch agents in Cloud PKM Concepts

MSISDN# = User profile

Cloud PKM interface

IdentifyAcquire

Transfer/SharingSell/Apply

Search/GatherCapture

Organise/SelectConvert

Create/StoreArchive

Various journals and databases

Semantic metadata

User self tag

Social Tagging

Discovery/Writing

Reflective Journal

Knowledge Management Process (citations needed)

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Repository

TagTagIdeasIdeas

Chun, D (Apr 2010) TagIdeas Concept Framework

Bite-size knowledge

Benefits

• SMS is the cheapest way and most accessible to make inquiry or instruction

• Provides user authentication without any login information• Ubitquitous access to all learners• User can define, subscribe, preset all profiles• Provides an exclusive channel access to the Cloud PKM

(Identify and Inquire)• Store-N-Forward now becomes Search-N-Forward• Cloud Applications – pay as you go• Data does not need to be stored locally• Agent based search is runs on cloud resources