E-LEARNING PORTALS AND MOBILE PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AS NEW LEARNING ECOSYSTEMS

The current paper is a case study describing a learning ecosystem comprising a specialized web portal named Time Maps, providing learning resources on ancient arts and crafts technologies, social networks and mobile personal learning environments (MPLE), as distribution channels. Aside from the traditional use of mobile devices for accessing the mobile version of a learning web portal, we propose a new educational strategy and tool, based on a middleware service and an interface application. The paper presents the context and similar research, describes the implementation and experimentation results of the tandem system (the central repository and the MPLE) and concludes with an evaluation of the efficiency of the proposed learning ecosystem in the context of vocational education.