ROLE’s cross- disciplinary innovations will deliver and test prototypes of high responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation.
The work of ROLE will advances the state-of-the-art in human resourcemanagement; self-regulated and social learning; psycho-pedagogicaltheories of adaptive education and educational psychology; servicecomposition and orchestration; and the use of ICT in lifelong learning.
ROLE offers adaptivity and personalization in terms of content and navigation and the entire learning environment and its functionalities.This approach permits individualization of the components, tools, andfunctionalities of a learning environment, and their adjustment orreplacement by existing web-based software tools. Learning environmentelements can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components andfunctionalities, which can be adapted by lone learners or collaboratinglearners to meet their own needs and to enhance the effectiveness oftheir learning. This empowers each user to generate new tools andfunctions according to their needs, and can help them to establish alivelier and personally more
meaningful learning context and learning experience.
ROLE’s generic framework uses an open source approach, interoperableacross software systems and technology. Hence any tool created by anindividual is available from a pool of services and tools to alllearners via the internet, no matter which learning environment,operating system, or device they use, and which subject matter theylearn.
Respective activities have been defined to bring the results of ROLEto the targeted international markets in higher education and corporatetraining. Thus, significant benefits arise for the learners, theircommunities, employer, TEL developers and society.
16 internationally renown research groups and companies cover allrequired pedagogical and technical competencies. ROLE is collaborativeproject budgeted with 8.5 million Euro and funded under the IST 7thFrameworkprogramme of the European Commission.
The British Institute for Learning and Development (the BILD) will play an integral part in the project by acting as a test bed for the project and the intended ROLE system. BILD members will have the opportunity to be at the forefront of leading technological and pedagogical research.