SIMPLE-a social interactive mashup PLE

This paper presents an approach for a mashup PLE especially designed for the interactive and social context of work-integrated learning (WIL). The mashup PLE consists of a freely configurable set of widgets, whose functionalities are based on a framework of five activity classes to actively support informal learning in a social environment. We present an exemplary implementation of desktop widgets for each of the classes. Based on the evaluation of the widget framework we highlight future research directions for designing PLEs in the context of WIL.