I'm involved in different local educational initiatives. I have read through Amdatu main concept on the web site and may humbly notice that teachers / educational gurus rarely consider modularity as a main requirement for digital education. I wonder if there is some data on Amdatu reception in Netherlands.
On 1/14/14, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > I would like to propose another idea for a keynote at ApacheCon, given by > Jurriaan Souer who works at PulseOn: > > PulseOn is a cloud based web application, built on open source technologies, > many of which originating from Apache, that provides students with a > personalized, lifelong learning environment. The project was started a > couple of years ago with the goal to change the way we educate our children. > The school system in The Netherlands, like in many other countries in the > world, has not changed significantly over the last century. Children still > go through a system that focusses on standard text books and a fixed > curriculum. Personal learning styles and preferences are ignored, which > means that we are teaching everybody in a sub-optimal way. > > With PulseOn we provide a digital environment that leverages current > technologies and tracks each student individually, providing them with > content that suits their learning style and personal goals. That means that > basically, instead of providing standard books, we chop those up into small > pieces of content that are assembled dynamically based on the profile of the > individual. Furthermore, the system also contains formal and informal tests, > that provide us with a good insight into how well the student understands > the various pieces of information. The end result is a system with which > they can learn more quickly and more efficiently. > > Our mission is to maximize human potential through personalized learning, > worldwide because we believe that education is the foundation on which > society is built. With PulseOn we believe we can contribute to a better > world, allowing each learner to become what they are and can be. > > The PulseOn platform builds on several key Apache technologies, including > Apache Felix to create a modular back-end, Apache Wink for REST support, > Apache CXF and ServiceMix to connect to other enterprise applications, > Apache ACE for dynamic provisioning of the platform in the cloud and Apache > Commons for various utilities. These open source technologies have all been > consolidated in an open source platform called Amdatu. > > The keynote is not technical, but instead focusses on how this platform > helps improve the way we teach our children. As such I think it’s an > excellent example of how open source improves our daily lives. > > Jurriaan is a Product Manager at PulseOn. He has 15 years of experience in > online product development, management, marketing and sales engineering and > a Ph.D. in Computing and Information Sciences. > > WDYT? > > Greetings, Marcel > > -- -- With best regards / с наилучшими пожеланиями, Alexei Fedotov / Алексей Федотов, http://dataved.ru/ +7 916 562 8095 [1] Start using Apache Openmeetings today, http://openmeetings.apache.org/ [2] Join Alexei Fedotov @linkedin, http://ru.linkedin.com/in/dataved/ [3] Join Alexei Fedotov @facebook, http://www.facebook.com/openmeetings
