Publications by Evgeny Bogdanov

Towards PLEs through Widget Spaces in Moodle

Bringing flexibility and extensibility into Learning Management Systems is crucial because it gives teachers and students a free choice of technologies and educational materials they want to use for their courses. This paper presents a solution by enabling ...

Comsis Consortium2014

Cloud-Savvy Contextual Spaces as Agile Personal Learning Environments or Informal Knowledge Management Solutions

Denis Gillet, Evgeny Bogdanov

This paper presents how advanced social media platforms can be exploited to construct and share contextual spaces enabling the instantiation of agile personal learning environments or informal knowledge management solutions. The usefulness of open plugins ...

2013

Widgets and Spaces : Personal & Contextual Portability and Plasticity with OpenSocial

Evgeny Bogdanov

Social media platforms are created and exploited for various activities carried out individually or collaboratively and relying on different resources and tools. Social media platforms are inherently contextual; the context being defined as a specific acti ...

EPFL2013

From LMS to PLE: a Step Forward through OpenSocial Apps in Moodle

Denis Gillet, Evgeny Bogdanov

Bringing flexibility and extensibility into Learning Management Systems) is crucial because it gives teachers and students a free choice of technologies and educational materials they want to use for their courses. The paper presents a solution via enablin ...

2012

A Social Media Platform in Higher Education

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sandy Ingram, Na Li, Evgeny Bogdanov

This paper reports on the successful use of Graasp, a social media platform, by university students for their collaborative work. Graasp features a number of innovations, such as administrator-free creation of collaborative spaces, context-aware recommenda ...

2012

Widget-Based Approach for Remote Control Labs

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

The paper presents a novel approach to conduct laboratory experiments in relation with the Control class taught at EPFL. The existing laboratory interface built as a Java applet, which allows students to access experimentation devices locally or remotely, ...

2012

Introducing qualitative dimensions to analyze the usefulness of Web 2.0 platforms as PLEs

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

The trends in web development of educational applications and of Web 2.0 or social applications are converging. Platforms are designed to host a variety of software components (called widgets or plugins), which can be organised or combined (mashed-up) at u ...

2011

Contextual Spaces with Functional Skins as OpenSocial Extension

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Evgeny Bogdanov

Portability, flexibility and extensibility are essential features of social media platforms. When such Web platforms are able to take user's context into account, they provide better user experience and enhance the effectiveness of users' actions. In this ...

2011

Mapping Web Personal Learning Environments

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

A recent trend in education and in web development is to build learning environment on top of web platforms which are carefully designed to host a plurality of software components (sometimes called widgets or plugins) which can be organized or combined (ma ...

2009

Towards Collaborative Portable Web Spaces

Denis Gillet, Stéphane Sire, Evgeny Bogdanov

As two recent trends in Web development, Widgets and mashups, are converging, we claim that there is a growing need to define a Widget Space configuration language to allow building flexible personal learning environments that could be independent of a run ...

2009