Supporting Personalized Learning Experiences on top of Multimedia Digital Libraries

In this paper are provided solutions to support the construction of eLearning applications on top of Digital Libraries in order to be able for eLearning applications to effectively exploit the wealth of content residing in Digital Libraries. The provision of efficient personalization services to Learners beyond "one size fits all" solutions is considered as a necessity to cope with this problem and generally with the overwhelming amount of available learning materials existing in Digital Libraries. For that reason the framework provides the necessary methodology, models and mechanisms for the dynamic creation of pedagogically-sound personalized learning experiences from digital objects through learning objects combined according to learning scenarios in courses, curricula and demonstrators, using authoring tools of Learning and Content Management Systems, taking into account the variety of the Learners and their individual needs. The problem of interoperability between digital libraries and eLearning applications is a complex and multilevel one and can be seen from many points of view. From a standards point of view, it can be seen as a stack of conceptual layers where each one is built on top of the previous one. From an object point of view an important step is the path for transformation of digital object into learning object. From an infrastructures point of view - similar to the procedure followed in traditional learning environments. From the pedagogical point of view two main pedagogical styles are considered. As a result a generic interoperability/repurposing framework and a service-oriented architecture where learning experiences are dynamically constructed taking into account user profiles and pedagogical templates is proposed.