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# EFEPLE-2011
1st EFEPLE Workshop

### Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Exploring Fitness and Evolvability of Personal Learning Environments

### La Clusaz, France, 30-31 March, 2011.

Edited by

### Effie L-C Law (1)
Felix Moedritscher (2)
Martin Wolpers (3)
Denis Gillet (4)

(1) University of Leicester, Department of Computer Science, Leicester, United Kingdom
(2) Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Information Systems and New Media, Vienna, Austria
(3) Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT) , Sankt Augustin, Germany
(4) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , School of Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland

Complete proceedings as a single PDF-file

## Table of Contents

- Preface

### Keynote talk

Evolvability of Personal Learning Environments 1-3
Chrystopher L. Nehaniv

### Scientific papers

1. Survival of the Fittest - Utilization of Natural Selection Mechanisms for Improving PLE 4-9
   Behnam Taraghi, Christian Stickel, Martin Ebner
2. Virtual Learning Places: A Perspective on Future Learning Environments and Experiences 10-17
   Carlo Giovannella
3. Outcome-oriented Fitness Measurement of Personal Learning Environments 18-24
   Felix Moedritscher
4. Interoperability Requirements for a Sustainable Component to Support Management and Sharing of Digital Resources 25-29
   Martin Memmel
5. The Four Elements of a viable PLE 30-33
   Sandy El Helou, Denis Gillet
6. Visualizing PLE 34-38
   Jose Luis Santos, Katrien Verbert, Sten Govaerts, Erik Duval
7. Applicability of the Technology Acceptance Model for Widget-based Personal Learning Environments 39-48
   Fridolin Wild, Thomas Ullmann, Peter Scott, Traian Rebedea, Bernhard Hoisl
8. A Software Project Perspective on the Fitness and Evolvability of Personal Learning Environments 49-50
   Christian Prause
9. Contextual Factors in the Adoption of Social Software: A Case Study 50-56
   Maryam Najafian Razavi, Denis Gillet

31-Aug-2011: submitted by Effie L-C Law
31-Aug-2011: published on CEUR-WS.org