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Name of the tool: GLUE! Pedagogical Scripting (GLUE!-PS)
Website: Not yet available
Brief description: GLUE!-PS is a service-based architecture with the purpose of deploying learning designs, expressed in multiple languages (e.g. IMS-LD, LDL, ...) into multiple learning environments for their execution, such as VLEs/LMSs (Moodle, Blackboard, LAMS, ...). It is based on a series of adapters for different LD languages and VLE concepts, through a central, common data format (a sort of ''lingua franca'').
Being part of the Group Learning Unified Environment ([http://www.gsic.uva.es/glue/ GLUE!]), GLUE!-PS not only supports deploying learning designs into LMSs/VLEs, but also allows for the deployment of activities that integrate these VLEs with external web 2.0 tools like GoogleDocs, Wookie Widgets and a long etcetera.
GLUE!-PS prototype currently supports only IMS-LD as an LD language, and Moodle and MediaWiki as VLEs, although other adaptors are also being developed. Runtime management/modifications of learning activities with GLUE!-PS is also planned in the roadmap.
Links to extended descriptions:
* http://www.gsic.uva.es/~lprisan/Prieto2011_GLUE-PS_paper_17.pdf Paper describing the GLUE!-PS architecture and data model
* http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/5861 Example of use with the WebCollage LD tool and Moodle
* Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C_AVMQ51Q8
About: GSIC/EMIC group, University of Valladolid, Spain: http://www.gsic.uva.es/index.php?lang=en
Contact: Luis P. Prieto (lprisan at gsic.uva.es)