Josep-Maria Terricabras: "Una universitat petita no té perquè ser esquifida, ni ha de ser marginal per ser perifèrica"

Josep-Maria Terricabras és el director de la Càtedra Ferrater Mora de Pensament Contemporani. Ara fa vint anysque va tenir la idea de crear una càtedra de pensament en una Girona que tenia estudis universitaris però que encara no tenia universitat pròpia. Han passat els anys i es pot afirmar que ha estat una jugada reeixida perquè, gràcies a la Càtedra, han passat per la ciutat personatges destacats de la cultura, com Chomsky, Quine, Cavalli-Sforza, Nyman o Stieglitz, fins a completar una llista que molt aviat arribarà a la trentena. La Càtedra Ferrater Mora de Pensament Contemporani és més antiga que la mateixa Universitat de Girona. El 2 de novembre vinent farà vint anys que es va crear

Adaption of Courses and Learning Environment to the User Context in dotLRN

The explosive growth of Internet during the last years has been reflected in the ever-increasing amount of the diversity and heterogeneity of user preferences, types and features of devices and access networks. Usually the heterogeneity in the context of the users which request Web contents is not taken into account by the servers that deliver them implying that these contents will not always suit their needs. In the particular case of e-learning platforms this issue is especially critical due to the fact that it puts at stake the knowledge acquired by their users. In the following paper we present a system that aims to provide the dotLRN e-learning platform with the capability to adapt to its users context. By integrating dotLRN with a multi-agent hypermedia system, online courses being undertaken by students as well as their learning environment are adapted in real time