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An emotion markup language
The standardization of Web technologies is part of the work developed by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). One of the groups involved in the development of web standards is the Multimodal Interaction Working Group, responsible for the implementation of emotional elements that computers can handle. This specification has been called Emotion Markup Language.
The idea is simple: to go beyond the traditional methods we humans are using to communicate our emotions and the way computers can understand them; basically meaning to go beyond emoticons, so that human computer interaction can be closer to more natural ways of human communication.
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UOC at IMS Learning Impact 2010
IMS Learning Impact 2010 took place in Long Beach, California, from 17 to 20 May. As a member of the IMS Consortium, UOC is looking to follow and implement the guidelines and specifications of this institution. We are currently working with the IMS LD and IMS Basic LTI. The IMS Basic LTI is a specification that defines a mechanism to integrate diverse tools such as wikis, blogs, etc. within very different eLearning platforms such as Moodle, Sakai, Blackboard or desire2learn. We have provided some plug-ins to integrate tools like wordpress and mediawiki and the UOC's Campus implements this specification. The IMS LD is a specification for designing courses. Both at Computer Engineering and Psychology studies, there are people studying the possibilities of this specification. Now we have initiated a project to define a model of the UOC- classroom oriented to activities. This new classroom will use this specification. Chuck Severance, Member of IMS, defines the contributions of the UOC within this organization: "The Open University of Catalonia has made many contributions to the research and engineering around IMS Learning Tools Interoperability. Those contributions include the ground breaking work connecting tools to open learning systems in the Campus project as well to their work in the last few months adding support to the popular Basic LTI MediaWiki and WordPress open source learning tools. I look forward to Continued from UOC contributions as we work together using standards to enhance teaching and learning around the world. "
