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Mobile Device Access to Collaborative Distributed Repositories of Chemistry Learning Objects

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016 (ICCSA 2016)

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The educational open contents are having a very strong impact in research and training activities. In this paper we discuss the use of Internet to supply educational contents in open and free formats from distributed repositories containing educational and scientific resources. Starting from an existing federation of distributed repositories (G-Lorep) [1] and working on parameters defined by apps, we extended their functionalities to allow mobile devices access. The structure of the access, search, selection, download, use/reuse functions needed to manage learning objects on distributed repositories have also been revisited for adaptation to mobile use.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The user must already be registered at least in one of the G-Lorep repositories. The registration procedure is only available on a PC client at the moment.

  2. 2.

    For example this LO, which is overly interactive and detailed for mobile devices, could be changed to a more user-friendly movie.

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The authors acknowledge ECTN (VEC standing committee) and the EC2E2 N 2 LLP project for stimulating debates and providing partial financial support. Thanks are due also to EGI and IGI and the related COMPCHEM VO for the use of Grid resources.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Sergio Tasso & Simonetta Pallottelli

  2. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, via Elce di Sotto, 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

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  1. University of Perugia , Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. University of Basilicata , Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  3. Covenant University , Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

  4. University of Minho , Braga, Portugal

    Ana Maria A. C. Rocha

  5. Polytechnic University , Bari, Italy

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  6. Monash University , Clayton, Victoria, Australia

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  7. Kyushu Sangyo University , Fukuoka, Japan

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  8. Saint Petersburg State University , Saint Petersburg, Russia

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  9. Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunication , Beijing, China

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Tasso, S., Pallottelli, S., Laganà, A. (2016). Mobile Device Access to Collaborative Distributed Repositories of Chemistry Learning Objects. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016. ICCSA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42085-1_34

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