Evaluation of a Restful web services driven three dimensional E-learning platform with mashup for ubiquitous and personalized learning

The ultimate goal of E-learning - “empowerment” which enables learners to complete their dynamic learning processes in a personalized, social, and ubiquitous setting has not been fully realized. With the introduction of Web 2.0 technologies, E-learning 2.0 takes a “lightweight, loosely coupled” approach that integrates discrete but complementary widgets and web services. However, E-learning 2.0 is still suffering from untrustworthiness as being created by amateurs and way of wasting time in chat or social networking. In this paper, we describe our development of a Restful web services driven three dimensional E-learning platform REMAP with built-in mashup capability to transgress the boundaries of traditional institutions and access tools/services easily for personalized ubiquitous learning. We discuss three dimensions to investigate the satisfaction and usability of using REMAP. The REMAP can not only promote learning that is more richly collaborative but also enable learners to come closer to `anytime anyplace' learning.