Background of the Workshop

The DULP framework

D -> Design Inspired Learning; U -> Ubiquitous Learning; L -> Liquid Learning Places; P -> Person in Place Centred Design

foresees an effort to enlarge and sustain the multidisciplinary debate on future environments, processes and technologies able to enhance at most all the facets of the personal and glocal learning experiences and, as well their monitoring and sustainability. Such debate address the design of integrated physical and virtual environments, sensitive, intelligent, usable in nomadic condition, capable to adapt to the characteristics and needs of individuals and contexts - even in presence of disabilities or other kind of barriers -, equipped with tools for the ecological monitoring of experience qualities (both at individual and process levels), for the purpose of providing customized and glocalized learning experiences and to offer individuals the opportunity to self-evaluate and acquire those critical attitudes needed to design their own curriculum and professional trajectory, taking full advantage of future network infrastructures and services.

The DULP is a paradigm around which is aggregating a community, increasingly large and multidisciplinary, made up of groups that were conducting research separately. The discussion around DULP, started as a national initiative (Rome - DULP '09 workshop), has expanded at European level and raised interest also to a wider audience, see the IEEE workshop DULP@ICALT 2010 (Sousse, Tunisia - ICALT '10 conference) and the paper published on the eLearn Magazine of the ACM.

The proceeding of DULP '09 and a selected number of papers presented at DULP@ICALT 2010 has been collected into special issues of Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) ISSN 1826-9745 (www.scuolaiad.it/IDEA/)
Extended versions of selected papers presented at ICALT@2011 will be also published on IxD&A