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iGoogle and gadgets as a platform for integrating institutional and external services

This paper presents a framework for the integration of institutional and external services in order to give support, in a personal way, to the daily activity of each faculty member. The proposed framework is based on corporative Personal Learning Environments (corporative PLE) as the services are assembled, configured and managed within the institution. The set-up of the prototype for the development of the corporative PLE uses iGoogle and gadgets over Google Apps infrastructure. If this framework works smoothly enough, on a second phase we would like to take advantage of it as a test-bed for the research, implementation and testing of social services for educational purposes, since corporative PLE seem to be particulary effective for the creation of a network of PLE, a learning nervous system where each PLE is a neuron and which will generate some type of collective intelligence.