Towards a collection of gadgets for an iGoogle e-learning platform

Usually, e-learning involves dedicated platforms designed to support learning from static information and functionalities. We have been working towards a more dynamic e-learning platform following a decentralized approach based on iGoogle. Users are able to decide about the information and functionalities in the system through the management of gadgets (iGoogle widgets). In this way, iGoogle is transformed into a kind of Personal Learning Environment that can be controlled by final users. In this paper we introduce a set of gadgets to provide an appropriate learning support to different roles: student, author and teacher assistant. These gadgets can be combined with other existing iGoogle gadgets following the specifications of the iGoogle platform and the Open Social standard.