CopperCore service integration

2006

The presented architecture is described using the example of two of such services: CopperCore, an LD service and APIS, an IMS Question and Test Interoperability service. One of the design goals of the architecture was to minimize the intrusion for both the services as well as any legacy client that already uses these services.

2006

This article describes a framework for the integration of e-Learning services. There is a need for this type of integration in general, but the presented solution was a direct result of work done on the IMS Learning Design specification (LD). This specification relies heavily on other specifications and services. The presented architecture is described using the example of two of such services: CopperCore, an LD service and APIS, an IMS Question and Test Interoperability service. One of the design goals of the architecture was to minimize the intrusion for both the services as well as any legacy client that already uses these services.

Times of Convergence. Technologies Across Learning Contexts, 2008

Learning Design offers the possibility of capturing the process, activities, user organization and resources used in a learning experience. But a wider set of scenarios appear when generic services are considered. Integrating such services in a Unit of Learning is difficult due to the lack of a defined bi-directional protocol for information exchange. In this paper the Generic Service Integration paradigm is presented. It extends the Learning Design specification to use generic services, first at the design stage of a Unit of Learning, and then at the deployment and run times. The framework allows for bi-directional exchange of information between a Unit of Learning and a service. The consequences of the approach are that services can be configured to suit the needs of activities in a learning environment, and a Unit of Learning may adapt its behavior based on the events that took place in any of the used services.

2006

This paper describes a service-oriented approach for the integration of third-party external applications and resources into an existing open source e-Learning environment. We detail the architecture for creating customized learning environments composed of existing open source applications and systems. As a result, a Web services-oriented framework for e-Learning systems is proposed, providing a flexible integration model in which all the learning components and applications are loosely connected. Web services provide a suitable deployment environment to realize dynamic and interoperable e-Learning systems by facilitating application-to-application interaction.

cs.helsinki.fi

2003

E-learning platforms and their functionalities resemble one another to a large extend. Recent standardization efforts in e-learning concentrate on the reuse of learning material, but not on the reuse of application functionalities. Our LearnServe system builds on the assumption that a typical learning system is a collection of activities or processes that interact with learners and suitably chosen content, the latter in the form of learning objects. This enables us to subdivide the main functionality of an e-learning system into a number of stand-alone applications, which can then be realized individually or in groups as Web services. The implementation of these services enables a reuse of functionalities of an e-learning platform. The LearnServe system is based on common standards, both in the area of e-learning and in the area of Web services. The realization in a distributed fashion leads to a number of challenges including the maintenance of content and services, but has, on the other hand, potentials like direct integration of e-learning services into business applications or the access of learning services by different devises if there is an appropriate client for that device.

2016

Within e-learning domain there is a tremendous effort trying to loosely couple the data management and data deployment in e-Learning environments. This paper presents a design of such a architecture which consists of three main pieces: (1) Global Repository, (2) Repository Manager and (3) Web Deployer. The architecture ensures scalability, interoperability and service composition for an enterprise e-Learning environment. The Global Repository consists of a suite of services that actually manage all the assets of the eLearning environment. The Repository Manager is a data management tool which allows the maintenance of all assets from a desktop application. The Web Deployer tool actually creates e-Learning environments by using assets from the Global Repository. The overall architecture is Service Oriented such that each service publishes its functionality in a standardized way letting other services to access and use the functionality in a flexible manner.

UBICOMM 2010, The …, 2010

The present paper focuses on means of creating integrated web e-learning services by providing learning and dedicated information systems facilities within a web portal. The information system facilities are obtained by integrating into a global web portal the dedicated services and synchronizing databases based on various technologies (php / postgresql, asp / MS sql). The portal is based on MS technology and provides, as learning services, management content and elearning facilities for various user categories, together with dedicated information system facilities.

2010

E-Learning has become an important technique that educational as well as business institutions invest a great deal of money, time and effort in order to make use of it. E-Learning has proven to be the cheapest way to transmit knowledge to the largest number of people regardless of their location and the end used devices. Most of the existing e-Learning environments present some similarities and most educators need several tools to efficiently make use of e-Learning. For instance, if an educator is using a Moodle based application, he/she may need to use www.turnitin.com as an online tool for students to submit their work and have it authenticated against plagiarism. In this paper we provide an efficient and effective framework to provide e-Learning services using the automatic composition of basic e-Learning services that may exist already in different environments. The framework provides a uniform platform for multiple basic services, service composition and e-Learning services provisioning, all monitored by making use of policies at different levels. The use of policies will deeply enable decoupling the e-Learning service deployment issues from the underlying basic services that may require specific environments.

Web service.