Design of a Service-Oriented e-Learning Environment

Dumitru Dan Burdescu, Marian Cristian Mihăescu, Costel Marian Ionaşcu, Bogdan Logofatu

2010

Abstract

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 e-Learning 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.

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Burdescu D., Mihăescu M., Ionaşcu C. and Logofatu B. (2010). Design of a Service-Oriented e-Learning Environment . In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Systems and Technology - Volume 1: I-WEST, ISBN 978-989-8425-44-7, pages 98-115. DOI: 10.5220/0004465700980115


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@conference{i-west10,
author={Dumitru Dan Burdescu and Marian Cristian Mihăescu and Costel Marian Ionaşcu and Bogdan Logofatu},
title={Design of a Service-Oriented e-Learning Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Systems and Technology - Volume 1: I-WEST,},
year={2010},
pages={98-115},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004465700980115},
isbn={978-989-8425-44-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Systems and Technology - Volume 1: I-WEST,
TI - Design of a Service-Oriented e-Learning Environment
SN - 978-989-8425-44-7
AU - Burdescu D.
AU - Mihăescu M.
AU - Ionaşcu C.
AU - Logofatu B.
PY - 2010
SP - 98
EP - 115
DO - 10.5220/0004465700980115