Authors:
María José Casañ Guerrero
1
;
Miguel Ángel Conde González
2
;
Marco Alier Forment
1
and
Francisco José García Peñalvo
2
Affiliations:
1
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
;
2
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Keyword(s):
Learning Management Systems, Mobile-learning, Interoperability, Service orientation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Internet Technology
;
Knowledge Management
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Personalized Web Sites and Services
;
Social Information Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Services and Web Engineering
Abstract:
Mobile learning applications introduce a new degree of ubiquitousness in the learning process. There is a new generation of ICT-powered mobile learning experiences that exist in isolated contexts: experiences limited to small learning communities. These rising mobile learning experiences appear while web-based learning, especially Learning Management Systems, are consolidated and widely adopted by learning institutions, teachers and learners. The innovation techniques breeding in the experimental world of mobile learning need to be translated into the mainstream ecosystems. Mobile learning is not intended to replace elearning or web based learning, but to extend it. So, mobile learning applications need to be integrated somehow in the web-based LMS. To do so is needed to address interoperability issues on both ends: the LMS and the mobile application. Service Oriented Architecture offers a standardized and effective way to achieve interoperability between systems. This paper presents
an architecture that allows a two-way interoperability between LMS and Mobile Applications: access LMS contents from the mobile device, and to be able to embed part of the mobile applications inside the LMS framework. This architecture incorporates elements from famous interoperability standards (IMS LTI and OKI) and has been validated with two projects related to the Open Source LMS Moodle.
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