Course Generation as a Web-Service for E-Learning Systems
The 2nd European Young Researchers Workshop on Service
Oriented Computing, Leicester, UK, (2007)Abstract
A course generator provides personalized learning experiences
by assembling structured sequences of learning objects that help
learners to achieve their learning goals. They can be stored in a multitude
of repositories and are selected by the course generator based on a
set of pedagogical methods that take into account the learners' goals and
individual properties such as mastery. This pedagogical knowledge needs
to be elicited from pedagogical experts and hence is rather expensive to
assess. Therefore, once a course generator has been developed, it makes
sense to make course generation available as a web-service for web-based
e-learning environments in order to reuse the pedagogical knowledge. In
this paper, we present the web-service we developed for the course generator
of the LeActiveMath system. We describe the service oriented
architecture during the design and the suitability via the application.