A general architecture to support mobility in learning

Author

Trifonova, Anna ; Ronchetti, Marco

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics & Telecommun., Trento Univ., Povo, Italy

fYear

2004

fDate

30 Aug.-1 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

30

Abstract

A rather new tendency in distance learning is the usage of mobile and wireless technologies to support learners and educators. In this paper we present an architecture, where the functionalities of e-learning platform are presented as Web services and on top of it a mobile learning management system is taking the responsibilities of adapting those services for the mobile users and for providing additional mobile specific services. Such a system should have three main functionalities - "context discovery", "mobile content management and adaptation" and "packaging and synchronization".

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; data mining; distance learning; mobile computing; Web services; context discovery; distance learning; e-learning platform; educators; learning mobility architecture; mobile content adaptation; mobile learning management system; mobile technologies; mobile users; packaging; synchronization; wireless technologies; Authorization; Computer aided instruction; Computer science education; Content management; Electronic learning; Engines; Informatics; Management training; Service oriented architecture; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2004. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2181-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2004.1357368

Filename

1357368