Streaming Multimedia Delivery in Web Services Based E-Learning Platforms

The use of streaming multimedia has become more and more common as the content of e-learning material. The distribution of the material is typically achieved by a dedicated streaming server. There are several proprietary technologies that can act as the streaming server but there is a lack of standardized approach for this purpose. Recently importance has been placed on the interoperability and reusability of learning material by making use of standards such as SCORM and web services. In this paper we propose a service oriented architecture for the delivery of multimedia content which is interoperable and reusable. We model this delivery by extending current web service standards, and we briefly discuss the use of such web service resources in SCORM.