Abstract
During the last years, we are witnessing an explosion in WWW, communication and device technologies that enables access to e-Services via diverse means and locations. Systems that present different features and functionality, and offer various content and e-learning services are implemented en masse.
Proposed management framework aims at acting as a facilitator among content and e-learning systems, clients, underlying communication infrastructure and access devices, content and provided learning/delivery methods, offering an integration management architecture, while at the same time, acts as a broker for e-learning and content providing systems. Our framework is session profile centric, since a key characteristic of proposed architecture is the dynamic creation of user session by detecting and managing information and parameters that are either derived by stored profiles or change dynamically at each user session with middleware and concern user, broker or service current context .
In this paper, we present content and e-learning provision services context, resulting in functional requirements and design principles for our management and brokerage framework. We outline key features of proposed architecture with emphasis to session profile parameters and middleware components, and conclude with summarizing the main points of proposed framework.
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Apostolopoulos, T., Kefala, A. (2007). Content and e-Learning Provision Services Management Framework: Architecture and Session Profile. In: Iskander, M. (eds) Innovations in E-learning, Instruction Technology, Assessment, and Engineering Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6262-9_11
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