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Possible Routes on a Highway of eLearning – Promising Architecture for eLearning Systems

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Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications

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This paper presents the first and preliminary, original ideas about the possible architecture for the improvement of eLearning use at the university level. We suggest introduction of three-way architecture consisting of ways to: convert traditional teaching resources into the eLearning form of learning objects, methodology to employ some electronic activities as a replacement for traditional classroom activities, and methodology to use software agents for harvesting the necessary additional learning material from open learning repositories. Individual parts of the proposed architecture have been tested in practice, and showed very positive results, so we expect to further improve the application of eLearning by using the architecture as a whole.

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Science, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Putnik & Dejan Mitrović

  2. School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia

    Bela Stantić

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  1. Faculty of Electrical Eng. and Comp. Department of Telecommunications, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Gordan Jezic

  2. Faculty of Electrical Eng.and Com. Department of Telecommunications, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  3. Faculty of Electrical Eng. and Comp. Department of Telecommunications, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ignac Lovrek

  4. KES International, City, United Kingdom

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  5. Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Ivanović, M., Putnik, Z., Mitrović, D., Stantić, B. (2014). Possible Routes on a Highway of eLearning – Promising Architecture for eLearning Systems. In: Jezic, G., Kusek, M., Lovrek, I., J. Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 296. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07650-8_29

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