How to use Grid technology for creating contextualized and adaptive learning experiences: the European Learning Grid Infrastructure software architecture
Matteo Gaeta, Francesco Orciuoli, Pierluigi Ritrovato · Distributed Multimedia Systems · 2008
One of the widely recognised reason of the continuous fail of e-Iearning adoption has been the hydraulic view (content centred) of the learning process, supported by monolithic software systems. Supporting content delivery delegate the learner to a passive role (sink of the information transfer) with very limited personalisation capabilities, lacking in motivate them. Service Oriented Architectures are going to he widely adopted in the business world. The new forms of applications creation and delivery they provide enable a user centred and process oriented approach to e-Iearning system development. In this paper we present a concrete example of a SOA for Learning developed and experimented in the frame of The European Learning Grid Infrastructure (ELeGI) research project. In particular, we show how SOA implemented using Grid tecbnologies allows creating adaptive learning systems that implement complex learning processes considering pedagogical aspects that are implemented as worldlows of activities supported by services.