Interoperability for LMS: The Missing Piece to Become the Common Place for Elearning Innovation

Authors:
Marc Alier Forment;María José Guerrero;Miguel Ángel González;Francisco José Peñalvo;Charles Severance
Affiliations:
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034;Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 08034;Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain 37008;Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain 37008;University of Michigan,
Venue:
WSKS '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Summit on the Knowledge Society: Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper speculates about the future of LMSs considering the upcoming new learning applications and technologies, and the different attitudes of learners and teachers, given their technological background described using the digital natives and immigrants metaphor. Interoperability is not just a nice to have feature, but a must have features for LMS if these systems are going to be the common place where the ICT empowered learning innovation happens. After analyzing some standards and initiatives related to interoperability on LMS, the authors present an overview of the architecture for interoperability they propose. This architecture is being implemented for the well known Open Source LMS Moodle.