An architecture for open learning management systems

  • Authors:

  • Paris Avgeriou;Simos Retalis;Manolis Skordalakis

  • Affiliations:

  • Software Engineering Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografu, Athens, Greece;Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus;Software Engineering Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Zografu, Athens, Greece

  • Venue:
  • PCI'01 Proceedings of the 8th Panhellenic conference on Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

There exists an urgent demand on defining architectures for Learning Management Systems, so that high-level frameworks for understanding these systems can be discovered, and quality attributes like portability, interoperability, reusability and modifiability can be achieved. In this paper we propose a prototype architecture aimed to engineer Open Learning Management Systems, that professes state-of the-art software engineering techniques such as layered structure and component-based nature. Our work is based upon standards and practices from international standardization bodies, on the empirical results of designing, developing and evaluating Learning Management Systems and on the practices of well-established software engineering techniques.