A highly modular and extensible architecture for an integrated IMS-based authoring system: the experience

  • Authors:
  • José Luis Sierra;Pablo Moreno-Ger;Iván Martínez-Ortiz;Baltasar Fernández-Manjón

  • Affiliations:
  • Dpto. Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Fac. Inform´tica, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain;Dpto. Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Fac. Inform´tica, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain;Centro de Estudios Superiores Felipe II, Aranjuez, Spain;Dpto. Ingeniería del Software e Inteligencia Artificial, Fac. Inform´tica, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Software—Practice & Experience
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The platform is a new experimental e-learning environment that adheres closely to IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc. e-learning standards in order to facilitate their applicability in different learning scenarios. is equipped with an integrated modular and extensible architecture for the authoring of IMS-compliant learning materials focused on the IMS manifest. This manifest-driven architecture facilitates maintenance and promotes the evolution of the authoring system in , both of which are mandatory requirements in the successful production and maintenance of content for many different specialized learning domains. In this paper, we describe this authoring system, its manifest-driven architecture and its implementation using well-known and robust Java-based Web technologies. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.