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Title:
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BACK AND FORTH: FROM THE LMS TO THE MOBILE DEVICE. A SOA APPROACH |
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Author(s):
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Miguel Ángel Conde González , Francisco José García Peñalvo , María José Casany Guerrero , Marc Alier Forment |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-77-5 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2009 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Mobile-learning, interoperability, service orientation, open source software |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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114 |
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Last Page:
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120 |
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Language:
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English |
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Paper Abstract:
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The thrive of mobile devices and the surge of new development platforms for mobile environments during the last years,
has triggered the appearance of a new field of innovation in education. The mobile applications introduce a new degree of
ubiquitousness in learning. But, this new generation of ICT-powered learning experiences arrive in an scenario where
web based learning, specially Learning Management Systems, are consolidated and widely adopted by learning
institutions.
Nowadays, most learning organizations have integrated a LMS with their information systems (back-office, academic
management, etc.) to a point where all learning activities (virtual and non virtual) have a counterpart (syllabus,
assessments, scheduling, etc.) in the LMS virtual classrooms. M-learning is not destined to replace the current web based
learning applications, but to extend them, that is why mobile applications will need to be able to integrate with the current
operational LMS. It is also important to be able to access some of the services of the LMS Virtual Classroom from the
mobile device, although it might not be a simple task.
This paper presents an architecture that allows a two-way interoperability between LMS and mobile applications: access
LMS contents from the mobile device, and to be able to embed part of the mobile applications inside the LMS
framework. This architecture incorporates elements from important interoperability standards (IMS LTI and OKI) and
has been validated with two projects related to the Open Source LMS Moodle. |
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