The International E-Miage project: from an Isolated Framework to an Architecture Based on Learning Standards

• Published in: Advanced Int'l Conference on Telecommunications and Int'l Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (AICT-ICIW'06) p. 10
• Main Authors: Broisin, J., Vidal, P., Marquie, D., Catteau, O.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2006
• Subjects: Communication standards; Computer architecture; Context; Education; Educational products; Electronic learning; Environmental management; Least squares approximation; Management information systems; Systems engineering and theory
• ISBN: 9780769525228; 0769525229
• DOI: 10.1109/AICT-ICIW.2006.189

In previous work, we presented a tiered architecture based on e-learning standards that includes a middle layer for communication and exchange of learning objects between Learning Management Systems (LMS) and Learning Object Repositories (LOR). Here, we apply this architecture to the International E-Miage (IEM) project, an Information System Engineering curriculum for Miage distant teaching which gathers twenty national sites and delivers official degrees. Thus, we bring IEEE-LOM metadata to the learning modules, together with a single interface allowing for interoperability between the LMS deployed within the IEM framework and the Knowledge Pool System of the Ariadne Foundation. The new architecture is currently experimented in Toulouse, and should be deployed within all others IEM exploitation centers in a few weeks.