Towards an Architecture for the Notification of Events from Tools of Third-Party Providers

摘要

At the core of this work is the idea of integrating tools from third-party providers into e-learning systems exposed as Web Services. Although some progress is being done in this field by the research community, current solutions achieve at best a very "soft" integration, namelly, the e-learning system can link an external tool but cannot monitor or alter its workflow. The proposed solution tries to alleviate this problem by introducing an architecture that allows an e-learning system to track the use that teachers and students make of the tool. The system is based on Web Services and specific APIs and protocols, resulting on a simple and scalable architecture.