Virtual MVC framework to support collaborative development of Service-Oriented E-learning Components

摘要

The integration of Cloud Computing with e-Learning technologies allows changing the educational landscape by scaling the resources including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). SOA have been mostly adopted for enterprise integration. However, its adoption for e-learning solutions is still an open area especially for medium and small groups of developers. In this work we demonstrate a service-based methodology, and its corresponding framework to develop service-oriented e-learning components. The proposed methodology called a Virtual Model-View-Controller is enhancing the well-known Model-View-Controller design pattern. Accordingly, the controller is realized as an Enterprise Service Bus allowing decoupling between the View and the Model. The Model is represented as a repository of atomic services that are exposed via the controller. The benefits of this framework are facilitating and supporting collaborative development of e-learning services that can be adopted in different applications scenarios.