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A Service-Oriented Architecture for Creating Customized Learning Environments

Overview The paper proposes architecture for creating customized learning environments comprised of existing open source applications and systems. The proposed architecture enables a different approach to providing an organization with a learning environment. One known approach is to decide on adopting a particular proprietary system (e.g., WebCT, or Blackboard) across all departments of the organization, irrespective of specific needs of individual departments. The other is to customize an existing open source learning environment (e.g., Moodle, or ANote) by modifying its source code. While this solution affords maximum flexibility, it is also very costly.

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Publisher	Carleton University	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development

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