Course Generation as a Web-Service (CGWS) for E-Learning Systems

A course generator provides personalized learning experiences by assembling structured sequences of learning objects that help learners to achieve their learning goals. They can be stored in a multitude of repositories and are selected by the course generator based on a set of pedagogical methods that take into account the learners’ goals and individual properties such as mastery. This pedagogical knowledge needs to be elicited from pedagogical experts and hence is rather expensive to assess. Therefore, once a course generator has been developed, it makes sense to make course generation available as a web-service for web-based e-learning environments in order to reuse the pedagogical knowledge. In this paper, we present the web-service we developed for the course generator of the LeActiveMath system. We describe the service oriented architecture during the design and the suitability via the application.