Proposing a Framework for Choice Assistance of a Technology Enhanced Learning System Dedicated to Project-Based Collaborative Learning

In the context of Technology Enhanced Learning System (TELS) engineering, one of major issues for teachers is about designing, adapting or simply choosing a platform or a learning system that supports their instructional goals and strategy (proposed in a learning scenario). This paper proposes a model of functionalities dedicated to Project-Based Collaborative Learning (PBCL). This model allows teachers to choose a Learning Management System (LMS) the most suitable to their PBCL scenarios. Teachers are invited to choose a platform among many proposals or evaluate if a certain platform is well-suited to their PBCL scenarios. This model of functionalities is based on a PBCL meta-model, proposed in previous work. It has an objective consisting in minimizing the semantic “distance” between the PBCL and the chosen platform meta-models, since the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) approach was used, also in a previous work, to elaborate transformation rules between the PBCL metamodel and that of the learning system. This paper explains this model of functionalities and presents an example illustrating its use in Moodle platform case.