Sharing Learner Information through a Web Services-based Learning Architecture

This paper presents architecture for the exchange of learner’s model information between e-learning systems on the Web. The present work is part of a current project intended to present an adaptive content associated to a particular student profile, the AdaptWeb Project. The Web Service technology is used since it allows the easy communication between Web applications through the HTTS protocol. Our goal with this work is provide a standard communication allowing different e-learning systems to cooperate in order to gather a set of learner information, richer than that found in a standard elearning system. As a result, the course content, in any federated e-learning system is adapted and presented to students, according to each student’s program, cognitive characteristics, and navigation preferences in the same way. Once the student profile is determined all the courses will be offered using the same profile.