Semantic Web based interoperability approach that automatically discovers and adapts to APIs.
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Towards a Flexible Cloud Education Environment: A Framework for E-learning 3.0
Rocael Hernandez Rizzardini (GES, Galileo University, Guatemala) and Christian Gütl (IICM, Graz University of Technology, Austria & CBS, Curtin University, Australia)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8803-2.ch007
Abstract
Web 2.0 tools offer innovative technologies for learning and training, and it exists a strong pedagogical foundation to include such tools in education. As a consequence of its more widespread usage arise issues in the context of managing these cloud services, such as to create adapted instances tool resources, to assign such resources to teachers and learners, and others. Web and educational interoperability technologies have provided initial paths toward building this type of e-Learning 3.0 cloud education environments, however, fundamental challenges remain such as granular tool resources management, and the lack of use of Semantic Web technologies to leverage automatic machine-processable tool API. To overcome these issues, an holistic model for flexible interoperability is contributed in this chapter. Covered aspects includes a semantic definition of tools' API, an interoperability service framework capable to automatically process APIs, a semantic proxy that enables usage of current APIs, and a system for learning activities orchestration using these tools. Furthermore, advanced semantic technologies to support the model for flexible interoperability are analyzed.