Fourth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT'04)
A General Architecture to Support Mobility in Learning
Joensuu, Finland
August 30-September 01
ISBN: 0-7695-2181-9
A rather new tendency in distance learning is the usage of mobile and wireless technologies to support learners and educators. In this paper we present an architecture, where the functionalities of e-learning platform are presented as web services and on top of it a mobile Learning Management System is taking the responsibilities of adapting those services for the mobile users and for providing additional mobile specific services. Such a system should have three main functionalities — "Context Discovery", "Mobile Content Management and Adaptation" and "Packaging and Synchronization".