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July-September 2008 (vol. 1 no. 3)
pp. 190-195
The IMS Learning Design model defines how users are engaged in learning activities to use learning objects and learning services. Although these are similarly accessible from URLs in a learning design, they are essentially different in the form of accessing their features and operations from a learning activity user interface. This paper proposes a Representational State Transfer (ReST) architectural style of accessing a learning service and its constituent resources from a web-based environment. A methodology to guide the design of learning service access is also described. The method is applied to integrating operations of a generic wiki service in the client interface of a learning activity, and validated on actual wiki services providing ReST-based programming interfaces.
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Index Terms:
Computer-assisted instruction, Hypertext/hypermedia, Web-based services, Patterns
Citation:
Juan Manuel Dodero, Ernie Ghiglione, "ReST-Based Web Access to Learning Design Services," IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 190-195, July-Sept. 2008, doi:10.1109/TLT.2008.21
