Université Paris-Sud XI (http://www.u-psud.fr/) Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) (http://www.cnrs.fr) Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (http://www.lri.fr/) Prof. Nicolas Spyratos
The current DL-related work at the University of Paris-Sud is in the context of a IST European project called SeLeNe : Self eLearning Networks (Contract IST-2001-39045) and consists in studying the syndication of e-learning documents. A simple data model for the composition and management of learning objects (LO) in a distributed setting has been defined. The model features an abstract definition of LOs, as well as operations to create new LOs, to compose complex LOs from simpler ones, and to query a data bank of LOs spread over the network. The querying process is supported by a coordinator, or mediator which relies on annotations automatically extracted form the available LOs in order to describe their content. The model provides support for the specification of a concrete SeLeNe environment in which the authors of LOs are the basic peers and where communication between peers is assisted by the mediator. |