TY - GEN
T1 - A reference architecture for a national e-learning infrastructure
AU - Saay, Salim
AU - Norta, Alex
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/12/6
Y1 - 2016/12/6
N2 - A reference architecture guides an organization with best-practice knowledge about existing architectures, including an elaboration of the organization's mission, vision and strategy of a specific domain. Current e-learning architectures, however, focus on the theoretical framework of the application layer, service layer and database engineering while in reality, a networking layer is required for the implementation of e-learning systems. Existing publications do not focus on the collaborative aspect in the domain of national research and education networks (NRENs). This research tackles the creation of a reference architecture for elearning in NRENs for which model driven engineering (MDE) is used. We analyze relevant aspects of NREN e-learning architectures by using the architecture tradeoff analysis method (ATAM). Next, we propose a NREN e-learning standard and concrete architecture.
AB - A reference architecture guides an organization with best-practice knowledge about existing architectures, including an elaboration of the organization's mission, vision and strategy of a specific domain. Current e-learning architectures, however, focus on the theoretical framework of the application layer, service layer and database engineering while in reality, a networking layer is required for the implementation of e-learning systems. Existing publications do not focus on the collaborative aspect in the domain of national research and education networks (NRENs). This research tackles the creation of a reference architecture for elearning in NRENs for which model driven engineering (MDE) is used. We analyze relevant aspects of NREN e-learning architectures by using the architecture tradeoff analysis method (ATAM). Next, we propose a NREN e-learning standard and concrete architecture.
KW - AfgREN
KW - ATAM
KW - E-learning
KW - MDE
KW - NREN
KW - Reference architecture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85009067893&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2996890.3007894
DO - 10.1145/2996890.3007894
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85009067893
T3 - Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2016
SP - 404
EP - 409
BT - Proceedings - 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, UCC 2016
Y2 - 6 December 2016 through 9 December 2016
ER -