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At the core of this work is the idea of integrating tools from third-party providers into e-learning systems exposed as Web Services. Although some progress is being done in this field by the research community, current solutions achieve at best a very “soft” integration, namelly, the e-learning system can link an external tool but cannot monitor or alter its workflow. The proposed solution tries to alleviate this problem by introducing an architecture that allows an e-learning system to track the use that teachers and students make of the tool. The system is based on Web Services and specific APIs and protocols, resulting on a simple and scalable architecture.
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Caeiro-Rodriguez, M., Fontenla-Gonzalez, J. (2011). Towards an Architecture for the Notification of Events from Tools of Third-Party Providers. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_39
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