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Information System Development for Open Learning Support: Open System of Distance Learning

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2011)

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Analysis of scientific literature, projects and existing market products show that distance learning is a new direction in the development of information systems. The literature, however, lacks a system-based insight at distance learning understood as a complex information system. Authors of this article perform a soft system analysis based on the theory of hierarchical multilevel systems, which allows developing a model of Open System of Distance Learning (OSDL). As a result of the soft system analysis the management model for OSDL is proposed. The OSDL’s management model incorporated the learning object approach to knowledge repository development, social aspect of e-learning process, and competence-based learning. The hierarchical structure of the information system defines the set of its sub-systems and their functioning scope. The main result of such modelling is the functional scheme that allows managing the chain “information – knowledge – competence” in different kinds of education organisations.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Systems, West Pomeranian University of Technology, ul. Żołnierska 49, 71-210, Szczecin, Poland

    Przemysław Różewski & Emma Kusztina

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  1. Institute of Integrated Sensor Systems, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schroedinger-str. 12, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas König

  2. Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, P.O. Box 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Andreas Dengel

  3. School of Business, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstr. 16, 4600, Olten, Switzerland

    Knut Hinkelmann

  4. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, 599-8531, Osaka, Japan

    Koichi Kise

  5. KES International, P.O. Box 2115, BN43 9AF, Shoreham-by-sea, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  6. University of South Australia, Adelaide, 5095, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Różewski, P., Kusztina, E. (2011). Information System Development for Open Learning Support: Open System of Distance Learning. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6883. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23854-3_54

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