A service composition framework for providing e-Learning services

E-Learning has become an important technique that educational as well as business institutions invest a great deal of money, time and effort in order to make use of it. E-Learning has proven to be the cheapest way to transmit knowledge to the largest number of people regardless of their location and the end used devices. Most of the existing e-Learning environments present some similarities and most educators need several tools to efficiently make use of e-Learning. For instance, if an educator is using a Moodle based application, he/she may need to use www.turnitin.com as an online tool for students to submit their work and have it authenticated against plagiarism. In this paper we provide an efficient and effective framework to provide e-Learning services using the automatic composition of basic e-Learning services that may exist already in different environments. The framework provides a uniform platform for multiple basic services, service composition and e-Learning services provisioning, all monitored by making use of policies at different levels. The use of policies will deeply enable decoupling the e-Learning service deployment issues from the underlying basic services that may require specific environments.